A m mi 5 "WE GO WHHRE EEMOCBATTC PBIJTCIPLES FOIST THE WAY ; WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW." MIME VIII. EBEA'SBURG. THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1852. NUMBER 36. t i: K 31 s. The "MOUXTAIX SEXTIXEL" is publish ed evurv Thurs lay morning, at One Dollar and , '(; C'iu'i per annum, if paid in advance or within three months ; after three mouths Two hilars will be charged. subscription will be taken for a sliorter reri,.J thau six months ; and no paper will be ,;Uj.jiitinueJ until all arrearages are paii,. . A. failure to notify a discontinuanc at the expira tion of the term subscribed for, will be consid er! as a new engagement. r, Al YERTlitEMEXTS will be inserted r.t the" following rates: 50 cents per square for the first insertion; 75 cents for two insertions; SI for three insertions ; and 25 cents per square tor every subsequent insertion. A liberal reduc tion nude to those who advertise by the year. 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A th usand insects hum their evening hymn, The night bird's lonely tune breaks on the hour, An i through the woods its drowsy ee'ioes creep; The mellow lowing of the distantiherd, The lambs, meek bleating and the steeds, wild neigh Minding accordant soothe the listening ear, Aui love for Him inspire who made them all, The reapers homeward from the half-gleaned fields With many a merry laugh and jocund song Are bound". How happy all, and I rejoice, Though all to me is night perpetual night A n!,:ht so dark that I perceive it not, Aii'K.nly know it by its lack of change, l'av follows day, night follows night, yet day Tome is naught but round of wakefulness And sad renewal of my darkness ; "night Liriugs back my day,"' when balmy bleep sets free My darksome soul to roaia through dreamy realms, W hore light once more upon my vision bursts And cheering face of man mine eyes behold, 0: brighter days reminding '. Oh what joy In dreaming! "Empty though it seems to minds W ith joy more stable blest, yet 'tis to me A joy, nor let cold reason take away W hut she is loath to give, and to thee, Night Thou likeness of myself, deep thanks I owe. Oft I am sad, Tcnsvla. that mine eyes Are shut forever from the sight of things 15y God created for the joy of nr.n, And oped to naught but ever-deepening night. What gloom I It seems of solid substance for med An l circling round me ; like a blackened wall It stands impervious even to a ray of thought. I strive to look far forth, but back recoil At such unflinching darkness. Oh how sad ! I am the foster-child of night, for day, My natural mother, long has deemed me dead. I turn mine eyes to heaven 'tis all a blank; I turn to earth, and all is shadow there; Faiu would I look once more on human face Hut sight of heaven and sight of earth and sight Of human face I ne'er shall see again, 'lis all a void a universal void ; I'm lost in this infinity of night, To which no bounds by space or time eecmed fixed. But say, can darkness circumscribe the range Of thought thought boundless as immensity -Or smother in its folds that heavenly spark Which flashed from God's own brightness, and inspired The new-made man with immortality? Look up, my sorrowing soul, nor quench thy fires In unavailing grief ; to mortal ken Inscrutable are the ways of Providence. For higher sphere than this thou art ordained, And death, mild death alone can end thy night, And with night end thy woes, thy fetters break, Thy doubts remove, ami usher thee to life. W here day rolls on without a vesper wane, Where light is God's own presence, and that light Forever at its zenith. I will mourn No more, nor with unmanly sorrow Ilim Upbraid, but close mine eyes and be resigned To momentary darkness, since from God It comes as well as light. If I have mourned, 'Tis but the natural weakness of the flesh. Penylla, to the closing gates of day Now turn thine eyes thy sight is sight to me Thou art the lamp of my benighted steps. Tliou seest, methinks, the sun, the setting sun, Slow merging in a sea of liquid gold, And shooting slant and far his parting beams. His light makes visible our nether world ; He hides his face, and lo ! the virgin moon And shining stars, sparks of the deity, Rejoicing on their nightly rounds, advance ; ith solemn mein they tread the azure plain, Silent, yet in their numbers speaking power, Ani in their glory beaming gratitude. Thus set my day, thus my long night approach- Ani may nry night, ere its meridian death Impend, some excellence in me reveal, "lich God may deign, in future, time to own. Spencer county, Ky. J. M. II. K?A Scott campaign paper is about to be started at Harrisburg, to be called the'Bomb '-uelL" A friend of ours will commence a Dem ocratic Bheet called the "Spear," for the purpose Jierc-ing the Whigs. THE PHESIDEA'TIAIi ESCITEMEXT. All About the Pierce Family. Eiographical Sketch of Governor Benjamin Fierce, the Father o General Franklin Pierce. His early life he tnters the army of the Revolution he become a captain removes to Xew llamp- - thire is appointed Brigade - Major Sheriff" -of Hillsborough County elected representative councillor Governor retires from public life dies at hillsborough his character his monu ment. Benjamin Pierce, the father of Gen. Franklin Pierce, the Democratic candidate for President of the United States, was born at Chelmsford, a town near Lowell, iu the Commonwealth of Mas sachusetts, in 1757 ; and, as he was the eon of a farmer, his early life was devoted to agricul ture. He was descended from a respectable Irish family, who originally emigrated, along with many other Irish emigrants, from London derry, in the north of Ireland, and settled in New Londonderry, in New Hampshire. On the memorable nineteenth of April, 1775, the revol utionary committee of Boston sent out couriers in every direction, and one of these messengers caiae up to the door of the farca house, while young Pierce, then only eighteen years of age, was plowing in Lis father's field ; and having delivered a brief message, hastened on to arouse the country to action. It was the news of the battle of Lexington which the stranger was com missioned to proclaim, and which, like a trum pet's voice, roused all the inhabitants of the land. Young Pierce left the plough, and, shouldering his musket, proceeded on foot towards Lexing- i ton, where he found, on his arrival, that the j troops had fallen back upon Boston ; and he i proceeded to Boston, and enlisting as a private soldier in the army of the revolution, was as signed to the regiment commanded by CoL Brooks. In the battle of Bunker Hill, which occurred on the 17th of June following, Pierce took a part, and from that time to the close of revolution, he continued in the service of the country, and lot- i lowed the fortunes of his regiment, fighting when it was called into action, and attracting the notice and winning the commendation of his superior officers for his gallantry and good con duct, by which means he rose gradually to the command of a company, so that at the disband ing of the revolutionary army, in 1784, he held the rank of captain. The leaders of the revo. lution had been driven, by necessity, to the is suing of paper money ; and in that currency, already depreciating, the troops wei e paid off. i Picrce was amongst the sufferers ; and when he set out to return to his native village, he found the continental money which he had received from Congress so far depreciated, that the whole amount in his possession, the arrears of his pay for eight years of service, would not suSice pur chase of a farm, lie was obliged, like many other officers of the revolution, to go into the wilderness, where lands were cheap, and begin the cultivation of wild lands. He removed to the State of New Hampshire, into the town and j county of Hillsborough, and having made a clearing, erected a rude habitation, felling the trees with his axe, and procuring food for sus tenance with his gun. In that town his son, Franklin Pierce, was born, and there lived un til he removed to Concord, the capitol of the State, where he now resides. In the autumn of 17S6, Gen. John Sullivan, who was then President of New Hampshire, and and whose grandson, John Sullivan, is now At torney General of that State, determined to form the militia of the county of Hillsborough into a brigade, and having sought out Benjamin Tierce, commissioned him as a brigade major ; and he, being a veteran soldier, immediately took the necessary steps for the perfect organization and discipline of the several regiments. He had al ready served eight years in the regular army, and he continued for twenty-one years in the militia, leaving it finally in the station of Lri gadier general. Gen. Miller and Gen. John M' Niel (who was a son-in-law of Benjamin Pierce,) both of whom served with so much distinction in the war of 1812, and the latter of whom re cently deceased at the city of Washington, both belonged, when they were young men, to the militia regiment eommanded by the father of the Democratic nominee ; and it is eaid that several other valuable officers who have distin guished themselves, have been proud to declare that they received their first lessons of military discipline from Gen. Benjamin Pierce, in the militia of Hillsborough. From 1780 to 1802, he was a representative of the people in the Legislature of the State ; and, in 1803, was first elected a member of the Governor's council, where he continued six years, five of which were passed in the council of the celebrated Governor John Langdon. This brings us to the year 1809. Soon after that time, he was appointed Sheriff of the county of Hillsborough, which office he held till 1813. In that year, at the June session of the Legisla ture, a change was made in the judiciary eys tem of the State, which resulted in abolishing the offices of the existing judges, and gave to the dominant party an opportunity to appoint their -successors upon the bench. The name of the highest court of the State, which had been styled the superior Court of Judicature, was, by the new law, changed to the Supremo Judi cial Court. Arthur Livcrmore, Chief Justice of the former court, was retained as an Associate Justice in the new one. Jeremiah Smith, of Ex eter who had resigned his seat on the bench to accept the office of Governor, was again appoint ed justice. The remaining scat was filled by Caleb Ellis, of Claremont, a young but distin guished member of the bar. This nominal change in the court3 was made, as the republi can party contended, for the solo purpose of getting rid 6f the old court, and was unconstitu tional. A warm controversy ensued, and both courts sat and claimed a right to administer the public business wa3 thrown into confusion, by the jurors and witnesses sometimes obeying the summons to attend one court and sometimes the other. In consequence of the confusion resul ting from this unsettled state of things Gov. John Gilman, then Chief magistrate of the State, convened the Legislature on the 27th day of Oc tober, several weeks earlier than the day to which it had been adjourned. At an early pe riod of this session, Josiah Butler, sheriff of the county of Rockingham, and Benjamin Pierce, sheriff of Ilillborongh, were removed by address. Pierce, however, was elected four years success ively to the Governor's council, and ultimately again appointed sheriff of Hillsborough county. While holding that office an event occurred, which strongly marked his character and erect ed for him an enduring monument in the hearts of the people. It was in the year 1S18, at the ! time when the enormous abuses of the creditor over the debtor were exciting the attention of the people, and callin forth execrations from tne philanthropic anl liberal everywhere. In some instances the father of a poor family, was for years immured in a dungeon for the amount of the prison charges, and hi3 family, mean while, were reduced to pauperism and beggary. No age, no condition was exempt. The poor and decayed veteran whose best years had been spent in the serviee of his country, was often confined with felons, and year rolled on after jear leaviug him in hopeless imprisonment. In Amherst jail there were three aged prisoners, one of whom had groaned in confinement almost four years. When Pierce was oppointed sheriff, he gave these prisoners notice that they were to be released, and appointed a day for their de liverance, the 20th of November, 1818, the more grateful to the prisoners that it was to occur just at the coming on of winter. The inhabi tants thought the occasion worthy of public dc- j m0uistrations, and when they had assembled to- gether at the prison to witness the release, the sheriff, Benjamin Pierce, having opened the prison door, thus addressed the three prison ers : "Moses Brewer, Isaac Lawrence and Gecrge Lancy By the return made me by Israel W. Kelly, Esq., my predecessor in the office of sher iff for the county of Hillsborough, it appears that you Moses Brewer, was committed, Decem ber 13, 1814 ; and you, Isaac Lawrence, wa3 comm-ltted. December 27. 1813 "s and vou. Geo. Lancy, July 2, 1817. "My unfortunate fellow citizens : The feel ings excited by a view of your -situation are in expressible. That those heads, silvered by age and hardship, and those hearts throbbing with kindly emotions, should be held for this long period of time by their fellow citizens, without the imputation of a crime, in a capacity unpar alled even in the annals of 'the French Bastile, or Algerine slavery, always viewed by us with sentiments of inexpressible horror, is more than my nature is able to endure. To be immured in a dungeon, standing on the very soil of liber ty and in the midst of men boasting its high pri vileges, is in my mind, with which the ideas and the value of freedom are closely interwoven, in finitely worse than to be enslaved in a foreign land by enemies and barbarians, from whom no thing better could be expected. But as an of ficer of the country, I have a duty to perform. I must cither be governed by the law and suffer you still to remain, the devoted victims of una voidable misfortune and honest poverty, shut out from the genial light of heaven and the vital air, God's equal gift to all : to endure, perhaps perish under the privations incident to your sit uation and the stern ravages of approaching winter ; forlorn and destitute, with no friend to comfort, no society to cheer, no companion to console you or, I must be directed by the pow erful impulse of humanity, pay the the debt my self, and bid you leave this dreary and gloomy abode. "My unfortunate fellow citizens My duty to myself will not suffer longer to remain here an old companion in arms, who fought for the liber ty of which he is deprived, for no crime but that of being poor. My duty to my country, whose honor is deeply implicated by your suffer ings and it is one of my first wishes that it should be untarnished and my duty to my God, who has put it into my power to relieve, irre sistibly urge me to the latter course. This I am sensible, takes from me a large sum of mo ney ; however, the liberal and generous people, among whom it is my happy lot to reside, may participate ; if not, none but my children will have any right to reproach mo ; and I am con fident they will do no more than say their fath er was generous to a fault. Ia this view, go ; receive the uacontaminated air which is diffused abroad far the comfort of man ; go to your fa milies and friends, if you have any. Be correct in your habits. Be industrious and if your tottering aad emaciated frames are so far ex hausted as to prevent your getting a comforta ble suyort, apply to the good people for relief and may the best of heaven's blessings accom pany you the remainder of your days." In 1S27, Benjamin Pierce was elected Gover nor of the State of New Hampshire ; but in 1828, when the republican party in the North became divided between the the partisans of Gencnl Jackson and John Quincy Adams, the large part sustaining Mr. Adams, Pierce, who declared for General Jackson, was defeated, but was reelected in 1829, when the star of the he ro of ihe Hermitage rose into the ascendant in New Hampshire. After this he lived in com parati'e retirement, on his farm, in Hillsbor ough. ; At the commencement of the last war with Great Britain, his spirit entered into the contesi, but the infirmities of age admonished him that he could hasten no more to the battle field., Two of his sons," with his consent and advice entered the public service. EntUwcd by nature with a strong mind, Gov ernor Tierce had overcome the obstacles spring ing frm a want of education, and, by practice and perseverance, had acquired a knowledge of business, and a skill in the conduct of public affaiis. It was not from his high public station that he acquired a commanding influence, but fromkis integrity of character, his benevolence, hospitality, and love of justice. Cheerful in his deposition, and delighting to contribute to j the liqppines3 of all around him, youthful viva-, city fmnd in him a congenial spirit, while sedate manhKid and sober age discovered in his con duct nothing to reproach. When he was remo ved by death, the public felt the loss of a man who iad Eincorely loved and faithfully served his fdlow men, and his country. He died in the Own of Hillsborough, where his remains are deposited, and over them a monument of plain hewn granite has been erected, which stauus In a -prominent position, the -burying ground of the town, which is on the brow of a hill, and in full view of the traveller, when pass ing on the stage route from Amherst to Hills borough. Such is a faithful outline of the life and pub lic career of Governor Benjamin Fierce, the father of General Franklin Pierce, the nominee of the Baltimore Democratic National Conven tion, wiich assembled at Baltimore on the 21 day ef June, 1852, and selected its candidate on the forty-ninth ballot. Eioaphical Sketch of General Franklin Pierce. His birthplace early education enters college gradmtes at Bond An Am legal studies com mence practice elected a represen tative Speak " tr of (lie house chosen to congress becomes U. S. Senator retires from public life resumes his profession outbreak ef the tear with Mexico volunteers as a private soldier commissioned as colon! generous treatment of the lamented Han som military career enters the city of Mexico retires and resumes his profession character of his oratory private character chivalrous man ners death of Hansom, personal courage of Gen. Pierce ability as a commander experi ence ii legislative business performs the duties of district attorney Ichalod Bartlett character of Gen. Pierce as an advoceUc'at the bar cour tesy nomination by the Baltimore Convention. General Franklin Pierce was the son of Gov. Benjamin Pierce, whose biography is given ab ove, and was bora in the year 1S04, in the town of Hillsborough, in the county of Hillsborough, in the interior or rather the western part of the State of New Hampshire. Hillsborough is a farming town, hilly, as it3 name imports, hav ing no considerable village, and has long been distinguished for its unflinching devotion to the principles of the Democratic party. After com pleting his academical Etudies, he entered col lege, and graduated at Bowdoin College, in Maine, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Immediately on leaving college, he entered the office of Judge Gould, a jurist of distinction at Litchfield, Connecticut ; but subsequently retur ned to his native State, and finished his studies at Amherst, the residence of Hon. Charles II. Atherton, father of Hon. Charles G. Atherton, late Senator, and is the shire town of the county of Hillsborough. He was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of law in his native town, Hillsborough. But he had not been in practice two years, when ho was elected a rep resentative in the Legislature of the State, and during his second year of service in that body, was elected Speaker of the House, in both of which positions he manifested eo much talent and so admirable a capacity for legislative bus iness, and so thoroughly won the confidence of the Democratic party, that in the year 1833, while yet hardly mere than a youth, he was el ected to a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States. As a member of the house, he was not of that number who appear to desire to distinguish themselves by much spea king. He was rather quick to hear and slow to speak ; modest and unassuming, but attentive to business, and etrongly marked even then by what he has displayed so much of in his later life that is, good common sense. Ho was an unwavering supporter of Democratic measures was a ready though not a frequent debater ; and, during his four years continuance in that body, steadily advanced himself in the warm friendship of almost all with whom he come in contact, and rose rapidly in the general confi dence and good will of the people of New Hamp shire. In 1837 he was elected, by the Legisla ture, a Senator from that State. In all these various and responsible stations, and during the succeeding five years on the floor of the Senate, good sense, caution, prudence, modesty, atten tion to business, and a certain chivalrous and lofty tone of manners, with kindness and good temper, rather than frequent speech-making, enabled Gen. Pierce to quit the Senate in 1842, with an amount of popularity which few men have ever possessed on leaving the Senate of the United States. He had now been more than ten years in public life, and having enter ed it very young, felt the necessity of devoting himself to his private affairs, which had suffer ed while he was absent. Ho resigned his seat in 1S42, one year before his term expired, with the frankly avowed purpose of devoting himself to his profession, in order to earn a competence for his family ; and with this view, removed his office to Concord, the capital of the State. In the Senate, Gen. Tierce ranked amongst the high-minded and honorable men of that body. In private life, seldom has a political man been more beloved, even by' his opponents; and very seldom, if ever, has a retired Senator been ablo to look back with more satisfaction on his car eer. Integrity, business habits, industry, and magnanimity, were the great secrets of his suc cess in all the various and high stations which he had occupied. His speeches were generally short and to the point he never rising unless he had something to say, and leaving off when he had done. When he resumed his practice at the bar, it was with a firm resolution to be with drawn from public life, end the offices of Gover nor of the State and Senator, which were more than once offered to him, he declined. Tresi dent Polk urged upon him the acceptance of the office of Attorney General of the United States, and afterwards that of Secretary of war, both of which he declined, with a declaration that he had no desire for public office, and would not consent to leave his home again, unless, in case of war, his country should demand his ser vices. If it be asked, "what is he as a speak er !" it must be replied, General Pierce is an or ator. Reasoning power and pathos ere the characteristics of his addresses to juries, in which he is known to have had, during his prac tice, such remarkable succe3. These brilliant flights of imagination, for which Mr. Choatc, the great orator cf the Massachusetts bar, is so much distinguished, do not belong at all to Gen. Pierce. He goes at once to convince the reason, or to move the heart; and where the case admits of combining the two, he weild3 a masterly pow er. His clear, good common sense and knowl edge of the human heart, must have struck eve ry one who has had frequent opportunities to sec mm in tne management oi trials Leiore a jury. These marked features in his forensic efforts have made him sought after, and his profession al services to be in demand, in all the counties of the State of New Hampshire. The breaking out of the Mexican war brought about the contingency for which he made a res ervation when he rejected the overtures of Pres ident Polk, so honorable to him and so flatter ing to hi3 professional pride ; and he at once en rolled himself as a volunteer, in the capacity of a private soldier. As soon as the New Eng land regiment was raised, he was elected colon el, and his military services from that time till the American army entered the halls of the Montezumas in triumph, have already been giv en in detail in the columns of the New York Herald. His treatment of the brave and lam ented Ransom was magnanimous in the extreme. Ransom was a military man by profession. He was educated at Norwich, Vt., under Capt. Al den Tartridge, who for many years kept a mili tary school there, for the education of young men. Ransom was one of his pupils; and after Capt. Tartridge retired, continued to form clas ses and give instruction in military tactics. He was every inch a soldier. Brave, and knowing himself competent, naturally desired a position in which he might show his military talents. Tierce felt this, and generously urged upon President Folk the appointment of Ransom to the command of the New England regiment. But President Tolk, having been associated with Pierce in Congress, knew his man, sent him a commission, as colonel, accompanied by one for Ransom, as major of the same regiment. Ran som was shot through the head while rushing on upon the enemy in one of the most bloody fights iu the whole war. Toor, gallant Ransom the very soul of honor and valor even now we seem to see his erect and elegant, but slend er form, driven on by a spirit seemingly too mighty for the flesh in which it was encased, leading up, up the fatal hill, in the face of that deadly fire to which, in the very pride and ex ultation of his daring, he fell a victim. Gener al Tierce was made a brigadier general by a com mission dated March 3, 1847, and his brigade consisted of the ninth "regiment, New England men, the twelfth, men from Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, northern Mississippi, andLouisianna, and the fifteenth, raised in Ohio, Iowa, Wiscon sin, Michigan, the eastern part of Missouri, and the western part of Indiana. Thus General Tierce saw ranged under his banner 2,500 men, assembled from all sections of the Union, and at the head of thi3 command he landed at Vera Cruz, from the bark Kepler, on the 2Sth of June 1847. His career from that tinia till the Amer ican army entered the city of Mexico in triumph, has all become matter of history. In general, it may be remarked that he was lavish of perso nal sacrifices, and magnanimous towards others, when laurels were to be bestowed. As soon as the restoration of peace between the two repub lics became a thing settled, Tierce resigned his commission, left the city of Mexico, and return ed home, leaving others to eettle preliminaries, and quarrel over the distribution of honors. His personal courage, and his ability to com mand had both been repeatedly displayed. Ha had rendered all the service required of him by the exigencies of the country : he had won the good will, nay, the enthusiastic love, of the troops under his command. . The men looked upon him as a friend and a father. There was no hardship which he was not willing to share with them ; no allowance of food or water in his possession, however small, which he was not willing to divide with a sick and wounded sol dier, although few suffered more than himself from the diseases of that deadly climate. He now stands before the world, with health and strength renewed, and honors thick upon him, a candidate for Tresident of the United States ; and should he be elected, there i3 one immense advantage which he possesses over General Scott, viz : experience in public affairs. As Representative to the Legislature, Speaker of the House in New Hampshire, Representative to Congress, Senator, and, lastly, Commissicner in Mexico, he has seen, and been through the whole routine of public business. He has pas sed nine years at least at Washington as a lerr islator, and has, therefore, thoroughly seen the working of the machinery of our government. Ho ha also seen the wcrking of that other ma chinery the distribution of patronage and this will be of immense service to him in the be stowing of appointments and the distribution of government patronage; points in which some of our best Presidents have signally failed, and have involved themselves thereby in inextricable difficulties with their personal friends and their party. At the time when the offer of a seat in the cabinet was tendered to General Pierce, by President Polk, an occurrence took place char reteristic of Tierce, and to which we Lave not seen any allusion made in any of the attempted sketches cf him with which the press has teem ed for the last four days. That was the accep tance of the comparatively trifling nnd unim portant office of District Attorney for the dis trict of New Hampshire, which office he actual ly held, and the duties of which ho was dischar ging when he received his military commission, and was called upon to set out for Mexico. That office at the departure of Gen. Tierce, fell to his law partner, Mr. Minot. Very seldom do human annal3 afford an in stance of a man declining a high, honorable and lucrative station, like that of Attorney General cf the United States, for one like that (though a very honorabla one certainly,) which General Tierce accepted ; but the one would not inter fere with his plan, fully determined upon to pursue the practice of his profession at home; tha other would ; and therefore it was declined. It was then that the eloquent and almost unequal led Ichabod Bartlett, for many years the ac knowledged head of the bar in New Hampshire, began to withdraw gradually from the harder duties of the profession, and General Tierce, by common consent, took his place at the bar, though Mr. Barlett still occasionally bursts forth in all the intellectual glory and light and beauty of other days, and no one witnesses with more delight than himself the professional triumpha of General Tierce. If there be one thing more than another redcemingin poor and infirm hu man nature, it is the mutual regard held tow ards each other by men like these. General Tierce, at the bar, is one of those who, though they do not hold with Lord Broug ham that "though the world should come to ar end my client must be acquitted," yet make th case of a client their own, and enter with th whole energies of their nature into the contest whiich the rights of a client are involved. Yet so uniform in his courtesy at the bar that his deportment might be cited as anjnstance to Ehow how much is uniformly gained and how little is ever lost, by observing on all occasions a gener ous, kind, and courteous demeanor to others Such is General Franklin Tierce, the candi date of the Democracy in private -life a gentle man in his legislative career distinguished for ability, possessing the highest characteristics of an efficient and powerful advocate and v-popula. lar orator crowned with laurels won by fighting the enemy rather than by wrenching them from the brows of other men ; and lastly, crowned, at the age of forty-eight years, with a unanimous nominntion, which has been hailed by the democ racy ith one spontaneous outburst of enthusi asm throughout the entire length and breadth of the Union.
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