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r - J Y GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNO W, TO U rTER, AND TO ARGUE FREELY, ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL OTHER LIBERTIES." Milton. NEW SERIES. R. I. W YNNE, Publisher. 4 RALEIGH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1852. f?4u C. C. RABOTEAU, Editor. 4 VOL. V. NO. 31 TERMS. The Times is issu 'd evt-ry Thursday, and mailed o subscribers at Two Dollars per annum, iu advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if cot paid in six months and Three Dollars if payment be delayed to the end of the subscription year. O" To Clubs, we will send Six Copies for Ten Dollars, and Twelve copies for Eighteen Dollars, when the nionev accompanies the order. ADVERTISEMENTS, Not exceeding fifteen lines, will be published one time for One Dollar, and Twenty-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. Court orders and Judicial Ad vertisements will be charged 25 per cent higher. A reasonable deduction will be made to those who ad vertise by the year. Letters to the Eilitor must be post paid. Money for the Office may be sent by mail at our risk, in pay ment for subscriptions, advertisements, jobs, &c. 0"OFf'ICEON FAVETTEVILLK ST., OXK DOOR BELOW POST OFFICE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE. To-morrow, the 25th of July, will be the anniversary of the battle of Lundy's Lane, the "'bloodiest' fight -of the' war .of 1812-15. The occasion will be celebrat ed next week in this city, at Niagara, and in many parts of the country, and it is an occasion worthy tbe remembrance- of all those who appreciate National Independ ence, and personal Liberty. The princi pal hero of that great battle, he who was doubly wounded there, and who fell ex hausted at 1 lie close of i be great struggle, survives and has been honored by the rep resentatives of one of the leading parties, with a nomination lor the highest civil of fice in the gift of the people It was deem ed a reward for services rendered the coun try, not only during the war with Great Britain, but through-the long and coinpat atively peaceful interval from 1814 to IS 17 and finally in the Mexican war, where, however, no fiercer battle was fought than . that at Lundy's Lane. It will be thirty-eight years ago to-morrow, since General Scott started at the head of a brigade of about thirteen hundred men, on an expedition in pursuit of Maj. General Riall, who was reported to be at Lewistown with a body of British troops. He had marched but two miles, when he came in contact 'with a body numbering eighteen hundred of tbe enemy. This This was on the afternoon of the 2-5th of July, and the British were favorably post ed on a ridge, in order for battle. The preliminary incidents of that fierce struggle have ail the interest of romance. The British were first discovered at awhite house on" the road. It was filled, and the court-yard crowded with .British officers, their horses held by ordcrhes and servants in attendance. The Uritish bugles sounded to saddle, and in a few moments the were mounted and disappeared through the woods at fullgallop, twenty bugles ringing the alarm from "different - parts of the for est. All vanished, save a veteran officer, who reined tip just out of musket shot, and took a leisurely survey of the Ameri cans. Having apparently satisfied himself of the force, says an officer, be raised the plumed hat from his head, and bowing gracefully to our cortege,! put spurs to his horse and disappeared with the rest. The great body of the enemy were about a mile oir. - General Scott discovered there was work to do, and forthwith prepared himself for action. Turning to one of his Aids, lie said : "Be kind enough, sir, to return to Maj. General Brown ; inform him that I have fallen in with the enemy's advance, posted in force at Lundy's Lane, and that in one half hour, I shall have joined bat tle." "Order tip 'Ripley -with the second brigade, direct Porter to get his volunteers immediately under arms;" was the biief reply of the Maj. General to the message; and the aids were instantly in their saddles conveying orders. The battle was begun as soon as Scott -'could . inarch to meet the enemy. The force was so unequal that General Scott would havebeen justified, had he retired. Upon the verge of that sloping hill, and through--the' giaveyard, now so peaceful '" and ! pleasant to look up on, was drawn up the British' line under General Riall, in force three times greater than the - American' brigade, his right cov ered by a powerful "battery of nine pieces of artillery, two of them brass twenty fours. We shall let an actor in tbe battle de scribe the scene which followed, and of which the writer says in the outset that "a thousand battles have been fought-wiili far superior forces, but in dauntless courage and heroic steadiness, none of them sttr passed that of Lundy's Lane, wherein Winfield Scott freshly endeared himself to his countrymen, and received wounds whereof he will carry the scars to his grave." We quote from "A Gallop a j no tig American Scenery, by Aug. E. Sil liman," (published by Appletou Co., in 1S43) The Eleventh and Twenty second regiment first leaving the wood, de ployed upon the open ground wiih the coolness anil regularity of a review, and were soon engaged furiously in action; the fire from' the enemy's line and from the batteries, which completely commanded the position, opening upon them with tre mendous effect. Tow-sou, having hurried up with his guns on tbe left, 'in vain en deavored to attain sufficient elevation to return the fire of the battery. The des truction on our side was very grca. The two regiments fought with consummate bravery? Severely cut up, their ammuni tion exhausted, and their officers, nearly all of them killed or wounded, they were withdrawn from action j the few officers re maining unhurt throwing themselves into the Ninth, which now came into action, led by the gallant Colonel Leavenworth. The brunt of the battle now came upon them, and they alone sustained it for some time, fighting with unflinching bravery ,un til their numbers were reduced to one-half by the fire of the enemy. At this junct ure, General Scott galloped up with the intention of charging the hill ; but finding I hem so much weaker altered his inten tion, entreating them to hold their ground until the reinforcements, which were hast ening on, should come to their assistance. A momenta cessation of the action en sued, while additional forces hurried up to the ai ! of each army ; Ripley's brigade, Hindman's artillery, and Porter's volun teers on the part of the Americans, under Major General Brown, and a strong rein forcement under General Drummond to that of the British. Hindman's artillery was attached to that of Towson, and soon made itself heard. Porter's brigade de ployed on the left, while Ripley formed on the skirts of the wood to the right of Scott's brigade. The engagement was soon re newed, with augmented vigor, General Drummond taking command in person, with his fresh troops in the front line of the enemy. Colonel Jesup, who had at the commencement of the action been post ed on the right, succeeded, after a gallant contest, in turning the left flank of the en emy, and came in upon his reserve, "bur dened with prisoners, making himself visi ble to his own army, amid the darkness, in a blaze of fire," completely destroying all before him. The fight raged for some time, with great fury, but it became appa rent, uselessly to the Americans, if the enemy retained possession of the battery manifestly the key of the position. 'I .was standing at the side of Col. Mil- i e r, said the Major, when General Brown rode up 'and inquired whether he could storm the battery with his regiment, while General Ripley supported him with the younger regiment, the Twenty-third. Mil ler, amidst the uproar and confusion, de liberately surveyed his position, then turn ing with infinite coolness, replied, "I'll try sir." I think I see. him now, as draw- i ing up his gigantic figure at full height, he j turned to his regiment, drilled to the pre I cision of a piece of mechanism, I hear his deep tones 1 wenty-first -attention ! form into column ; advance up the hill to storm the battery ; delivery your fire at the port-lights of the artillery men, and carry the guns at the bayonet's point. Support arms double quick- march ! " Machinery- could not have moved with more compactness than that gallant regiment fol lowed the fearless strides of iis leader. Supported by 'he Twenty-third, the dark mass moved up the hill like one bod', the lurid light glittering and flickering on their bayonets, as the combined fire of the ene my's artillery and infantry opened murder ously upon them. They flinched nol they faltered not the stern voices of the. officers, as the deadly cannon shot cut yawning chasms through them, alone was heard "Close up steady men steady." Within a hundred )Tards of the summit, a volley, sharp, instantaneous as a elap of thunder,-'another'. moment,-' rushing under the white smoke, a short furious struggle with the bayonet, ni:d the artillery men were swept like chaff from their guns. Another fierce struggle, the enemy's line was forced down the side of the hill, and the victory was ours, the position entirely in our hands, their own pieces turned and playing upon them in their retreat. It was bought at a cruel price, most of the officers being either killed or wounded. The whole tide of the battle now turned to this point. The result of the conflict depend ed entirety upon the ability of the victori ous party to retain it. Maj. Hindman was ordered up, and posted his forces at the side of the captured cannon, while the A merican men correspondingly advanced. Stung with mortification, Gen'l. Drum mond concentrated his forces, to retake by a desperate charge the position. Tbe in terval amid the darkness was alone filled by the roar of the cataracts, and the groans of the wounded. He advanced with strong reinforcements, out flanking each side of the American line. We were only able, in the murky darkness, to ascertain their ap proach by the heavy tread. "They halt ed within twenty paces, poured in a rapid fire, and prepared for the rush." Direct ed by the blaze; our men returned it with deadly effect, and after a desperate st nig gle, the dense column recoiled. Another interval of darkness and silence, and again a most furious and desperate charge was made by the British, throwing the whole weight of their attack upon the American centre. The gallant Twenty first, which composed it, receiving them with undaunt ed firmness, while the fire from, our lines was dreadfully effective ; Ilindman'sartil lery being served with the most perfect coolness and effect. Staggering, they a gain recoiled. During this second attack, Geneial Scott in person, his shattered brig ade now consolidated into a single battal ion, made two determined charges upon the right and left flank of the enemy, and in these he received the scars which his countrymen now see upon his manly front. Our men were now almost worn down with fatigue, dying with thirst, for which they could gain no relief. The British, with fresh reinforcements, their men recruited, after the interval of an other hour, made their third and final ef fort to regain the position. They advanc ed, delivered their fire as before, and al though it was returned with the same dead ly eil'ect, steadily pressed forward. The Twenty-first again sustained the shock, and both lines were soon encased in a conflict obstinate and dreadful beyond description. The right and left of the American line fell back for a moment, but wer immedi ately rallied by their officers. "So desper ate did the battle now become that many battalions on both sides were forced back, the men, engaged in indiscriminate melee, fought hand to hand, and with muskets clubbed ; and so terrific was the conflict where the cannon were stationed, that Maj. Hindman had to engage them over his guns and gun carriages, and finally to spike two of his pieces, under the appre hension that they would fall into the hands of the enemy." At length a most desper ate and determined charge was made up on both of the enemy's flanks ; they wa vered, recoiled, gave way, and the centre soon following, they relinquished the fight and made a final retreat. The annals of warfare on this continent have never shown more desperate fightng. Bayonets were iepeatedly crossed, and af terthe action, many of the men were found mutually transfixed. The British force engaged was about five thousand men; the American thirty-five hundred: the com bined loss in killed and wounded, seven teen hundred and twenty-two, officers and men. The battle commenced at half-past 4 o'cloc k in the afternoon, and did not terminate till midnight. We were so min gled, said the Major, and so great was the confusior in the darkness, that as I was sitting with a group of officers in the early part of the night, on horseback, a British soldier came up to us, and recovering his musket, under the supposition that he was addressing one of his own officers, said -"Colonel Gordon will be much obliged, sir, if you will march up the three hun dred men in the road to his assistance im mediately, as he is very hard pressed." 1 called him nearer, and pressing his mus ket uown over my holsters, made him pris oner. "What have I done, sir ?" said the astonished man, "what have 1 done?" and to convince a British officer, as he suppos ed, of his loyalify, exclaimed, 'Hurah for the King, and damn the Yankees !" As he was marched to the rear, the poor fel 1 iw was cut down by agrapeshot. In an other part of the field, Capt. Spencer, who was soon after killed, pulled up suddenly on a body of men in full march. In re ply to his demand, "What regiment is that?" he w-as answered, "The Royal Scots." With great presence of mind he replied : "Halt ! Royal Scots, till further orders," and then, turning his horse's head galloped from their dangerous proximity. It was a horrid conflict, and humanity sighs over the slaughter of the brave men ! who fell in it. ! But here we are, at the graveyard with ; its drooping willows and flowering locusts. -No armed men now disturb its calmness and repose ; no ponderous artillery wheels rudely cut its consecrated mounds ; no savage execration , no mourn of anguish, break now upon its hallowed silence. The long grass and blossomed heather wave now green alike over the graves of friend ; and enemy. See from this point .how gently and gracefully undulates the battle field ; the woods bowing to the evening breeze, as the soft sunlight pours through their branch- j es, show not the gashes of rude cannon shot ; the plain, loaded and bending with the yellow harvest, betrays no human gore; yon hill scathed, scorched and blackened with cannon flame, the very resting place of the deadly battery , shows no relic of the fierce death s ruggle, as covered with the fnigrant clover and wild blue bell, the bee in monotonous hum banquets over it. Nought mars the serenity of Nature as she smiles upon us. Yet, burned in com mon funeral pyre, the ashes of those brave men, of friend and foe, there mingle in the bosom.whence they issued. The fu rious conflict over, they have lain down in quiet , and like young children, sleep gent ly in the lap of that common mother who shelters with like protection the little field mouse from its gambols, and turbaned Sul tan sinking amid his prostrate millions. Shades of my gallant countrymen ! Shades of their daring foes, farewell ! Never hrd warriois more glorious death couch the eternal Cataracts roar your requiem ! From the Independent Democrat pub lished at Concord, New Hampshire. At the meeting appointed at New Bos ton Ceutre on Friday afternoon of Janua ry 2nd, by General Franklin Pierce, to address the citizens of that town in regard to the difficulties between himself and por tion of the Democrats of that section, he occupied the hour of his in defending his military character. He explained the cir cumstance of his fainting; and declared that, "with the exception of a single occa sion, he had led his command in the blaze of every battle." . After this he commenced speaking up on the Fugitive Slave law. He said that it differed in no important particular from the law of 1793. A clergyman who was present said, that as the invitation had been given, he would like to make an in quiry: "Do you regard the features of the Fugitive Slave law as', consistent with the common law?" General Pierce immediately replied : cIf I must answer the question, I say no, I do not. I have been asked if I liked this Fugitive Slave law. I answered no, I loathed it. I have a most revolting feel ing at the giving up of a slave; the law is opposed to humanity. 11 Here Mr. Foss inquired, "If it was not opposed to right as well as humanity?" General Pierce leplied, "Yes it is opposed to moral right." The above is the substance of General Pierce's remarks upon the Fugitive Slave law. The quotation matks include the very language used by the General, as ta ken down at the time it was uttered. From the Manchester (N. II. ) Union Democrat, January 7, l8o2. DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN NE W . ' ' ': BOSTON. At the earnest request of a large num ber of the people of New Boston, General Pierce delivered a political address in that town on Friday of last week. Notwith standing the sleighing had been entirely destroyed by the thaw of the preceding davs, the attendance was very larsre so that it was found necessary to occupy the largest meetinghouse in thevillage, which j was well filled. The meeting was called to order byB. Pitcher, esq., and was j xetf tibTy addressed for "some three-quar-' ters of an hour by B. F. Ayer, esq., of this city. He spoke of the origin progress j and purposes of the Abolition faction, ! and earnestly vindicated the National and ! State policy of the Democratic party. He was followed by General Pierce, who spoke with great power and eloquence, for two hours and a half. It gave him 'great satisfaction, he said, j to address so large an audience in his na tive county. He saw around him many . of the friends of his father, and the famil- ; iar faces of those who were his own more j intimate friends in the earlier portion of his j life. He spoke of the changes which ; time had produced, even the short period j which had elapsed since the adopiion of ! the American Constitution, '." He alluded ! to the unexampled progress and prosperity of our country , in all the elements of na tional greatness, and attributed all to the j admirable system of government adopted ! by the fathers of the Republic. He spoke ': of the difficulties attending the formation of the Constitution. With no model for a guide, and with some discordant elements to harmonize, the labor and anxiety of the convention was intense and painful. Slavery had been introduced into a por Hon of the States, in their colonial condi tion, against the moral sense of the whole world. Its immediate extirpation was manifestly impracticable; and the final adjustment of the question was not accom plished without many days and weeks of painful apprehensions that the blood of a seven years' war might have been shed to no purpose, as far as a Constitutional IJ nion of the several States was concerned. The hopes of the convention centred upon the illustrious FranJn. He arose in his place, and said: "My, "friends, we shall perhaps lose all. We have exhaust ed the wisdom of earth. Let us seek the aid of Heaven in prayer." A better feel ing pervaded the convention, and our pre sent admirable form of Government was the result. . - . ' - General Pierce paid a glowing and elo quent tribute to the American Cons;itulion. It has made us all we are as a nation, arid he believed our only hope of continued,;, prosperity, safety, strength, and glory de pended upon a faithful adheience to its requirements. He thought the Union had been in imminent peril, and believed that nothing but the Compromise meas ures could have saved it, at the time they were passed, under the then existing feel ing in the two great geographical sections of the country. He alluded to the calum nies which have been circulated among small fry politician in" relation to the Franklin dinner. Language had been as cribed to him which he never uttered. He remembers no political expression made ..by.': him to Mr. Webster, except one to the ef fect that they had never agreed upon a political question before, and probably might never igain. . He then spoke of his personal agency in the Atwood controversy. He hud always been a friend to Mr. Atwood, and nobody knows it better than that gentleman. He used his influence, at the suggestion of Col. Monroe, to secure to Mr. Atwood, the office of States Treasu ret, and was on his bond, with several ether prominent Democrats of Concord, for 200,000, for the whole time he held that office. He was Mr. Atwood 's friend at the time of his nomination for Governor; and it was as such that he advised him, through Col. Gale, to stand clear of the angry contro versy which Avas likely to arise m refer ence to the Compromise queslions never doubting for a moment that, if he spoke at, all, it would be to sustain .'them, in accord ance with the resolutions of the convention from which he held his nomination. Mr. Atwood replied that he need feel no anxi ety upon that point that he should take no step which would embarrass the party with which he had so long acted. A few days subsequent a Whig mem ber of the Convention informed General Pierce of the White correspondence and its character. He was totally incredulous,, but his doubts were speedily removed by its appearance in the Independent Demo crat. Many of the Democratic members of the convention were in favor cf shaking off Mr. Atwood at oncj. General Pierce threw his influence against such a move ment. The relations of friendliness and confidence he had always sustained tow ards Mr. Atwood not only justified but re quired his friendly offices to avert the mis chief which threatened alike the Demo cratic party and its nominee. He sought an interview with Mr. Atwood. The re sult is known. No unfriendly word was utterred. The second letter was prepared in a rough draft, partly uy him and partly by Mr. Atwood. Genet al Pierce then left him to finish it as he pleased with these parting worJs: "Mr. Atwood, write what commends itself to your judgment and your conscience, and then stand by it." Mr. Atwood followed him to the door, shook him cordially by the hand, and re marked that he "should never forget the kindness he (General P.) had shown him.' They have not met since; but, as M r. At wood was traversing the State with an en tirely different version of the affair. Pierce felt bound, in justice to himself, to make this explanation. '.'.;:. We are satisfied that no candid and fair minded man in the State could have lis tened to the address of General . Pierce ' without coming to the conclusion that his j statements were all true; and thai he has been and still is most foully wronged by the representations of the Abolition Press. Mr. Atwood knows that well; and it is a 'sad commentary upon human character to see how readily be lends himself to their purposes of slander and detraction. V FURTHER TESTIMONY i From New Hampshire. To show that j the Concord and Manchester Democrats are ! sustained in their version of Genl. Pierce's speech at New Boston,' we append the com ments of their local contemporaries, as is sued within the last few days.: The papers we now quote from are opponents of Gen. Pierce, but they are not, therefore, to be ex cluded from the witness-box on a question that in list be settled by facts, not by general assertions or vulgar abuse. The Concord (N. II.) Statesman says : -'The speech of Gen; Pierce, at NewBos ton, in the-month of January last, has re cently been published at Washington, and seems to have created some stir there. B. F. Ayer, Esq., of Manchester, and Messrs. Nonis, Pcaslee and Ilihbartl, members of Congress, have severally, in certificates which appear in the Washington Republic, endeavored to refute the presumption that the report of Gen. Pierce's speech is correct. . Mr. Ayer was the only one of the above ; gentlemen who was present in the meeting at New Boston, and he denies that such language vtas uttered. The speech was reported for the Man chester Democrat by a reporter specially engaged for the purpose ; and there could at that time have been no-sufficient'- motive for giving any other tlnn a faithful transcript of the words uttered. Mr. Ayer was pre sent to speak himself, and could not there fore he supposed to be in so favorable frame of mind for fixing his attention upon what may have been said by Gen. Pierce, as one who went there for the sole purpose of re porting for a newsp.-ppr. There is now a niotive to allege that the speech was not correctly reported, but there was none then -tb'induce a reporter to give any other than a faithful version of it." The Manchester (X. II.) American and Messenger enters somewhat, morn into de tail, but with a result equally adverse to (Jen. Pierce and his apologists. It remarks : "We all -recollect freshly and vividly the Atwood split, and all its details -how that reverend furn-coat wrote three letters which agreed in no particular how he danced the polka from New Boston to Concord, and from Concord to Manchester how he fell into the den of lions (or asses) at the Man chester House, and came outrolling hiseyes in holy horror at their wickedness how he was reported. -to have intimated to Franklin Ptercr that he had a conscience, and ho. v Frank, with a very tartarenn expletive, iu fonried him that the intimation was absurd, since he had belonged to the Democratic party forty years how Mr. Atwood stump ed the State, and gratified an infinite num ber of elderly ladies by the suavitus in mode of his address how the election; left him 'nowhere,' and how he retired at last, like Cinciiinatus, to bis plough. : "We remember, alsoj how Frank Pierce, in the dead of last winter, with a patrol of sherihs, editors, runners, arid echoes, went over to New Boston to bid for Freesoil votes. Il was a touch-and-go meeting, and Frank performed with his usual button-hole tact, lie patted the NewBostoners on their backs and told them that the man who built his father's chimney lived at one time in Nev Boston, and therefore he had a paternal re gard for them. Amonsr the other incidents of the meeting, a clergyman arose and ad dressed to him some interrogatories. In the course of his answers, the General leaned marvellously towards the Freesoilers. The speech was carefully noted down at the time by a most estimable and correct indi vidual present, and published: in the Man chester Democrat in full, and in the inde pendent Dayfocrat in part. It is worthy of notice that not a single Democratic paper in the State at the time denied the correct ness of the Freesoil -portion of the speech, and that some of them published reports in close agreement '.with it. It should also be remembered' that the speech was successful and gained about two hundred Freesoil votes! as can he shown by the returns of the votes. ': .-'-... . "Well five months elapsed, and Frank Pierce was noniini 'ed for the Presidency, as par excellence, the pro-slavery candi date; and all the South, from the Potomac southward, sent up a shout. He was commended to them as all right, and the campaign was commenced furiously in all the South by the Democrats, they repre senting Pierce as by far safer than Scott on the Compromise. But suddenly some of the Southern papers discovered the New Boston speech, and forth with published it. The scales fell from Southern eyes, and the veil from northern demagogues. "Now another tack is taken. It is de clared that the report of the speech is false. We observed that B. V. Ayer, esq., (the gentleman to whom ward five, of this city, has two or three times given indications jhat he had better remain in private life,) and our friend Campbell, : the defender of the "commercial policy of England,' and the opposer of the system by which a large portion of his patrons obtain their bread, have addressed letters to Messrs. N orris, Hibbard, and Peaslee, denying the report in toto; and Messrs. Norris &. Co. gave their preface, and enclosed them to the Washington Union. The Union thinks the matter thereby settled, and is in ecsta cies. "We have two questions to submit in connexion with the matter. First, if the report was false, why was it not denied at the time? Second, can it for a moment be supposed thaj, after this lapse of time, I the memory of men can be trusted before a report made at the time?" From the Portsmouth (N. II 'Mcssen- j ger a Freesoil print- we derive the fol- ' lowing, which tallies exactly with the ex- ! planation offered by every New Hamp shire paper not committed to the Pierce : interest: . : ' "General Pierce in a speech made at New Boston, was reported to have said he ; foathetl trie b ugitive Slave law. 1 he re mark was by no means an extraordinary one; for the speakei was attempting to draw voles from John Atwood, and to give the impression that'it was not on account of his opposition to that odious law that Atwood was beheaded. The Hunker presses of Pierce's party did not iheri deny that he made use of such an expression, as the effect of it they believed would bo sal utary." Having mislaid the last number of the Concord (N. II.) Independent Democrat, we avail ourselves of the following para graph, which we find attributed to that journal by the Boston 'Atlas:' "As we have received a large number of letters from southern men during the last fortnight, asking information in regard to this matter, we lake this occasion to say to one and all, that the language attribu ted to General Pierce above was spoken by him precisely as reported. This lan guage was not only used at New Boston, but also at. Bradford and other places in this State. Of this the proof is abundant, and will be forthcoming, in a shape to de fy cavil or denial. We have had no a gencx in getting up the issue. And but for (he charge of misrepresentation made against us, we should have no interest in its decision. As it is, history will be set light." The history is tolerably "right" at pres ent, but it will wear a new aspect when proof be adduced that the obnoxious lan guage used by General Pierce at New Boston was also used by him at Bradford and other places in New Hampshire. That is the assertion now made by the In dependent Democrat, with a promise that abundant evidence shall be produced "in a shape to defy cavil or denial." Ix Central Committee of Democratic Whig Young Men of the City and County of New York. To the gallant Whigs of the Old North State, Greeting: We are at this time able . to say to you, with the utmost possible confidence, that the three States which cast eighty-five elec toral votes New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio will give their suffrages to Winfield Scott.- ' The changes from our ranks to our oppo nents in these States are few and far be tween. There are more who, disappointed that their own candidate was not .selected, in the first moment of wounded feeling de clared they would not vote the nominee, but their number is daily lessened, and as they part from their hasty declaration, close up as firm friends under our banner. But we do know that in the place of these slight defections, we have throughout the Whole North and East and Northwest, large accessions from the Conservative portions of the Democracy, with nearly all the old Republicans who were soldiers in 1812, and masses of the adopted citizens, heretofore opposing us, will faily with enthusiasm to the support of the hero who proclaimed that he would be shot dowh in h;s tracks before he would suffer any one fighting under the stars and stripes, to be claimed as the sub ject of any foreign potentate. In addressing you, we claim a kindred feeling, and an ardent attachment to your state and to your people, between whom and ourselves there has been, since the days pf '76, a coincidence of action and princi ple. Like yourselves we have known no sectionalism- like yourselves, we have al ways, by our course and conduct, manifest ed an entire devotion to the Union of the States ; to the constitution and its compro mises ; and as steadily exhibited an untir ing will in executing and causing to be maintained all the laws of the land. The son of your state, second on the ticket, is a favorite with the people of this city; and wherever in our state he is known, either through his virtues or his services to the entire nation, we regard him as one of the best and purest men in the country. We honor iu him an unsullied integrity in public affairs, as well as in the private walks of life,vvhich have endeared him everywhere, and made lhm so beloved by the people of North Carolina. What need we say to you of Winfield Scott ? Our great leader now, alas! no more in person with us, but. whose counsels and principles will live forever, said of General Scott, in his ever memorable speech of the 5th and 6th of February, "50, all that praise could add to a name, as a soldier, more ex alted than any living captain in the world. We do not intend to eulogise the soldier. Our history in every war since the Revolu tion is covered all over with his mighty deeds. We point you to a different career. We find him, by the direction of General Jackson, clothed with the powers of a dic tator ; uniting all the military with the high est civil functions chosen to perform the most delicate and trying mission in the South restoring harmony there repress ing Indian hostilities all over your borders, and then preserving and enforcing peace between Great Britain and ourselves on out Northern and Eastern frontiers. Wherever agitation or sectionalism has endangered the quiet 'of the country, or threatened the well being of the Union, with all his influenca, with unwearied abili ty and energy, taxing to the utmost every faculty of his mind and soul, we find him urging upon the Representatives in Con gress the surest means of arresting the threatened danger. In the last vexed ques tion disturbing our councils, we quote the most distinguished authority in saying "that he rendered twenty fold the service in allaying that strife" that certain others did who would rob the grave of its due, and despoil the living, so they inured to them selves and their own selfishness the lion share in that mighty settlement. He i?( with the loftiest and purest patri otism, a National Statesman. A soldier who has spilled his blood and perilled his blood and perilled his life in a hundred bat tle fields, ready for service at the ins.'ant-he is informed of an armed foe against the ho nor of his country. In the hour of victory the protector of his prisoners tending (he sick with a woman's tenderness, where con tagion stalked all around him careful of the wants of the meanest iu his camp dealing exact justice to all under him treating the humblest as well as the most renowned alike. For these qualities he is reverenced as well as loved. Above all do we revere him as the peace maker the pa cificator thrice the pacificator when war impended ; and yet when he rested victori ous after that peerless campaign in the ca pital of conquered Mexico, securing peace, so that the crushed heart of -a defeated people might not say that he took advan tage of their helplessness, but rather giving them courage to resume their nationality. Nor are we forgetful of our regard for the signal devotion with which the State of N. Carolina, always a true Whig State, vindica ted everywhere the illustrious Fillmore now safely and wisely administering the go vernment declaring that through his vir tues and wisdom he had becn so great in his high office, as to place him in your af fections by the side of Washington and the early Presidents. j We have known him long, and the sin cere attachment of good men of all parties is his sure reward, when he shall have re tired from a place dignified and exalted by the integrity of purpose which has governed his every act and deed, since he was called to the discharge of its duties. He, rejoicing in common with his fellow citizens everywhere at the adoption by the Convention of the cardinal and vital princi ples of the platform, and declaring to the delegates his honest conviction that they were of more importance than the particu lar choice of any candidate, has entreated all his friends in behalf of the cause to sus tain with all their ability the nominees. We believe we are destined to a glorious victory if "the union of the Whigs for the sake of the Union" prevails North Si. South. We would sustain no candidate but a na tional one. We know that Winfield Scott is in its broadest sense a jNational Stales man, and we earnestly hope the votes of NorthCarolina will, in November, like New York, be given to the Hero of a hundred battles. j We have the honor to be, very truly, Your friends and servants, N. CARROLL, A. J. HALE, L. F. WADS WORTH, T. W. THORNE, S. W. JOHNSON, Corresponding Committee. We presume that, among our Demo cratic fellow-citizens at least, the opinion of exTGovernor John A. duitman, of Mis sissippi, is entitled to some weight. The genuineness of his "Democracy," and his honest but somewhat misdirected devotion to the south, have, we believe, never been questioned, even by the bitterest of his po litical opponents. A gentleman of New Orleans who was a fellow-passenger of Gen. Quitman a few days since on a stea mer bound up the river, asked his opinion of Gen .. Scott: I "Sir," said '.he Governor in reply, "the American people have never done General Scott justice. The more that man's char acter and claims to distinction are canvass ed, the higher will be the stand lie will take in the admiration and gratitude of his coun trymen. I have been surprised and aston ished," continued Gov'r. Quitman, "that, among the Whig party, there should be found a single man unwilling to give him a cordial and hearty support, j As to his be ing controlled by Seward, that is mere stuff ! I know the man, and he will be controlled by no one contrary to his own convictions of what is right.) And as to his beinc true to the South, I consider him the most unexceptionable man on that score a niong all the Whigs who have been named in connexion with the Presidency. I am a Democrat, and consequently -differing wide ly as I do from Gen. Scott on every politi cal question can never give: him my sup port; but if there is a Whig in the Union for whom, under any circumstances, I could cast my vote for President,' that Whig is Winfield Scott!" I The New York Crystal Palace. The managers are going forward with their schemes in earnest. In a circular they say they have already: secured sub scriptions to the amount of 200,000, ten per cent, of which has been paid in. The plans of the edifice are now in the hands of the architects. The site; is a space of 450 feet square of the Reservoir square, which will admit of an immense building. Chajles Buschek, Austrian commissioner to the late London exhibition, is designed as general foreign agent for this American experiment.
Raleigh Times [1847-1852] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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