Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-20
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The voics Of Now Hampshire.

Waterloo defeat of the administration in the
North. Southwark, now, exclusively, must
Franklin Pierce hereafter bend his vision, and
not presume to look for aid to any State north
of Mason and Dixon's line. If he cannot
carry his own State, ard that State New
Hampshire. heretofore the impregnable fortress
of Democracy, what chance has he elsewhere.
OF course, next fall. when the issue will be
national one exclusively, the odds against him
will be still greater. The Granite State may
thus be accounted the Thermopyla of doom OF
the Slave power. unless the foolish divisions
in the ranks of the friends of Freedom IN
other States, shall step in to prevent harmo.
NOUS action throughout the free States.
of the causes which have led to this dis
astrous defeat of the administration, it is I'M
necessary to speak. They exist in the ur-
warrantable legislation of Congress in re-
gard to the Territories, and sanctions thereof
given by the President, i'll direct opposition
to all the previous acts and professions of the
New Hampshire democracy. Had they gone
into the recent contest with the resolutions
and speeches of their State Conventions and
chief orators of lS47, AS, 40, and 81 on
their lips, with any intention of living up to
them, they would have carried the State with
whirlwind, as was their wont in times gone
by. But having forfeited all the confidence
of the people by assuming the load of the
Nebraska Kanzas bill and the Presidents
pusillanimous action thereon, upon their
Il AZ ii,
ton there have been second time repudiat-
ed, and the masses Of what once composed
the party have fairly spewed them out of their
mouths.
The voice of New Hampshire, as uttered at
the late election, is but a reiteration of the
stern democratic truths she used to put forth
in the days of her Democratic ascendency,
during pro-S Slavery national Wing admins
tration. The position they used to take, at
the time referred to. pending the discussion of
the territorial questions, arising out of the vast
accession TO our national domain, by reason
of the Mexican war, and since, up to within
three or four years, is well summed up in the
following extract from the New Hampshire
Patriot of Dec 2Sth, 1s4S. the organ of the
New Hampshire Democracy, and mouth piece
of Gen. Pierce -
"The southern people have no right--nat-
ural, moral, or political-to force slavery upon
the new Territories. They have no more
right to go there and hold slaves, than they
have to do so in New Hampshire. The slave.
holders have no more right to plant sla very
upon flee Territory than we have to abolish
slavery in South Carolina
This is how this great question, which
now agitates the country from centre to cir
cumference, was then considered in that State,
and is to the same purport Of all the argu-
ments of their leading orators, and resolutions
of their Conventions. For instance, at the
---.:~- of Oct. 1S47,
they unanimously put forth the following, as
the lasting record of their Git was supposed,
permanently convictions on the slavery issue:
q ResoiUed, That we declare it our solemn
conviction, as the Democratic party have
heretofore done, that neither sIauery nor in
voluntary seyvitude should hereafter exist in
any territory which may be acquired by or be
annexed to the United States; and that we
approve OF the votes of our delegation in Con-
gress in favor of the Wilmot proviso.'
Would be Gov. John S. Wells and Collec-
tor Chas. II. Peaslee, were on the Committee
which drafted this resolution, thanking John
P. Hale, Amos Tuck, &C., for their anti slave.
ry votes in Congress and Franklin Pierce,
as Chairman of the State Central Committee,
was a member of the Convention which
unanimously passed it And the New Hamp-
shire Patriot, again echoing the unanimous
voice of the democracy, in its issue of Nov. 4,
had the following endorsement of this and
the accompanying resolutions of like charac-
ter passed by that body:
"We never read a more able, eloquent.
an appropriate series of resolutions ADOPTED
upon any occasion and there is one fact in
this connection worthy of notice: These Teso-
lutions were adopted UNANIMOUSLY by the
very able committee Of twenty, after much
dei9eration, and were unanimously adopted
by the convention. And we put them forth
as the DELIBERATE and NATURE convictions of
the Democracy of this State
The Democratic Legislature of lS49 was
equally explicit and emphatic in giving utter
auce to these truths, proclaiming them to be
UNALTERABLE," by unanimously passing
through both branches, resolutions reiterating
them, and Furthermore resolving, "that Con-
Sress has poper to abolish slavery in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and instructing John P 4.
Hale and the rest of the delegation in Con-
gress "to take all constitutional measures to
accomplish these o6jects" This was Democ-
racy in New Hampshire, as sanctioned BY
Governor Dinsmoor, General Pierce and 9TH
ers, seven years ago.
And the New Hampshire Patriot, as be.
fore, reiterated these sentiments, declaring.
in its issue of July 20, is49, "The Democ.
racy of the State are UNANIMOUS in the opin.
ion, so far as we know, that Congress has and
shoaid ereriise the po@er of excluding slavery
from the the territories" adding
:" Ever since the question of the extension
of slavery to free territory was irst preached
the Democrats Of New Hampshire have ON
posed such extension. They have oecupied
but one ground upon the subject. In Office
and out, their united voice has been raised in
behalf Of the doctrine. that territory aop free
should eyer remain so. Their Representatives
in Congress have uniformly so voted, their
Legislature has repeatedly so resolved, their
conventions have constantly so declared, their
newspapers have always 80 spoken, their can
didates have uniformly so expressed them
selves, and their speakers have at ali times
aud in all places so proclaimed This has
been, and now is, the ground upon which
they stand; and tey ioin support no man aoho
IS not SQUAT uDOn This 1tfeski0u"