The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-08-20


TRUE AND FALSE MEN.-one of the few in the
North in whom the South has been disappointed,
(says the Richmond Dispatch is Ex-President Pierce
of New Hampshire The is all he appears to be-;
thing in this world He foresaw long ago and
predicted the present state of things and he also pre-
dcted the end the North would be the greater
sufferer. He in Black Repubcanism upon
property which first selected as apparently its easiest
victim property in slaves; but which, thwared in this
attempt, will make upon property in the North.
In a word Black Republicansm will become avowed
Agrariansm, and then, let those who have warmed
the serpent into life beware its fangs!
Gen Pierce is the truest friend the South ever had
in the North and the friend the North had
in her borders. The path of justice and honor is
always the path of wisdom and happiness 1t cannot
be otherwise until just God ceases rule If the
North had followed the ceunsels of such as Frank
Pierce of New Hampshire, Ex-Gov Seymour, of Con-
necticut (another and noble gentleman, who, at
the head Of respectable and increasing party is still
standing by the right and Nallandigham, of Ohio,
and others, she would still be peaceful prosperous and
powerful. But they and their counsels treated
with contempt, and the red flag of the n Y. Tribune
symbolzed the spirit, principles and policy of the
Northern majority. Strange enough is the spectacle
presented by two former competitors for the Presi
dency-Gen. Scott, the Virgnan, leading the armed
South, and Gen. Pierce, o: New Hampshire, standing
almost alone in his section in resisting that crusade.
Such facts show that the popular instincts often
right and that when the South preferred the Northern
Pierce to the Southern Scott she acted wisely and
bestowed her confidence and her condemnation where
both richly deserved.
What a contrast to the course of Pierce, Seymour,
landigham and others, is that of Cushing Dckin-
son. Everett Fillmore, and their associates what
tras the public journals of Concord Bangor, and the
y. Y. News and n. Y. Day Book, to those journals
which have been scared into the support of the Black
Republican Administration. They afraid of the
mob and the mob is the most cowardly of all animals
Not one of the brave who stand for the South
has suffered of violence because true courage
and independence always command respect even from
base and violent natures.
We need not partcularize the who have thrown
off the mask of friendship for the South in her hour of
trial. illustrate the truth of our remarks Those who
know them will wonder that most of them could ever
have commanded Southern confidence for moment
The time will come when their section will scorn
and execrate them, and when the North Itself VIII
render homage the manly virtues and moral courage
of such men as Franklin Pierce, whom it will also
recognize its friends and wisest eounsellors
The Smith arrested recently in New York, was not
a member of Congress at all, so it seems. lie Is
son of ex Governor Smith OF Virginia, ana hau oeen
Navy Agent at San Francisco, California de Is the
man who denounced Picayune Butler at the Baltimore
Convention, and the who created so much excite
ment in the Convention by accusing the Illinois deiega
ton, a member {: it, of fraud. Mr. Smith is bold
man, and we fear the Republicans will use him BADLY
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BkEg~ The Richmond Wing mentions the arrest OF
n Carolina soldier recently for imbbing too freely and
says: If mistaken this is the first arralgR-
ment of North Carolina soldier in our police court
The troops from that State have not only been the pest
euupped but they have been the orderly of any
which have come from the Southern States and they
shown themselves upon the field to be among the