The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-12-19

peem 70 think that, on the subject Of slavery,
they have q special privilege to practice just
as much deception as they please. OF this
number u pre-eminently The Saco Union,
which uses its assumed license with free
dom amounting 70 reckhssnes. ThercJs
frequently rich exuberance Of falsehood in
its columns, which must make ii the admir-
ration OF its readers, and quite text book
among partizan priests. But IL never achiev-
ed holder forgery or meaner lie, than
when it published the article from which we
make the preceding extract.
"The Saco Union changes the interroga-
tory ''is IL TO the assertion at as" and
tearing three sentences from their connec-
ton, reyerses tho argument Of the message,
and manufactures thus monstrous false
hood with which IL can crafty its love OF
libel and its hatred Of General Pierce. IL
will DO rolled rs choice morsel in the mouths
Of oily hypocrites. SANITY Fremonters will
turn up the whites Of their eyes as they read
IL, and elongate their viages at the thought
Of Pierce's wickedness. Some good Old
ladies will wipe their spectacles and sigh over
the sad state Of the Presidents soul, and per-
haps wonder that all men can't be as good,
and pious and virtuously inclined as dear
Mr.. Cowan Of the Saco Union. Perhaps
some feeble minded partiran in black, with
white neckcloth on, may moan next sun
day over this very article which we have
quoted, and clasping his black worsted gloves
together, may pray in some small school,
house, that Heaven will graciously please to
reduce all the world TO his standard OF excel
lence. Yet the whole article is nothing
more nor less thana monstrous lie; and just
such lies as this have been used during the
last Presidential campaign to deceive the
credulous, and Brighten the timid, and awak.
en- the sympatbies Of tho kind!"
Tho man who stands sponsor for this hash
ofdirty party spleen and bitterness! Us well
Us practical infdelity, is John Appleton, the
individual who after having been blown in the
newspapers as theexpectant ola cabinet Office
in the incoming administration has, so rumor
says, "for pecuniary considerations" subsi-
ded into the place of being, in prospect, the
amanuensis Of James Buchanan, and so the
country is going to lose the benefit Of his in-
valuable talents. He is the same individual
who rctailcd to few gaping brother black
democrats, and affiliated strait wings, in the
Pioneer Hall in our city, last summer, a
variety Of infamous ISLANDERS against Col.
Fremont, prominent among which was the
one relating to the difficulty which occurred
between Col. Fremont and Senator Foote.
He entered life Garrisonian abolitionist,
probably twas while in sympathy with this
phase Of abolitionism that he learned to
Islander the clergy, and to sneer and scott at
ministers, and finding that would not pay,
sold out for what would pay-to the South
ern Democracy. He threw away his prin-
ciples, and obtained first paying Office at
Washington and afterwards place in the
legation at the court Of ST. James under his
prospective master James Buchanan. Sup
pose we were as guilty as our accuser sup
poses, or affects to believe, is this man, or
paper, fresh from publishing his SANDERS on
Col. Fremont and distorting and misrepre.
senting the principles Of the Republican
party, ct to be our accuser? Has no ever
yet made his peace with his conscience for
falsly stating as he has hundred times that
the republicans were disunionists? Has he
purified his soul by rctracting his infamous
statement made in Pioneer Hall in this
city, that +" Col. Fremont met Senator Footc
in the lobby of the Senate chamber and
struck him, drawing blood" viii he now
that the election is over, after having let the
SANDER slide for months, have the manliness
to publish, what he must have seen, Senator
Foote's letter exonerating Col Fremont
from this false accusation? Has he ever cor
rectcd that lying article which he published
from day to day from the Pennsylyanian in
relation to Horace Greeley and VIM. Lloyd
Garrison ? None of these things has no
done or will he do, yet because we uninten-
tiOnally misquoted his darling Pierce, he
pounccs upon US with his fetid breath and
pours tho slime of his slang upon us. If we
are charged with crime, our accuser should
at least do so with clean hands. When
"dear" Mr.. Appleton shall "bring forth
fruits meet for repentance, it will be time
enough for him to become the public ac-
cuser Of Others.
The Argus understands, or ought to I'M
derstand, that we have no sympathy with
any doctrine under which slavery by any
possibility can be extended. We are no be-
levers in what is most incorrectly termed
popular sovereignty" Nothing which de-
liberately sets at nausht the "higher law"
and would give men a chance to become
beasts, the strong preying on the weaker of
their species, has our sanction. We hate
oppression in all its forms, and hypocrisy
and deceit, no matter how decent the cloak
that covers it. The man who iayors this
doctrine of popular sovereignty and goes for
il to the extent of asserting that slavery may
be established in any country If the people
see ft ought not complain if he is accused of
loving slavery and hating freedom nor ought
he to find fault if his God given rights are
taken from him and he and his children, if
any he has, arc made I" hewers Of wood and
drawers Ofwater."