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the BRAVE.
The Grave! what buried hopes are there,
How soft and stilly is the ah':
That hangs hi darkness and in gloom,
Around the lonely silent tomb;
We kneel upon, the grassy mound,
We feel our hearts with cords are bound,
To- the poor dust that ne’er again,
Can wipe our tears, or'share our pain,
Our hopes and fears are all unknown
To hearts that throb’d for us alone.
Nor from the fainting breaking heart.
Can they extract the ’vemon’d dart—
That malice, that an envious_world,
Too oftat innocence hath hurld,
And freely would for us have borne,
And claim’d our sorrows for their own;
But if a mother’s sigh, or tear,
Again reach our sufferings here—
How many from the tomb would break,
And to their bosoms once more take—
And shelter from the storm’s wild powers,
The loved ones lov’d in happier hours.
My mother’s mild and placid brow,
Lives in treacherous mem’ry now,
Who that has felt a mother’s love,
Can doubt that even from above,
A long, lingering look she’d cast,
And while one earthly feeling last,
’Twill be for those she lov’d while here,
Hwefet her smile, balmy was her tear.
R.
TIES DAI SEPT. 14, 185*.
St. Mary’s Motley
In, bills under $5. will be received in pay
ment of demands due this office.
The Weather.—The past week has been
warm and excessively wet; rains have fal
len almost every day. Our farmers are
grievously complaining of the quantity of
rain, which has injured the cotton consider
ably, by causing it to shed freely. The at
mosphere was slightly cooler on Sunday
and the change continued to yesterday
morning, which was quite cool and very
like the fall. We hope this will continue
for a while at least.
[transmitted for daily morning news.}
Arrival of the Arctic.
The Cotton Market.
New-Yore, Sept. 7, A, M.
The American steamship Arctic arrived
at New-York late on Sunday night, bring
ing Liverpool dates to Wednesday, the 25th
ult., four days later than those brought by
the America,
The British steamship Europa arrived at
Liverpool on Sunday, the 22d ult.
Liverpool Cotton Market.—The sales
of Cotton in the Liverpool market for the
three days previous to the sailing of the
steamer, amounted to 17,000 bales, - inclu
ding 2,000 bales taken on speculation, and
1,500 by exporters, leaving 13,500 bales for
the trade. On Wednesday, the 25tb, the
day the steamer sailed, it was estimated
that the sales reached 6,500 bales. The
improved tone of the market, reported by
the America, had been lost, but the market
dosed stiffer.
The official quotations are as follows;
Fair Orleans 6 1-4 a 6 1-2, Middling 5 5-8
a 5 3-4, Fair Uplands 6 a 6 1-8, and Mid
dling 5 1-2 a 5 5-8 of a penny.
New Cotton.—We noticed on Saturday
several bags of new cotton sold at this place.
They belonged to Col. C. T. Hines and Mr.
R. A. Robinson, of this county, and were
sold to N. W Haines &Bro. at 10 a 10 1-i c.
We suppose in a week or two it will be
brought in plentifully. Should the weather
continue as it was yesterday, farmers will
have a fine time for gathering the staple.
■This is the
The Scott Mass Meeting.
day for the assembling of the Scott mass
meeting, at Atlanta. We hear of none
going from this section, and have seen but
little mention of it, save through Georgia
Citizen and Atlanta Republican. The first
hoists the U. S. flag over the announcement
and the latter, “the man with a drum.”—
We expect to hear, however, of a tre
mendous gathering. Hope they won’t
eat up everything, as there will be another
large crowd at that place on the 18th, to
settle the small difficulty in the Democratic
ranks. A majority of the Union Executive
Committee, and a full delegation from Chat
ham may be certainly expected—possibly
his Excellency.
Charge to Copenhagen. — We are
pleased to learn that the President has ap
pointed Col. Miller Grieve, of the Southern
Recorder, as Charge de’Affaires to- Copen
hagen, Deftm-aak.
J£3T We learn that Judge Hansel has
adjourned the September Term of the Su
perior Court of Laurens county, to Mon
day the Second week in October. This has
been made necessary by the unusual amount
of sickness in that county.
FranR-lin, Gat, August 3031s 1852
Messrs. Editors :—I will give an ac
count of a great freshet in Western Geor
gia. It commenced raining last Thursday
evening and continued to rain all Dight and
all day Friday. Friday evening the Chat
tahoochee River at this place began to rise.
Saturday it was fuller than ever known be
fore here, almost everything, could be seen
floating down on tbe water. Dead hogs
and sheep, watermelons and pumpkins,
logs, lumber, rails* stocks; Milk, battoes,
flats and bridges, were all seen passing ra
pidly down under our new Bridge, which
has stood firm against all the force that was
arrayed by tbe wartery element.
Great damage is done tbe growing crop
in this county ; hundreds of acres of cotton
and corn were covered in water for twenty-
four hours—some for forty-eight hours.
Large fields of corn that would have aver
aged ten barrels to the acre, were washed
cfown and the fencing swept away from a-
fowid it. Major Tompkin’s Saw and Grist
Mills, and Mill dam all gone. The com
pany owning the cotton and wool Factory
ifl this eounty has sustained a considerable
loss—tbe water got Up into the Factory
House. Tbe Saw and Grist Mill and Bridge
all swept off. In addition to this, the com
pany bad put up a good Store bouse, and
bad from 800 to 1000 dollars worth of
goods in it. Tbe house washed off and
scattered the goods all down the creek. 1
have not beard of any lives being lost,
some families had to leave tbair dwellings
in consequence of tbe water being in at
their doors. Our crops are damaged a
great deal, but we ought not to murmur.
Corn will no doubt sell here from 25 to 40
cents per bushel.
Yours, &c., HUGH L. SPEER.
Editors Southern Recorder, Milledgeville
Ga.
Mysterious Disappearance.—The Sa
vannah Courier of Friday, says: We un
derstand that a passenger from New York
on tbe Alabama,• has not been seen or
heard of since early on Tuesday morning
last. When the vessel arrived in port and
tbe passengers were departing he was not
present to claim his trunk which is still in
the possession of the Agents. He entered
his name as H. N. Page, of Macon, Ga.
The Trunk is- of brown Leather and medi
um size. It is feared that be may have
been lost overboard.
Death of Georgians in California.
Among the deaths inSacrarnento Valley we
notice the following; Died suddenly on
the 22d July, at Hawkins’ bar, Toulomue
River, Col. Thomas Myers, late of Macon
county, Ga. Among the interments at San
Francisco we notice the name of Mr. L. D-
Bell, of Georgia, aged 30 years, buried
July 11th, and the name of Jessse Wal-
tbington, of Georgia aged 38 years, buried
July 13th,
Associate Editor of the Union.—The
Petersbtirgb (Va.) Express states that Rog
er A. Prior, Esq., editor of the “South-
Side Democrat,” has been tendered the post
of Associate Editor of the Washington
Union, and has accepted.
JLafer from Havana.
The U Sw Mail schooner L. S. Lueas,
Capt. Sweeney, arrived at Charleston on
Tuesday from Havana and Key West, hav
ing left the former place on the 2d, and
the latter on the 3d inst.
The schooner Zephyr, Capt. Byers, sailed
from Havana for Charleston on the 2d inst.
The Courier learns from the Captain of
the L. S. Lucas that the yellow fever and
cholera continued to rage with great vio
lence both on shipboard and in the city of
Havana.
Arrests were still being made at the de
parture of the L. S. Lueas of parties sup
posed to be connected with the Revolu
tionary journal The Voice of the People,
and Capt. Sweeney was offered twenty
doubloons to bring off a suspected individ
ual, but as a matter of prudence he deelin-
ed to risk the safety of the schooner by in
terfering in the matter.
Informstioo was received in Havana on
the 30th ult., that a terrible earthquake
and hurricane had occurred on the 30th
ult., on the south side of Cuba, which had
caused a considerable amount of damage,
Darticularly to the city of St. Jago de Cuba.
Capt. Ellis of the Barque H. W. Milan,
which vessel had put into Key West on
the 30th ult., in consequence of having
been dismasted during the gale of the 22d
ult., same as a passenger i i the L. S. Lucas.
Letters received by the Empire City, at
New York, dated Havana, Aug. 28th, give
information which tallies with this report,
and tbe next arrival will probably bring
most exciting accounts from the Island.
The N. Y. Courier and Enquirer publish
es a long letter from an American in Ha>-
vana, dated August 29, which describes
the betrayal of the conspirators by a thief
named Rives, who was in the chain gang,
and who had somehow got information of
them. It was- on his reports that the ar
rests were made, among whom were Don
Juan Gonzales, a rich planter of San Cris
tobal, and the lawyer Don Joaquim M.
Pinto. Gonzales was first ordered to be
shot, but was finally taken to Havana, and
imprisoned in the Moro.
The New York Crystal Palace.—
The ground for this structure was broken
in New York the week before last, and the
building will be erected with all practicable
speed. The plan adopted is a Greek cross (
with a dome over the intersection. Each
diameter of the cross is 365 feet long and
149 feet broad, and the dome 130 feet
high. There will be in this building 111,
000 square feet of space on the ground
floor, and 62,000 square feet in the galle
ries. It is estimated to cost $195,000.
The building is to be entirely of iroo and
glass* and is already advertised to be open
on the 2d of May, 1853. The plan was
furnished by Messrs-. Carstensen & Gilde-
meister.
Further from Cuba.—It is stated that
Don Jose Luna was the editor of the revo
lutionary journal lately issued at Havana.
He had his printing office in the rear of a
small segar store, within fifty yards of the
Captain General. The brothers of Sr. Lu
na were arrested for having munition of
war in their houses, when Don Jose thought
it time for him to fly to the United States
Accordingly, he took his small press to
pieces and packed it with his type and a
portion of his edition alieady worked off,
into a coffin, which was buried in acemetry
outside tbe walls of the city. He then,
took passage in the Crescent city, and ar
rived safely at New York.
The late Disater on the Hudson Riv
er—Thirty two Lives Lost.—We have
neither the heart nor the taste to go into
the particulars of the late calamity ©a hoard
the steamer Reindeer, on the Hudson Riv
er, Saturday last. It is enough to say that
the disaster arose from the explosion of the
flue connections, and that thirty of tbe pas
sengers, including many woman and chil
dren, were instantly scalded and suffocated
to death by the steam. A large number
were badly scalded and other injured, some
of whom have since died. Three lovely
young sisters from Richmond, Va., are a-
roong the dead- Some of those who were
badly burnt, lived long enough to make
their wills. Among the passengers who
were not hurt, were Julia H. Piatt, Mr. and
Mrs. Patrick. Mrs. McKinney, and George
Winter, of Augusta, Ga.
The accident is attributed to the racing
sjririt so rife on the Hudson River. It is
said the boat was endeavoring to beat the
Railroad—and hence the calamity.—Sav.
Rep.
Webster Minute Men.—Some two
hundred of the most respectable men of
Newburryport, Mass., and fifty of Medford,
have enrolled their names on the Bsfc of
Webster minute men.—Exchange.
What sort of men are they ? Are they
of a different tribe, or the same sort in
smalleripackages ? Will our friend “Path-
finde,” look into the matter ?
JK3T A bill has, it is said, been introduc
ed in the Canadian Parliament to intro
duce a bill to restrain any priest or other
minister of religion from; interfering in elec
tions.
An extra session of the? North-Carolina
Legislature has been called to meet on the
4th of October, to re-arrange the: electoral
districts of the State.
Hou. Oriu Fowler, member of the House
of Representatives- from Massachusetts, died
iu Washington City on the 4th inst.
The Flood in Tennessee.—li\iM Chatta
nooga Gazette of Tuesday says:
The Tennessee is now up about 7 or 8 feet.
Considerable drift is floating, and also a
large amount of pumpkins, melons, <fec. We
tear the banks of some of tbe streams above
have been overflowed and inueh damage has
been done on tbe river bottoms.
The larger class steamers are now running
to this place, and those of lighter draught
continue in the trade above.
But little change lias r 4aken place in mar
kets. Corn is getting scarce, and may now
he quoted at 38 and 40 cents.
AS?" The Knoxville Register of Wednes
day says;
On Saturday Wight and Sunday morning
last the over at this place rose about fif
teen feet. There must have been very heavy
rains in the mountain counties above this.
We are apprehensive that the crops have
been considerably damaged by this flood.
The cholera has again broken out in
Cbatnbersburgh (Va.) There were thirteen
deaths last week and three deaths ou Wed-
with sever al new cases.
:
Webster Meeting at Wilmington.—
The friends of Webster and Graham held a
meeting at Wilmington, N. C., on Tues
day evening. The Journal says 150 to 200
persons were present, but they were not all
Webster men. Colonel John McRae,
Col Win. E. Anderson and Robert H.
Cownan, Esq., made speeches, and resolu
tions denouncing the two old parties and
nominating Webster and Graham, were
adopted.
JtST A duel was fought on Hutchison’s
Island, opposite Savannah on Wednesday
last, by two gentleiren from Beaufort, S. C.
Messrs. Whaley and Jenkins. Two shots
were exchanged without injury to either
party, when a reconciliation was effected.
There is jiow living in Holmes county*
MisS., say6the Lexington Sentinel, a wo
man wlio married her first husband in Sep
tember, 1823. She subsequently parted
with him ; and from time to time married
three others,_,with all of whom she separa
ted. On the day twenty-five years from
her first marriage, she parted with her
fourth husband, attended the funeral of her
second, was raaried to hfr first, and the
marriage ceremony was performed by her
third husband. She is now living with her
fifth, or rather her first husband, and doing
well; and is some woman yet.
Arkansas Election.^-TIic Arkansas elec
tion returns are not complete, but there is
no doubt of the election of Conway, regu
lar Democrat, over Smithson, independent
Democrat. There was bo Whig candi
date.
The Legislature is largely Democratic,
Of the Senators who hold over, ten are
Democrats and three Whigs. The Sena
tors elected are nine Democrats and three
Whigs.
The House of Representatives, as far as
heard %>m, contains fifty three Democrats
and twenty-three Whigs.
Ships for Australia.—The Australian
trade seems to have received a new impe
tus at New York. The Havre packet ship
Baltimore has been withdrawn from the
line, and sold to a house in that citv, who
are to fit her out for Sydney. The price
was $14,000. Ship Medora has also been
purchased for the same business. Tbe ship
Catharine Avgusta, 250 tons, has beer
chartered at $10,000 for the voyage out.
All these vessels are expected to go out full
of passengers.
large a
Counterfeit Gold Coin.—A
mount of counterfeit gold coin is in circula
tion in rniladelphia, against which the
public should be on their guard. It is
mostly of light weight, and can be distin
guished by a black ring on the edge of the
piece.
JC35T Senator
gone to Europe.
Girin, of California has
[EOR THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN'}
Letter VII.
To the Hon. Robert Toombs
In the success which has crowned your
efforts at distracting and dividing your par
ty, you have developed your affinity to the
first great feature of Democracy. For the
Democratic party is a mass of factions,
drawn together in most admirable confu
sion, by “the huge magnet of public pat
ronage,” and held there by “the adhesive
power of public plunder,”—according to
the testimony of yourself and Mr. Calhoun.
The latter gentleman’s writings have long
been our standard work upon the character
and properties of Loco-focoisra. But since
his time, this nondescript has made such
progress, that the country will doubtless be
happy to acknowledge iu you, another his
torian, of an humbler, though not less ec
centric genius, to chronicle its doings and to
dnyalize its properties. While your friends
may enjoy the very singular, though some
what common phenomenon of seeing^you
gradually loco-focoized in tbe progress of
your labors.
According to our most approved authors,
modern locofocoism is a body of an anomal
ous character,having in history no prototype
or parallel—a creature of adventure, pros
pering best amidst the most dire confusion,
and rejoicing in such leaders as Polk, Pillow
and Pierce. Having no settled, well defined
anti-Whig principle by which to remain
fast anchored, it may be said to move about
by instinct rather than reason. Self-interest
inspires it, circumstances govern it, and ar
tifice is its main supporter. Its only faith
is in majorities, and its chief concern is to
gain the m any how. It is the archetype of
an evil power—and like most others after
its similitude, it has the faculty of transfor
mation, by which to make itself seemly in
all sorts of places, and to all sorts of people.
Look at it there, “squat like a toad,” by
the ear of our/air sister Carolina, counsel
ing secession—and there, holding the gold
en apple of discoid, wrapped up in an ab
struse idea of Free Trade and a Sonthern
confederacy, to the men of the Nashville
convention. There again, showing a high
tariff letterfrom a Tennesseean, to the sturdy
manufacturing burghers of Pennsylvania,
and by a “sleight of hand,” changing it to
a moderate, discriminating Tariff letter, to
tbe honest cotton growers of Georgia. See
it there, shouldering a pick-all, and march
ing to the West, to make Internal Improve
ments by authority of Congress, and here
vetoing a bill of similar character. Gain
ing a triumph in one section by ultra pro
slavery doctrines, and in another we find it
cheek by jowl with Abolitionists and High
er-law factions. In short, it is a tare thing
to find it the same, in any two, of the four
cardinal points. And few are the instances
in which it has gained a victory, State^or
National, by an honest and straight forward
avowal of its principles. And still fewer
are the instances to be found, in which it has
carried out, while in power, the Platform
of principles it professed -while seeking it.
This is, and I mean it to be So considered,
a grave charge, against a great and power-
full party—a party to which you are so
strongly tending at this time. But you
know it to be true. And I confidently
appeal to the history of the party, from
Gen. Jackson’s time to this, to establish the
fijet beyond controversy. What Gen. Jack-
son professed, was Democratic—and what
Gen. Jackson did, was Democratic, no an
cient or modern Loco-foco will deny. I will
trace from his administration up.
The principles upon which he was elected
were, in some respects plain and specific.—
The extravagance of the incumbent, was
then, as now, a great complaint, with the
Democrats. Gen. Jackson promised to re
duce the national expenses, for the benefit
of the National debt. Mr. Adams speDt
about thirteen millions. Gen. Jackson re
deemed his Democratic pledge by spending
thirty-three million! Gen. Jackson de
nounced Mr. Adams for the, then, very un
democratic system of appointing friends, to
places, and promised to “proscribe proscrip
tion.” He redeemed that Democratic pledge
by removing more political opponents than
all the Presidents before him, put together.
I think he removed three hundred the first
month, so eager were his hungry followers
for the spoils. He censured the appoint
ment of members of Congress to offiee, and
pledged himself to reform that abuse; he
carried out that Democratic pledge, by ap
pointing more thaua twenty to oue;—aad-it
was, in a great degree, the means by which
he acquired control of the Legislative de
partments. He condemned, in tbe strong
est manner, the practice of office-holders
interfering in elections ; yet he soon made
that their most important duty. He was
the author of the “one' Presidential term,”
yet sought through his friends, and accept
ed a second—and at one time it was thought
he would try his hand at a third, because
some one doubted his popularity. In short
he violated* unscrupulously, almost every
important pledge he ever made, before his
election, and was unscrupulously sustained
in doing so, by the Democratic party. He
set them an example, which they have fol
lowed closely ever since.
Mr. Van Buren promised to “follow in the
footsteps of his illustrious predecessor”—
made the government bankrupt forty mil
lions, id the attempt, and failed. Enough
of him.
Next came “Young Hickory,” commonly
called Mr. Polk. I have no copy of either
of their platforms of ’44 by me—I think
they bad as many as two or three
kinds that year. But to' begin ; — you well
remember the fraud practiced upon Penn
sylvania by the Kane Letter. The circum
stances were these. The Whigs in that
State universally asserted that if Mr. Polk
was elected, the Tariff of 1842 would be
repealed. The Democrats declared it would
not be. Judge Kain received a letter from
Mr. Polk, which was interpreted, and very
justly, as pledging him and his admimstra-
And immediately after
activity. It is Free Trade at the South, it
is protection at the North. It advocates
Internal Improvements in one quarter, and
goes against them in another. It has built
up a N ational Bank, and has overthrown it.
It has scouted the Sub-Treasury system al
most unanimously, and then almost unani
mously adopted it. Always complaining
of the extravagance of the Whigs,yet hold
ing the purse strings in its own hands, and
alter voting for the most reckless expendi
tures. It is for intervention in one section*
and against it in another. But yesterday
it was divided into two factions in Georgia,
that “swore terribly” at each other—to-day
they are dwelling together in unity. Iu the
beginning of the present session of Con
gress, the Democratic members rejected the
compromise measures as a final adjustment;
in the Baltimore Convention their candi
dates agreed upon nothing else. Swell is the
picture which ancient and modern loco-foco-
ism presents without coloring—such it is*
has been, and I apprehend ever will be.
Sir, I have not searched the grave-yard
of Democracy, and exhumed these relics of
its inconsistency, without a purpose. I wish
you to look well upon the picture, while I
explain my motive.
You say that the Democratic party, pre
vious to the Baltimore Convention, “had
divided into three parts f which were, the-
Abolition and Free-soil wing, North ; the
Disunion and Anti-corn promise wing, South;,
and those, North and South, who favored
the compromise. You further aav, "the tw&
sectional wings of this party stood m ex
treme opposition,” and that “an agreement
between them in prjncifs.es, ujas impossi
ble'' And from the “discordant material”
which composed the Democratic National
convention, as well as conventions-of that
character in general, you contend there is-
sufficient evidence “to demonstrate their
unfitness to. maintain principles of any/
sort." And still more, that "they do not
combine to maintain any principles v neither
to cm ry out a right policy, or to resist a
wrong policy." Now, sir, in the very face
of these plain and unqualified declarations,
you turn, round to us, and add, “But the
Convention did fully, and fairly, endorse„
and pledge themselves to abide by, and ad
here to, the adjustment measures and that
“therefore the requisition, of the Union pat
ty of Georgia is fully complied with.!’
N ow, if all you state, about tbe Demop
eratic convention “fully and fairly” endors
ing the compromise was true, your own evi
dence discredits the act‘ T besides the am
ple and overwhelming proof 1 have shown
in the past history of the party, that no re
liance is to be placed in any of its pledges.
You teli us positively, that the Democratic
factions "do not combine to maintain a prin
ciple, or carry out a right policy, or resist
a wrony policy." And why i Because
tion to that Tariff,
its publication, at a mass gathering, the in
scription of "Polk, Dallas and the Tariff
of 1842,” was placed upon tbe banners of
tire Democracy.—The consequence was, Mr.
Polk received the 26 Electoral votes of
Pennsylvania. Notwithstanding this, as
soon as he was snugly in power, he recom
mended a repeal of the Tariff of ’42, and it
was done. At that time, the moral sense of
the country was shocked at the transaction.
For while they were running Mr. Polk in
Pennsylvania as a better Tariff man than
Mr. Ulay, he was run in Georgia, dead
against it.
Again, the convention that nominated
Mr. Polk, committed him on the Oregon
question, to "fifty four, forty or fight," as
plain as language could speak. It was the
war cry of the party. And even after the
election, whe’i in power, the Executive pro
claimed with emphasis, that the American
title to Oregon, up to 54, 40, was without
a flaw ; and his determination to maintain
it. The Executive orgau, the Washington
City Union boasted that the President had
“put his foot down,” on that as the ultima
tum. The- mortifying result of all their
swaggering is well known.
The peaceable annexation of Texas was
another point in the Democratic faith. How
it was carried out is too well known for me
to dwell on here. Suffice it to say, it was
falsified like other pledges.
Now, sir, would you notconsider these in
stances sufficient to establish the charge
that I have made against the Democratic
party ? I am satisfied you would have so
considered at one time. But I am far from
having gone through the catalogue. I
have said nothing of their violation of
pledges, in State governments—nor have I
time or too m to do so now. The States of
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Mississippi, present strong cases.
What can be more corrupting in its in
fluence, or more humiliating in example, to
the admirers of Republican institutions, than
to see a body of educated, respectable men,
coolly constructing a Platform of principles,
by whch to contend for power, and when
obtained, deliberately set it at defiance ?
And yet, sir, we see that such has been the
habitual practice of the Democratic party,
ever, since its organization under Gen. Jack-
son, up to this very day—having just vio
lated their platform for this campaign on
Internal Improvements. If they will do
these things in the green leaf, what may we
expect of them in the dry ?
Sir, that word Democracy, when thund
ered forth as a rallying shout, is one of evil
omen. It has the power of an ill-gotten
spell! Its Protean properties are in eternal
"an agreement between them in principle is
impossible," as you very properly state. A
heller reason could not be given. Yet, not
withstanding this, you assure the members
of the Union party here, that the candi
dates of the Democratic party are open to-
their support, without any surrender of their
principles.” As the Constitutional Union
party, perhaps no principle would be sur
rendered in voting for Pierce and King.—
But when it is considered that three-fourtbs-
of that party were Whigs, it is a very dif
ferent matter. Your reasoning is nothing
but sophistry.
But, sir, 1 deny that the “Convention rid
fully and fairly endorse, and pledge them
selves to abide by, and adhere to, the ad
justment measures.” And further, I chal
lenge proof that a majority of the Demo
cratic Uom-eution^ vet adopted any platforms
at all 1 And certainly the best evidence we
have in the matter is, that they did not. To.
have adopted the compromise "fully and
fairlythey should have voted and done
as the Whigs did. But they dared not
thus show their hands, as you are well
aware. They did not intend to be hound
by those measures as a “finality,” and hence
the almost universal support of Pierce and
King by the Abolition and Free-soil presses
of the country. Besides, Mr. Gardiner, of
the Constitutional'st <Sc Republic, who was
a member of me Convention, and on the
committee that reported the platform, em
phatically denies that the Baltimore Demo
cratic Convention endorsed the compromise
measures. He says: "The language used
in the Resolutions was deliberately and
carefully adopted, with the express pur
pose of avoiding any laudation, or any
appearance of laudation of the Compro
mise."
I think that this is sufficient to satisfy
any candid Whig or Democrat about the
matter—and to prove your attempt to palm
off the Democratic nominees, and the Demo
cratic platform as sound enough for the
Union party, a shameful piece of deception.
The time has been when you would laugh
to scorn, the man who would preach to you
about Democratic platforms ; and I am sure
I have never seen a time when less confi
dence should he placed in them than now.
But lest I weary my readers with expos
ing your inconsistencies, and the unfair, as
well as the unjust means you have used to
prejudice and mislead the Whig party, and
delaine Gen. Scott, I will call their atten
tion and your own, to one more item in the
Webster faction’s confession of faith—I
mean your speech.
You say that the candidates whom the
Democracy have “selected, is a fair expon
ent of the compromise element of the Con
vention. From my small knowledge of his
history, I take him to be capable, honest"
&c. And that he has given all the pledges
we had a right to expect or demand, and
his uniform action and declarations, consis
tent therewith, before as well as after his
nomination."
Lam inquisitive to know how you come
to be so well acquainted with Gen. Pierce’s
“uniform actions and declarations,” that are
so “consistent” with the platform, "from
your small knowledge of his history" while
you have been so long acquainted with Gen.
Scott’s history, and appear so excessively
ignorant of his views and opinions ! Did