The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-16

and the establishment of despotism inconsis-
tent with the Monroe doctrine, and altogether
a stock;jobbng speculation; and considering
too, that our true policy towards Santa Anna
and Mexico is to starve him out, we adhere to
the opinion that the treaty ought to be re-
jected. What will the Senate do?
President Pierce on slavery-Prospects or
the Nebraska Bill.
The anti-slavery opinions which we charged
Mr. Pierce with having entertained in the years
1916 to 1851 have been disclosed within the
last few days in most striking and conclusive
manner The organs of the administration have
taken the matter out Of our hands, and assumed
the entire responsibility of proving to the
country that Mr.. Pierce was at that period
even more ardently attached to the abolitionst
cause than we had suspected. Their proofs far
outweigh any thing that could be contained
in the famous scarlet letter; and consider
ing the authoritative character with which
the statements of the .Nesc Hampshire Pa
triot and Evening Post are Eow invested,
we fancy we may leave them to con.
tinue our excavations. and at length suffer Mr..
John Cocbrane and his letter to rest in peace.
Before doing so, however it is right that we
should place on record the last exhibit that has
been filed in the case, which we cut for the pur-
pose from the most violent anti-slavery organ
OF the NORTH
ways 500 TAI ae regard svsry as OF the GREATEST
moral ana sdsIAl evil - upon whole couary;
al parties At the North Rs was Ire. 10 sdni that he h,d
himssR aprrosoh'd this sues,t OF annexation Tot Tx&o
~'n al ns pea ieed AM issss IT, .sa
on tnis suej we're had c-eu s.a led. srons-so
,eHui. 81 .ny rev light bus DEEPLY liked ana s,,oisg
The only off olsy nind b d bssn, tnAt Of
cognitiuE % InJ act OF government OK tbs
s'iane2 u -emsssc tIavery, sad no hal found ex
trsmsy dicu!: 10 orng hia mind 10 coalition impn
uAl 10 s.ish the Argum n for aod
Ger P17oes T.eh'"rtpyto John 2 HA's d,'he ,@
Church in CoT.cmd Jne 1915. reported Netg
| 3oml" hs,e fatriot y JSs.e IL 1915
tMr Peie,) would take the ground OF the e1.sn
zion Of fiavsrythst slavery h,utl Eos osc
Unicn iSyes dssitos nd ,ag cu-osry
consecse thai psat--un srns y noed,d ra,d piAo,.
is II. nsslvs r9o ths sS ssatast the outb II
sr fe.l e. resisted Tho agitation which ID i,ttrz
al VINO stsni up for their ccua,. Bat the n.Iem.a
says TIA. TIE l. " 1, obo xoos Wa. rrgs th.sg l.
t'sre connected Ito slavery vh'o1 IL not obaosaSa
Es.n he Senss5sn from Ma la'o, % B.teasior, ~
III. ,usj or Sc Gen P,s.oes speeh IN Neg Hnn2ar.
Constitutional G,nreahon, Jds l, 1901
1t is utterly impossible for the most BIASED
partisan to read these extracts without per-
ceiving that at the time these speeches were
made, namely from 1915 to 1851, Mr Pierce
held as extreme arti-slavery views as any or.
gan of the North, as William Lloyd Garrison
William II. Seward, or Horace Greeley himself
Had these speeches been made public, or tn sse
facts known at the time of his nomination.
he never could have been nominated had
the country been aware Of them when he ap.
pealed to the citizens for their suifrages he |
could not have carried two States His nom |
nation was fraud on the convention his cleo |
ton huge monstrous fraud on the people |
His protestations in his inaugural about in
voluntary servitude were glazing falsehoo1s |
shame must have been dead in his breast or his
voice would have failed him as he uttered |
them. He ''who regarded slavery as one of
the greatest moral and social evils. a curse |
upon the whole country"-he who saw no sin.
gle thing connected with slavery that was not |
obnoxous"-he who protested that Garrisonan |
abolitionists 'did not feel more deeply than |
himself on the subect'--must have been en- |
lowed with sublime impudence by Heaven to |
present himself to the people OF the United |
States on the Baltimore PLATFORM and to pro. |
nounce from the steps OF the Capitol his ap |
proving recognition of involuntary seryi. |
tude.'
But the whole of his career since June 1852. |
has been one series Of consistent unblushing |
frauds He has never wavered in the policy of |
deception with which he set out. Convention |
al delegates, electors, politicians, his Cabinet |
and bis friends have each in turn been his |
dupes. tits only now that his character is being |
understood ard his power to deceive being i'm. |
paired.
What prospect is there with these facts re- |
vealed IN broad daylight, that the President |
and his Cabinet are truly and sincerely in favor |
oil the final settlement of the slavery question.
ny the passage Of the Kansas Nebraska billg II
is true that the organ o. the administration
after vacillating and shifting its position week.
ly, has finally settled down in favor OF Mr.
douglas s PROJECT, because the South adopted it.
and it saw ruin staring IT'S masters in the face
In case they finched from it. But all the force |
OF the administration of Mr.. Pierce in Now
England is spent against the measure: all tho
principles of the Office holders and the org,os
OF the Cabinet are in favor of anti slavery. aad
opposed to Mr.. Douglass bill. Every Van IN.
rem paper with some two or three executions
is es ardenty opposed to the Kansas Ncbraska
hill as the organs Of William H. Seward or tn
Journals under the influence of Garrison ana
the original anti-slavery men. Mr.. Pierce i
still as earnest in his hatred Of slavery as be
was in the day when he deGed DR.. Bachelor
to srrpass him in denouncing it; and. though
circumstances compel his administr tion 10
give outward countepance to The measure now
uoder discussion, his private sympathcs are All
with its foes, and whatever personal aud secret