The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-30
GENERAL PIERCE INDICATED AGAINST ADOLF
TION CAIUMNY

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GENERAL PIERCE INDICATED AGAINST ABOLI-
TIoN oALUMNY.
Northern democrats frequently heard express their
surprise that any portion of the southern people should
labor under the deusion that President Pierce eheshes
single feeling of sympathy with aboliionists The
hostility which existed between them long before his
ton to the presidency and which has been constantly
growing in intensity both sides from the beginning Of
bis administration to the present hour is matter of such
universal notoriety in the North that intelligent in
that section puzzled to imagine how the fact be
lade the subject of controversy anywhere Seeing, how
ever daily before their eyes the evidence that President
Pierce the constant object of the impacabe hatred and
the malignant abuse of the aboonss and that aboli-
tionists and know nohings in the North only cordi-
ally agree in their hostility to southern institutions but in
their warfare upon Gen Pierce because of his unwaveng
fidelity to the guarantees of the constitution in behalf of
those institutions and seeing in the South that
ingsm almost anonymous with abuse of Franklin Pierce
1t should not be considered strange that national
the North are unable to comprehend the sincerity of south
ern know-nothings who denounee abotonsm in one
BREATH and in the vie with abolition itself in heapng
calumny upon General Pierce
There is doubt of the fact that these inconsistent and
paradoxea positions of southern know-nohings have
thrown suspicion the honesty of that zeal which they
manifest in avowng their devotion to the constitutional
! rights of the South. Whilst we look upon the warfare
waged by the know-nohing organization in the South
upon General Pierce wholly inexcusAbe and giving
and strength to abolitonism believe
that it is the result of undyng partisan hostility TO
democratic men and measures which actuaes their leaders,
rather than any real feeling Of sympathy with abolition
ISM When these leaders undertake to escape from the
responsibility of giving aid to aboonsm by their hos
lity to President Pierce they resort to the dishonest
pedent of accusing him of abolition sympathies and Of
charging that the northern democrats well the wings
and know-nohings are affected by ike procvity to
aboltonismwc say dishonest expedient, for we cannot
conceive how it is possible that any intelligent southern
honestly believe either that General Pierce is a
fected with any feeling of favor for aboonsm, that
the northern democracy not the only organization which
recognises the constitutional guarantees that south
ern rights.
We know how tine adroit and INSCRIPTIONS southern
leaders of the opposition labor to keep up the deusion
which has possession of their followers Again and again
have them boldly Selling upon abolition dec
laraon of single northern journal which has in times
past acquired the character Of democratic organ Of
prominent politician who has heretofore acted with
the democratic party and with unblushng efrontey in
ssng upon such evidence sufficient to abotonze the
whole northern democracy For years the New York
Evening Post furnished the southern wing leaders with their
chief capital in their effort prove the unsoundness of the
northern democracy That Journal however, has ceased
to be available witness its violent denuncaton of the
administration for its fidelity the constitutional rights
of the South has become notorious that has lost all
power do harm But since the late reaeherous speech
of John Van Buren, he has become the great by
whom the southern know-nothing leaders endeavor to
prove the unsoundness OF the northern democracy By
apoogzng for his treachery of democratic CO.
temporares have unfortunately given weight to Mr. Van
Bureas testimony. 1t thorough knowledge Of the
tactics of the southern leaders which induced prompt
ly to expose and denounce Mr. Van Buren's aboonsm
and earnestly to regret the disposition of of
democratic contemporaries temporize with his reacber
Gus conduct
These remarks suggested by the following able and
conclusive vndicaion of General Pierce against an attack
of the New York Evening Post 1t is made by the editor
Of the Nashville (Tennessee) Union paper which truly
reflects the democratic sentiment Of Tennessee the sub
ec and which has recently contributed largely to one OF
the brilliant victories ever achieved in that State
We invite special attention the truthful answer made
by that journal to the New York Evening Post:
From the Nashville (Tepn) Union
GENERAL PRnoE.-The know-nothng presses of the
South bitter in their abuse the President
than of those eeso papers Of the North which
when is desired to prove the northern democracy I'M
sound, called democratic papers, Thus the New
York Evening Post short time SINCE contained the fol
lowing paragraph:
"AcCIDENT AcCDENT'-Rather than break their
relations with such creatures direct the slavery policy OIL
President Pierce they have consented to ALLEVIATE from their
organization democrats like Preston King and Abah
Mann either of whom is valuable whatever party
they themselves than wilderness of accident
of accident who dispenses the patronage of the
government at Washington
This extract ought to convince every southern man. not
called democrats of whom it is the organ support
of the administration but that they denounce for pre-
cisey the opposite for which it is abused here in
the South. Indeed think the most mseheyous pot |
cal fraud attempted to be peperaed and the grosses
injustice pacsed is that which represents the adj
mnsraon democrats Of the North hostile the rghis
of the South and abuses the President for alatng with
ree-soieTs Every reader of the northern newspapers
knows these charges to be false is possible for Ian
guage express fsehood, yet they constantly eiter
ated make up considerable portion of the staple OF
know-nothing papers.
Never since the organization OF the government has
truer the constitution and the rights Of oil
the States under it occupied the presidential chair than he
who fills it, For the South to join in the abolition
abuse of the President is the most mpoc well the
most ungracul conduct of which any people were ever