Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-05-09
From the Bangor Democrat
,,,S.rent Personal Preferences and still Good
DlA Feeling,

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Din Feeling,
1bo last Belfast Journal, in an extended article
In tho canton of The Presidential Question
nnueR Buchanan and Mr.. Pierce" takes exception to
MI amer in which the friends of the latter conduct
inc 1noinarv canvass "-referring particularly to
tue Washington Union, which, it alleges, makes
n ne the fact that period not remote Mr..
- Innan favored the Missouri line and its extension
~ 80 pacific evidently for the effect of this circum-
t,nco NAV have at the South" We have not SO read
o Understood the Union, that has treated all the
GGtngnished democrats mentioned i'll connection with
Eos;donev with great fairness and mpartiality
TIt Manor has avoWed such to be It's determined
rnosp that its chief concern and object is the
ose of the principles and measures OF the democrat
r. marty and that, unconnected with these men are
~ minor consideration, and we think it has made
Good its professions As an Offset to what it
has been done by the Union the Journal makes,
on,onp others, the following statement:
6 How. we ask, did the South take Mr. Pierce at
tbo hands of the convention of 1852 ! In 1850
the democracy OF New Hampshire, with the Concord
patrio and Mr. Pierce at their head, were buried
fotbnUo deem in Wilmot-provisoism But two wears
boforo his nomination the presidential candidate was
loud in his advocacy of the measure, now rejected
I'D drown aside for the safer and sounder princi
nIes of the constitution. So much Tor that"
Now, whatever may have been done elsetnhere-and
that is not point it our present purpose to examine
in this Stale the friends Of President Pierce have
moi
Mr. Bscbanan a cheerful and hearty support if he
should be nominated by the Cincinnati Convention
The friends of General Pierce in Maine have done
nothing 10 create any prejudice against Mr.. Buchan-
an. whom they will to a man support with activity
and zeal if be should be the nominee Of the party for
President They believe him to be accomplished
salesman, standing mong the great men of the
country as one OF the strong pillars on which
the democratic cdifce rests sound able and patriotic
And il is a pleasant thought that if President Pierce
should be re nominated, Mr.. Buchanans friends will
support him with the same readiness and zeal that
Mr. Perce's friends would Mir. Buchanan. They all
belong 10 the same party, and there is difference
in the political principles of the two eminent demo-
cratic statesmen. The democracy of Maine will uni
tedY support the nominee OF the Cincinnati COnven-
ton whether it be Gen. Pierce, Mr.. Buchanan, MIR.
Rusk, Mr.. Douglas Mr.. Hunter, or any other ma
ti0nal democrat.
1t is news to us that Franklin Pierce was ever a
spcionals much more that he ever buried fathOm
deep in Wilmot-prOvisoism." We ore aW0re thai
this is one of the multitude of ISLANDERS and faist
charges preferred and circulated By the opposition IL
impure Inn and the democratic pGrty 6ut IRE hare
er the first particle Of eCidenCe to establish the fdc
thus stated. We utterly incredulous that any
such evidence can be Produced, and there should be
an abundance if he was d" buried tath0m deep in VIII.
mot-provisoism" No man in the country can show
iairer record againt sectionasm than Franklin
Pierce and there is not in ii reliable national
his seat in the United States Senate and left the field
of active political life for time. During his retire
ment seCtionalism made some inloads into the demo
cratic party Of New Hampshire elsewhere. But nc
sooner did it show itself in gubematorial candidate
(Mr. Atwood) than he left his professional business
engaged in politics again. and e1ered his whole pow
er, and successfully to eradicate the heresy. 1t il
true that the Concord Patriot like most of the othe
democratic papers in New England Che Belfas
Journal included,) for short period favored thu
Wimot provso; but it would be as absurd to holc
Franklin Pierce responsible for the mistake as tn
senior editor of the Journal for its long deUotiOn
pr0riSosm its Ui6ratiOn beyeen secionaLiSm and no
i0uolism, and its failure to come up squarey to iii
support Of the compromise measure The Patriot wa
controlled by the owners and editors, years sine
changed, not by Mr.. Pierce, an editor OF owne
Of the paper.
No democratic paper in this State has uttered tn
first WORD in dsprai8e of Pennsylvanias favorte sor
and no democratic paper in this State but the Belfas
Journal (2re regret that 1t has done it, has assale
President Pierce. There is no breach between III
friends of each, ana, with very few exceptions, n
other than personal good feeling in the Democrat
party of this State at the present time, and we trus
and believe that it will be disturbed and that tn
party will remain united and harmonious.