Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-29
PEOPLES MASS CONVENTION.


Now that President Pierce has come to the de-
termination, as announced through his official
organs, to make a visit to his home in Concord,
for the first time since his Inauguration, and to
proceed thither by railroad, through the very
heart Of "the enemy's country" as his gallant
friend, Bully Brooks would express it, (instead
of by water as at first announced, it may be well
20 review, somewhat, in brief, few of the more
prominent acts OF his administration, and, COM
pairing them with the promise he made us, at its
commencement, consider what sort of reception
the President should meet with in his jour
ney through the free States, at the hands of an
outraged aud indignant constituency. We think
the manner of his reception should be modelled
after the resolution passed by a citizens meeting
in his city of Concord, called to consider the
matter, as follows -
Is Resolved. That the most BETTING mode in
which the inhabitants of Concord can receive
Franklin Pierce among them, is in MoURNFUL,
SOLEMN SILENCE"
This is the Judgment of four-6fths of his own
townsmen, and no doubt it is the most appropri-
ate and becoming manner in which that recreant
chief functionary could be soelcOned, anywhere
II audible manifestations of disapprobation can
be suppressed, we hope they WILL it will be be-
cause of the triumph of reconsideration for the high
Office he now holds, over contempt for the man
who has suffered himself to be made tool of by
the slavery propagandists, for the extension and
perpetuation of their vile institution at the haz
ard of the peace and welfare of the country.
When Franklin Pierce assumed the reins Of
power as President, in March, 1858, it was with
this solemn asseveration upon his lips, as express
cd in his inaugural:-
81 fervently hope that the slavery question is
at rest, and that sectional, or ambitious, or fa
uatlcal excitement may again threaten the dura.
oliy oil GU! institutions, or obscure the light Of
our prosperity"
And this solemn asseveration was reiterated in
his first message to Congress, in the following
words, among Others, pledging himself to oppose,
to the extent of his power, all disturbance Of the
then existing congressional compromises on the
slavery question, which he and his supporters
professed to regard as the final settlement and re-
pose Of all slavery agitation -
"That this repose is to suffer NO SHOCK during
my official term, If have power TO avert it, those
who placed me here may be assured"
So said President Pierce, in December, 1853.
Yet, with the above pledges upon bis lips, and
the additional pledge Of the resolution Of the plat
form upon which he was nomipated, and which
he endorsed, oblgatng himself and his party to
" RESIST all attempts at renewing, in Congress or
out Of IT, the agitation Of the slavery question,
under i0hdteUer shape or color the attempt might
De made" we find him, in the course Of few
brief months, becoming instrumental, and even
taking the lead, in uprooting and destroying one
Of the most ancient aud sacred Of those compacts
and compromises, in settlement Of the slavery
question, on the strength Of the inepealable ma
ture Of which his administration rose into power.
thereby bringing about and forcing upon us state
OF slavery agitation" unprecedented in the his.
tory OF the country. And all this Franklin Pierce
has done in order to yield to and crafty the in.
ssns desire Of the slavery propagandists, headed
by David Il Atehison, to spread slavery over The
heart, and fairest portion Of the North American
continent, from which il had been prescribed by
congressional enactment. For 80 foul breach
OF the trust and confidence reposed IN him. and