Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1855-11-22
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GENERAL PIERCE.

| Hc uSiOn NnN ~ mig PRESSES are, we
notice, nt this time. more than ever teen-
Iine with falsehood and misrepresentation
Iof the Chief Magistrate of the Unian.
lust il proportion as bis nets find ap-
|prosal with the people just in proper
| iion as il IS asccrtained that there IL an
abiding confidence everywhere, North
md South, East and West, in his nd
ministration: Just in proportion US trca-
sonablc designs and f,natical heresies
are rcboked and destroyed. as they al
ways have been, now are, and ever will
be, so long as Franklin Pierce is at the
head DC affairs. just in that proportion
ore the assaults nf Fusionis.s and Fam
atics upon him more INSCRIPTIONS and
vindictive. What is right and equitable
has ever been assailed BY the groveling
@nJ evil minded Of men. Il Is but in
accordance then, with this bad principle
that the present Administrator should be
abused aud the President villitied by the
Editors Of newspapers, whose Influence
upon the public is evil and that continu-
ally.
But it IS not our intention at present
to examine the motives which influence
these libelers Of the President, nor u
attempt a refutation ofthose things which
carry their own relntation along with
them : our present object is only briefly
to reply to one ofthe many malicious and
silly statements in relation to Gen Pierce
that he was unknown till elevated to
the position he now occupies as Chief
Magistrate. S
The able Editor ofthe New Hampshire
Patriot has so succinctly and truthiully
stated what we designed to do in proof
oi the malice and utter falsehood Of the
President ) enemies that we copy the
Patriots language. New Hampshire
is our native State. Her history The
history Of her distinguished men ; the
names Of her Woodburys. her A,her-
,sns, and her Pierces are as familiar to
rs as household worls We know the
following TO be Il true record !:
In 1924 General Pierce left college
wilma high reputation for scholarship
In 1922 he was elected to the, Lcgislat-
ure as the Representatives, his native
t,Wn-In 1871 and % heing f,ar af The
youngest among two hnndredatnd ailecn
members, he was Speaker u the House
LIN 1923 he Was re-elected Il Member
of Congress In 1896 he was elected
| by more than 5000 9,najo,ity iii DE
cember, 1886, he was elected to the u.
is Senate, and took his seat in that body
March 1 l837-In 1912, he resigned
his seatin the Senate, and until ls'47,
devoted himself exclusively to a vast
and lucractive practice-hoIding a posi-
ton Of undisputed pre-eminence at the
Bar of the State. In 1915 he was APP
pointed to fill the vacancy in the U. S
Senate, occasinned by the resignation u
Judge Woodbury. upon the transfer II
the latter to the Bench Of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, but declined
the appointment LIN 1876 he declined
the appointment Of Attorney General o.
the United States, rendered to him by
President Polk But when volunteers
for the Mexican war were called for dur
ing the selne year, he enrolled himself
as private ''for during the war In
February, l847, he was appointed Col,
onel ofthe 9th Infantry, and promptly
raised that regiment. Soon aiterwards
he was commissioned Brigadier General,
and commanded Brigade during the
stirring campain Of the Valley Of Mexi-
CON- lS49, after the close ofthe host
ili.ies he resigned his commission II
the army and resumed his place at the
Bar Of this state, and during thh same
year, was rendered by the unanimous
voice anf the Democratic party nornIn-
atiun as its candidate for Governor,
which he declined lin 1850. he was q
member Of the Convention for the re-
vision Of the Constitution, Of this State,
and BY that body, comprised Of such
mena us Levi Woodbury., ChariesG g. Ath.
rcrton. lchabod Bartlett, Levi Chamb.
erlain, William Plumer, James Bell
4 Daniel NJ. Christie. George w. Mes
NTH, Daniel Abbot, George x. Sawyer
Edmond Parker, Andrew Pierce, Edwin
/ y. Sanhorn and other gentlemen Of en-
inencc, General Pierce was elected il,
presiding officer by q vote of 257 70 =
LIN 1861, he was unanimously no,nin
i ated IS the Democratic candidate for th'
\ Presidency. dnd was elected lbeing the
less than farty-eight years q age) BY