Clearfield Republican. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, October 22, 1852, Image 2

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    *tern:W. I S M ÜBLP AN '
Il• I s I
, The fipilowing is the vote for Congress
'.;' ' I IDLIMIEJ,O Pa, * Oct. 14, n 524 t ,;man in this district, so far as the returns
have reached us. It will be seen that Mr.
Curtis runs ahead of his party, iniTAaaeh
I ; ' effESIDENT:' ,
'Gen. FRANILIN PiEßtg;
OF Niiv
nia3)l(sB ttßesiDEN',
1,.“ i A
N. ;KING,
, t 1 1 ,7, 1 .:.'L t
03,11.1 br. r.
11)r,
t' tlt~_atfzte at large-Ll.Senatoria,l,
N
ArnA.in, t 3. E!.urtro of Wayne.''
IvDLE.SB; of Allygheny.
n Ao4EFIT, rATTERSON ,
~.DISTRICT li:LECTORS.
1. Peter Logitn, .13.
a. 0. H.' Martin,
BriCkin.4,
_O.
6. A: Apple,
-W. Strickland,
ilk A.
,Pcter,s,
9. David _blister,
110.• R. E. Taint's,
-11. J Mcßeyn dds,
"P. Dantod,•'
•Plerce and King club Na, 1
-Will tneet at the court hou4On Saturday
evening next, at early cancileli
.ii:VT'X'hecommunication over the signa.
cure of "Lawrence," for lensons whicli we
'deem entirely juStifiable, we respectfully
deolino publishing, at presolt... .
Tzextrrs.—The tickets for the Psesi
,d,ential ElectiOn, m;e,sent to the following
ctistlicts, by the, return Judges of the late
eleption :—Burnside, Bell, Dago, Brady,
Chest,. Covington, Decatur, Ferguson,
Chard, Goshen', Iturthau4, Penn,
Union,,,Beccatia, Morris and Woodward.
ONCE MORE, AND THE VICTORY IS WON.
Let no Dernucrat now think, that be-
Ctiuse the whigs were overwhelmingly,de-
Teated on the 12th, that therdfore, the great
'battle has been fought,. and the victory fi
nally
Tliis is ull the Whigs build. their hopes
_upon, and you milk, on the contrary, be
_wide' awake, vigilant 'and active, until the
closing of the' polls on the 2d of Novent-
Toeil.''!'The i statd is new sale in bur hands,
And-0, elqhly i pOwercan tuke it from us,
,ifl)4:iiincrats,elie'ry where will ode . and all
'dd their duty. '
- GO TO WORK Titeri,. and sti r up 14e
, • .
;141tdwarm. If your neight;Oris inactive,
Andsareless,go to him and shoili to him
she importance of his aid. (ET OUT EV
WAY VOTE. Let nut one he lost. .
,GO" TO WORK !
And show every nian that it is not for
prooo but measures" that yvo are contend
ing.' Tina we dC6IrO .m.snateh the goy
.arnnient of Our beloved country from the
bitatrof The faithless men who have prac-
tised the most gigantic Galzhin and Gar
ilf,t_ter swindle that ever disgraced any na
-tiettl+o Ithe irnen 'who. have ignobly skulk
4ed:frotri the growl of the British lion twice
three years—and place the government
,tile lands of those men and tlai party
ghat ',boldly stands up for tho Monroe doc-
One' of Ole non-Intervention of guropean
Monaiatia in the affairs 'Ofthis continent—
ancl.the men and the party who have orig.
'lntitej all - the great national institutions
•
ttmi systems that now ronder, us the most
Prosperous, the most powerful, and the
happiest natio in the world:
per' . 4 0: WOIIIC, then, and as long as
4196 is to be gained, ' and added to our
. t cipritY of thOusands, cease, not your ef
-ileorisi. The defeat of the whig party now
will our count? , 'such a position
Jd'.i 'family ofndiions its will defy all en-
Archments, and it ,will strengthen ,the
i t liondribt our national Union, in such a
Velintier 'at; to birrdefiance to all attacks,
4`rhathia: by' traitors at 'Mute pr a foreign
•_ , l • •
• Democrats in, every
• '' O WORK •
loivriship, and every School ,distriCt jcu.the
county. Think not tha't , iton have no in•
u fliietten:'•l3e.afiri Yinirsel ir ; get out
~he - Democrti;fic
.voles -- I' j oar c6l;duct Was
. 1 1rsirthy •your glorious cause r and your
candidates at the late: election... In
'ilOtiiirtifitno-'‘Ve promised a tttijority, next
to that you gaVopur btvn SiOLER, id s t
lalfijßT : you fu(ly rcdeennekAliat „Prom.
-ffigfro FILIT ciN NOW DO EVEN
haTTER THAN IT 13AT. Yodcata,itt.
• rinsals# l'ottillivbtp -'evev''
THEN GO TC) WORK; eernembering that
nig! ME fOr Which
61.4 Ccitltet clilb, raid' thia It Is those
't `future
1 ., re hc i )l4.4",..Fsr i t
. 1410443 ff
pll $ ,yot4 l r ~ •
-v),PtirThoLetivistowd Gazette is in.o very
llatfhilMorpattillivorkg itself into ti Eildfe 4f
r
if i e4t : Wrath and" fury OVer 'dui ,iiitd.lVa.
1 1 h a r - al 1 i l l'terecl to th u ...' ' h i
i RI, PL'il iF ec,it (1 i ri,P
whig partY„,in,,ttliq State, _ Wu tktp, Artily
Sorry to see .this, not ?nnceount.;)ctho
' f'l.. l .l lll o): ll' P e P4 n 77 li iiif4l,til'9: ' rutlfol - 7 .
r . po r ,n,clitur G isi,7„t„etovur f4119w, , ju our, opin•
; ,loit, And wo la re that. wi II idg 'to lose himfit's
-ivo . teitaility.ghtt'll;fer'tdo mtlii . With ' re6l9
-tiot 4 iiyad,'A e l l'4fi'll : t'iltillig' s. deleSicdi l i'litct
, i ~ii ~,, •,( , ~.
Igi f t iiie t,ill igqi‘yill lie ORLI kit bYi itho
neat, .
. .
• - Kerr .
' •
Cleatfielfl, : 1 P 75 :! 087.,
. ' , 99,0
0
Al'Ketin, Elk, Forest, Warren and Ve
to heurgo yet to hear from.
1111,11
The vote . for Senatoor in this district in
Clearfield and' - Jefferson is as follows.—
Tioga, Potter, VlCeanand Elk, yet to hear
from.. Mr.-Hamlin. had no opposition in
14. .7olin, Clayton,
13, Isdaejlabl s ilson.
16. • Ifehr'y' Fkiter` ,
18. M. McC'aslin,
19. fas.McDonald,
20. W. S. Colahan,
21. Andrew Bicrk,
22. 14 7 77/.. Dunn,
23. ~I.4 3 .llle,Calinont
24. C. R. Barrett.
Democrats, here is a chance for you.—
The 'flag is a sPlendid affair', and will be
disposed of as ;Above proposed. The offer
is a fair one--each district having an equal
chanen to win the prize. Let us see an
honorable effort and fair competition on all
hands.
01110 ELECTION.
The Democratic triumph in Ohio, cn the
12th inst. was, if possible, more brilliant
than that in our own State. GOv. Wood
was elected last year, and had 29,000 ma
jority, and i n 1848, Gen. Cnss had 10,000
majority. Now, the Democrats haveenr
ried the State by about XO,OOO majority,
on their State ticket, and a majority of the
Congressional delegation. This shows that
Ohio is even more Democratic than Penn
sylvania, and both absolutely certain to
cast their vote for PIEUCE and ICING.
The election for Governor,. members of
Congress, &c., in Indiana, took place also
on the 12th inst., and there the Democrats
also won a victory equally as decisive as
.in the larger States of Ohio and Pennsyl
vania. Three years ago, GO. Wright
was elected,and had a majority of /3,000.
Now he is re-elected, and in 25 counties
heard from he has gained 3,800 votes on
that majority. Both branches of the leg
islature are thoroughly Democratic, and its
far as heard from, but one whig has been
elected to Congress.
With such results as these in the three
great central States, the whig party may
well despair of the result in November?
Let no man allow himself to be deceived
by the whigs claiming States enough to
give Gen. Scott even a probable chance of
an election. They even affect to claim
New York. Now,lionnett, of the Herald,
(an ., independen( paper)' insures N. York
for PIERCE' arid I6AO, by thirty thousand
majority. Thus the futir great . States of
the Union—N. York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Virginia—casting 107 elec.
toral votes, are sare for Pierce and King.
4 - Tom gusicAt, WORLD & Toms,
for Saturday, Sept. 25th, contains an unu.
sual variety of useeul and interesting mut
er ; among whi'ch are'No. 4 of 'the Edit
or% ',Musical Studies for the million;" a
fitter, from. Bernum in.relation to the
money ho and Jenny Lind blade ; un in
teresting account of Church Music in Hol
land, by Lowell Masop ; a Letter from
Paris about Madame Sontag's astonishing
feats of vocalism, with specimoha of some
of thb chromatic impbssibilitlei' that she
surmounts;' four pagds Ohoite vdcul
and instruelental Ilfusic; Musical ktiviow's
nod Musical News,. and ,an ,exoellent sel
ection of very readable miscellaneOuS
Musical.Werld4., 11 . 1210 is
'p'oblished'e'vOry Sattirday, h iii:Vjt
_
Yi,t l Yl ~ New ; 1 9r , V,;J 4 year ,A4-
vance;--.-two 600.1%185; five, copies $lO.
The Music it yearly gives would cost $25,
if PurChaSed' i nt the stores; (MO itS . Music-
Insvuction, Criticisips 99d gehe'rai:Mis.
collqny are j o)scoedingly
,valuOlo. To
give additional.,Spicthand - variety. to their
journal; thn liobli9hers have sep tir i ed t
exclusive services, of• tl,le, cqlotirateft,ari.
,'I ,
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1
P 9113 I 4 E T C r W IF I TY . (I o I PY , :
as
I' ANNY FEAR, ; . whose, vilry, readaboo, ;
alas .have created, suet/ a osti . 4.'in.literary
cfrores;.antl, have oopied
lae •
ber of
/Wisf.T .Warted 7.1,41/nes,
'tfou4Cl9l3s ,!be.sornething very
superior; anti as. a, bas' I just
commenced,' titriii tti buildcrib6.
CaiAkiino of our m bfoaT get ups n
9114b'sp. fort IlYfi4c*:rrl4/,d•
•Pinr,4i 7 t kas liyar Willi s
gb7.l3roadwdy4lsie Aroykjii,
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414th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
county
either county.
Clearfield,
Jefret'son,
,Llt nRn,
THE PRIZE BANNER.
The PIERCE and KING Club of this
place held a meeting on last Tuesday l.
ev
ening, and unanimously adapted tho fol
.
Rooked, That a splendid -National
Flag lie presented . to the election district, in
Cldarlield cotinty, pb!ling the ligest" in
creased Dernocratio vote,' in . prOportion
the vote polled, over the Democratic vote
polled for Governor in 1851. •
Resolved, That the President and 'Sec
retary arc hereby appointed a coulmittce
to 'cur); o u t theabocr - d resblUtion.
(Extract from the minutes.)
J. H.' HILBURN, Pres't.
INDIANA ELECTION.
SLANDER , REBURED! would be
this quarter would be deceived . by the steal
The following lett9r,was, handed to us ' ry, unless perhaps, such persons. as are
to be disposed of in such way as we might not milk 'willing, but detettnined to, be de
deem best calculated to reach the end de: col
v l ed . .
ArWhite oflkfilwaukee, wrote to some
sired; and therefore we lay it be
Yerd AO ' friend in
. New ildrnpshire, that this repetl
ptiblic. -.The y , oungzen,lgman te when tion of the charge against Gen. Pierce was
iris: addfessed, (IVii:Suotero waSinduced?industriou'sfy icirculated 'at the west. A
.to! iirrite to: Mr.. IVlcbenald; froM 'the 1. 6 4' few Catholicti in Concord, who wore stip,-
posed to knew something about the rnattet.
tb.ttlie f. '..inany' Whigs s' p i roneun9ed the state'.
I were requested 'to state what they knew.
meet which was published some weeks Accordingly they affixed their names to
ago in most of the \ bemacratic papers, the White letter. At this time I know
signed by this gentlemen, and a number nothing of the hitter. - But it was'brought
lof other Catholics of Concord and 'Mari- I t° ine„,and I. wes i^equested to certify that
the names appended to that document
chester, a forgery, and got up by. the dem. 1 wort 3.
names of Catholics, living in Concord.
ocrats, for the purpose of deceiviegCatho- i I not only Complied, but as I also knew
lies. The original letter is still in our pos.', that Gen. Pierce had been shamefully be
`seSsioti, with' all the evidence of genu.,!lied in this'matter, I added my testimoney
ineness, and any person having doubts to theirs. It is true that ['do not agree,
upon the subject can call find be satisfied, with the party which has nom.,
fied. mated Gen. , Pierce; but 1' respect the man.
We are ' thus explicit, for the reason I knew that he had done all that man
that it would be just as easy to pronounce ; could do in Our behalf, and that hence he
this a forgery , as, the other. was grossly calumniated. ' I saw that the
Let no Man accuse this reverend gee- votes of Catholics were made into stock in
eman ofofficious ermein pout-
, e cal rkd apart from
ttl intddling nt-
th e
the in p dig ol nation ma which a n
Catholic would
ics. He was appealed to in defence of his , naturally feel under these circumstances,
own character, as a man, and for his tri- ; I felt that common gratitude required from
umpliant rebuke of the slanderer he de.' us, the Catholics of New Hampshire, a
'Serves the thanks of everyclear recognition of the fact that General ;
right-thinking. .!
° Pierce had truly and zealously labored in
' our behalf, and, if he laded to command
'the state in this matter, the fault was not
his. * * 41
MANCHESTER, Oct. 2,1852.
I Dear is a matter of astonish
ment to me that there arc persons still to
be found who doubt, after the many cor
roborating letters written by me, of the
i f genuineness of the letter to Mr. White,
bearing my approving testimony. I have
to tell you that it is no forgery and that it
is signed by men who have lived in Con
, cord sixteen years, and who must therefore,
be intimately acquainted with Pierce's pro-
Iceedings.
I assure you that I have had no partisan
!motive in signing with them. My motive
I was the fruit of gratitude to the man who
has always testified his friendship for us,
before the Convention—namely, while the
churches in Philadelphia were in flames,
'as you will see stated in a few days—like
wise in and after the Convention for revis
ing the State Constitution. Our certifi
cates then was th*grateful tribute of men
wh o thereby intended to exhonorate
Pierce from the falsest accusation That
could be invented by his political oppo
nents.
That White letter had the desired effect,
and the concoctors of the falsehood against
him were quite disconcerted. They have
again repeated their attacks in another new
movement, but you will see, from the en
closed, that they have been effectually,
shamefully baffled in their now assault.
In confirmation of the above, you will
believe me when I say, that there is not
in the country a more liberal minded maw'
than General Pierce, and that he himself
must wonder at me for saying so much in
his behalf, for I have never spoken to him,
nor am I in any way indebted to him, ex•
cept inasmuch as he has exerted films* .
to remove from the State Constitution then
excludingclasses which stand against Cath
olics--to wit : That no catholic can be a
Legishltqr,. ; a Uoverripr pr aSioveroor's
Council.
Hoping the above will be sufficiently
explicit, I remain your obedient servant,
WM. McDONALD,
C. Pastor of Manchester, and Con., N. H.
The following extracts areipm the doc
ument "enclosed" and referred to in the
above letter. It is too long to appear at
length.
To the Editors of the Boston Post.
MAI4CHESTER, N. 11., Sept. 29, 1952
Gentlemen-1n the Manchester .Ameri
ca n, and in several other papers; have been
published doe' =exits, or certifientes num
erously signed, and intended as an answer
to thq letter-which 1, in conjunction with n
few Catholics of Concord, addressed to
Air. White of Milwaukee, exhonorating
General Pierce from tho charge ofinactiV
ity or indifference id relation to theabroga
lion of the test, . • .•
I deem it a duty . to myself .and to , itbe
signer's of that letter, to show how those
counter statements were manufactured.-,-
Before doing sb, I. must prerniac,— , -,:•:,
ls,t. This is my fifth-year lb MandlieS
Coneord,. Sic., and duringlintitime I'
have never in any way, interfered in eldc
lions. Yet I attentiveiy watched the move
naents of the political, 'patties Mlthis onto,
and particularly when the convention. for
, revising the constitution ‘vatiitar session.—
A 6 a: Catholib, I Was intemsted,in.at :least'
one measure:, before :that. body: Bence , I
read And filed:the daily -reports of Ha pro.
ceedings.- From those, it was evident that
Woodbury and Pierce exerted themselves
*strenuously for the removal of Old:test;
2d. When Gen. Pierce :wall so: unex
p6ctedly nominated, .as a candidate icif ono
- pdtty was• at:onco accused by a certia in
notorious.partizamibr beingthe:iprincipal,
if not the sole cause of tharfailUre,:on the
Out of the people, to abolish The testa This
. accusation, soiastoundipz td honest:Men:in
-this section.of the country, viuhltne.W'Gen.
:Pierce hadlabored zealouslrimbehall of
Abe Catholics, 'led meld wish': thin. some
.means. might , he adopted iti ,diSiihusaAb
Catholice'latthe'Pnion of the false impres
sion which this untrue charge was' likely
4o'dreateAtivare ito-the ;how Cath
cilicS4vOtede,=4.bitt, I Was,' not"tivilling 'that
party/A*ls slietild be permittecli:.with imL
punity,"tOlrade 'upon What' ihOyettit l •the
Catholielvik i itio/1 ill 1,;:• 1:; •--
: , 113(1.<;Yetriltqlseonled '-tti 1 that , as the
Catholic! pretis Ilthtbugliotiii:tl4' . Cotintty
.proinfitlY exposed', thib, unworth y ' artifice
for! eatralipillit the volt:is:or Catholics;
had , beeaderte , that INttl , ielltlitell:unkleellio
circiarnstancea: abtorashinetit'of
eiliperstsns heiv.ircige'w4labipihitti;Nlid
are! not totally! blinded oh:twiny /tied; 4 'die
stgaiY chaige , : *as rrepthit d4for. lthe *esti
ern market ntiipose;ltte r fatiitterisorisiti 1
I know something about the manner in
which the signatures wero obtained in
Manchesterand Concord. Few, I belive,
of the signers aro voters. When I state
that Manchester is a whig city, and that it
is supported by corporations—isalive with
' factories, foundaries and machine estab
lishments-1 suppose that I state no new
thing when I say that many of the opera-
Lives, in matters of this sort act under a
ispecies of moral restraint. 4 '.'
• The counter certificates were, I believe,
written by protestants. Perhaps one ofthein
was not. Independently of external evi
dence there are phrases and expressions
in thorn %hich betray their protestant
origin. They may have been, and prob
i ably were, copied by catholiCa. An Irish
itaine, the Pilot says, will command any
price—certainly any promise—from poli
ticians, until November next. Why pro
-1 tcstants betray such a tender interest in
lour welfare, and why those protestants
happen to be interested in the coming eke
: tion, is a phenomenon which 1 do not pro
-1 fess to explain.
I The person who was employed in this
place to obtain signatures from the opera
( fives is a person of whose equivocal Cath
olicity 1 will not say a word. Few of the
signors understood the import of the piper
to which they affixed their names. Some
were called upon to sign in the presence Of
their employers. Two persons, in 'one.
shop,—togive only one instance were mor
ally forced to sign. Some wero told that
the document was a petition for the estab-
Ilishment of the ten hour system. Others
were told that the mills would be stopped,
and they, in consequence thrown out of
work, if Pierce was elected. SOthe were
told that it was a sort Of natualization pa
per. Others were told - that it was a doc
ument levelled at English influence. Some
were told that it was a petition for equal
rights. Others signed it, simply because
they were asked to do so, We need not
wonder at all this Messrs. Editors, for such
things occur frequently, also among per
sons who claim to be better informed. The
monster petitions we so often hear of, are,
I am persuaded, got up in a similar way.
Petition bearers commonly find that the
general run of people will sign any paper.
I am confident, after the investigation of
the matter, that not more than some half
dozen of persons knew just what they
were doing when they signed the Coonv
document. I *now that some, here, n
ifused to sign' the paper, and yet found their
names appended to it. ' 0 . 't *
I have somethino b to say of the ConcOrd
document. To be brief, they who signed
it labored under the same:niisaPprehen.
sion, and were impose&upon, 'in. the same
way with those,' who signed the . . Manche
ster rehash. Nay, more: Mr. Cooney is
also responsible for the Concord dOdornent,
Ikir.'Cooney all the way from Alabama.
Finding - that , the .:Ciiiiecird town' records
'siti4taitted'e l othing, that Robinson had net
*already tWisted,'"ltind: r afler consultation
with certain freesoil notableb;-it was deci
ded that ithotliei• document should be pre 7
piiitil. - ''A'y the ail of the . prif4an post.
riaaster.und 'Certain niilragt;nis; : iit . Fiendh
irilroi a few Irishmen were morally ' coerc.:
ed lei'tiign'tlitilitiper, ''Titeao Persona ' as
aured. me that they know not what . the pa.
Per contaihed. .:They' would haVe caused
the erasure.',of their eignatUres, bufl did
not think ii-wOrth While;froolivinced;6.4l 'am,
that ' the dociinientrivid do no !taint. • -
..": Af , west_doileoril mi.: .c16 , 660'-itiqd• hie
abolition friends find a foie frishmen:',The
names 0f.4116, Gallagher and jOhn,Lynch
Were:in 'Mg Concord' certifica'te„iligned by
Me';' and :two Men; ulEFO''Nehring' . ' these
names;'' live' We'st.Coneord. : These t ivere
'a'sked whether 't}i'dy, signed the'Whito ( Ce'r
tifidate;tndersed 'by me, No, said:they ! .
66 to Conedri4 tind'yOn Will 'firid"anoirietk
John Galiaglier.,and' John'"LYneh. :',Thil
thiii•oetb i.,§ prOfellied :to: ItnOliVtM'Stieh' nrien
in Concordi'aild'that-n6''Such rrieti' 'Wahl
he' (blind: '
..'6*&. that, 16hti'' - Gal lagliei !'an'd
kihti'lLynOh, - orti/O'Corieeitl' We te'i rid 9. 7
ced to give an tiffidtoiit'Afiat' they 'litid,' pot
signedlV 'Whik j aertifi6atti.'" l Thbir - oath
was an honest one. of course. : '.ii , "l
'The' Tohnl'elalltighei ani.ll.Bll l n'lLYti'ch,
who relid'eign the White; ilddiiiiien't irk at
'Concord:' '' ' I kiiBkr'ili4ii;:rt i allifioiV t li tit
they ' signed IC' I : ThnY fike','EblidY'lli' MOW
atiaffiduilifieelhilinitCct.' . '" lf>l ' t , :''"'l .1 ":.
' l'. Til ' etkitinnY: ;( CertlfiVaie l iqiik l i tha4 'o'n't4
Ijiihiiii iltdiin't"Sigh fik•Whitd‘dben'niait:
lii&empliiYar ia':it . 4tiiik';iiind''fiW;loktiilitit.
With Conriej/ ISdkaiiii44ll' flithiiii"lb r iiWnd
iliat t lititild'iitit'EtiAtittliOCalitidia .11: Wil
dlife;a6Oirdateatraff rtiiiviatWitioiti'
document. .I 'simply certified that the
persons whose names were appended to it
were Catholics, and that I believed the con• i.
ts of .the letter to be perfectly true. I
find upon inquiry that Halpin, nhcp asked
to sign the paper, answered,l,wip, put
dowti my name / yourself.;This ammo.:
stance, he conceiVes justifidd him in,Sweat
ing that he did ;not sign it; i
These ',things OroVe thitt the triumph
which the Cobneyites supposed they had'
gained, with referencn to these three cas-'
es, is no triumph at all.
Cooney went to,most of
,the Irishmen
knoWn `to be in the ernployment of whips,
and, as a matter of course, I fear most of
them signed the paper., So Car as I know,
only one man refused. His name is Con
nars. The concoctors of the document
coaxed an flattered him without success.
The amiable and accomplished daughter
of the employer, of
him
also cridettir,-
ored to yersuade him to sign the paper.—
This was a hard trial ; but Conners, who
understood, it would Seem, the contents of
the document, steadily refused. "I was
brought up to be a democrat," was his con
,
stant reply.
With reference to the Nashua and Do
ver certificates, I cannot speak froin parr
serial knowledge, but if I be correctly in
formed their history is very similar to that
of the Manchester end Concord docu
ments.
From the above Etats, it will he evident
to the public that the Conn) ite p tp'ut's pro
fessing to embody the Catholic 'sentiment
of New Hampshire, with ri.farence to the
test (the only matter tlitt have at any
time touched upon)tnust be regarded as the
production of a few political (mellitus of
Gen'. Pierce They du not, in the sight
est degree, aflet the truthfulness of my
testimony, tis hetieioford.piiblished. In the
langtage of . Brownson, ' Fierce is well
known to have exerted bitriself in advoca
ting the abrogation of the test,
If the democrats wished to rest their
case upon the number of signatures, they
would, I doubt not, have procured an array
of signatures that would overthrow the
Cooneyitedocuments. Perhaps they would
now, if they thought it worth while.
Respectfully Yours,
WM. M'DONALD,
Catholic Pastor of Manchester and Con
cord, New Hampshire.
RETRACTION OF A WHIG CALUMNY.
he whig press have 'done their utmost
to throw discredit upon the personal cour
ago of General They have failed,
signally failed, ipicable attempt.
And more than have discovered
that their vile assaults do but commend
General Pierce to the admiration and af
fection of the American people. They
arc alarmed at this result, and
,begin now
to manifest a penitential regret for their in
famous conduct. They would repeal it to
morrow, however, if aught could be made
by it, but they are rather too honorable to
indulge in a system of vituperation and de
fat-nation which damages their own cause.
The annexed extract from the New York
Courier and Enquirer, a Scott journal, con
tains a retraxit of the charge of cowardice
against Gen. Pierce. The motives which
promp the Enquirer to do this act of
:ustice (!) are quite.patent :—W. Union.
"If anything can elect Pierce, it must be
the conviction in the minds of the Americ
an people, that the whigs countenance the
disgraceful imputations upon his personal
courage which certain unscrupulous poli
ticians hg.' ve circulated against him, and
which no honest and intelligent whig for
moment credits. The very men &in man
ufactured and continue to circulate this
infamous slander, do not believe it; and
General Scott himself' not only repudiates
it as disreputable to the whig cause and to
our country, but has voluntarily borne tes
timony to the good conduct and high bear.
ing el General Pierce in Mexico. Every
whig who has any self-respect or any con
fidence in the superiority of our cause and
our candidate over the cause and the (.7(14 7
didate of the anti , iniernai improvnment
Ind British free-trade party opposed jo
'hould unite in condemning the pick less-
QSS which thus ruthlessly seeks to destroy
the personal cbaracter:orGeneral Pierce.
SHORT CATECHISM
.
Who passed a law in 1708 extending
the (period of 'ilitturalization f.orti" five to
fourtet7i . year;s l ? ' " '
• The fedeial Whigs: ' "' '
Whet party went and abandondd their own
ticket in the city of New York, ~tidd went
in ,and elected the tiati4e-Arricridait candi
date for mdSter, James Ha rpdr. 4l. 'whi:i was ,
in faior'Of requiring reide*tica,,tW'e'n *
tp:ohe yetir'befOre naturalizailtM, in the
spring of 1844? '
Ans., The, federal w ''•
'Matt party nbandbned their 'pwn.on
gressiontil ticket in the fall 0f'1844,, and
eiit in and eleeted.three.?l'aiio,'Artit4iefin
Members of Congress: in ity New.;
York?'
The federal
Who was •ilie ciiiire:.A:rnoriptalcandi
dittb•fOr President la 1644?
•
Ans. Winfield SCOit—now tliOfeFlera)
whle6andidate, " '"' ,"' • '
•• ' wh'B l ls . in"iitVb . nf, a loth,'" repeat 6f, tJ~e
I*(O'rqigiie
• • '') 0t,0! 0 1 ,•
can 'D6 permirtiLzt ;
tea to, vote, Unless he serves
a tern•in \:my , and that' in
iinib e drxhai 1'
' . .
, Ans.
,Winfield Scott. . ,
indiguatiOal'c'ai the
conduct of the foreigners ISTAW I T9qO
,
Who
talfy`n?nativo-Airieric'en' p'tt' r ; , 4
Wiatela ScOtt "''fV~ie`t}iinitd flint . "
V f 3: are liberal et oyg
tf vii 44 allow he
114 e. y Jotd w allOVving
'dad (41F(`,giiveri uor ) .',
Qs', ,"'" "
Philadeijoßti`nioa:
044 X 41,1:4 r.
Mit'ntitiVilti it `B({l , h t iaV l iit'Os l, erieiiec(iiiiiil3 . o4
'Ouiatig 'the citiraia ct7papo*4.6,l.
mafl6fabco-ii..-
• ,••••Proafthe•iffaihtsitot tailor:— • • -
• • 'flOV. MACY ANA DEN. SCOTT.
The poorest and meanest 'of the Whig
.Roorbacks which We have noticed Is the
following sheer forgery, imputed es a. toast
to Gov.. Marcy,i:which is'alleged to hmyo
been offered at a public dinner said to hstio
• been given
,to Gen. • Scott ; at• Albany, -in
1838. The forgedloast;•rwhich has been
eireulated,in nearlycvery, Scott , newspaper
ip the'couatry, remiapa ral.l o vis ;
"By . Gov. Marcy. Winfield Scottnot
less the scholar than the soldier, - whose
pen and sword have been, wielded
,with
equal skill . in'the defence of .hie "cou ntry.
[The soldier who has over. made the taw
of tit land his supreme rule of mien,' and
Who, while he has always (*dined its tit.
most requirements, has .never,-in a single
instant transcended its litpits.q ; ,
Governor Ilarey,. as is well known, has
always been mcire' than jtist the, military
character of Gotietil 'Scott, AnTdid 'not
comoletely• rand eflectaally'.dernelfsh l the
General in his celebrated'cini'e r iliondatiO,'
except upon the moot eittretiablirovocittlei
and in vindia'ation of tiis own official
tion and the integrity and pcittiotisni . of
that splendid 'demoCratic adtninistmtien,ln
which he bore so censpiCuotis'a•pait,:and
whiCh Gen. Scott had most wantonly and
unjustly assriiled. But it i's to GOV.
Marcy'sjudgment and knowlehe of men
and or 'facts to say ''••that he never uttered
such a sentiment as is above attributed to
him. It is duc't6 truth, also, to say that
the dinner in question' was not given to
Gen, Scott, RoorbacL alleges, "by
the members of the New York legiture„
tnit by .'the boarders at the Congress Hall
Plot( I," •in Albany, where Gen; Scott was
then stayift. It is true, 11 . 61)70*, that a
good many of "the boarders nf' - Congress
Flail" hair been*? Inbe,rsci . tfie legislature
when they gave'the dinner to their fer
low boarder, Gen Scott. Gov. Marcy was
p resell t as'a guest,a rid sat beside the General;
and here is the toast which he then gavc,
saying, doutitleSS', in the spirit of social snit
convivial courtesy, all that he 'epuld in con
science say, but by no means saying what
the Roorback imputes to hiin
"Governor Marcy, after remarking that
in an assembly composed as this is, most
ly of members or al t o legislature, it migh t
not seem to be parfimentary to allude by
name to an individual' present, gave;
" The man who is respected, not to sal:
feared, by his country'.4 'eticailies . , and
highly esteemed,by hisconntrY's friends."
This toast of Governor Marcy is given
in a report of the dinner, which was pub
lished in the Albany Argus of the 21st ut
February; 1835,
The only fOnndation for the forged see.
timent aboVe, imputed 16.GovernOr Marcy,
is the fact that the latter portion of it,' which
is enclosed in braokets, was offered us a
sentiment by Mr. John C. Spencer. Mr.
Spencer is the same gentlemen who, a few
weeks since, bore testimony to General
Scott's high qualifications as a ejvilian,
and who has not since been heard of in
the Canvass. The introductory clause in
the above toast, in regard to Gen. Scott's
scholarship, is rtsheer fabrication, 'got up
to garnish the fraud. .
The whole rn•►tter deserves notice as an
instance of the extremity of meanness and
falsehood to which some of the Whig man
agers have resorted in the conduct' 6ftheir
present canvass. It is in this vi'e'w only
that wo have thought' it worth while to
look up and give the truth of the whole at.
fair.
Tne Republic affected pone days ago
to ridicule the certificates which have Leen
published in favor of General Pierce. We
trust the Scott organ -will bear in mind
that those certificates were at least not for
aeries !
„ .
Tuft HARTFORD (ON ENTION.-1110
LOye I Courier snys that "hn assemlly qf
more hmust, or purer patriots never cache
together, than those ltho net "et Ifartford
(luring the war." This is tbe'qPinion of
every man whb fnvors the enemies of his
country in war, giving them aid and com
fort. The Hartford ConientiOn plotted a
deStruction of thQ . upi6u, .and . ' the surren
der of the New England Swes to the
British Government: nnd their 'fol
lowers took the Sid 6 in.tho %var .
of 181.e-14; "of•ith
American troops,'opposed every' indirsGrq
fur prOsedutink, the war,, insulted and 4ibu
fted every' man Who stood•by
and did:all;ittlheirpower to aid the Brit
ish"enernyHtist n's iheir successors. did at
a later Yiertod;•lin 'the 'Mexican NVilFe ' ) 1 1 7lig
men'Whd'did 'this'ittre•Oow the MoSCepthu-
Siastki sUpportirs,or'Noit. It
and natural 'for them . _ defenetltd'Uttit
ford. Couiimition trditors,,.. for' iiisci'ljdOi4
the?r dprelic,i their o,wil'ieetirsp"
icati, wur. To p'ondennn'ythel
t;otiventionists, , iiijonld tO'
themselve foi their liiQri-treasontiblo . did
and comfort 'tif''tfie' Mokidttiikr'Wti firti
glatito see tly3 orgdits , of "the t
corhi t ng,'tiii to. 'the
,d:eliOdioc
it • will keep' their trite'eltaraCtO: bercirothti
publie mind.—X 1 1 1: rhiriot:
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