Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-10

IN OUR telegraphic columns OF yes
terday the public was informedO of the
death of Ex-President FRANKLIN
PIERCE. The sad event transpired at
his home in Concord, New Hamp-
shire. The deceased statesman was
in his sixty-ffth year. He was born
in Hillsborough, New Hampshire,
November %, 1904. His father was
Gen. BENJAMIN PIERCE, a revolu-
tionary soldier, a noted Democratic
politician, and one of the most p0pu-
lar of the Governors of New Hamp-
shire, of which he was among the
earliest settlers from Massa-
chusetts. The son of this
sterling patriot, the fourteenth
President of the United States, was
educated at Bowdoin College, where
he graduated in 1924. He studied law
at the law school of Northampton,
Mass, and under the tutelage Ofthe
statesman and lawyer, LEVI WooDr
BURY, and Judge PARKER, was called
to the bar in 1927 and commenced
practice in Hillsboro. He entered
political life in 1899 as an ardent advo-
cate of Gen. JAcKsoN's claims, aAd in
that year was elected to the Legisla-
ture of New Hamshire, in which
ne served four years, two of
them as Speaker. In 1888 he
entered Congress, and during his pres
enee there, up to 1881, in the Lower
House, stood fair and square with the
friends of the Constitution. In that
year he was elected to the Senate, of.
which he was then the youngest mem
Der, having barely reached the legal
age. In 1872 he resigned his eatand
retired to private life, whence he
emerged at the head of a brigade OF.
New Hampshire troops to participate
in the Mexican war. This he did sue
eessfully and well, being con
spicuous for courage and gallan-
try in action. He served as
"a member of the Constitutional Con-
Yention Of 1850, and in 1882 was nomi-
mated to the Presidency of the Baiti-
more Convention. We will not at
tempt TO recount the history of an adj
mimlstratiOn during which was COM
menced that system of policy or series
of movements which eliminated in
civil war. Suffice it that Mr.. PIERCE,
ably sustained by his Cabinet,
throughout the four years of his Pres
idential career fully defended and
upheld the Constitution so ruthlessly
assailed by the men who established
ana who now lead the Radical party.
At hcmeand abrOad he maintained the
national integrity, and 50 jealousy as
to occasion the most malevOlent Oppo-
sition to him by the agents OF Euro
pean governments. The course of
President PIERCE throughout the
Kansas troubles is well remembered.
His subsequent conduct in private
life was marked by the same jealous
consistency ofa political record which
measured by the Constitution, is
blameleSsl lie was for the Union
and the Constitution during the
war, and was several times
threatened on account of his fidel-
ity to both. Nothing could. move
swerve him from the path in which
he moved all his life. a Democrat he
was born, q Democrat he lived and a
Democrat he died. He had seen par
ties one after another succumb to pub
lie opinion, but in a long and eventful
career he found the party of his
father's choice, strong enough to with
stand all the mutations of time, and to
last to the close of his life, strong and
full of yigor as when it elected
JACKSON President. Ex-President
PIERCE died full Of years and honOrs,
respected and beloved by his neigh
bors, and enjoying the reputation OF a
true patriot. He will always be re-
membered by the people Of the South
with gratitude, and by the whole
country with respect.