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f"! T, "' GEN. PIERCE AND SLAVERY
t mm:- ; Messrs.! Editors :i What are Gen
Pierce's
views in relation to the institution of slavery?"
Has he never expressed opinions and feelings
j concerning slavery which no Southern man can ,
Sanction T M i . ' ..r-T' ,
In a speech, revised and written out by him
self, and published in the Appendix to the Con
; gre8sional Globe, 2nd session, 25th Congress,
page 54, (no speeches are published in that
; work but such as are revised by thet members
rwho deliver them) he used this language : f
'MIkave no hetitatioit''i' toying that ft consider
tlnrvrn a snr'TAT. avi political EVIL, -and tnott
, sincertiy tcish U had no' existence on the face of
i the earth." r t ,
- - Now how many Southern men concur .with
' Gen. Tierce in the belief that slavery "is a social
: and political evil ;" and how mfOiy joui him in
the "most sincere wish"' that it had no existence
1 i on the face of the earth T Do his supporters in
I jCXpeorgia concur with him ? If they do, it is their
duty, as honest men, to organise a pany in ivr
i of voting out from among us this "social and
Eolitical evilV- If they do not concur with him,
ow. can they consistently support him T ' . ' "
". ; Again we . have undoubted authority no
- ( : abolition, or whig papers but the authority of
1 his own accredited organs, for saying that he
V hates and deplores slavery yea as much as
J ; " an abolitionist Now for. the proof:
Shortly after his nomination, there appeared
In the Boston Post, the organ of Gen. Pierce's
party in Massachusetts, an elaborate biographi
cal sketch of the General, written by the Editor
of the Postat least it has usually been ascrib
ed to his pen that sketch was transferred to
the Washington Union of June 28th, ah d en
dorsed by the Editor" as a "very able and well
i written notice of General Pierce," and "com
: mended to the attention of his readers."
" Now it is the .vocation! of the Union to advo
.i. cate the clainu'4f Gen. Pierce as a candidate
for the Presidency & defend him against the
" attacks of his opponents, and to correct any mis
' representatioiis qf his views and opinions, which
:v may obtain currency. No one can charge the
- 'j ".' Unionwjth misrepresenting Gen. Pierce, partic
i ularly'on th question of slavery, on which it
- takes special pains to prove him sound in tKs
' estimation ef his Sou thern supporters. In the
biography of Gen. Pierce, published in the Bos
ton Poet, and re-published in the Union, there
is a sketch of a speech delivered by him on the
20th of last November at Manchester, (not in
Jailuary at New Boston, be it recollected the
two speeches i must not be confounded.) The
. ; meeting at Manchester, the editor informs us,
, "was one of the Union meetings, which wascal-
'-' led at that period in order to give a pledge of
"H fidelity to the Union,: the Constitution, and the
laws" and the General's speech is quoted to
prove his fidelity to the Union, and show his
,i boldness in rebuking the abolitionists, many of
whom were present, and to whom the speech
; -c was mainly addressed. I quote from bis speech
as reported in the 'Pst and Union. He said,
"the, men in the hall, who had abandoned them
selves to the infatuation of disunion sentiments
. J will probably live to regret and repent of their
- present course. In the coming days of decrepi
tude, when the infirmities of age shall have crept
-upon them, they would gather their children
around them and confess how they were once
; v. betrayed into morai treason, and as a legacy,
; say to them, "Stand bv your Union and stand
by your Country." (What think the Southern
Rights Democrats and Whigs, many of whom
' - last year were open disunionists, of that decla
; ration?) According to Gen. Pierce, they were
guilty of "moral -treason." Are they not now
his supporters ?"" 1
But to continue from the General's speech :
- " Who." said he, did not deplore slavery t But
what sour.d thinking mind regarded that as the
only evil which could rest upon the land. . Ihe
men, irho wrruld dissolve the Union, did not HATE
or deplore Slavery ioitx than he did ; but even
with it, we had lived in peace, prosperity, and
j security from Jhfoundation of our institutions
I to the present day.",
These extracts are sHiflicient to show General
"Pierce's string anti-slavery feelings that he
... 'hates' slavery as much as an abolitionist ! The
; disunionists jwhom fie addressed were abolition
' ists, and notuthepn Rights secessionists. : He
- ' told them that hone of them "hates or deplores
slavery more than he does." Well, if that is
not hating slavery strong enough and hard
! ' enough, will some qf his Southern Rights friends
tell us how much harder and stronger he ought
: to hate it to entitle himself to the support of
Southern men T ijas uem ocott ever saia any-
thing to show that he hates slavery as intensely
J as Gen. Pierce ? And if Southern men "strain"
I at him on account iof his anti-slavery notions,
how can they "swallow"Gen. Pierce who "hates"
slaverv as much as an abolitionist i I ell me
i that, ye who can. !
Aw Up-Countrt Whig
MODERN DEMOCRACY.
Modern Democracy takes many shapes, and
assumes all the colors of a chameleon. No cir
cumstances can- arise, to which it will not rea-
jdily accommodate itself. It cap be Dbrrism in
Rhode Island, Abolitionism in Massachusetts,
anti-rentism in New Lork, or attempted nulli
fieatinn of solemn treaties and decrees of court.
such as were witnessed m the city of New York
last ween, repudiation ine luississippi, secession
ism in Souui Carolina, and nllibusterinz in
Louisiana! ' And then, the leaders cf all these
factions, from the hot-beds of puritanical fanat
icism in the North to the rice faelds of (ieorgia,
will assemble together under the same roof in
National Convention, and pass an incongruous
and contradictory, series of resolutions, some
, armarentlv nro-slavery, and then adopt the
Kentucky resolutions, which virtually declare
T the Fugitive Slave Law void, and ot no effect,
? (as the last Democratic National Convention
did,) declare the whole to be unadulterated De
mocracy, and call upon " the faithful" through
out the land to rally to the support ot the same,
Z and the candidates which are put forward under
it.
- It is but a few days since we noticed an ar
''i Ucle in the Democratic Review, . the recognised
" ' organ of " Young America," proclaiming in fa
1 . vor of the annexation of Canada, Cuba, and all
i "contiguous islands and territories," a and the
Kossuth doctrine of intervention in European
affairs, and stating that all was destined, to be
V " the work of Frank Pierce!" May the ord
save the Union from his election, if such are to
V bo the consequences of his elevation! Surely,
:' Am reign would be afl era of war, bloodshed,
distress, impoverishment,- and general demoral
ization. '
A " man is known by the compiany he keeps,"
' as well as by those who set themselves upas
hi principal champiens and supporters. The
principal leaders of all the above factions, are
' ; strong friends of Pierce. These facts, taken in
; connection with certain well known tendencies
''of his mind, seem to make him a man most unfit
" to fill the responsible office of President Of the
:'i United States. This country will witness troub
1 ; lous times when a wak-minded agrarian,; who
' vl construes the obligations of law, of the consti
"'': '" tudoni'and of treaties, loosely, shall fill the ex
i ecutive chair. , This country needs a man who
will revere the organic law of the land, who will
. .: respect the prerogatives of either department of
the government, who will enforce laws and trea
': . ites according to their spirit and letter, and who
. believes in, and "Trill carry out, the wise and
'S beneficent doctrines of the immortal Father of
, . his Country a tnan similar to Millard Fillmore
-: . or to Winfield Scott; " -'
:'4Mi Wa have "been led into these reflections, by
- v ; seeing a paragraph in an exchange, which sta
- . ted that, on a late visit of Gen. Pierce to Rhode
!,t' Island, the "first man lie called on was the notori--
"ou Governor J)orrv The Alexandria TetSgraph
publishes an extract from .the Providence Her
'' - "aid. a paper, edited by Dorr, in which he Refers
Vto' his .ihteryiew, arfd: speaks of the friendship
'r ,iof Piercdibr his auso m Tuiode Island ;i.IIe
- "iyrt' . .-4:-.:,'
" '.Wftl n'a1 the pla9f isfjJn interview with
him.- -: ne'i8 in fine'healt&ndVhih spirits, and
"has an excellent cam paign . in him. Being a
, " thorough going, practical Democrat, and a man
"; f and among the people, and knowing -what a i
united Democracy can do, he commits hutselt
phpprfullv to their hands. When oiir eonversa-
y,V iNu iurneA to some of the aifuirs of 1842
hind his veil known friendship for the Rhode Is-k
lntul. rnnxe of sovereiantu and xuffraae, we too'k
the liberty speaking of our democratic brethren
to assure him thai his friendship for that caiise
teas not forgotten, and that it would urge the rank
and fie of our party to imusual exertions. Dem
ocrats! will you ratify this promise by your
exertions and votes in the present campaign ?'
So, here is Dorrism attached to the many at
tributes of the Briarean principled Democratic
pAndidate fori "tha Presidency 1 What a beauti-
ful, spectacle' the contemplation of the whole
fn t damn nnnn if" A mMnahS ! " e ,'
pi COLUUI v& '
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From the Republic.)
The Republic admits the " frankness" of Gen
eral Pierce's disclaimer of the words imputed
to him by Foss, and also admits that his " per
sonal character' gives credit to his disclaimer.
But. in the face of these admissions, and of the
published testimony oj the meeting useij, tne
Republic persists in its charge, upon no other
authority than the pretended report of an abo
litionist, who is admitted to know nothingabout
reporting! Plainly, this is the conduct of a
conspirator who no longer expects to be aWe to
deny his conspiracy !
1 Of a piece with this, ana tenaing in tne same
manner, to a confession of the conspiracy, is the
pettifogging effort of the Republic to shift the
issues in . the case, to rely upon the resolutions
heretofore adopted by New Hampshire Demo
crats, with which General Pierce's name is no
way connected, and to make capital out of the
circumstances under which General Pierce's
letter comes before the public. All this has
nothing to do with the question, and we do not
propose to discuss it.
Union of yesterday.
; Tlje above are the material paragraphs of the
only article which the Union-' has ventured to
indite in regard to General Pierce's: defensive
letter. They amount to a begging of one por
tion of the question and a surrender of another ;
and are altogether founded upon a pitiful per
version of the articles already in the hands of
our readers.
" Our " admissions" did not bear the con
struction upon them by the Union. AVe said
that the letter had the semblance of frankness,
and that the character of its author as a man
not as a politician might be as excellent as
his friends allege it is ; but we said that, in the
case now undergoing trial before the country,
"personal character" could have little or no
weight when balanced against the mass of
criminating testimony. We showed that the
charge, though primarily resting on the state
ments of Mr. Foss, is fully sustained by other
witnesses, and by the entire home character of
General Fierce and his friends, in existing
circumstances, we attach as much. credence to
Mr. Pierce's " disclaimer" as we should to Mr.
Van Burex's, and no more.
The " shifting of the issues" has no reality
out of the brain of our contemporary. We re
iterated the first issue arising oat of the New
Boston speech, and we reiterate it again, with
the full conviction not only that General Pierce
has not met it, but that his smooth evasion,
under the guise of " frankness," adds immense
ly to the force of the case against him. He has
not dared to meet it. He has not touched one
of the points involved. He has not attempted
to give a specific denial to any one of the Abo
litionist expressions that are imputed to him.
The whole force of the letter lies in its evasion
of distinct allegations, and its devices to effect
an escape under cover of high-sounding but
vague and worthless generalities.
But the other " issues" are not to be set aside
because the Union has not the fairness or the
eourage to encounter them. They are relevant
to the first issue, and not less important They
show that General Pierce's New Hampshire
character is bad. They prove that his New
Boston denunciations of slavery and the Fugi
tive law are the echo of equally offensive senti
ments uttered by the same speaker at numer
ous times and places. The charge has there
fore assumed much larger and jnore serious
proportions than it had at first ; and, however
unpalatable to the .Democracy, it will be press
ed until the Sooth is made thoroughly fa
miliar with the Freesoilism of the Democrat
ic nominee.
The ill-affected nonchalance with which the
Union acknowledges these portions of the ques
tion is very amusing. It has not a word to say
in defence of Messrs. Norris, Hibbard. Peas-
lee, and the other political sponsors of General
Pierce. It tacitly concedes that they are as
darkly dyed in Freesoilism as any Freesoilers
in the country. It concedes that the New
Hampshire Democracy are as hostile to the
South as we have alleged them to be. It con
cedes that General Pierce has, at other places
than New Boston, delivered himself of all the
Freesoil avowals which 6tand on record against
him. The Union - Virtually concedes all this,
and tries to escape further trouble by remark
ing, " it has nothing to do with the question,
and we, do not propose to discuss it." We are
content to let it stand as it does. All our points
are gained. The South will have the satisfac
tion of knowing that the Union admits the
whole' of them.
GEN.
SCOTT'S QUARRELS,
seems, very anxious to have the
'' The Argus
world know with whom uen. scott has "quar
reled." While its hand was in, it should have
told its readers whose quarrels GenNScott has
settled. There was a "quarrel," once, between
England and the United States. No man was
more efficient than Gen. Scott in settling that
"quarrel. mere was suDscquentiy a "quar
rel threatened between our uovernment and
the Cherokees. He settled that quarrel prompt
ly, wisely, and humanely. Therwas a "quar
rel also with iilacfc Hawk. 1 feat, also, was
settled. The Argus may, also, have heard of
1 - lit Tit. O. .i n . i i
tne "quarrer wiin ooutn Carolina, uenerai
Scott amicably adjusted that "quarrel," as he,
also, did the "quarrel" on our North-Eastern
and Canada borders ; and last, though not least.
by his skill and courage, he settled our recent
"quarrel" with Mexico.
For every personal "quarrel" the Argus can
prove Gen. Scott to have instigated, we will
agree to prove a national "quarrel" that he has
settled.
j The only important "quarrels" in which we
remember Gen. Pierce to have been engaged
were his "quarrels" with American Industry,
River and Harbor Improvements, the Widows
of the Soldiers of the war of 1812, and the ven
erable idow of the lamented Gen. Harrison.
Albany Evening Journal.
jl ree uoloked uoNVXNTiON.i his body, re
cently in session in Baltimore, adjourned on the
zsth ult., to meet on the second Monday in No
vember, 1853, at Frederick, Md. Resolutions
were adopted recommending the formation of
societies and establishment of schools through
out the State, and the appointment ot persons to
collect information relative to the condition of
colored emigrants in Canada, West IndieB,
Guiana and Liberia. The following resolution
contains a bitter truth for the Abolitionists to
ponder on : j
Resolved, That while we appreciate and ac
knowledge the sincerity ot the motives and the
activity ot the zeal ot those who, during an agi
tation of twenty years, have honestly struggled
to place us on a footing of social and political
equality with the white population of the coun
try, yet we cannot conceal iroin ourselves the
fact that no advancement has been made towards
a result to us so desirable ; but that, on the con
trary, our condition as a class is less desirable
now than it was twenty years ago. .
1" noN. E. C. Cabell, or Florida. We
believe it has i been generally understood that
Mr. Cabell, of Florida, would refuse to support
lien. Scott. J.ne - iaiiaaasse- oeminei gives an
extract from a letter recently j written by him,
which says : "The Whig partyiof my State have
decided to sustain him, (Gen. jjfcbtt,) and I will
acquiesce in that decision.": I Certainly "cannot
support Gen.! Pierce, and agree with yoti? as to
the probable consequences of his election." .
r. ' ' " I Ala. Journal.
From the National Intelligencer.
DEVELOPMENT OF INSECT LIFE.
LETTER FROM F. B. OGDEN. ESQ. AUERICAX CONSUL.
AT LIVERPOOL, TO HIS FRIEXD IN WASHINGTON.
I not long since made a very interesting ac
quaintance, Mr. Andrew Crosse, of Somerset
shire, well known in the scientific world as one
of the first electricians of the age. He is a man
oi targe ionune, ana, line imiu avuooc, uciu
his time and means to abstract science, at the
same time cultivating a refined taste for litera
ture and poetic' composition. His father was
an intimate friend of Dr. Franklin.He was the.
village Hampdenlof the day, andjransmitted all
hi liberal "sentiments to his ; soil? He invi
ted ' and myself to pay him a visit at
his old Manorial House, about forty miles dis
tant. We were most cordiallyreceived by him
and his accomplished wife. We were made at
home at once, and found in a select few (like
ourselves invited guests) a delighted society.
Mr. Crosse has given great attention to atmos
pheric electricity. He has surrounded his house
fy a conducting wire, elevated sixty and seven
ty feet on poles, with metalic points to attract
the fluid, making a circuit of some three thou
sand feet. All the collected electricity is brought
into his laboratory, and is there as subservient
to his management as if he ruled the cause, ft A
heavy thunder storm came on while I was there.
The discharges between balls, an inch apart,
were in rapid succession, and like the firing of
so many pistols, each one of which would have
killed an ox. It was tremendous ; but in an in-
ictant iha KqIIq ! t - nr VtwnrpK. fnf wnfraf ilia
whole fluid was conducted noiselessly" into a
pond ot water a tew yards off. Under such pro
tection, it is impossible that his house should be
struck by lightning. i
Some of Mr. Crosse's chemical discoveries are
of great practical importance. We witnessed a
great variety of interesting experiments the
formation of artificial crystals in various stages,
and the arrst of outrescence bv ealvanic action.
which is ADDlied with erreat advantasre to tan
ning. He placed a pair of fresh soles in a cis
tern of water, through which there was a con
stant now ot galvanic fluid, where he let them
remain a fortnight. On taking them out the
cook was called on to examine them, Mr. Crosse
pretending to doubt whether they were quite
fresh. "They have not been two days caught,"
was her reply ; "but when I skin them I can tell
you positively." Her report was that they were
perfectly fresh. She cooked them for dinner,
.Uli UUU f 0slll lAAAVs A IvllU Will
ones in the secret. They were served without
comment to the guests, and both the gentlemen
tasted them with great curiosi ty. A young lady
made the first remark "Why, what a curious
fish ; it has not the least taste in it : it is like
boiled chips." Such was the fact. All the es
sential oil had been destroyed, and it was left
an insipid mass.
But the most wonderful of all his experiments
is that which has created such a sensation as
would have made a Galileo of him in former
times. The result has been doubted by some
and positively denied by others, but its reality
has been abundantly proved by various experi
menters. Mr.CrosseJaughs at the idea that he
ever pretended to create animal life. He has
only promoted its development by accidentally
bringing together the mysterious causes. You
have no doubt read a book that caused no little
sensation some four or five years since, called
"The Vestiges of Creation," the author of which
still remains as much in umbra as Junius him
self. In it there is some notice taken of this
.wonderful development. I own to utter incre
dulity until I had the opportunity of a thorough
examination of the process and a full explana
tion of the means. No room was left for doubt.
No delusion, no self-deception, no favorite hypo
thesis to be carried out, had any influence in
the result. On first witnessing it Mr. Crosse
would not believe his own senses. He locked
up his laboratory, and took a long walk in the
open air to assure himself that he was not labor
ing under some illusion. On his return he be
held the actual living insect in various stages of
its iormatioa. i no apparatus was prepared tor
the purpose of producing crystals from the siii
cate ot potash. 1
A tubulated retort, with its long end plunged
in a glass dish of mercury, has a platimi'rire
passing through it, connected with a negative
poie oi a weak galvanic Dattery. .through a
neck in the retort hermetically sealed, another
platinawlre, immersed in the caustic solution,
communicates with the positive pole. The bulb
ot the retort is two-thirds filled with a most care-i
fully-prepared caustic solution of silex and pot
ash. Pure black flints and caustic soda, after,
being subjected to a white heat, are pulverized
and melted into a glass, which is soluble in dis-
tilled water. In this solution no animal life
can possibly exist, nor can there in the mercury.
The whole was then placed upon a shelf for con
stant inspection. A gelatinous substance was
first observed to have formed around the bottom
of the positive wire., Then No. 1 made its ap
pearance, gradually expanding into Nos. 2 and
3, when flexible filaments were observed. No.
4 began to,show animal life, and after one hun
dred and forty days' watching through all its
changes, the perfect living insect crawled up the
wire! not singly, but in sufficient numbers to
dispel all doubt, if any could have existed, and
prepared lor another stage of life. Like our
musquitoes, that emerge from the element in
which they are produced, and are drowned in it
if they return, any unfortunate straggler that
missed his hold immediately perished. The
Acarus Crossei is now known as a distinct
species.
MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND
AND SISTER-IN-LAW.
On Saturday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, a la
boring man named Patrick Grant, went to his
house, in Sixty-scventh-street, between the Sixth
and Seventh avenues, in a state of intoxication,'
and commenced abusing his wife, Ann Grant, in
the most violent manner. It appears the sister
ot tyrant resided with the family, and owing to
some diftculty arising between the two females.
Patrick took sides with his sister, and used the
wife in the most cruel manner, on this, as well
as previous occasions. During the attack made
by the brutal husband upon the woman on Sa
turday, she remonstrated with him, though
without effect, and he finally resorted to blows
with his fist lie knocked her down and then
inflicted serious injuries, by stamping and kick
mg her in various parts of the body. The sister
of the wretch also assisted in beating the unfor
tunate female, and the neighbors hearing her
cries, procured a Nineteenth Ward Police officer.
who hastened to the premises and found the in
jured woman lying on the floor unable to speak.
and the blood flowing from the mouth and
wounds. The husband and sister-in-law of the
victim, named Sarah Grant, were immediately
a,. A lii.j a. : i x ,
arrcoieu nun uuiuuillleu lo prison Dy tlUStlCO
Stuart. The injured woman was conveved to
the Bellevue Hespital where she lingered un to
1 a ; A J n . . . . .
last evening, ana uiea oi tne internal injuries
received. Coroner Ives was notified, and will
investigate the affair to-day.
. New York Times.
What is a Fop? A Mr. Stark, in a lecture
before the Young Men's Association, of Troy,
N. Y., gave a definition of the above.
" The fop is a complete specimen of an out
side philosopher, , He is one-third collar, ohe-
sixth patent leather, one-tourtn walking stick,
and the rest gloves and hair. As to his remote
ancestry there is some doubt, but it is pretty
well settled that he is the son of a tailor's goose.
He becomes ecstatic at the smell of new cloth.
He is somewhat nervous and to dream of a
tailor's bill gives him the nightmare. By his
air one would judge he had been dipped like
Achilles ; but it is evident that the goddess held
him by the head instead, of the heels. Never
theless, such men are useful If there were no
tadpoles there- would be no frogs. They are
not so entirely to blame for being sqtl&voted to
externals. Paste diamonds must have a splen
did setting to make them sell. Only if does'
seem a waste of material to put $5 worth of
beaver on five cents worth of bpains."
THBiMOMliPR.
itr' are the plojfa4ddightfider
Unwarped by party rage tow like brothers. ,
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JmqbngJ;
WEDNESDAY
AUG. 25, 1852.
REPUBLIGllKl Hte TICKET..
' JJ -
! GEN. OTNEttLD -SCOTT,
:!v: or EW JERSEY.! ;
FOR VICE. PRESIDENT,
' WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
ELECTION ON TUESDAY, NO VEKBEE 2nd.
Whig Electoral Ticket,
Foe th State at Large,
nENRY W, MILLER, OF WAKE.
1st District, GEO. W. BAXTER,
2d. do.
3d. do. RALPH GORRELL, :
4th. do.
5th. do. HENRY K. NASH,
6th. do. M. W. RANSOM,
7th;- do. JNO. WINSLOW,
8th. do. . .
9th. do. D4VID A. BARNES.
Thave been asked if I liked this Fugitive Slave
T T.OATHED IT. I HAVE
A MOST REVOLTING FEELING AT THE GIV
ING UP OF A SLAVE THE LAW IS OPPOSED
TO HUMANITY." Gen. Pierce, 2nd
ry, 1852. V
Janua-
Again, Gen. Pierce, in a speech-ade bj torn
while in the United States Senate See Globe.'nd
Session, 25th Congress, page 54 says : - j
" I have no hesitation in saying that I consider
Slavery a SOCIAL and POLITICAL EVILj and
MrtST RTwrcnPT.V WISTT it had no existence on
the foe of tkejearth V' .
. SCOTT AND GRAHAM CLUB.
I There will be a meeting of th5 Scott and
Grahax Club at the Court Ho-4e, this (Tues-
day) evening; at jT'oferWi:
BY ORDER OF TnFJ
PRESIDENT.
ELECTOR FOR THE STATE AT LARGE
The Whig Executive Committee, after inter
changing opinions with, and consulting the
wishes of, the Whigs in variou sections of the
State, have selected Henry W. Miller, Esq., as
the Whig Candidate for Elector in behalf f the
State at large.
The Committee have farther concluded to ap
point an Assistant Elector for the State at large,
in each Congressional District. Their names
will be announced so soon as the Whigs in the
several Districts can W consulted
A. JOYNJS&, Chairman.
-if. H. n AUGHTON,
ti B. GILLIAM,
D. S. HILL,
J. W. EVANS,
H. K. NASH,
E. J. HALE;
D. A. BARNES.
THE LATE ELECTION.
We omit, to-day, the publication of the two
tables, showing the result of the 1 recent State
Elections. As soon as the official' majority is
ascertained, we shall re-publish the Table show
ing the Gubernatorial vote.
Parties in; the Legislature stand as announced
in pur last , The locofocos have a majority of
fmir in the Senate and the Whigs a majoif ty of
fmtr in the House making a present tie on
joint ballot The result in Camden and Curri
tuck is still undecided. We learn from the
last " Pioneer. that Shaw's (loco) maj. in Cur
rituck is 188, and Barnard's (Whig) in Camden
187. The r Pioneer," referring to the fact that
certain votes for Shaw, put into the wrong box
by mistake, were counted (and upon this ground
the Sheriff of Camden, we learu, refuses a cer
tificate of election to Shaw,) says :j A
" These votes were cast as follows : A voter
presented his ticket for the Senate! the inspec
tor put the ticket in the wrong box. This was
immediately detected. The Whig j inspector ad
mitted the error, and, upon a conference, it was
agreed that the name should be registered pro
perly, and when the votes were counted out,
this one should be placed in the proper box.
The other case was precisely similar.
Here we, have the grounds on which the She
riff of Currjtuck has given a certificate of elec
tion 16 Dr. Shaw. On the same grounds Sion
H. Rogers,, Esq., night have claimed a certifi
cate from the Sheriff of Wake ; but neither be
nor his mends nave ever thought ot such a
course. The consent of a Whig inspector could
not legalise wfeai id in- itself clearly illegal.
At the time of commenting, in our last,
upon a late paragrapn wmcn made its appear
ance", unaccredited to any other source, in the
"Fayettevillo Carolinian," we had riot seen the
following explanation which has appeared in
that journal. . We insert it, now, with pleasure.
as an act of justice to the Editor : i ,
"In our last week's paper there was an article
copied from the Providence Herald headed
"Gen. Scott's misfortunes." ' No credit was giv
en for the article, for its facts were supposed to
be merely ; historical. An error occurred, how
ever, in setting up the types, by . which - Gen.
Scott is represented as surrendering with a
force of 7640, when it should have been 764.
The additional 0 was purely a typographical er
ror. W d npt read ihe proof sheets of our se
lected matter, and consequently were not aware
of this mistake until our attention was called to
itlby the Fayetteville Observer. We now pub
lish the correction, and as its circulation will be
commensurate with that of the error, no injury
will be - inflicted on Gen. Scott, Under these
circumstances, we must protest against any in
ference as to 'what locofocoism'will .descend to
to. carry a party ejection." " ' ' ' !
As an act of justice to bur "Woof-reader, we
must be permit.to. say that, having some fear
of a mistake, be looked for the article in (rues-
lion, but it had .been somehow mislaid, and he"
was unable to find it. . Under the circumstances
it should have? beri ..omitted, and was only in
serted on account of the confusion and disturb
ance" almost r always "present-in a hewsnaner
printing office; .during th6."excitcment of a close
ly contested election," . " "
THE PIERCE LETTER OF DENIAL.
This nroduction reminds one of the non-com
mittal epistles of the author'sFwily friend and
associate, Martin Van Buren I We heara w-
cofoco declare, ,a few days since, that " it was
very ingeniously written." .No doubt of this.
To a superficial reader, it would appear at the
first blush, to be a direct denial of all the char
ges contained iix the Bill of Indictment against
Fierce. , But upon close inspection, it will be
seen, that it denies nothing that it is in no
part satisfactory. ' So general is it in its terms,
that the plainest man in the nation would pro
nounce it a cunning attempt, to evade the issue.
. Vi. , . . ti' . ;n anKcitan- whftt he
Vay Oia.no xicrcc ten ii duuokau-"'
did say tt As he has become a witness tor mm-
self, why did he not tell the whole truth I w ny
did he simply answer the leading questions put
to him? He had a good opportunity ! to say
whether he was for or against the Fugitive
Slave law and he had also the very best chance
to answer the question propounded by Scott, of
Richmond, whethor he will, if elected, veto a
bill repealing or modifying, so as "to weaken,
that law 1 -This he has not done. This he will
not do. He has already evaded this issue, and
he will continue to do it to the last. By such a
course he expects to keep together his freesoil
allies. He is pandering to them and other pre
judices. The Rev. Mr. Foss swore to the tact
that Pierce did nse the expressions attributed to
him in his New Boston" speech. He was the
Reporter and was paying strict attention. His
report of the speech was published and circula
ted in Januarv last, throuffhout" the btate of
j . u
New Hampshire, and no one thought of denying
publicly its accuracy, nntil Pierce's double deal
ing was exposed about a month, since. One ac
count of the ' speech was publishedln Concord,
immediately under the eyes and nose of Pierce.
Yet he did inot disown it or deny its correct
ness I -Why, was this f There are many strong
facts and circumstances which go to corroborate
the statement of Foss. The freesoil papers in
6hid that sustain Pierce have sterreotyped the
speech ior the campaign, and are circulating it
Ls genuine. They say Fierce did use the ex
pressions, and therefere they go for him. They
denounce the Northern men who attempt to rob
Pierce of the " honor" of having made such a
speech as dough-faces, sold to the slave power
of the South I -
This letter will not do ! The South is not to
be humbugged any longer by "the " soft-sodder"
of such a "Yankee Freesoiler." They remember
the Arch-magiciaitf and if they suffer themselves
to'be fooled agairij the hand of resurrection can't J
save them
GEN. SCOTT'S SERVICES AND PAY.
Mr. Meriwether (the one month Senator from
the State of Kentucky) introduced a Resolution
a few days since, calling on the President to
furnish the Senate with a statement of all the
moneys ever received by Gen. Scott for his long
public ' services. It was opposed by Messrs.
Butler and Stockton, two locofoco Senators, as
unworthy the character and dignity of the body.
The former declared that Gen. Scott had rich
ly earned every cent which he had ever received,
and that his poverty was the best answer to the
imputations implied in the Resolution. The
locos voted down amendments which were in
tended to ascertain particulars in reference to
Gen. Pierce.
In referring to the action of
the Senate
on
re-
this Resolution,, the " Richmond Whig'
marks :
But who are the honorable Senators, who are
begrudging to Scott the emolument, which his
country, for great deeds, has bestowed upon
him ? They arc no doubt persons very fearful
lest a cent of the public money should be taken
without adequate service ! Scott's pay has been
out of all proportion to his services ! His ten
pitched battles his preserving peace on the
Canadian frontier- on the Northeastern frontier
his saving us from civil war his treaty with
the North Western Indians his fearless expo
sure of life for the good and glory of his coun
try his body riddled by British bullets cost
a great deal more than they were worth I Very
well ; let us see what his assailants charge for
their services. First and foremost on the list
is Mr. Atchison, of Missouri. We find, that
this nice adjuster of services and pay charged
the Government and people ofthe United States
by way of constructive mileage, $16 for one
night's rest in Washington ! General Scott did
not receive half as much as that for the battle
of Chippewa when the British were first taught
td yield to inferior number and cold steel.
Next corner Mr. Borland, of Arkansas, who for
just such laborious work as. Mr. Atchison's
one night's quiet rest in Washington, received
$1808. No doubt, double as much as Scott got
for his, bloody night at Lundy's : Lane. Next
we havie Mr. Clemens, of Alabama he pocket
ed $1040 of the public money for the same ser
vice. That was cheap. Then" Dodge, of Iowa,
$144(M-Dodge of Wisconsin, $1584 each for
one night s rest. Next we have that immacu
late S. A. Douglas, who is such' an advocate of
economy such an abhorrer of public : plunder
he contented himself with $1083 for one night's
sleep in Washington 1 That was better earned
than the pacification ofthe Canadian frontier !
Next come Downs of Louisiana, and the French
Republican, Soule one $2240, and the other
$2074 mighty men for purity and economy !
And yet they charged the peopler more for one
night's sleep than General Scott received for
five victories in the Valley of Mexico."
The "Whig" has not given half the names
of those very "economical" Senators who re
ceived their constructive mileage;. There were
25 Senators who did not leave Washington City
between the night of the 3d and the morning of
the 4th March, 1851, but pocketed thousands of
dollars of the public money. Of the 25 there
were only three Whigs, who received about $2,000
in all, and -twenty-two locofocos, who received
$33,226! :Gwin, of California, pocketed the
sum of $4,008, Norris, the freesoil friend, of
Pierce, the sum of $470, Rusk, the sum of
$2074, Houston, the sum of $2796 ! J
There were 24 Senators who refused to re
ceive constructive mileage, of which number
fifteen were Whigs.
Yet these very locofocos, who were so ready
to receive pay for services never rendered to be
refunded what they had never spent in the pub
lic service, are itching to have the accounts of
Gen. Scott published, that they may find some
thing therein to carp at and electioneer with !
Let them pull the beam out of their own eyes.
Sixoftheii number received $14.000 for sleeping
one night ,in Washington Cityten times as
much as Seott received for all the splendid bat
tles, fie fought at the City of Mexico, -
Shame upon such men !
s The Boston. Daily . Advertiser says, that the
President ff the late treasonable Free Soil Abo
lition Convention at Pittsburg, was "Henry Wil
son, he being at the same time President of the
Senate of Massachusetts; - which office he now
holds by virtue of the votes of all the DecuJcrAt
ic Senator of Massachusetts, havincr been chos
en with the approbation of the whole Democrat
ic party in the legislature, : J .
I TITTl IT t TT7 Tl T7V iri.Wl HI HKrr A Y IV I11LI 1 IT. IV I : Mi' . 11.1 lUII'U 1 I THW- - Vi
ALLIES.
y The proofs are overwhelming that Gen. Fierce,
if elected President, will' be " a itosf of wax"
in the hands of the rankest and vilest Freesoil
ers and Abomionists at the Northi-" One of his
most ardent '! Supporters is C. ' F, Cleveland, a
member of Congress from Connecticut. We
invite attention to the following ; letter JErom this
"ally"and friend of Pierce, written in 1849.
It speaks volumes against jthe soundness of this
second " Northern man with! Southern feelings."
"IlAMPTOSIarch 10, 1849.
H. Hammond, Esq. 'iDEAR Sir: Your letter
ofthe 8th insV asking ni to answer certain
questions which you' propounded, is received,
and I embrace ther I first j opportunity " afforded
me, to forward you ia reply
"Without ray knowledgeand against my wish
es, a Convention of my friends assembled at Nor
wich, on the 15th of-February last, placed me
in nomination for the offices of Representative in
the next Congress of the United States for this
District, and ybu inquire of me whether, if e
lected (an improbable event by the way) I will
sustain that measure which proposes to exclude
slavery from the Territories of New Mexico and
California ? Whether I will do all in my pow
er to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the
District of Columbia ? And whether lam op
posed to, andtwill continue to oppose, in all
constitutional waysi the admission of any more
slave States into the Union ?
"To these inquiries I have to reply that en
tertaining no, doubt of the power of Congress to
legislate upori the subject of slavery in the Ter
ritories, I anfdecidedly in favor of Us exercise, in
such a manner as will effectually prevent the
introduction of slavery arid its attendant evils
into New Mexico-and California, and into any
Territory oft Vie United Slates now free. That
regarding till existence of slavery and the slave
trade in the District of Columbia, as a great and
wimlHgtitcdiorong, I AM IN FAVOR OF THEIR
ABOLITION in the most easy, speedy, and
practicable manner, by the action of L-ongress.
And being tfticompromisingly opposed to the ex
tension - of slavery beyond the limits within
which it now exists, I could never consent to the
admission of any more slave Slates into the Union.
"The only remaining inquiry propounded by
your letter, Is in the following words : " Do you
subscribe, in the main, to the principles of the
Buffalo platform, as erected at the Buffalo Con
vention, held August 9, 1848 ?"
"In reply to this inquiry, I would state that
I have examined the resolutions composing the
platform referred to, and in the main, think
them to be democratic. : One of these resolutions
is in relation fib cheap postage, &c., and another
in relation to the disposition which should be
made of the Public Lands. These resolutions
are, in my Judgment eminently ust, and truly
democratic, 1 CAN, ' THEREFORE, VERY
CHEERFULLY SUBSCRIBE TO THE DOC
TRINES THEY CONTAIN."
"1 have thus bttefly,: though. 1 believe tuliy
answered the -several inquiries which you have
been pleased to propound to me. And it only
re mams for nje to say that should I be honored
with an election to the post for which I have
been nominated, these views which I have ex
pressed will fbe fearlessly asserted and faith
fully defended."
" Very?respectfully,
"Your friend and servant.
i .) "C. F. CLEVELAND
It will be seen from this letter that Cleveland
endorsed thej Buffalo Platform, was for the
Wilmot Proviso, and in favor of abolishing
Slavery in. the District of Columbia I
Mr. Vani Buren, it will be remembered, was
nominated by the Buffalo Convention, and ran
as the Freesoil candidate. He now sustains
Pierce and so do all his clan.
i
Now, what in 1848 thought the " Cass Demo
cracy" of Van Buren and his Buffalo friends ?
We appeal t the " Union" of that date. Read
the followingextracts from that leading Locofoco
Journal : & j
From ; Union of August 18, 1848:
"Can they the Democrats of New Yoik,"
witness the proceedings of the Buffalo Conven
tion without toe deepest disgust.
And Mr. Vaii Buren sinks into the champion of
such a DisotjsTiNG coAUTioy, to gratify his am
bition or to jsatiate his revenge !"
" The Democrats of the State of New York
have every motive that can animate high-minded
men and indomitable Republicans, to cast out
THESE FACTIOUS BARNBURNERS who
would sacrifice the Union to their passions.
Tliese men are worse than' Whigs."
From the Union of August 19, 1848.
The Buffalo Convention. The more we
hear of their actions from those who witnessed
them, the more we see of their speeches and
resolutions, the more we are DISGUSTED with
tlieir proceedings. Their resolutions are ultra-
ABOLITIONISM." ;
From he Union of August 20, 1848.
" Both parties are deservedly indignant at
the movement, the Buffalo resolutions because
it is calculated to build up a new " northern par
ty" on the most mischievous of all distinctions in
a confederiOty: of Stalest-sectional feelings and
geographical interests"
;Ipntodo August 24, 1848.
" But there is one feature in the disgusting
pirouettes jf this man, Martin Van Buren
which marks his character. AVe do not speak
of the motley and monstrous character of the
Convention; to, which he owes his nomination,
DISGRACEFUL as that coalition is,"
i
5
" It is ajypealing to sectional feelings, to qeo-
graphical lutes, to build tip a northern party of
ail others the most iatal to the union of these
States warned as he was by Washington, and
pledged by his own solemn declarations if
Martin Van Buren could be bound by, any sol
emn ueciarauons. '.
i
" In the mean time, we repeat what we have
before assented, that the Barnburners stand up
on immeasurably worse around than the Whias.
because of their placing themselves upon a sec
tional party, so threatening to the union of our
cuumry.
In 1848, the " Democracy v professed to- view
the proceedings of the Buffalo Convention with
the "deepest disgust," Van Buren had "sunk
into a champion of a disgusting coalition" the
Uemocracy of J ew York were called on " to
cast ottt those factious Barnburners, who would
sacrifee the Union to their passions" Van Buren
and his allies were a " motley crew of abolition-
tsts," dr., dx. ' -
: Yet Pierce and his friends are now lock
ed " arm in arm" with these very men a
most " disgusting coalition" has been formed
with them.1 to elect to the Presidency one who
abhors the FpGiTivu slave law," and regards
"- Slavery a moral and social curse!"
- Will the SoutJ longer slumber upon the brink
ofthe precipice which yawns before them ?
J Whigs 1 charge these things upon them I
Hold them to the record I Let not the " faint
ing" Yankee Freesoiler escape. The proof is
full and irresistible; to shew, that there is in his
nomination , and the support given him, a vile
conspiracy to cheat the South, and
her over to the infamous purposes of
Buren' & Co! !
gain
Van
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. Please Cix:ci4te .Jf on Mr. Brooks, a
Printer, formerly of Raleigh, N. C, who recent
ly worked in ttio Printing Office at Cassville, in
Ga., will addiss a letter to J. Marsh, Cassville
Ga4 ie will hejur of something of importance to
himself. - j ' ; ; - . , .
r.Qf Papers, in North and South Carolina
will obbge by giving thej above a few insertions.
TY TO THOSE WHO FOUGIIT FOR Tv3
COUNTRY-HIS VOTES AGALNsttSj
WIDOWS AKn ftTfPiiiva ,
We have charged that there never
Congress a more illiberal politician a..
lin Pierce. The record of his entire C
vtucut ououMUEs tins cnarre hp 1
doubtorcavil. His well Wn
the whole time he remained in the H
va.au.. viigiumeu nor sust
great and liberal measure nf
ixoining ienua to illustrate his charar
i ai; ... . . "-Kt
Al! A J A. F"l
Bu-imgij in mho respect ttxan his unifnr
fiition to the old soldiers and their wido
orphans.
Wt have already called public attention
1. To his vote arKL'spgriast . -
i,AiD.ivAUW u vjcai. uakkisox tne residue-fV
husband's salary a measure which was 8tt t.
ed by the ablest statesmen of the Couatr,
out distinction of Party.
2. To his vote against the indieent i,.-
the great Fultos, whose genius had best0y
nwn finiinirv l
-...01 iuc ii est l'omt i.tl
TV, X7 a tit It 1 lion Vi l. -1 -
those educated there, shed 8fi mnrtk ..1.
We would now invite attention to oft.,
irero iu me puuuuiu History Ot this "(V J
Statesman. - "i
1. Ee voted against the Indian fg((ri J
the House of Representatives, Dec. 27 Jj
(see Journal House, page 130,) Jit 0,5
, 11 T i.a-
muTiu. ura luuunuig xvesoiUllOD, tOVrit
"Resolved, That a select Cnmn,.!'
pointed, whose duty it shall be to inmSi
the expediency of so extending the 'provuJj
tne aci- .oi congress passed 7th June m
0--0 r ' v.iuBes 01 trvJ
therein named, as to embrace in its provitS
those who irtern p-nnnnert ! v'. . "1
:if:f c,c nuri amjiijl
Indians subsequent to the close of tlie ReJj
uuuary .n- ar, ana aown to the treaty of GrJ
ville, with leave to report by bill or 6tho3
Here was a proposition to extend the 1M
ty, or, more properly speaking, the juitind J
uovernment to those brave men v. ho had J
f.ar f H nu r frnniinisi UA m 1
. .v.o Hum iuc luercuess ling
Io set of men dared or suffered more for tli
Country ; and how did Praxklix PitRam
Mr. Blair moved to lay the Resolution on j
table. Kejected, Ayes 50, Nays 137. fiJ
voting in the affirmative !
On the 11th February, the Resolution paJ
teas iju, ways 80. lYankhn Pierce wtjq
cue negative I
Amongst those who voted in the, affinud
and in opposition to Pierce, were Miliaria
more, Cave Johnson, Richard M. Johnm, I
ward Everett, and James K. Poi.k! 'VeJ
then recorded in favor of this Resolutio.
name ofthe "model President," and hitM
Master General, and the "Killer of Tecumse
What has Locofocoism to reply to this? St
is the man it would have the just and genm
people of this Country to support for the hip
office in their gift. But this is not a beginia
2. lie voted against the old Rcvoluliorurji
diers I
Iu 1836 a bill was introduced in the Hobin
Representatives "to extend the provisions
act supplemental to an act for the relief of-
tain surviving officers and soldiers of the M
lution, approved 7th June, 1832." (l!o.JJ
page 360.)
Amotion was made (page .1045.) to lij
Bill m the table. Rejected, Yemr,3i
Pierce voting in the affirmative !
On the final passage of the Bill the Tot
Yeas 109, Nays 75. Pierce voting in tkti
five I
What justice to those? who had risked
lives and shed their blood for the Countrj!
3. He voted against the Widows and (m
of Revolutionary Soldiers.
The act of 1838 gives the widows of oid
&c, entitled to pensions under the act d
the 7th, 1832, married prior to the expinil
the last period of said officer's, Ac, serritt
before the first January 1794, for fiveyeaH
the 4th March 1836", the annuity or
which might have been allowed to thai
bands in virtue of said act, if liiing attM
it was passed.
In 1841 a bill passed the House of Rep
tatives to extend the act of 1838, above
ed, and when it reached the Senate, it
sisted by Franklin Pierce. On the 25ii'
1841, he made one of the most illiberal spf
against this Bill, ever delivered in Congr!
would disgrace the veriest demagogue ti'l
lived. Its policy would shut the door
thing like common justice to the war-voi1
suffering soldier.
In this speech he also denounced theq
1836, which gave five wars half pav to w
ows and children of those who had tliedi
service of the United States since the
April 1818. Shame upon such cold bl
justice and parsimony !
Such are a few, and but a few, of the
in the life of Franklin Pierce, which p"
hostility to that just policy towards the &
diers, who fought for their Country,
met the approval of every Preside11- L
foundationvof the Government! There n
, distinguished Statesman in the Union,
jsiiuwn suqo, iu ueanea anu ingfe -
Mil in 1. ia mdlu AnAa f AnH IMIkV
..1 t .11 1 a.j -J ,TnrQIT1
a-yww AM XVJ MVUV V-UA J.."- J
eral vote did he ever eive ? What
sure of public nolicv did he ever oflj
carry through? AVhat victory did he-n
avi vui aims ; 11 jwiaj u
A
brightness of our National renown .
lenge locotoooism to the invesng:.""
Whig Party demajnd the record of anj
irives him a laim to the Presidency,
upon the jYankee Freesoiler" his trettn
and hostility to the old soldier and JW 1
and orphans t
- To elect such a man President of
Nation would be the best proof which1,
archies of Europe could adduce of the".
of Republics!
Whisrs of North Carolina ! Po your
men I Organize Orcamze!
A WTTTTT. TITS A RTF.R ON LAKI1
The steamers Atlantic ndpedJ
in collision last night. The AtlMiK
few minutes alter, l here wen -
sengers on board, most of whom Tier
iko iA J, it ; nnno.ed that P j
three hundred of the unfortunate cwj
iahed. Nearly-all of them were 0TJJ
gtinte. The cabin pas-tunge
Baved
HA
tvvo hundred and fifty of the pass ng
3
scene is represented to nave
been
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