The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-11-28

/ ~ IAidostiHit puolisIeQ aletler announcing lila
he lad become disguised with tile Democrat,
party as at present organised. the Pierce admin
stration its freesoiI and abolition affnilies ant
ntrgnes, and that he hereafter intended to ac
with the American party. Ever since the ap
pearance Of his letter the Office holders ane
their organs have been busily engaged in viii
! flying, abusing and defaming Mr. Clemens, ant
even Messrs. Wicklitfe and Noise, in their re
cent political pilgrimage through northern Lou
isiana, SO far forgot themselves as to descend
from theirpostion and, Office -hunterl like office
holder, JOIN in the scurrlous hue and cry. Mr.
McKeen, of Trenton, on the Ouachita, having
informed Mr. Clemens of the charges brought
against him by Wickliffe and Noise, he reply
ed in the following style: -Ga la Ts5
"HUNrsv1LLE Der 8, 1855-Dear sir: Y our
letter Of the 18th ultimo, only reached me TO-
day. You say that Messrs. Wicklife and Noise,
democratic candidates in your State, denounced
me in coarse and abusive terms at a public
meeting at Trenton on the 18th September
| 1t is not my habit to notice the mean and COW
ardly assaults of a slanderer who uttcr~ his ca
lumnies at the safe distance Of sr or se0en hun-
dred miles. Nor do | know anything of Mr..
Wickif1e or Mr. Noise to Justify a departure
from this rule. once knew something of Mr..
Robert Wickliffe, whose character was by no
means so good as to excuse his abiding dis
paragingly to the character of others. Of Mr.
Noise, I only know that the administration
who appointed him TO Office were afraid to trust
him with the prosecution of an alleged postof-
fee robbery. l do not know whether it was
his honesty. or capacity, which was doubted,
but think it likely it was both. = 1T.
Your report Of what they said at Trenton
is false from beginning to end, and | enclose
copies of letters from the most eminent men Of
this generation living and dead, to prove that
it is So l only add general Pierce's letters
because you say they charged me with seeking
officeIfrom him. From these letters you will
see how groundIess is such an accusation. X
Very respectfully, yours, &c, JERE CLEMENS
Mr., Clemens replies rather tartly to his de-
famers, and in respect to Mr. Noise with more
truth than poetry. @. Esas5 .zefr8e.t r9ss-
The federal office-hoders are again in the
field, defending their right to the ''loaves and
fshes.'' John Cochrane, president Pierce's
reesoil collector of the port of New York, pub
ishes card in the Herald in defence of his
'nti-slavery and freesoil sentiments, as express
ID by himself at recent democratic ratifca-
ion meeting, by comparing them with those of
Ex-senator Dickinson, the acknowledged file
-adcr of the "natioAaP' democrats. Collector
}ochrane expressed himself as emphaticaly Il
pposed to the extension of slavery, and he af
rms that the hon. Mr.. Dickinson stated at the
emocratic convention held at Rome, n Y ork, {
1849, that: :
"On this, territorial slavery question, my {
ex-senator Dickinson's) position is this--I am \
an individual and AS legislator not in favor
the extension OF slavery, but oe1 and out, up
"a DOM, lac or die, / am opposed to its extern
1uh' ..Hx
Mr.. Cochrane refers to the OFFICIAL proceed -
IS Of the convention as published in the n :,
'rk Evening Post and Albany Argus, as ev- s
,nce of the truthfulness of his quotation.
"Prnce'' John Van Buren,, the leader and
Ister spirit of the "softs,' in his speech at r
bany, in October, said: -5l5@aza r
''Mr. Daniel S. Dickinson, who was mem =,
: of that 1.-THE Rome convention, went farth- u
than any Of us. Indeed, he went so far that &c
have not yet overtaken him. He went P
alnst slavery every where-north, south, east, az
stand declared it foul calun4iy TO say r.
It he was in favor of the extension Of il over =,
rltory now free VI
b nS
So it would appear that both wings of the II.
W York democracy -Pierce's "soltshell" %
ce- holders, and Dickinson S "hardshell'' ma I'll
freesoilers, and both alike arrayed ="
opposition to the south. Yet, marvellous to III
lold, we find the most vehement advocates III
southern rights" affiating with and en- ie
sing New York democracy. le
=.H|" .-~--~>-1~-~--+~~~~S~---eG~~~~~- as
rhe Columbus Times and Sentinel, the lead y,
democratic journal of Georgia, announces b,
tt'the time has come for the democratic q,
ty to cut off the diseased fungi which adhere f.
t; or speedy death will follow" This is .,
st true and candid confession, and the advice g.
,ht to be instantly acted upon; but we are
A loss to understand what part or how much,
he present democratic organisation will be al
when the mass of ''diseased fungi" is cut te
and separated from the body. After the al
ration has been performed there will be M
hing left to live. 1872 ss" $50. fi'
M rs z5I1 @,-~~&~s~->~>~>l~~ St
Feeder, president Perce's ex-governor of CT
nsas, and lately elected by the abolitionists T,
heir delegate to congress, has officially no w
I'd Whitefeld, the pro-slavery territorial del to
tie from Kansas, that he intends to contest tn
claim to seat in the U. S. house of epre- BIZ
tatives.r Whitfield returned long and very NJ
rching reply, which is published in the St. F,
lis papers. ~s~-1S .. E.r55
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The London correspondent of the National nj
eligencer states that the expectation is gen in.
in England and most of Europe that there W.
be grand blow up in the next congress, 81
solution of the Union in two years, and that of
gland will take the south under her protection sa
suppose that John Bull thinks that if he We
oct the south under his ssnrotection - he .