The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-01-24
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ern man in sentiment! We think no un-
preiudiced man can read the following wan
ton attack upon the Northern and his un-
truthful defense OF the Southern States,
without blushing 10 know that man, occu-
pying his high position, could make 20 I'M
kind and untruthful an attack on the free
citisens OF the North. One would think the
sixteen free Northern States were entitled
to IS kind and respectful treatment at the
hands Of the Chief Magistrate as the fifteen
slave States, but Franklin Pierce thinks not
80. He says
While the people Of The Southern States con-
6ne their attention 10 their ocn affairs, not
prssumine e6icisusls TO interm,eddle apih the
social instituiions Of the Northern STATES, too
many Inhabitants of the latter are perma-
nently organized in associations to nhict
injury on the former, by wrongful acts, which
would be cause of war as between foreign
powers, and only fail 10 be such in our sys-
tenn, be cause psrpetrated under cover Of the
Union.
The Boston Atlas says Of it:
We find the above remarkable statement
in the message of President Pierce. There
are many more in that document lust as
truthful, Just a. impartial, and equally hon.
est Far be it from US to insinaate that the
Honorable Franklin intended to utter any
fslsehoods. Yet there are two slight mac.
curacies as to fact in the above, which only
the most signal ineAperience. greenness or
ignorance. on the part OF that high Junction
airy can excuse or explain en- any other
ground, unless we adopt the other unpleas-
ant alternative, ahs suppose the mistake
made on purpose.
In spite of DIR. Pierce's positive state
| ment, it is manifestly not true that the PEG.
| pie of the Southern States confine them
selves to their own affairs. II is equally
untrue that there is any large proportion OF
| the people of the North organized in asso-
Citations to inflict injury by wrongful acts
upon the South. Both statements are with
out any foundation in fact, and if the Presi-
dent does not know they are both false, his
| ignorance is excessive, and entirely units
| him for his position in the executive chair.
For years past, from the annexation OF
Texas to the GROWING outrage Of the Kan
sas-Nebraska perfidy, the South have been
engaged in acts of constantly increasing in
juries and aggressions upon the rights and
interests OF the Northern people. Contra
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of the Constitution, new slave States have
been forced into the community, by which
the South have obtained an undue prepcn.
derance, 10 which they are not entitled by
their population. Their property is repre-.
sented in Congress, while the Northern
States lave no such basis of representation
What greater wrong can be thus inflicted
upon free people than these successive
sggr essions, taking from them political
power that is rghtfully theirs. The insti.
1 tuition Of slavery is represented in Congress
already by forty-seven Representatives
and By sixteen Senators also, to which they
would not be entitled if it had been confined
where such patriots as Jefferson and Madi-
son designed to restrict il. If all these ad.
vantages had been secured by fair and hon.
| orable means. there would be netting to be
said, and no occasion for complaint, But il
| is not 50. They have been acquired BY
successive aggressions, acts of bad faith
and now, in Kansas and Nebrasks, vic
lence, outrage and crime are added to ths
long catalogue Of their offences. Yet this
President coolly tells US the people OF thu
Southern States have been combining thei
attention to their own affairs!
Even more palPaoiy inaccurate 10 t"'
charge against the people of the free States
When and where have our people combines
to infict upon the South by wrongful acts
VIII the President please tell US! H.
makes this rash statement, upon him fall
the whole burthen of the proof. Where are
the "wrongful acts" committed by ou
| "peoplsw He cannot point to one 0
which the South have any just right to com
plain. He can advance no evidence of an,
| improper associations on the part Of ih'
people. The entire statement lie a mer,
ealumny upon the people Of the free States
unsupported by any evidence, and which
cannot be maintained