The daily union., 1855-09-16
PRESIDENT pIERcE's FUTURE RESIDENCE.

efai Travelling the Of Alabama aud Tenncssee
sisted by G. LEwIs o. LEWIS, and SAMUEL D. LrwIs
PRESIDENT PIERCE'S FUTURE RESIDENCE.
TnE FUTURE HOME PHEsIpESr PIEacE.--It is stated
by some OF our cotemporarss though do know with
what degree TRUTH that President Pierce has recently
bought farm Of 600 acres, near Coesvle Montgomery
county Maryland few miles from Washington, as his fu
ture home But whether true the fact it is not
all improbable, and such report shows how entirely
General Pierce must be aeuated trom his home, and his
home from him, for such could not gain circulation
unless bore air of truth All other Presidents have
retired the exalted Office which they filled spend the
remainder Of their lives in the dgpfed quiet Of private e
surrounded by their early friends amid the with
which their youth had been familiar. IL bad sign for
President Pierce it be true that he looking about for
home among strangers Of returning his State
spend the remainder of his days. after his presidential
expires When Washipgton's expired he retired
to his old farm the Poomac the Adamses went back to
Quincy Jefferson to Monticello Madison and Monroe to Vir
gna jackson the Hermitage and Tennessee Van Buren,
10 his native county the banks of the Hudson where he
had not lived since he boy Tyler returned to his
tive place. Polk to Tennessee. and Fillmore to Buffalo But
President Pierce turned his back his native North when
be ashngton and his native State repudated her
recreant Nothing seems probable than that he
should have made for spending the remainder
OF his days in slave State where the popular sentiment will
not be daily reproach to him for his conduct
New York Daily Timss.
1t is fact full of the highest significance that there has
not been time throughout the public Of Franklin
Pererom the date of his election to the legislature of
his native State in 1922 to the present hourcoveriDg
il does unboken period of than twentysix years.
when he has been the recipient Of the most rocious
Malignant federal and abolition viuperaton and false
hood reference to the whg and abolition newspapers
of New Hampshire and New England for the last dozen
years and will furnish numberless evidences Of the
opinions they expressed of General Pierce and of the
nes he uniformly avowed upon the subject of slavery
These opinions of his have been entertained in secret
has his public action in reference them transpired
in Upon his first into the lower house
of Congress- in 1885, he fully recognised by his votes and
by his voice the rights pledged to the South by the
sution From the standard he then set up for himself
be has never swerved by much hairs breadth He
has summed sought sun the obloquy the
maledction which he knew would times and in certain
localities pursue the northern who dared
great sacred realityhs whole united native country
better than section and part He has from the rs in
his national action dared to turn his thoughts from those
things which this part that part to those
which concern the whole of Amerca--to turn away
his conscience and of moral obligation from the mad
and morbid pursuit of single Duty and indulgence of
single sentiment to that larger nober and compre
hensve system ofcthca that steady wisdom that true phi
lantropy by which all duties reconcled adjusted and
suhordnated according their rank and by which nation
held together and made to grow together in peace In
word he has considered his first political duty to be to do
what in him lay in the noble anguageo the preamble to
federal constitutions to form perfect unon estab-
ish justice insure domestic tranquility provide for the
Defence promote the general welfare and
the blessings of liberty ourselves and posteryn
The article which have copied above from the New
York Times pertinent this connexon by reason Of the
testimony furnishes that the relation of Gen. Pierce
The political abolitonists of the country is the
it has been for than sixteen years. We do not
quote the Times article for the purpose of contradctng
shameless fasehoods because do suppose that any
intelligent would either sultify himself others
much give consideration senseless fabrication
The President has not purchased become interested
land in any State Territory since bis Inauguration
has the subject of purchasing property in Maryland been
presented to his consideration. Every who pos
any information of the purposes of Gen. Pierce
knows that when he from his official labors he in
tends spend the remainder Of his days among the peo
pie with whom he reared with whom he has lived
boy and man. and who have evinced their respect and az
lection for him occasions frequent they have been
significant The wild storm Of perfdy and falsehood
which has swept bitterly the northern portion Of
he Union bas to be sure prostrated temporarily has
ia other localities the soldiers of the constitution and the
Union in New Hampshire but another conflict and The
standard of victory will be restored to it's ghtfu hands
to the hands of those who follow where democratic prn-
cples leadn
DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT.
The democrats of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania,
adopted their county meeting the following