From the Albany Evening Journal. I
VERY IMPORTANT LITERARY NOTICE.
The Life or General Frank Pll:RCi- the
Granite Statesman, by 'Hermitage. Tenth
Thousand. New York : Cornish, Lamport fc
Co."
This valuable and, at the present juncture,
highly interesting biography, commences by
stating that
The reader can place implicit confidence in
the statements which are made in this book.
They have in every instance been derived direct
lv from documentary history, or from other au
thentic sources.
This is gratifying. Fame had treated the De
mocratic candidate for the Presidency with such
scurvy neglect before hi? nomination, and, in
trying to make up for it, deluded him with such
contradictory favors ever since, that it is really
a matter of rejoicing to find something about him
that is reliable.
And first of all, we congratulate the country
on the settlement of the dispute about his name.
We trust that agitation of it will hereafter cease,
for the compromise itself is not more final than
the evidence adduced by this volume :
Frank Pierce, as he signs his own name, was
born in 1798,
says his biographer. Not for a moment tolera
ting the suspicion that a candidate for the Pre
sidency does not know how to spell his own
name, we accept this as the correct version.
Stripped of the complimentary initials that an
admiring people has interwoven with his name,
he stands before them plain Frank Pierce,
General in the American Army, and five feet
ten in his stockings : in the fifty-fourth year of
his age, and the forty-ninth choice of the Demo
cratic Convention.
Gentlemen of the Democratic Press, please to
take notice ! He is neither Franklin H. Pierce,
Franklin L. Pierce, Franklin O. Pierce, Frank
lin A. Pierce, Frankin Pierce, Franklin Ptarce
nor Jacob H. Pearce, nor James A. Pearce nor
vet Joseph Page. Alter, amend, eradicate, and
interpolate accordingly !
Page 13 lets in some light on a question of
political economy and morality :
Such men grow in no other part of the world
but in New Hampshire men who cannot be
rich, because they are honest, and their cold
rocky soil gives back only a meagre sheaf to the
husbandman.
From which it is clear that riches and honesty
are incompatible in New Hampshire, as they
often are elsewhere. But six lines further on
comes this startling disclosure :
But there are no poor men in New Hampshire.
Consequently there are no honest ones ! This
satisfactorily explains why New Hampshire al
ways goes Locofoco ; and fully shows the reason
that the religious test is not repealed.
Gen. Pieree's father, we are told, was also a
General. His elder brother was a Colonel. His
elder sister married a General, and so on. This
fully prepares us for the announcement which
finally comes on page 14, that
The Pierce family have all been soldiers !
We venture to say there is not such another
case on record unless it is that of Tony Lump
kin who said "his father was in the Grenadiers,
his uncle a Colonel in the Militia, and his aunt
a Justice of the Peace !"
Here we should do the author injustice, if we
did not pause to notice with what singular fe
licity he adapts his style to his subject. The
book is eminently martial throughout. The
very language is that of the camp and the battle
field. Does he allude to the nomination it is
"the blending into one solid phalanx all the se
parate columns and divisions of the Democratic
Party." Do the States support it "every one
wheels into line." Are the Whigs frightened
"Terror is excited throughout the ranks of the
enemy." The platform is likened to a "shield,"
and calumny itself takes the shape of a cannon
to "belch forth malignity against it." The
election is to be a "hard fought campaign," and
the defeat of the Whigs, in the end, is described
as an "explosion" like that of a bombshell !
So it is throughout the book. Military ardor
breathes in every line, and bayonets bristle in
the punctuation points. The periods are smooth
ly rounded, as though fresh from the bullet
mould, but the facts lie hidden, as it were, in an
ambuscade, and the narrative looms out vaguely,
This tendency toward gunpowder is admira
bly exemplified in the celebrated anecdote about
spelling "but," "Which we find here in an authen
tic shape. Here it is :
'Old Gen. Pierce was no scholar. He had de
voted his life to deeds, and not to books ; and it
is said that while he was sitting by the kitchen
fire one night, writing his annual message to the
Legislature, he came to a full stop on one word
he could not possibly spell.
Now an ordinary man in such circumstances,
would have looked up at the ceiling, or down at
the floor, or into the fire, or perhaps have com
menced scratching his head. Not so with the
gallant old General :
After rallying all his own literary forces, and
manarucering them as skillfully as "he could, he
was obliged to draw off and ask for quarters !'
Was there ever so successful an illustration as I
this, by which a perplexed old gentleman sitting
by the kitchen fire, and bothering his head how
to spell I "b-u-t," is transformed into a military
chieftain, and invested with the "pomp and cir
cumstance of war V
"Frank," said he to his son sitting near by,
"how the devil do you spell bulV
The very inquiry smacks of an off-hand sol
dier, like ease in profanity, that reminds one of
the days when "our troops swore terribly in
Flanders."
Another exploit that is recorded of our hero is
that he was once invited to dine with Mr. Web
ster, at a banquet in honor of the triumph of the '
Compromise measures : !
Gen. Pierce could not resist this appeal. He
accepted the invitation. He remained silent
until the Union was toasted, and looking the pro
poser of the sentiment full in the face as he rose
to his feet he poured forth an effusion of elo
quence such as those who were gathered around
that table had seldom listened to !
'This strongly reminds us of a passage in the
History of the Puritans of New England, as re
lated by Oliver Wendell Holmes :
" Twas on a dreary winter's eve, the night
was closing dim,
When old Miles Standish took the bowl and fil
led it to the brim ;
The little Captain stood and stirred the posset
with his sword,
And all the sturdy men-at-arms were ranged a
bout the board.
He poured the fiery Hollands in that man
that never feared,
He took a long and solemn draught and wiped
his yellow beard ;
And one by one the musketeers the men that
fought and prayed.
All drank as 'twere their mother's milk, and
not & man afraid !
At this point we imagine some captious, gro
veling, little-souled reader, instigated by the
most sordid and contemptible meanness, petty
envy and pealoasy, of. which the human mind is
capable, inquiriogy But what about his Con
gressional career? So eminent a statesman
must have done something at Washington wor
thy of record."
Now this is delicate question. But the au
thor, like a skillful tactician as he is, avoids it
by a military stratagem. First he marches
boldly up to it, on page 16. Then on page 17,
he countermarches ; then ingeniously gets a
round it by a flank movement on page 18, beats
a retreat on page 19, and finally runs away
from it altogether on page 20. It is summed
up m follows :
uiio ui r, ji m. . tt uuiuui uuve mo career
in Congress, nor make any extracts from hi
speeches.
But his domestic character is portrayed at
full length -. "The ladies, the best of all witness
es, are called on the stand, and one of them tes
tifies thus :
" If he bad not been so benevolent and gener
ous, be would now be rich in spite of himself.
lie drives round in bis little' wagon, and in
works of public usefulness.
You cannot help loving a man like him.
And then, he is a fine looking man all the la
dies will testify to that and that goes a great
ways."
It does indeed go a "great ways," but not far,
it is to be feared, toward the Presidency. How
ever, it is delightful to think, that, after those
thirteen ugly old fellows, who kept the best of
themselves on the inside of their heads, wo ore
really going to have a handsome President at
last I Churchill, McBride, and the rest of you,
be on hand for a daguerreotype of the Inaugu
ration ! .
Then follows a simple picture of his residence
at Concord :
He lives (just as a man ought to live, before
he is nominated for tho 'Presidency of a great
Republic,) in a small white house, near Main
St., in Concord. In front of it is a yard of beau
tiful green trees and little flower-beds, purifying
and refreshing the air, and loading it with fra
grance. It will be noticed as not the least remarkable
point about these trees, that, just like common
men's, they are green. As to the general princi
ple that a man, before he is nominated for the
Presidency, ought to live in " a small white
house, near Main street, Concoid," it is too just
to require comment at our hands !
But turn now from these soft and " piping
times of peace," to where the author, like the
war horse in Job, snuffs up the battle afar off,
and makes it burn like a candle, all the bright
er for i! :
His professional engagements and domestic
repose were to be again disturbed by an unfore
seen but momentous event. The soil of the U
nited States was invaded, and the lives and
property of our citizens sacrificed to the barba
rous assaults of the stranger. The nation flew
to arms. The States were called on to furnish
volunteers for the war, and nobly was the call
responded to. From the land of Marion and
Sumter, from the fields of the Old Dominion,
from the extreme South, the far West, and the
forests of Maine, brave young men came rushing
from their homes to enlist under the national
banner. Descended from a martial race, Frank
Pierce could not resist the temptation, and
breaking away from the ties of his family, he
enlisted as a common soldier, to fight the bat
tles of his country under the Union Eagle.
As to his exploits under this hitherto unheard
of piece of ornithology, are they not or rath
er are they written in the dispatches from the
seat of war ? One of them, however, we must
transcribe from the book :
A little incident of interest occurred in th?
battle of Chapultepec. When the victory had
been won, the South Carolinians of the Palmet
to Regiment, which had its full share of dead
men in the field, met Gen. Pierce's brigade,
when Pierce said to them, " Here conies the he
roes of the Palmetto State, from one end of the
Union, and the Yankees from another, are ready
to embrace them. Thus fought the men of Car
olina and of New England in the liattle of the
revolution, and together as they did then, we
now send up our mingled shouts of victory over
our foes, and cry Union forever.
This fraternal meeting between the brave and
free men, who had assembled in a distant coun- i
try, under one common standard, to fight for the
land which gave them birth, Ac, SLc.
Now, it is a pity to spoil a good story ; but
when a man runs for the 1 residency he cannot
expect to have the credit for more than half the
battles he would have fought if he had had a
chance. By Gen. Pieree's own dispatches on
that occasion, it appears that he was not at Cha
pultepec at all, but some miles off, on other du
ty. However, the author certainly deserves
credit for getting np so scenic an interview out
of nothing, and especially for making South
Carolina behave decently under any circum
stances. As for Gen. Pierce's speech, that mint
be looked upon in the light of a myth or fable
like the orations the historian, Livy. puts into
the mouths of the Roaian generals, or that which
Mother Goose puts into the mouth of the man
in the moon not intended to convey the idea
that such words were actually uttered by the
individuals in question, but to inculcate sound
moral truths under a pleasing garb of fiction.
The rest of his career on the tented field is
dismissed with the same brevity as that in the
Halls of Congress :
We shall dispatch, in a few lines, all we deem
it necessary to say of his participation in the
Mexican campaign, and then proceed to consid
erations of greater importance.
Now, if the captious reader aforesaid should
inquire what considerations are of greater im
portance in a candidate than his character as
developed in his efforts as a statesman and a
soldier, we respectfully suggest to him, that he
has studied human nature to very little advan
tage, if he does not know that all men do not
excel in all things alike, and bid him be content,
as the Democracy are, with the information,
that their candidate is of a military family, and
that he is "good looking," that he dines with
Mr. Webster, and glorifies our glorious Union,
and that he "drives round town in his little wag
on, and other works of public usefulness."
Truthful, indeed, were tho lines of the poet,
who sung :
Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime.
But the biographer of General Pierce has done
the world a better service, by showing that it
isn't any great thing to do it, after all !
To the Editors of the Balti more Patriot.
The Locofoco papers thrughout the country
have published what they asserted was a cor
respondence between Gen. Jackson and Gen. Scott
But as usual, they have suppressed a verv inter
esting and prominent part, doubtless for tlie pur
pose of doing injustice and injury to America's
greatest living warrior, because he stands in the
way of their party favorites, and their obtaining
possession of the government patronage. The
letter below, which forms part of the corres
pondence alluded to, has been invariably omit
ted, and now that it is furnished to their hands,
will they have the honesty to publish it ? We
shall see.
That it is a letter which must call forth the
commendation and praise of every Christian
and Philanthropist, all must admit, and occu
pying the position which Gen. Scott did at the
time, we may safely aver that scarcely another
officer in the army would have exhibited so
much moral courage and taken such a praise
worthy stand, so far above the opinions univer
sally held by military men on the subject of
duelling in those days. We are almost persua
ded to say, that it sets forth the character of the
noble old" soldier in a brighter light than any of
his brilliant victories over the enemies of his
country.
GEN. SCOTT TO GEN. JACKSON.
Headquarters, 1st, and 3d Military De- )
partments, New York, Jan. 2, 1817.
Sib : Your letter of the 3rd ultimo was hand
ed to me about the 22nd. and has not been read.
I might say thought of, since. These circumstan
j ces will show you that it is my wish to reply to
jou aispassionateiy. '
I regret that I cannot accept the challenge
you offer me. Perhaps I may be restrained
from wishing to level a pistol at the breast of a
fellow-being in private combat, by a sense of
religion ; but lest this motive should excite the
ridicule of gentlemen of liberal habits of think
ing and acting. I beg leave to add that I de
cline the honor of your invitation from patriot
ic scruples. My ambition is not that of Ems-
tratus. I should think it would be easy for you
j to console yourself under this refusal by the
application of a few epithets, as a coward &c.,
to the object of your resentment ; and I here
promise to leave tou until the next war to per
suade yourself of their truth.
I have the honor to be y our obedient servant.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
To Gen. Andrew Jackson, commanding the
Southern division of the United States Army.
LAST MOMENTS OF HENRY CLAY.
The following to our minds, is one of the most
touching passages in the eloquent sormon of
rvev. jjt. Butler :
" Exhausted nature at length gave way. On
the last occasion when I was permitted to offer
a brief prayer at his bod-side, his last words to
me were that he had hope in Christ, and that
the prayer which I had offered for his pardon
ing love and his sanctifying grace included
everything which the dying need. On the eve
ning previous to his departure, sitting an hour
in silence by his side, I could not but realize,
when I heard him, in the slight wanderings of
his mind to other davs and other scenes, mur
muring the words, "ilymoilter! mother! motiv
er !' and saying, ' My dear wife,' as if she were
present ; I could not but realize then, and re
joice to think how near was the blessed reu
nion of his weary heart with the loved dead and
with her our dear Lord gently smooth her pas
sage to the tomb ! who must soon follow him
to his rest, whose spirits even then seemed to
visit and to cheer his memory and his hope.
Gently he breathed his soul away into the spirit
world."
How affecting and how instructive this final
scene in the dying chamber of Henry Clay.
Without, the busy world rolled on its noisy tide
and dashed its fretful waves around the dwell
ing where he lay. In his ears rang the shouts
which greeted a new and important move
ment on the political arena. Beneath his very
windows the mustering bands of political foe
men began to confront each other, and fling to
the breeze their rival and defying flags. Not
far distant was that vV hite house, in which his
friends had so often sought to place their be
loved leader, and invest him with those grand
insignia of authority which would so well have
become his colossaf intellectual proportions.
And in his dying ears, sweet, harmonious and
increasing in power, rose the nation's anthem,
chauntod by both foe and friend, to the peerless
fame of Henry Clay. But to all these his eye
was dim and his ear was closed. The night of
Death was casting its sombre shadows over his
horizon and, hiding all things eartiily from his
view, revealed the stars of Faith and Hope
which gleam from Heaven upon the dying Chris
tian's eyes. With a humility that could not have
been more profound in the breast of the most
unlettered peasant, with a confidingness that
could not have been more complete in the bo
som of a little c hild, the greatest statesman of
America prostrated his majestic spirit at the
foot of the Cross, and in that solemn act, as well
as in his glowing words, bore the most convinc
ing testimony to the truth, necessity and suffi
ciency of the Christian Religion.
Yet there were earthly things the memory of
which still lingered on his soul. " In the slight
wanderings of his mind," his memory was busy
with long departed days. Not with the scenes
of his youthful ambition; not with tho forum
and the Senate where his electrical eloquence
had thrilled through a nation's heart ; not with
the fierce fields of political strife, where he had
so often led the Whig columns, the' truest of the
true and bravest of the brave. No ! " My moth
er ! mother ! mother !" My dear wife .'" These
murmured words showed that, more powerful
than the ambition of the statesman and the
pride if intellect, were the pure, strong domes
tic affections of the man. lie had arrived at tho
mountain top of fame, and there he was lv
ing down to die, with a nation mourning at his
feet. But through these thronging multitudes
his thoughts hastened, and, taking no note of
all the topics of his greatness and glory that
intervened, they flew down to the green vale
of his infancy, and rested beneath the roof-tree
of the house where he was born. He saw his
mother, as she was to him when she was
voung ; when his soul first glowed with the
light and warmth of a mother's love ; when she
led him by tho hand, or held him to her loving
heart: or taught him, on bended knee, to adore
that Great Being to whom now, at last, after a
troubled and tempestuous life, he had come a
gain like a little child, feeling that after all, the
highest and best wisdom he had ever gained
was the Christain AVisdom which he had learn
ed in childhood from a mother's lips. No won
der that in that dying hour his memory went to
her, as perhaps her sainted spirit came to him,
to lead him to a life of purer joys and more en
during honors.
And then, still faithful to the ruling affec
tions of the soul, his thoughts sought the shades
of Ashland, and seemed to be communing once
more with the Wife who had traveled with him
the wearisome journey of existence ; who had
sympathised with his joys, aud cheered all his
troubles, save this, the last and most terrible.
In her own sickness and affliction, she had sent j
him a fresh and beautiful bouquet, but
the flowers were nil withered when they reach-1
ed his hands. How like this vain life ? How
like its fortune, its renown, its power, even its j
purer sweets of domestic love. All transient ! !
All passing away ! But in the dying mind of !
the great statesman, the sweet memories of '
Home bloomed again, as the form of her, the ;
dearest of all earthly beings, rose before his im- j
agination. No doubt even that shadowy- image '
imparted a pleasure and consolation to nis soul
which all the pageantry and pomp of human
greatness could not have supplied. j
Our countrymen have lieheld and admired ,
the splendid outer life of Henry Clay ! Death i
has revealed to them his inner life, and won- !
der and admiration are converted into reverence
aud love. We have gazed with awe upon the
majestic temple, whose massive walls have so
long defied tho storm, and whose lofty turrets
have pierced the skies. But we forget the maj
esty of the exterior, when we cross the thresh
hold and find that within all is pure and simple,
as without all is strong and sublime.
Richmond Republican.
WHAT WAS THOUGHT OF GEN. SCOTT
IN 1814?
From Xiles' Register, of August 27, 1814, we
copy the following handsome tribute to Gen.
Scott, from which an idea may be formed of the
estimation in which the boy General was then
held by his countrymen.
"Generals Brown and Scott are doing well.
The former it is thought may have resumed his
command about the 25th of August. Scott suf
fered much, and was still confined to his bed on
the 13th; however, there was every prospest of
as speedy a recovery as could be expected. This
gallant soldier, who has not yet attained his
thirtieth year, is a native of this county (Din-
I wiaoie.j in tnis state he received his education
and its last polish at the College of William and
Mary. With skill, diligence, perseverance and
unrivaled eloquence, he practiced the law for a
short time in the adjacent counties. But his
great soul aspired to "deeds of arms." He en
tered the service of his country in 1808, with the
commission of Captain of Light Artillery, and in
a short time joined the Southern army under
General Wilkinson. His arrest, the charges
against him, and his unparalleled" defense on
that occasion, have long since been before the
public. This noble defense convinced the Cabi
net at Washington and the world at large, that
he was the scholar, the politician and the soldier.
Since then no man has ascended the military
ladder with more resplendent rapidity than has
Winfield Scott two more rounds, and he will
have topped the climax of military honor !
"Glowing with friendship, veneration and
pride for the brave soldier, a number of citizens
of Petersburg, as we are informed, have resolved
to have made an elegant sword with appropriate
devices, to be presented to the hero of Chippewa
and Bridgewater. In his hands we are confident
it will never be drawn but in defense of his coun
ty's rights, and never tarnished but by the blood
of our foe."
A Whig paper calls Frank Pierce "Jupiter
Tonans.' He may be "Jupiter Tonans," but
he will never be Jupiter Pluvius. He may
thunder, but he'll never reign. Louisville Journal.
Frank Pierce is daily gaining strength.
Columbia Democrat.
Let us know when hogets well enough to
keep hi 9 saddle. Wash. Telegraph.
THE RALEIGH REGISTER
"Ours' are the plans of fair, delightful peace ;
Unwarped by party rage, to lire like brothers."
RALEIGH, N, C.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 4, 1852.
FOR PRESIDENT,
GEN, WINFIELD SCOTT,
OF NEW JERSEY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
Or NORTH CAROLINA.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOHN KERR, of Caswell,
ELECTION ON THURSDAY. AUGUST 5th.
FOR THE SENATE,
JOHN W. IIARRISS.
FOR THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
SION II. ROGERS.
Maj. WILLIE D. JONES.
Maj. WILLIAM F. COLLINS.
" I have been afked if I liked thin Fugitive Slav
Law: I answered Xo, I LOATHED IT. I HAVE
A MOST REVOLTING FEELING AT THE GIV
ING UP OF A SLAVE THE LAW IS OPrOSED
TO HUMANITY." Gen. Fierce, '2nd Janua
ry, 1852. ;
Again, Gen. Pierce, in a speech made by him
while in the United States Senate See Globe, 2nd
Session, 25th Congress, page 54 says :
" I have no hesitation in saying that I consider
Slavery a SOCIAL and POLITICAL EVIL, and
MOST SINCERELY WISH it had no existence on
the face of the earth .'"
BARBECUE !
Kerr and Victory!!
SCOTT, graham:,
THE COHSTmmOK AND THE UNION ! ! 1
A largo Barbecue will be given by the Whigs
of Raleigh on Wednesday, the 4th of August.
The people of this and the adjoining Counties
are invited to attend. It is earnestly hoped they
will come up in crowds.
A number of speeches may be expected.
COME ONE ! COME ALL ! !
PEOPLE OF WAKE !
REMEMBER that, by voting for Reid, you
support a man who voted for the Wilmot Provi
so, and virtually endorse Franklin Pierce, who
LOATHES the Fugitive Slave Law!
By voting for Reid, you vote away the portion
of the Public Lands to which North Carolina is
legitimately entitled, and which is so essential
to the relief of our public burdens and the edu
cation of our youth I ,
By voting for Reid, yonS'ote for the man who
went against allowing the soldiers, who were
then fighting the battles of your country, a
slight increase in their monthly pay, while he
was voting for the Wilmot Proviso and receiving
$3 per day !
By voting for Reid, you deny the most sacred
principle of Republican Government, " that
all political power is vested in, and derived
from, the PEOPLE !"
Will yoc do it?
A FULL VOTE A WHIG VICTORY.
If the Whigs come to the Polls in their
strength, on to-morrow, Loco Focoism will not
have a foot of ground to stand upon, in North
Carolina. Will the Whigs then, all do their
duty ? Who will neglect it, when a single vote
is so important? Wo hope not one. It is cul
pable negligence nay, it is treason, for a man
to say that, "they can gel along without my tote."
The vote that you thus disregard, the struggling
Patriots in despotic countries would surrender
their heart's blood for the privilege of casting 1
It is your voice your share in the Administra
tion of a part of the noblest and most powerful
governmentin the world ! Unlike the bowed and
crushed spirits of other climes, who meekly kneel
at a Tyrant's feet, and submissively obey his
edicts, the American citizen, with the ballot in
his hand, without bloodshed, by the mere exer
cise of his will, ca'ls the Rulers of the people to
account, and sweeps corruption from high places !
That weapon,
"Surer yet,
And better than the bayonet ;
A weapon that comes down as still,
As snow flakes on the sod,
And executes the Freeman's will,
As lightning does the will of God"
that weapon IS YOUR OWN. Then bear
constantly in mind, that the Patriots, whose
blood handed it to you as your inheritance, and
that posterity wherein centres the last hope of
Freedom, all demand its exercise I
" Remember that every vote for John Kerr,
will be a vote against Free Suffrage."
Standard.
This is both falsehood and nonsense. But
still the " Standard" has not one word of denun
ciation for Mr. Williamson, of Caswell, Mr. Ed
wards, of Warren, or Mr. Pearsall, of Wayne,
coming out in opposition to free suffrage. Now
whilst that paper bitterly abuses those Whigs
who oppose free suffrage, it might condescend
to bestow a few words of reproof on members
of its own party. So far aa that paper is con
cerned, it is evident, Free Suffrage may go "the
way of all flesh," so the parly triumphs, and the
spoils are secured 1
S&- "Madiso " has been received and shall
appear in our next.
GENERAL PIERCE AND SLAVERY.
; We have published two reports of General
Pierce's speech atNew Boston. The., Union, says
the "Republic," attempts to discredit these re
ports on the ground that they come from the Free
soil wingofthe Democracy, and are therefore un
worthyofbelief." The New York Pm, on the other
hand, a Democratic journal of the highest ability
and pretensions, the organ of the most influential
and celebrated Northern Democrats of the Van
Burens, Butler, Dix, Cleveland, Rantoul and
a host of others, without whom the Northern
Democracy is nothing and nowhere the Even
ing Post gives full credence to tho reports, com
mends the sentiments attributed by them to
General Pierce, and calls upon us to produce
further testimony of the same sort. The legisla
tive records of New Hampshire, the resolutions
of her State and County Conventions, show that
the Democrats proper of that State have for years
held the same langauge that is ascribed to Gene
ral Pierce ; and the witnesses produced by the
Union to rebut the evidence of the Manchester
and Concord Demoaats, are distinctly proved to
have given their personal endorsement to the
same sentiments, and to stand in consimili casu
with the witnesses who are denounced by the Un
ion a vile and infamous Abolitionists. The differ
ence that we can find between Mr. Norrris and
Mr. Hale is extremely thin. Mr. Norris disa
vows his local sentiments on the subject of slave
ry when he reaches Washington ; Mr. Hale has
the manliness and courage to adhere to them.
Mr. Peaslce and Mr. Hibbard do not carry out
their convictions to the same conclusions pre
cisely with the editors of the Manchester and
Concord Democrats; but they stand committed on
the records to sentiments as justly offensive to
the South as any which those journals have avow
ed. We have two or three documents of in
terest (the Republic also remarks) to submit
to our contemporary this morning. We de
sire his attention to them. One is an affidavit
from Mr. Foss, the reporter of General Pierce's
speech. This gentleman, we understand, is a
preacher of the Baptist persuasion, a man of good
character and unimpeached veracity ; but as fa
natical, we dare say, on the subject of abolition
as the editors of the Evening Post, as Rantoul,
Floyd, Preston King, Molony, Campbell, Cleve
land, the Van Burens, Butler, Dix, and the nu
merous anti-Compromise men who are now co
operating with Forsyth, Soule, Venable, and
Governor Brown, to make a President of the
"choice and creation" of the Secessionists and
1 ire-eaters, on the basis of the resolutions of '98
W, which are the bible of Secession and Nullifi
cation. We dare say that Mr. Foss is quite as
ultra in his notions on slavery as any one of the
gentlemen that we have named. The Union may
think tliis a sufficient cause for not believing
him on his oath. We do not :
affidavit.
1, Andrew T. Foss, of Manche8ter,.in the coun
ty of Hillsborough, and Stateof New Hampshire,
depose and say, that on the 2d day of January,
1852, I attended a political meeting at New Bos
ton, in said county, which was addressed by
General Franklin Pierce; that I went there for
the purpose of reporting the speakers, and that
the report of the speech of General Pierce, where
in he declares that he "loathed the Fugitive
Slave law, &c," was furnished by me to the edi
tor of the Manchester Democrat; that the same
was written out by me on the evening after the
meeting from notes taken on the spot; and that
tho facts therein stated, as published in said Man
chester Democrat, and also in the I nd pendent
Democrat, are true. I distinctly recollect that
General Pierce said, among other things, that he
had a "most revolting feeling at the giving up of
a slave;" that he "loathed the Fugitive Slave
law;" and that the same "was opposed to hu
manity and moral right."
A. T. FOSS.
State of New Hampshire,
Merrimack, ss., July 23, 1852.
Personally appeared Andrew T. Foss, and
made solemn oath that the above affidavit, by
him subscribed, is true. Before me,
JACOB S. HARVEY, J. P.
The next document to which we would ask the
attention of our contemporary is a letter from the
editor of the Manchester Democrat, Mr. Goodale.
It will be seen that this gentleman avers that he
has always been a Democrat, and is now opposed
to General Scott He avers moreover that tico
reports were made of General Pierce's speech,
which corresponded in every particular; ana that
the accuracy of the report in the Manchester
Democrat was not denied by a single paper until
the recent manifesto of the Washington Union:
Letter of Mr. Goodale.
Manchester Democrat Offie,
July 20, 1852.
Editor of the Republic :
Sir : I noticed in the Washington Union some
days ago a statement that a report of the speech
of General Pierce at New Boston, on the 2d of
last January, had been republished in your pa
per ; and the Union, on the authority of Messrs.
Norris, Peaslee and Hibbard, pronounced said
report to be totally false, and the paper in which
it appeared to be "infamous."
As you have no knowledge of me, it will be
proper for me to say that 1 am a Democrat
have ever been an opponent of tho Whig party
and am opposed to the election of General
Scott. I state this that you may understand
that I write to you solely to defend myself and
maintain the truth.
Until the passage of the Compromise measures
I was in full fellowship with toe Hunker Demo
cracy, and had a personal acquaintance with
General Pierce. In common with a portion of
the Democratic party, I opposed the Compromise,
and in 1851 supported Atwood, the anti-Compromise
cadidate for Governor. At that election
the Compromise Democratic candidate was de
feated by the people by over 3,000 majority.
In oraer to regain their power with the people,
General Pierce and his friends, after election,
took especial pains to represent to the leading
anti-Compromise Democrats that their feelings
in regard to the inhumanity and wrong of the
Fugitive Slave law did not differ in the least
from those who had supported Mr. Atwood ; but
that, for the sake of the Union and the fulfilling
the compact of the Constitution, they deemed it
best to acquiesce in it.
As the election for 1852 approached, General
Pierce expressed a desire to address the citizens
of New Boston, where Mr. Atwood resided, and
which had given him a vote of 241 to 49 for Dins
more, the opposing candidate. Desirous to ob
tain a correct report of General Vice's remarks,
I requested two gentlemen of intelligence and
high character to report for me. They did so,
and the report of the one which was published
in the Democrat of January 8 was substantiated
in every particular by the report of the other.
The accuracy of the report was not denied by a
single paper until the recent manifesto of the
Washington Union. As the Democrat had not
only the largest circulation in the city, but also
in the county, it would have been folly to have
published any other than a true report of a
speech which was listened to by hundreds. It
is no trivial evidence of its accuracy that its cor
. rectness was not questioned by men of any party-
It is an easy matter at this late day to find par
tisans who, induced by hope of reward and by
prty prejudice, will stand ready to deny the
truth of this report : but let a thorough inves
tigation be made, and it will be substantiated in
every particular, and by testimony of such re
liable and positive character as to convince every
candid man. When this is called for in a suita
ble manner, I am ready to furnish it. , .
Respectfully, yours, --
JOHN H. GOODALE.
We submit to the Union that this affidavit and
this letter are much more effective and reliable
testimony than abusive language.--- But we have
not vet exhausted our documents. We have this
moment received a letter from two members of
Congress from New Hampshire, Mr. Tuck and
Mr.nPerkins--the first named a Democrat, and
the latter a Whig. From this letter we learn
that the editors of the Manchester Democrat and
the Independent Democrat are men of good repu
tation in their vicinage. Mrt Goodale, it seems,
has always supported the Democratic nomina
tions, and has always had at the head of his
columns the names of the Democratic candidates
for Congress, including those of the men who
how seek to malign him ! Mr. Fogjij, it is aver
red, is a Democrat of the same associations, and
a man as far above personal reproach" as any
one in New Hampshire.
Such is the testimony of two highly respecta
ble members of the House from New Hamp
shire to the reputation of gentlemen who have
been so wantonly and malignantly assailed.
We annex their letter without further comment :
Letter of Messrs. Tuck and Perkins.
Washington, July 28, 1852.
To the Editor of the Republic:
The undersigned have read the articles which
have Appeared in your paper on the subject of
the remarks upon slavery alleged to have been
made by General Franklin Pierce at New Bos
ton, New Hampshire, in the month of January
last. With a view of shielding General Pierce
from the responsibility of tho remarks imputed
to him, our colleagues in Congress, Messrs. Mo
ses Nobris, jr., Chas. H. Peaslee, and Harry
Hibbard, have published a letter intended to
discredit the two newspapers in New Hampshire
the Manchester Democrat and the Indejiendent
Democrat in which a report of General Pierce's
speech was published at the time. Their letter
was published in the Republic of the 19th inst.,
and we call your attention to the following par
agraph, contained in the same :
"They (the Manchester Democrat and the In
dependent Democrat) are known to us to be now,
and to have long been, avowedly and bitterly
opposed to the principles and organization of
the Democratic party generally, and particular
ly vindictive ana mendacious in regard to Gene
ral Pierce, before and since his nomination at
Baltimore. Their character issuch as to render
any contradiction of their unfounded statements
an unnecessary labor, wfierever tlieir reputation is
known."
On the subject of the anti-slavery resolves, in
structions to members of Congress, the anti-slavery
professions and protestations, now attribu
ted in the public papers either to General Pierce
or to our colleagues, we have nothing to say.
But when our colleagues, in a sort-of official
communication, seek to protect any man from
what they consider a grave charge, by attempt
ing to demolish the reputation, at the seat of
Government, of two respectable newspapers in
our State, and consequently the reputation of
the conductors of those papers, we deem it our
duty to indicate our own judgment in the prem
ises. The wholesale charge of mendacity and infa
my of reputation, wherever known, contained
in the above extract, has astonished us, and
will, we doubt not, astonish all the people of
New Hampshire whose political animosity has
not got the entire control of their understand
ings. If the above vilification of the fair char
acter of George G. Fogg, Esq., editor of the
Independent Democrat, and of John II. Good
ale, Esq., editor of the Manchester Democrat,
had first appeared in any New Hampshire
newspaper, we should not have thought any
notice required from us. But being made here,
where Mr. Fogg and Mr. Goodale are hut little
known, and in a semi-official manner, we think
it demanded of us to enter upon the record our
denial of the justice of the charge made by our
colleagues.- That the papers in question have
been " malignant," or " mendacious," or that
" their character is such as to render any con
tradiction of their . statements an unnecessary
labor, wherever their reputation is known," we
deny as emphatically and positively as our col
leagues have made the charge ; and for the de
cision of this issue we appeal to the sober-minded
people of New Hampshire. Political hostil
ity and partisan differences of opinion may
destroy the judgment of some men ; but we
have confidence that the great majority of the I
people in our State will form a just opinion, and J
condemn the attack which our colleagues have
made.
John II. Goodale, Esq., has always professed
to be a Democrat, and through his paper has
given efficient support to ali the Democratic
nominations for the Presidency since 1840, and
has always had at the head of its columns the
names of the Democratic nominees for Congress,
including the names of our colleagues, for the
seats which they now occupy. In 1848 he
made as spirited a fight against John Van Bu
ren, Henry B. Stanton, and many other of the
present supporters of General Pierce, as did
any one in our State. He has, for a year past
or more, been in a controversy with his late
Democratic brethren. Our colleagues say, in a
part of their letter published above, that his
paper has long been an aholition organ. We
are not aware that Mr. Goodale has advocated
any sentiments on the topic of slavery, since his
paper ceased to be an acknowledged organ of
tho Democracy, different from what he advoca
ted before. We believe he possesses a fair rep
utation wherever he is known, which his revilers
cannot mar or destroy.
We are still more surprised at the attempt of
our colleagues to brand with discredit the rep
utation of George G. Fogs, esq., tho editor of
Independent Democrat. Mr. Fogg was. brought
up a democrat, and ardently supported Mr.
Polk in 1844. He disbelieved in the policy, or
constitutionality, of the annexation of Texas, in
the necessity of the Mexican war, and in the
general legislation of the last few years in re
gard to slavery. Consequently he has not been
for years, a Democrat, in the present acceptation
of that term. But he is a gentleman of superior
scholarship, education and talents ; has been
Secretary of State of New Hampshire, and for a
long time a successful editor of the paper which
he now controls. He lives in the same town
with General Pierce and Gen. Peaslee, and in
that town, and out of it, and throughout the
State, possesses a reputation as far above re
proach of every kind as any man in the State.
We say, without fear of contradiction, that if
Gen. Pierce stands as unimpeachable in morals
and integrity as does George G. Fogg, he posses
ses a reputation against which "mendacity"
and "malignity" are fated to throw only harm
less weapons
Respectfully, AMOS TUCK,
JARED PERKINS.
MORE TESTIMONY ! KEEP IT GOING ! !
The resolutions of the New Hampshire Legis
lature, voted for by every Democrat which
denounced slavery as "a moral, social and po
litical evil" the existence of which; was "deeply
regretted" and which lauded the Wilmot Pro
viso, and supported Free Soil every where, ex
hibit the sort of Southern feeling which animate
Gen. Pierce's Democracy, and go to confirm the
report of sentiments ascribed to him. But this
is not all. He has made other speeches than
that at New Boston, in which he said he HA
TED and deplored slavery. A speech to this
effect rests not on Abolition authority. We
find it in the Daily Washington Union of the
28th June, copied from the Poston Post. It
has been copied and endorsed by the Enquirer
as genuine. Here is an extract which looks
well for a "champion of the South" :
. "Who did, not deplore slavery But what
sound thinking mind regards that as the only
evil which could rest upon the land? The man
who would dissolve the Union DID NOT HATE
OR DEPLORE SLAVERY MORE THAN HE
DID ; but even with it, wo had lived in peace,
prosperity and security, from the foundation of
our. institutions to the present time,"
. This speech was delivered the 20th of No
vember, 18501
MORE CHEERING tfEWSl TIIEREsiJ,
Accounts from all quarters go to confirm
settled conviction, that the Whigs will, 0n Th
day, achieve a most glorious victorv. If
do not, it will be useless, hereafter, to rely u
calculations of any kind. The West is
awake, and will give almost, if not quite th
Harrisonian majority. In the East, too, ev
Whig "seems disposed to do his duty."' ?
joined are extracts from a portion of letters
ceived since our last : rc
Extract of a letter, dated
Gatesville, July tk
"Old Gates will be found on the rfm
on the 5th of August, as well as in Novembe
cofnty."8 CertaiDOf ge"inga tl,;,
Extract of a letter, dated
Fatetteville, July 31, l&
" I have just returned from Moore, W
every thing is cheering to the heart of a good
Scott and Graham Whig. Turner will, without
doubt, be elected, making a Whig gain. Rett
will lead his party vote, and, if elected, of which
we have no doubt, will in turn be led by Scott
and Graham.
Notwithstanding a few have left the field to
mount the platform of Pierce, "hammer in
hand, a number ten fold larger have rushed
to Scott s standard, the standard of the country
and now aid and cheer on to victory the Hero
of a hundred fights.
Old Robeson is in earnest this canvass. Even
in Cumberland, things for Kerr, Scott and Gra
ham are very encouraging. Kerr will obtain
a larger vote than Manly. Of the election of
Kerr, we all here entertain no doubt."
Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated
Carthage, N. C. July 28, 1852
" You may say to our Whig friends that Ke"rr'8
prospects in this Congressional District are very
good. The Whigs are quite enthusiastic in his
support and also in the support of Scott and
Graham. We will elect Kerr by a majority of
from three to five thousand votes. Rest assur
ed, at all events, that the Whigs of the 3rd Con
gressional District will present an unbruken
front to the enemy on to-morrow week.
I have conversed with numbers oLthe ffhigs
of the District within the last three weeks and
find them in good spirits and ready for the fight "
FOR THE REGISTER
KERR IN IIENDERS0X.
Mr. Editor : The great " Car" has crossed
the ridge at last, and I am happy to say that it
is well for him and well for the iig party that
he has, for there had been lies 'nough perpe
trated on him here to have killed off any body ;
but his stirring eloquence, powerful appeal?,'
frank manner, and undisguised declarations
have driven away all malice and misrepresenta
tion, and I believe that he will get a full Whig
vote, as many or more than if such oo mi,.
.representations had not been heaped upon him ly
the AshvilleNews, (always a snappish Whig, but
now a full democrat.) He has fully awakened
and aroused the Whigs here to the old spirit
that nerved them to action in 1840. Mr. Kerr
DECLARED HERE EXACTLY WHAT HE DECLARED in
the East, opposition to a change in the basis and
the mode of distributing tlie School Fund, mid in
jacor of a Convention to amend the Constihilion,
if the people desire one. He leaves life and ac
tion in his trail."
KERR IN BUNCOMBE.
" Mr. Kerr has put the aliens to flight here.
A more perfect and desirable change has never
.been effected by one man here in so short a time.
He is a fire in dry lands, a torch that slander
cannot extinguish, a light that malice cannot
put out. He warms up all Whig hearts, and
has done more to unite the party than any man
since the days of Morehead, and the whole
West, where ever he-has been, will roll him up
tremendous majority. Do your part and have
no fears. The people hre will all go right, ex
cept democrats, who are this time for
nothing and nobody ! Mr. K. ranks among the
best of speakers, the best of men and the best of
Whigs, and the voters here will tell you so on
the 5th of August. The "News" is writhing
under its vile slanders on this gentleman, but
he will be the gainer by its falsehoods. The
Standard and news ought to be sold for stxqi ;
they are so pregnant with lie."
Yours in haste,
TRUE WHIG.
Greenville, Pitt Co., July 28th, 1S52.
- Mr. Gales : I have recently come in posses
sion of a fact which, of itself, discloses the game
the locos are playing. It is this : It was stated
in this county, in a remote corner of it, that
John Kerr had " changed his tone" upon the
basis question, at the discussion between him
and Gov. Reid at Greensboro', before that dis
cussion took place 1 Is'nt this conclusive evi
dence that a false account of that discussion WJ
premeditated ? The individual, I understand,
who originated this report here, at so earlj a
date, is a locofoco of some notoriety in this
county, and had recently returned from a visit
to Raleigh. This person, doubtlessly, mistook
the day on which the discussion was to take
place ; or, else, he has a most inveterate propen
sity to be the first to disclose startling new! I
hope this bit of information may be of some
service before the day of election, and in future,
learn the people to beware how they place reli
ance upon locofoco acoounts of discussions.
In haste, yours, &c. k
THE STATE ELECTION.
This interesting event is now so near at hand,
that nothing we could say cari have any in
fluence beyond our own, or a neighboriag Coun
ty or two. We therefore say but littlein the way
of appeal, because we presume every man has
made up his mind ; and, besides, we do not
wish to subject ourselves to the charge of utter
ing statements, tr effect, on the eve of an Elec
tion, which might be construed into an attempt
to deceive the people, or produce a false issue.
We sincerely and honestly believe, that the
Whigs of North Carolina are bout to achieve a
most glorious victory ; but whether they do or
not, we feel that we have done our duty
If Loco Focoism should triumph, we can con
scientiously say "Let the galled jade' wince
our withers, are unwrung." But we have no
misgivings on this score. We confidently, ex
pect to announce in a few days, that we ha"
elected a Whig Governor by an old fashioned
majority, and have carried also both branches -of
the Legislature, giving the Whigs the selec
tion of a United States Senator. All that is ne
cessary to ensure it, is, that Whig voters shou-
STAND FAST !
We invite general attention to the arti
cle from tho " Republic" in another column
It is perfectly conclusive. Read, freemen J
Wake, and consider that, in voting
you are virtually voting for Franklin Tierce,
LOATHES the Fugitive Slave Law !