The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-18
NEW HAMPSHIRE A PROUD EXAMPLE OF DEMO
CRATIC FIRMNESS.


which wildly recalls the earlier and the better days of
the republic New Hampshire is the State Of Franklin
Pieree-his birthplace and his home.
In New Hampshire responses his father who served for
years in the of independence New Hampshire
70 be found the tombs ohs during career
of distinguished usefulness and fidelity TO principle New
Hampshire has been the of more than of those
umphs of prompt and instructive devotion the right
which have plainly and broadly marked him out
among the public men of the North That gallant
State like the free Commonwealth of Switzerland, which
susains herself though hemmed in by despotisms and
threatened with the of the oppressor upon all her
borders, shines from the dark sky of abotonzed New
England like bright and uniading star Much of this
peculiar condition of things has resulted from the unsefsh
character and patriotic spirit of Franklin Pierce In ls4o
when the whole North by the pancstricken
hordes of federalism and when State after State went down
with crash Franklin Pierce acting side by side with the
patriotic Woodbury. led the egons of the democracy, and
revived the responding spirits of his country by holding
up unsned banner victorious in the midst of disaster
and brilliant the flag that ready to be unurlcd in
future conflicts From New Hampshire the bold and
thrilling voices that re-echoed the noble principles of jack
In New Hampshire the democracy stood firm against
the bank the high tariffs the bankrupt law, and in favor
rent questions threatened become exhausess
the fatal sehoods and msehevous Misrepresentation of
the wings New Hampshire called out from her granite
hills in favor of the annexation of Texas and when war
broke out on our southwestern borders while cold Boston
oze still colder at the appeals of the country leaving her
troops to starya and suffer her common, New Hamp
shire sent her mrdy the field with fresh and inn
pulsive patriotism which showed that she had forgot
aprios
Franklin Pierce was not only leader but working
mannever hating calculate the risk or the loss; but
placed foremost by those noble qualities of head and of
heart which well attesed the blood that in his
veins and the lofty purposes which his has been
dedicated Reared in the fearless faith of the men who
were cotemporaneous with Jefferson and with Jackson he
has hestated to meet question: or to put down
at once the worst designs of the internal foe matter
whether the offender traitor to his friends the
more public and less dangerous enemy. 1t is these elements
of character in the democracy Of New Hampshire that have
given to them SO strong hold upon the confidence of the
country-that have elevated their into household
words throughout the Union and that have made State
with hard and resisting SOIL prolific Of able gifted and
heroic defenders of democratic principles What nvo-
cation consistency and rmness to all politicians what
a record against fanaticsm and federalism what Gonu-
glowing and eloquent TRUTH
1t is onlya few years ago since democrat who had
been tried and trusted with nomination for COVER
nor terrified by the brazen clamor of abolition gave way
to his fears and trucked power which too often
sincere but mid politicians. He had been formally
nominated for governor but the moment his detection be-
apparent the democratic party, led by Franklin
Pierce called another conventions and threw him boldly
overheard alike unworthy of confidence and unequal TO-
his position the representative of party devoted to the
constitution This done with resolute and start
ling promptude, which appalled, the offenders home
and animated and inspired the democracy other States
II was in character with New Hampshire with her
ling constancy of purpose and her uninterrupted adhc
to principea her glory, and contrast
full of significance with the corrupt influences which
round her.
The present action of the New Hampshire democracy is
another chapter in the volume that describes their history
II is in harmony with the simplicity and iron
which they have always exhibited and like capsheaf
to noble column 1t fifty and completes the
mcn of their fidelity The spectacle would be unsat
isactory however it. with these victorious emblems in the
foreground there not Kissing traitors in the rear
baod at their game Of revenge and crushed by their
plans. These have not only read, but written
of other desertor in vain and they undergo the bit
penalty of seeing that which they have predicted of
Others turned and tested upon themselves How much has
Edmund Burke proied by these warnings The example
Of Hale who full Of confidence reached elevated place by
deceit and by fraud and fell from the height thus basel
achieved misshapen Of broken fame and ruined
reputaon--this example frequently referred TO by
his present mitaor, hss failed Burke from
the fate that sooner later overtakes the ingate
and the traitor. Strange too that the cause de-
stroyed both these agators. They both fell from their
high estate by recreancy to constitutional principles
Hale boldly leading his factions against his former friends
running brief career and closing the drama by removing
from State that had spurned him from its bosom and
Burke full Of professions OF national doctrines and full of
criticisms of others ends his demonstration by openly
uniting with the abolitonsts to defeat the will of the
party that had given him much Of Its confidence How
many viii profit by this instance must the future only
add evidences of the power OF truth be again dis
carded by those who In shall be mised by ambition
and revenge?
The democracy Of the country not only benefited
and fortified against their adyersaries, by the brilliant ex
ample Of their brethren In the Granite State but they are
profoundly impressed by the fate of those who have been
discarded from them and who are fahess and arc now
left without the prospect Of mercenary sue
cess except by soaescng with the wings and the abolition
lists.
The lesson presented by the democratic marty Of Nc,v