Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-03-28
From the Mobile Register. ]
DDESInENT DIEpNE

While the name of the enemies of the South an
of her institutions is "legion," one would suPpos
that whenever in the North was found a true an
faithful friend to our rights and the constitution o
the country, common sense, common gratitude ah
common Justice would teach southern men 10 az
knowledge, cherish, respect, and honor that rare ~
tegrity and fidelity which rise superior to the prey!
dices of locality and education. Franklin flerce !
par erceNcnce the shining exemplar of such a charac
ter. His record is rs pure and spotiess as lnnt y
any man who was born and lives south OF me LOU
mac. Long before the dream Of high federal hoior
broke upon his vision We md him IN ms owl Wv Nv
sisuated in the heart Of prejudiced and fanat'cal 4NeS
England, the able, vigilant, and Determined enemy y
abolitionism, and the loyal and eloquent advocate .
the Just rights of the slave States TO immunity M ~.
anti-slavery disturbance and interference. II ~
House of Representatives in the Senate OF the oh'le'
States, and in the presidential chair, we find him sus
tanning, without falterins or equlyocatlon' inc a"r,
pure and unblemished record; and but d 10" " ~"
since, in his message on the Kansas trouoieS' o,. "
the most ultra sticklers for State rights III nou.,
Carolina have acknowledged that John Z. CainTu'
never wrote or spoke purer, soundcr, or more 'aaa 49,
lie sentiments and opinions OIL this important q"e'
ton. -. p;orce
In the fnce Of this noble history Of Franklin tlerte
while the heart of southern people Is warming ~
wards him as n northern public man, who dares ~ uI
true 10 the constitution Of his country anu inc w."
rights of all tho States, IN spite OF torrents o o,"l".
detraction, ridicule, md prejudice from MS =.
ton of the Union, il is Notifying TO witness INC ei,U, = =
made in southern papers To requite hs tidelity WV.
| SANDER and to pervert tic history OF n man -" ="
ever man did, deserves a civic crown from 'ne ""'
body of the southern people. ;,. hi,
We showed Yesterday that the attempt 10 IAN! nn'
noliticaI skirts with frcc-suilism, as the author "i ger
ia;n anii.sjuvar resolutions of the New llaIHEsh're
I.yisIutur,. was an abnrtiye failure-Cfdnerll Fte,ce
hovinp br.n engaged in fighting the battles u ns
country in Mexico at me very tune he n a
wiring nnti slavery resolutions in New Hampshire ,
And who il il that makes and repeats these rhHfEo::;
Southern men. whose record on this question: 10
shamed by the purer one oil Inc accuseuI u :" "o' 81
least, has never supported equivocal men. us y
IA nursr tbnn that of either Of the PresIdentihi chiu'.
d,fe, whom his accuser, have supported tor Inc past
twenty y.ar--purer than Clays, than Iiaft'soh >
Tnylor's, or Fillmores.
INV. we say NOT this for the purpose OF personal
laudation of q Democratic statesman. we Hhvc "
hiyhpr motive and II more comprehensive object
MI only common gratitude, but the patrlotlc duty
,,h;ch rcrsrds the safety of the Union ana the pre-
s.rvation of the institutions OF THIS great country,
,Jo,nard, TINT the South should cherish its true friends
NJ m. North. Take General Picrce's case IN an illus.
,"o,;nr Here is a man who has sacrificed himself
nnIi,ically, in his own section Of the Union, by Il bold
and consistent maintenance Of sound constitutional
opinions. Suppose, now, that the South, in whose
cause he has fallen nj home, also falls upon him and
sacrifices him! When, after such n fate. will tt
Northern public man be found again 10 stand up for
our ricltsi And how long will the Union last after
the process of crushing out every vesflgc OF nation
ulity and killing OFF every national man at TIE North
il complete The existence oil Tie government de-
ponds directly upon the preservation of a sound par
Is and of true men in the free States; and, while no.
thing would 30 fill the tents of abolltionism with ex-
ultation aud Joy As TO see this 'crushing ort' per-
formed by an net of mnnstrous Southern ingratitude
aud folly, nothing would be 80 much to be ~deplored
by every friend of tho federal constitution. In our
party chickering's and controversies, canno; we Of the
South disagree and dispute without doing injustice To
the true friends OF our common cause, and without
putting the L MON in jeopardy by mn nct which tends
Immediately to scctionalIZe and aboliti0nize the entire
North ! In other words, in our hot pursuit Of party
lriumpl,s, cannot we pause Il moment to think of our
country