The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-23
Two of Jackson's Secretaries for Free

guard OF Gen. jackson are. almost to a
map, in favor of the "Pathfinder." Att
the head of this array of war worn yeter-
ans, stands Francis P. Blair, the eonfiden.
tial adviser of Jackson, and the editor of
the organ of his administration.
Alta Republican meeting in Phila,lel-
pha on Monday last, letter addressed 10
the meeting by Samuel D. Ingham, VINO
was Secretary of Treasury under Jackson.
was read by the son of Mr. Ingham, in
which letter that gentleman takes firm
ground with the Republicans.
Mr.. lngham says that he long since
ceased to take an active part in politics,
and that the in6rmaties of age prevent
his attendance upon the meeting in com
pllance with the invitation, but saws:
In the momentous issue now presented
| should be unfaithful to the dictates of
my judgement, and the conscientious con-
vlctions of solemn duty, if 1 withheld
any aid that might b., thought useful in
the trial of the great cause now before
the American people.
On one side of the great issue before us
the right to hold slaves in all the terrific
rles of the United States. This claim
suggests constructive power, not in the
class of those necessary and proper for
the execution of the granted power; nor
have Its advocates persisted in an attempt
to derive from it an expressed or implied
term or meaning of the constitution.
They saw clearly that this would be i'm
possible, and have now rested their claim
on 'Eigher law" endeavoring to prove
that slavery is the natural and normal
condition of the laboring man, whether
white or black" and 'that the great evil
of Northern free society, is that it is bur-
dened with servile set of mechanics and
laborers. unfit for self-government; mas
ter and slave is relation in society, as
necessary as that of parent and child, and
the Northern States will yet have to pro-
duce it; their theory of self government is
a deiusion." Such are the doctrines and
principles now at work undermining the
very foundation OF political system de-
vised by some of IL g best and wisest men
the world has ever seen; to promote and
secure The happiness ofall within its do
minion.
Mr.. Ingham then goes on to show that
the election of 1852 was carried On under
compact from both polit cal parties, that
there should be no future agitation of the
slavery question; that Pierce was elected
under the influence of this Imposing
compact" and that the Presid> mt elect
when about to make his appeal to God a:
a witness to the sincerity of his oath o.
fidelity to his trust, pledged himself to the
whole American people that his power
would be exerted to prevent all further
agitation of this distracting and danger
Gus question"
The words of Ingham should burn in
to the soul of Pierce, as he reads wha
that old jackson veteran says of tha
VOW and its violation, to wit:
Can any one conceive Of a pledgt
more solemn, or that could have beer
made more irrevocably binding, thar
this, voluntarily agreed upon by all par
ties, and universally approved as grea
national blessing. +
The promise of Charles l to maintain
the right of petition, the violation of wbicl
cost him his head, could not compare il
imposing solemnity with that which Pres
ident Pierce made on the 4th of March
1853.
Can the history be credited which will
record the fact that, in less than min,
months from that time, he had engaged
in a conspiracy to accomplish, in its mos
obnoxious form. what he had thus prom
ised to resist? That he not only used hi
official power to effect the repeal of th'
Missouri Compromise, and carry SLAVERY
into Kansas by lawless violence, but tina
he entered into conspiracy for that pur
pose, is susceptible of incontrovertibl,
proof.
Mr.. Ingham then gives a succinct ant
scathing history of the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise; Atchison' movement
in Kansas in denouncing Reeder, and o
Pierces removal of that Governor in ODE
dience to Atchison S demands; the remov
al of one territorial Judge and the ap
pointment of Lecompte, "whose name will
fill niche in American history similar tt
the one occupied b7 the notorious Jeffrey:
in English history" the passage of law:
(which, like those of Draco, might be
said to be written in blood;" Pierce's de.
nunciation of the Topeka constitution as
+ reasonable, although adopted by The
same usage under which the people o
: nine territories have organized State gov
ernments; the arrest and Imprisonment
J for months of some of the inhabitant.
r of Kansas, refusing them bail under {
: false charge of treason; the authority civ