■i..i^>-^^ ''^'AU^^^^ RCBINSGN Speech in Exposition of Ke Hampshire Democracy SPEECH or WILLIAM E. ROBINSON, 1 m EXPOSITION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRACY IN ITS RELATIONS TO CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION, INCLUDING A SCRUTINY OF THE PART TAKEN WITH REFERENCE THERETO, BY GEN. ERANKLIN PIERCE. AND AN EXPOSURE OF THE FALSE PEETENCES AND FALSE ASSERTIONS OF GEO. M. DALLAS AND OTHERS. RESPECTING THE ACTION OF THE WHIGS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. i. ^, Bj- *^4^B^P^4 NEW YORK: PUBLISHED AT THE TRIBUNE OFEICE, i^ 154 NASSAU STREET. 1852. PKICE $10 PER THOUSAND, $1.25 PER HUNDRED, 2 CENTS A SINGLE COP'' 1 SPEECH WILLIAM E. ROBINSON, EW-HAMPSHIEE DEMOCRACY AKD CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. At a large and spirited meeting of the Scott and Graham Clubs of the IVth Congressional District of this City, held at the North American Hotel on Friday evening last, (Aug 6,) Wm. E. Robinson, Esq. of this City, spoke as follows : Mr. RoEmsoN said he had just returned from Concord, New-Hampshire, where he had exam- ined the fountains of Democracy. He referred to the ■peech made by George M. Dallas, In the Museum at Philadelphia, June 7, '52, In which that gentlaouan (aid : "The aspersion against Pierce of having favored the Cathohc teat, still retained in the Consutution of New- Harapsliife is a weak invention of a frightened enemy. He said it was true such a pro%nsiun, excluding Catholics from oocupfing a seat in the Legislature or becoming Governor, was engrafted on the Constitution of that State, but it wa« also true that Levi WoodDury and Franklin Pierce had ob- tained the paasaee of laws providing for the holding of two State Conven'ions to amend that Constitution. In both cases an amended Constitution was submitted to the vote of the People, but a two-tbird vote being requisite, it was de- feated oy a combination of Whigs and Aboliiionista." Mr. RoblnaoD also quoted from the speech of Cbarlei O'Conor, of this City, made In Tammany Hail, on the evening of June 9, and published In The Trvth-TtUm of July 3, In which he Bald that Franklin Pierce comes recommended " By all his antecedents and all his connections. He is the son of Benjamin Pierce. * * * He (Franklin Pierce) and his political associates broiiriht forward an amendment aloli^hing this (the Anti-Catholic) unjust— this odious dis tinction. * * * By me&m of his zealous advocacy, this betjign reform was adnnted by the Convention. He also ad- vocatei it at the polls. * « * When religious libeit; needed a champion, he was found in Franklin Pierce " Mr. R. also referred to thii assertion of Mr. O'Conor, that his latest Information was from Fratiklln Pierce, who expressed a strong hope that CatholIceaiaDclpBtloD had been or would be carried In New-Hampshire, and •aid that these assertloDS of Messrs. Dalai and O'Conor were now received throughout the country, and unfor- tunately some Whig papers, deceived by the respecta- bility of the authority, bad joined in receiving them as acknowledged public opinion, though there was not one word of truth la elthnr assertion. EIGHT PROPOSITIONS. On the contrary, Mr. Robinson laid dov^nthe following propnsidons, and so earnest was he in challenging an in- TestlgHtlon, that he announced that he would deposit, In the hands of Shneon Draper, ont hundred dollars to be forfeited and given up t» any one that would prove that In any one of these propositions he misstated the facts. The decision to be leit to Robert Emmet. 1. Franklin Pierce did not speak at alP. In favor of Catholic Emancipation during the whole time the Cath- ode test was before the Convention. 2. He had nothing to do with " brlnglug forward" the subject. The resolution abolishing the test was drawn up by Mr. Parker, of Nnshua. a fVhi/f. and was " brought forward" by Mr. Parker Nov. 13, when It was dlscusied ■ In Convention. 3. It was known throughout New-Hampshire that Catholic Emancipation v/a»Ji7ially defeated by »n over- whelming vote some eight or tun weeks before Mr. O'Conor spoke in Tammany Hall. 4. When Religious Liberty needed a champion Gen. Pierce was found — wanttcg. Though a/tfr Catholla Emancipation had been carrirdln Coavpution he found time, while making a speech on the Prr.perty Qualifl don, to excuse and apologise for the test hinotry by s»y Ing it was a dead letter and a blttnk, which was timplv stating that Catholics would perjure themselves to eel Into office, by swearing to support a Constitution which expressly shut them out 5. That so far from all bis " antecedents" being right, his fnther, BHnjamin Pierce, voted to put the anti-Cstlio lie clause into the Cotstltuiion, and voted for the AUeiJ and Sedition Laws of old John Adams I 6. That so far frf.ra Catholic Emancipation falling only for want of a twfvthtrds vote, It had not one-si.'itb of the votes cast throughout the State at the same elec- tion for Governor, and did not come near a simple ma- jority of the small vote cast on this question. 7. That in place of there hoing any high confidence In New-Hampsblra of Catholic Emancipatiun being car- ried, tte gennr^l opinion is, that unless we draw a line around New- Hnmpshiro, saying, that while the plague- tpot is OD her, and the ship is unpuritied, no man, captain Qor crew, shall land, and thus, by the defeat of General Pierce, bring his bigotted party to their senses, the Catholics in that State stand no chance of being Eman- cipated for half a century. 8. And in s word, in fine, that the father, Benjamin Pierce, was a red hot enemy of the Catholic*, and a supporter of the Allen and Sedition acts, and that Franklin Pierce, the young chicken, so learned to follow the old one that tie raised not a voice in favor of «boll«hln« his father's bigotry, during tne whole time the subject was under discussion In a Convention of whl^b he was a Iraoing member and President. Mr. Robinson referred to the fact that in the Loco-Fo- WILLIAM E. EOEINSON'S SPEECH 00 Baltimore Convention there were Bome thirteen can- dldatei t'ound with marks of popular favor upon' them. TWO-THIRDS DEMOCRACY. A dog in hydrophobia could not have manlfeited more rage at the tight of water than these arlttocratle Baltimore Delegates exhibited toward everything on which was the mark of popular favor. Nor did the "phobia" get off till every veetige of popular favur was removed from their si^ht, and burled beneath the aris- tocratic device of a two-thirds rule. And then a shout went up, not that anybody bad won, but that everybody had been defeated, and that everbody's favorite was dead. THE OLD CANT. Mr. Robinson disclaimed any wish to use epithets, but he knew that the whole pnilticai capital of the Pierce party was bogus ; and without Intending to apply the epltnet to any one, when he feund afalsehood or a forg- ery he would call it so. If he did not expose falsehood and forgery, he would be false to hii native and adopted eountrles, and false to the cause of true republicanism. He hid labored through 12 years of his life in this coun- try, with all the strength wUich God had given him, to ti'eart down all sorts of bigotry, political and religious, and he would continue in the same path in despite of ell the abuse and mlsrepreeentation which he had al- ready met and would yet have to encounter from some unprincipled presses to which he referred, but which he said he scorned — as conscious rectitude can well afford to scorn— the rusted shafts of calumny failing from Im- penetrable shield. He referred to the forgery and falsehood with which naturalized citizens were appealed to against Harrison and Taylor, which history has proved lo be false, as history will yet prove the charges against Gen. Scott false. He pictured the blood-hound venom with which these same pack of slanderers hunted Henry Clay into a grave which even their superhuman malignity could not rob of its transcendent glory, end around which these same blood-noucds, now changed into crocodiles, pretend to shed oceans of tears at the death of one who, while living, they tried to make naturalized citizens be- lieve was worthy of a dog's burial in place of posthumus honors. To what Ipngtha must our patience be abused as naturalized citizens? How long shall we be insulted by being put to draw the water with which to drown, or hew the wood with which to con-auxne the altars reared In American hearts to a Clay and a Scstt, to raise In their stead altars to the idola of a Polk and a Pierce 1 How long will it be expected that we shall palsy or break the arm that humbled the pride of England, to raise and sustain the arm which refused to move a muscle to remove the disgrace which the elder Pierce had fastened on the necks of all but one sect In New-Hampshire? One great falsehood of this Campaign Is saying that Franklin Pierce advocated Catholic Emancipation when It was before the late New-Hampshire Convention. The great forgery of the Campaign is the pretended letter of Gen. Scott to George W. Reed, on Nativism. NfiW-HAMPSHIRE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. And here Mr. R gave a sketch of the Constitutional ffistory of New-Hampshire. He said : Tae first Constitution was formed In Exeter in 1776, and was called the " Temporary Constitution." I read It In manuscript, and found In it no anti- Catholic test, BO thai we had no bigotry till after the Revobaion. This Temporary Constitution continued for eight years and six months. In 1778, a Convention was called to meet at Concord, and submitted the form of a Constitution to the people In 1779, and that was rejected. Another was formed and submitted in 1781, and that also was rejected. Another was formed in 1782, and that too was rejected- A fourth form was agreed upon, and this was accepted by a two-thirds vote. It was known as the " New Con- stitution." Tbls continued In force till 1792, when another Con- •tlcution was adopted, which still continues in force, and is the one to amend which the attempt was made In 1860-52, and this Is called " The Revised C(^»titutlon." CONSTITUTION OF 1792. . And thli brings us to the opening of the Pierce dynas- ty in New-Hampshire. We shall find, henceforth, the name of Pierce and bigotry concomitant. The Convention to revise the New Constitution met at Concord, September 7, 1791. Amoog its members, I find several of the old Revolutionary names, and promi- nent among them Maj. Benjamin Pierce, (as he is put down.) of Hillsborough, the father of Franklin Pleice. I find also, Jeremiah Smith, of Peterborouah, Aaron Greeley, of Hopkinton, Major C^ieb Stark, of Dunbar- ton and Bow, &,c. Samuel Livermore, of Holderness, was chosen President, and John Calfe, of Hampetead, Secretary. ' On the second day of the seeaion, a motion was made to strike out the sixth article (as it now standi) in the Bill of Rights, proTlding for " the support and mainten- ance of the public Protestant teachers." The yeas were 14, (Greeley, Stark, Whipple, Hutchins, i:c., among the yeas.) The Nays were 88, and Benj-ajmin Pieeck, Franklin's father, and Charles O'Conor's respected and confided-in "antecedent," voted against Religious Liberty. September 10, the fourth day of the Convention, a motlo^ was made to strike out from section 14, under form of government (as it now stands) prescribing qualiiicatrons for members of the House of Representa- tives, the words " shall be of the Protestant Religion." Upon this the Yeas and Nays were taken : Yeas for Re- ligious Liberty 33, and among them Jeremiah Smith, Aaron Greeley, William Plumer, Caleb Stark, &«. Nays, for the Penal Laws and Anti-Popery, 51, and among them Benjamin Pikece, Franklin's father, and Charles O'Conor's favorite antecedent, A form of a Constitution was finally agreed upon, and was or- dered to be submitted to the people on the first Monday In May, 1792, and the Convention adjourned till the 30th of the same month. On the first day of June, 1792, the votes of the people were counted, and it was found that some parts of the constitution were accepted, and some parts rejected, for want of a two-thirds vote, (that Loco-Foco two-third rule is an awfal thing I) and It further appeared that some of the propositions rejected were necessary to make sense of those accepted, so that a committee, ap- pointed to bring order out of that confusion, reported that the parts accepted and approved by the people " were inconsistent with the constitution and with each other," yet, as the people had accepted them, nobody eould dare despise them. The report of the Convention which I exsmined is a volume, partly in manuscript and partly in print, which is preserved with great care in the Secretary of State's oflice ; but it does not give the precise form in which the clauses rejected were submitted to the people. It seems, however, that notwithstanding Pierce's anti- Popery penal votes, the term Protestant was omitted In the qualifications for some otSces for which, it Is prob- able, they were rejected. Be this as It may, a commit- tee was appointed to recommend what new amend- ments should be adopted to please the people. That committee reported pretty much the same old dish, re- hashed and additionally ^peppered with Protestantism and property, to suit the taste of the Pierce epicures, and was submitted again to the people on the 27th of August, 1792. SUBMITTED 10 THE PEOPLE. ■ The Convention met finally at Concord, September 5, 1792, when the votes were counted, and it was found that the whole number of votes cast was 3,100, of which 2,122 were for, and 978 against the Constimtion. It was thus carried by about 55 votes more than the necessary two-thirds vole, so that if there had been only 28 addition- al votes against this bigoted and disgraceful Constitution, it would have been defeated. It is remarkable that on the vote on this Constitution, excluding Catholics from office, some of the towns that are row Whig voted very decidedly against it. Tbu« the Whig town of Exeter gave 59 votes against It and not one lor it. The Whig town of Dover gave 43 voifs against it, and only 24 for U. While the Loco Foco town of Giimanton gave 41 votes for it and not one against it The Loco Foco town of New-Durham gave 14 votes for it and not one against it. The Loco Foco town of Hillsborougb — Benjr its modification. There are two or three points in this Constitution to which I wish to draw public attention. I copy from the official copy printed in 1852 by the State printers: Bill of Rights. — Section 6 authorizes the towns, &c. to make pr ivi^ton "for the support and maintenance of public ProUstant teachers of piety, religion and mor- ality." FoEM OF Government. — Section 14. " Every mem- ber of the House of Representatives « * * shall be of the Protestant religion, and shall cease to represent such town, parish or place Immediately on ceasing to be qualified as aforesaid." Section 29. "Provided, nevertheless, that no person shall be capable of being elected a Senator who is not of the Protestant religion." Section 42. " The Governor * * * shall be of the Protestant religion." Section 61. " And the qualification for Counsellors ■hall be the same as for Senator." Sec. 99. ItshsUbethaduty of the Selectmen and Assessors ef the several towns and places in this State, in waraine; the first annual meetings for the choice of Senators, after the ex- piration of ssven years from the adoption of this Constitu tion, aa amended, to iuaert expiesalyin the wacraut this purpose, aiHong the others, for the meeting, to wit : to take the sense of the qualified voters on the subject of a revision of the CoDstitution : and the meeting being warned accord- ingly, and n )t otherwise, the moderator shall take the sense of the qualified voters present as to the necessity of a revis- ion; and a 'etum of the number of votes for and against such necessity shall be made by the Clerk, scaled up and di- rected to the General Court at their tinen next session ; and if it shall appear to the General Court by such return, that the sense of the people of the State has been taken, and that in the opinion of the majority of the qualified voi^ers in the State, present and voting at said meetings, there is a neces- sity for a revision of the Conifituilon, It shall be the duty of the General Court to call a Convention for that purpose; otherwise the Geneial Court shall direct the s^nse of the people to be taken, and then proceed In the manner before mentioned. The delegates to be chosen in the same man- ner, and proportioned as the Representatives to the General Court; provided, that no alterations shall be mste in this Constitution befjre the same shall be laid before the tovns and unincorporated places, and approved by two-thirds of the qualified voters present and voting on the subject. Sec. IOII. And the same method of taking the sense of the people as to a revision of the Constitution, and calling a Con- vention for that purpose, shall be observed afterwards, at tb« expiration of every seven years. HONEST OPINIONS ON IT. Now, then, here la the Constitution of the State of New- Hampshire, featerinjt in its bigotry 1q religion and aristocracy in property, under the blaze of the noon of the 19ch century, and uochangod, and withnut at- tempt to change it, from 1792 to 18.'50 ; and yet for over half a century — during which time Benj. Pierce was member of thf> Legislaturo, Cnunsellor and Governor, and Franklin Pierce, for a period of over twenty years, was the leading man of the party in power, member of the Legislature, (toe same year his father was (lovorn- or,) and Speaker of the House of Representatives the two succeeding years — for over a dreary hilf century of penal laws, no member of the Pierce family made one single speech urging tbe justice of Catholic emancipation Nay, more. It will be seen that a bare in'ijoiity of the people could have ordered the Conititutlnn amended every seventh year by a simple mnjority, and leerc bound to vote every seventh year whether the Constitution should be amended. Four times did these seven year trials occur since Franklin Pierce waa elected a member and Speaker of the House of Representatives, yet dumb aa an oyster and dark as a dungeon did he keep himself. Thus did be champion the cause of R>- liglous Liberty. Well may every Catholic say to Mr. Pierce In the language of Israel's Inspired Proverbiet — " B'^cautie 1 have called and ye refused. » * * I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your tear Ccmeth.'' Let us see what this New-Hampshire enormity is. It Is an enormity in the eyes of all men, not only Catholics, but liberal Republicans of all sects. It is the penal and test idea of the House uf Brunswick and Guelph. It is the enormity which the British Tory Administration of Peel and Wellington abolished for Irish Calhullcs in ltf29, when Franklin Pl«rce first lo'ik bin seat In the New- Hampshire Legislature. New-Iiampshire Loco Fuco- ism remiins to-day more bigoted and besotted than British Toryism was 23 years ago, and Lord Roden, Tresham Gregg or Lord John Russell has stronger claims than tranklia Pierce has to true Kepublicnn votes, for their parlies (Tories though they be; opened the door of the British Parliament te Caihollcs, while New-Hampshire refuses to open ber Legislature. If Thomas Francis Meagher should get naturallz- d there, if Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, toe last living signer of our Declaration of Independence h»d cheien to reside there, or if our present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Hon. Roger B. Tanej, should choose to live there, one and all would be excluded from the right to a seat In the New-Hampshire two-pen- ny Legislature, unless they perjured themtelves, or foreswore their creed— and this Is the kind of Democra- cy which every man endorses who votes for Franklin Pierce, the loader of that Democracy in New-Hamp- shire whom the Loco-Foco Press informs us it was in- tended to compliment by his nomination. Well might Judge Woodbury say, as he did in the New-Hampehlre Constitutional Convention, that this New-Hampshire enormity branded the Catholic, " though educated, and talented, and virtuous, with infamy and disgrace, and sent him and his family through our streets and social circles, marked like Gala, as a sort of degraded outcatt or helot, not fit to be intrusted with either legislative o» executive rights, though bestowed fuUy on the most Ig- norant and reprobate." PIERCE'S OPINION OF IT. Such was the uplulon of Judge Woodbury, such is the oplnioQ of every honest republican of every sect. Now what has been Franklin Pierce's denunciation of the enormity ? Did he concur with Judge Woodbury in de- nouncing It as a disgrace ? Truly, no. We are told that old Benjamin Pierce got Franklin Pierce tj write his messages, as he could not even spell the word "but" This is quite likely. Well, Frankhn Pierce was a member of the Legislature In 1829. In June, 1829, Benjamin Pierce, being Guvemor of the State, Sf-nt in his annuiii message to the House of Representatives, of which this Franhlip Pierce was a leading member. Well, this Franklin Pierce, in thai annual message of bis lather, said, just after swear- ing to a constitution which excludes Catholics from the four principal offices of the State : 'To look abroad and liehold every citizen, without di»- Ibiclion of sect or rank, ezercishig the full and equal rights of civil and religious liberty (i) are alone sufll- cient to excite emotiona of gratitude too strong ever to be obliterated." Here Franklin Pierce put it into the mouth of his father, the Governor, to insult deliberately every lovei of truth, equal rl;.'hts and Republican liberality, by say- ing that his emoii )ns of gratitude were too strong ever to be obliterated In glorying in that bogus system of equal rights which marked the most numerous Chrl» tl»n sect in Christendom with the disgrace of the helol and the mark of Cain. Why should the people of New- Hampshire change their Constitution when the leader of the Democracy of that State then, and the leader of the Democracy of the United States now, saw the Cath- olics branded as outcasts and helots, and excluded from offices open to the negroes, with feelings of gratitude "too strong ever to be obliterated." There Is Franklin Pierce's idea of championing Re- ligious Liberty — that a State where a Catholic cannot hold an office, even should the whole people ot the State vote for him. Is sucb a political Paradise that admiration burns It so deeply Into his affections that dme cannot ol:>llterate tbe record WILLIAM E. ROBINSON S SPEECH This Coaatltutlon hai been In existence sixty years. Elirbt limes sloce, has It been iubmltied to the People, whether It should be reformed, and nnver has the domi- nant yarty In the State made It a test of principle. Nerei hut Franklin Pierce called a meeting to denounce the bigotry. The mnte in the eye of the Rhode Island Con stlciitlin they rlewed through a magnifying glass, In the D'lrr Rebellion. They reversed the Instrument wheu examining the beam In their own CONSTITUTION CONVENTION OF 1850-^2. I now beg your attention to the history of the effort made for Catholic Emancipation in NewHampshirt- In 1850-52. In the March election of 1850, the questiin was submitted to the people of the State, whether s Convention to reform the Constitution should be culled It was carried by a majority of the votes cast, but If ll had depended on Pierce's party, It would have failed Two or three Whiit towns, compared with a few Loco Foco towns, will suffice to show this. I give the votei for and against calling the Convention, and the vote for the Whig and LocoFoco candidates, at the general election the tame jear, (1850 :) WHIG TOWNS. OH OOXTlllTIOH. OS OOTIEnOB. Towns. Yeao. Dover 447 Somer»worth.. .201 K«ene 281 Nays. 98.. 59.. 64.. LOCO-FOCO TOWNS. 132. 132. 84. 90. 183. 168. 60. Whig. Loco 619 504 361 186 319 19fl 30 157 17 134 16 57 9 5t 147 271 26 320 6 4S Northwood 64 Mi>tcicgham .... 54 Albany 7 Bruokfirtld 16 Strafford 3 Warner 67 Ellsworth 7 COMPARISON OF VOTES. Here Whig Dover gives nearly five to one for the Convention ; Loco- Foco Albany twelve to one against It; Whig iomersworth gives nearly four to one for It; Lo- co-Foco Strafford sixty-one to one against It ; Whlj Keene gives over four to one for It; LocoFoco Ells- worth eight to one ajalnst it I Yet Hon. Geo. M. Dallat savs the VVnlgs and Free-Sollers combined to defeat the benevolent Intentions ot the Pierce party I In the Whig town of Keene It will be seen there were but 199 voies for the Pierce Governor, but there were 281 voies for Con»tltutlonal reform ; while in the town of Ellsworth, where there were only six Whig votes, all told, there were sixty votes against Constitutional Re form — that Is, ten times as many votes against It as there are Whig votes In the whole town. But what use In summoning up a storm of arg\imeut or a wave of testi- mony to waft a feather or to drown a — lie ? In the town ot Ellsworth ih? figures indicate that the whole Whig vote with one FreeSoiler, went for Constitutional Re- form, and the entire Loco-Foco vote with the remalndw of the Fico-SoilHfs, went for keeping the mark of Cain upon the Catholics. CONVENTION MEETS. But notwithstanding Loeofoco opposition, the Con- vention was called, and met in Concord, on the 6tb day •f No» ember, 1850. Franklin Pierce was elected frono Concord, and was chosen President of the Convention In his eptbch on taking the Chair, in place of speaking a kind word in favor of Catholic Emanicipation, he passed a jiiowing eulogy on the wisdom, enllgntenment, purity, and patiiotism, of those who. In 1792. fastenea the stigma ol the Catholics. Thus, when religious lib- erty needed a champion, Franklin Pierce, frum the Chair of a Convention called to reform the abuse, had not one word to say against the Iniquity but honeyed phrases for those who made it. {See Concord Patriot riov. 7.) The Patriot, Pierce's organ, then and now, (and here- after, should he be elected,) bad a leading editorial on the Convention the day it met, but not one word In fa- vor of Catholic Emancipation. On the contrary, it warned the Conventlcm to " be careful lo do no more than the people require " The people showed that they did not require Catholic Em-incipation, as not one- tixth of the voters afterward voted tor It. November 11, 1850, Judge Woodbury made a motion to strike out the word " Protestant" from the Bill of Rights. On the same day, Franklin Pierce made a • peech In favor of retaining the word subject, Instead of citiieit. or inhabitant. In the ConBritutiim, but this " zeal- ous champion" had not a word to (ay In favor of Judge Woodbury's motion. ANTI-CATHOLIC TEST. Mr. Bell, of Gilford, moved to strike out the whole of the ilzth clause, except the proviso, wliicb reads as fol- lows: •'As morality and piety, rightly grounded on evangelical principles, will give the best and greatest security to Gov- emment, and will laj in the hearts of men the strongest ob- ligations to due subjection ; and aa the knowledge of these is most likely to be propagated through a society by the in- stitution of the public worship of tte Deity, and of public instruction in morality and religion, therefore, to promote those important purposes, the people of lliis State bape a right to empower, and do hereby fully empower the Legis- lature to authorize from time to time the several ^owLB, par- ishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies within this State, to make adequate provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of publio Frotestanl teachers of piety, religion and morality.'' Franklin Pierce, of Concord, warmly opposed this, In a speech of which the following Is a brief report, given officially In The Coricord Patriot of November 12 : " Mr. Pierce, of Concord, said he w»uld be sorry to have the question tatten upon the motion of the gentleman from Gilford, (Mr. Bell,) to strike out all the sixch article but the last clause of the proviso. He was sure the mover would, upon refleciioa, desire to retain the first part of that article, on every ground, and especially as the deliberate expression of opinion of wise and patriotic men of a past jeneration, (his faiher, ice.,) upon the question ta to what "will give the best snd greatest security to Government." He believed that what was so forcibly expressed in the Constitution of '92, would be solemnly renj^rmcd aa the deliberative, unani- movs judyment ^J thii Conventiu7i." Now, here Is the only speech he made on the test, and If that is not Indorsing the Auti-Cutholic clauses, framed by bis father, I do not know what language means. Nov. 12, TTie Patriot again had an article, warning the Convention not to make any amendments but such as are clearly Indicated by the people. PIERCE AGAINST REFORM. In Convention, Nov. 12, the Committee on Religious and Property Tests, reported in favor of tceir repeal. The sixth article, as above, was taken up. Franklla Pierce said : " It was his earnest desire to retain not only ALL the principles, but, as far aa practicable, the Ian- guoge of this eeclion." He spoke in favor of retaining the word " Evaugelical," which is generally applied to the church which he attends in Concord. He spoke several tiojes during the day, but not one single argu- ment did be produce or hint at in favor of Catholla emancipation. The same day, Franklin Pierce spoke upon the Ju- diciary. Indeed he seemed anxious to "spread him- self" upon almost every subject but upon his father's Anti-Catholic policy. THE DECISIVE DISCUSSION. The great and decisive discussion on the AntI- Catholla Test came off on Nov. 13. I might remark here, that the fail ome nonsense going the rounds of the Loco-Foco papers that Mr. Pierce descended from the President's chair, &a., is nothing but nonsense, and nonsense of a very ridiculous' stripe. The discussion took place in Committee of the Whole, and the President was not In the chair at all I The Chair on this day (Nov. 13) was occupied by Mr. Sawyer, of Nashua. The first resolu- tion was to strike out all religious tests, aid Judge Woodbury made a long speech upon it. He contended that, In the Bill of Rights, all were made equal, and yet all but Protesiants are made unequal : " You hold out the husk, but withhold the kernel ; you allow fire-arms, but neither gunpowder nor lead to load ihera." He contended that "all other than Protestant sects are virtually deprived of representation as they are made ineligible to the Legislature. Their opinions and wishes are unheard there trom themselves. They are branded, they are driven forth as with the mark of Cain, for servi- tude and ignominy !'' He continued, " Indeed tnls test debars man from what we allow lo tlu degraded African, as Ae Is eligible here to hold office as whH at tn vota Wtille the present test continues," said be, " It Is with ON CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. < an ill grace we can call other coantrieg bigoted, who like England, have emancipated the Catholics." Mr. Parker, of Nashua, followed, and contended that Jhere *aa no opposition to striking out the test. Mr. Roblnion, ot Salisbury, followed in favor of abolish- ing cae te«t, and It passed in Committee of the Whole { without opposition, and without one single remark Jrom Franklin, Pierce in its favor. What ihen shall we say of the speech, now going the rounds of the papers, attributed to Franklin Pierce, which, we are told, he left the chair, (which he did not occupy,) to make? lam sorry that I am compelled to expose here one of the meanest tricks ever resorted to, to defraud and deceive the people. A CUNNING DODGE. As soon as It was known that Franklin Pierce was nominated at Baltimore, the liberal-minded men of all •ects, and (Particularly the naturalized citizens, declared (hat unless it could ba proved that Franklin Pierce had advocated or favored tne repeal of the Catholic disabil- ity, they would not vote for him. When Mr. Dallas ipoke lu Philadelphia, the very next week-day evening alter the nomination of Mr. Pierce, he could not have seen any public charge made against Mr. Pierce, for neg- lect of duty In this reipect But as the inspired Pro- Terbist informs us, ''The wicked tiee when no man pur- sueth," he stated that Franklin Pierce had advocated the repeal of the 4ntl-Catholtc test. On searching the records, no speech from Mr. Pierce could be found, but It was decided on, that something in the shape of a speech should be, ex post facto, put into his mouth. Some dodge must be resorted to, and the leaders seemed to say any dodge, nowever despicable, will be good enough for the Catholics, who won'tknow the difference. The telegraph soon Informed us that The Washi7igion Union would, the next morning, centaln the speech of Franklin Pierce on this subject, which he condescended to make, and even descended from the chair to deliver. Tnough the speech was first published In The Wash- ington Union and copied into The Ohio Statesman of June 16, yet the dodge, I believe, was concocted in Concord, and, I cannot help thinking, by the aisistance of Franklin Pierce hlmielt Accordingly The Concord Patriot, of June 17, 18.52, contains t'he speech which was to gull and deceive every liberal-minded natural- ized citizen, and so far the forgery has succeeded ad- mirably. On referring to the official report of the pro- eeeoings in The Concord Patriot, I found that Franklin Pierce had not spoken at all upon the subject ; but en looking further I found that after the Religious test had been abolished without uppo8itio7i, and laid aside as cjm- pieted, and the Property test coming up, Franklin Pierce made a speech in favor of striking out the prop- erty test, and In that speech the only reference he made to the religious test, was that it had been a "dead letter." And though it had been a "stigma" upon ihe State, he referred to other parts of the Constitution to tzctise their fathers' bigotry. Indeed, he contended that the great question of religious toleration was set- tled ; which, it ii meant anything, meant that there was no necessity to bother the Convention about making any alterations on that subject. When these remarks were made, the Religious test loas not betore the Convention. That subject had been definitively acted on. (8ee official report in The Concord (ti. U.) Patriot, of Nov. 14, ItfSO, and compare It with June 17, 1852, to see the juggle and trick of a reckless •et of parlizani.) PLADSIBLE DECEPTION. But to give plausibility to the forgery, for forgery it is, St the conclusion of Woodbury's speech on the Religious tests, six stars are printed. Now, when stars are Introduced, it always means that a part of the speech is omitted of no importance. But in this case, those sir ■tars, which are printed in Woodburj's speech, now going the rounds of the Loco-Koco papers, come In be- tween the conclusion of Woodbury's speech on the Re- ligious tests and the closing sentence of his speech on the property qualiticatiin. Those six stars are all we have for the epoeches of Messrs. Parker and Robinson, the decisive votes on the Religious tests, the taking up of another subject, and Judge VVoodbury's speech, ot nearly a wbole c jlumn, on that other subject ; and thus, t>jr the maglo inQuence of those stars, joining the duo- decimo speech of Pierce on property qualification to the folio speech of Woodbury on the RtrllgloustesL These tricksters hope to leave the impression on the public mind that both were made upon the lairu subject, and that it was after Pierce's "powerful" speech that the rote was carritdl The enemy, however, was con- quered, and had capitulated to the artillery of Wood- bury, before Pierce discharged his pop gun. And yet, by this shallow device, these forgers hope to blind the eyes of the citizens interested, and to cheat them out of their votes, In support of a candidate whose conduct they must despise. Since the time when an infernal home was opened for outcast villainy, has any rascality meaner and more siupid than this been perpetrated ) OTHER VOTES AND TRIALS. The queitlnn which had been decided In Committee of the Whole afterward came before the Convention. Mr. Cass of Hoidemess, a Loco-Foco friend of Franklia Pierce, and, I believe, a relative of Lewis Cass, ol Michi- gan, »p}ke against Catholic Emancipation. So, also, did Mr. Brewster, of Dutton, (a Loco-Foco,) and Mr. Win- iate, of Stratbam, (also a Loco-Foco.) Franklin Pierce descended not from his chair, but put the quesiloo, and It was carried, with only 7 Nays. The names are not jlven, but I believe the whole seven were political hrlends of Franklin Pierce. Nov. 14. Franklin Pierce made two speeches on giving the election of Judges to tne people. Like everything else from him, it was non-co^nmlitai ; but the tHt>ctof bis remarks was in opposition to the election by the people. Nov. 18. The question was taken whether the word "Protestant," shobld be stricken from the qualifications of Representatives. Carried — but not a word from Franklin Pierce. Nov. 19. The question was taken on striking the word " Protestant" from the qualiScatlon for Senators.^ Car- ried, on a division, " several members voting in the nega- tive." Franklin Pierce still silent on Calholio Emanci- pation, though he found time, the same day, without de- •ceodlng from the chair, to make four or five speeches on minor mattei-s — one ol them nearly a column long. Dec. 4. The question was taken on striking the word " Protestant" from the qualificatiens for Governor. Mr. Cass spoke against It ; several members voting la the negative. No word from Franklin Pierce. Judge Woodbury was absent, attending Court at Washington, and there was nobody to speak for the Catholics ; but U r. Pierce found time to make three speeches on the basis ol representation during the evening session of that day. Dec. 5 Mr. Franklin Pierce made another speech on representation. ABJURATION OATH PROPOSED. Dec. 9. Mr. Cass offered the follDwing resolution : Resolved, That an article be inserted in the CoDstitutiaa ss follows; "No one who IsHuund by the oath of allegiaoca to any monarchical or foreign power whatever, or who is bouod by his religious fsitli to put down free toleration, ■hall at anytime bold any office of tiust or profit in the State." Dec. 10. The President, Franklin Pierce, decided that Mr. Cass's resolution, ai reported above, was In order. Now, here was a chance for Mr. Pierce to descend from the Chair. Mr. Cass (Looo-Foce) asked : " Was It safe to elect a man (Jovernor who was sworn to the Pope of Rome, and believed that all Protestants were heretics, and •hould be persecuted unto death ? He would not have It left open io that persecutors could come In and take the helm of Government He thHught It right to put up the bars. Was It ever known that Catholics gained the power over any people, and got the Govern- ment into their own hands, that thoy did not persecute, 9ven unto denth, all that were opposed to them ! And was it not their religion, though they might be bound by all the oaths that could be imposed on them, that Ihey might be absolved by the Pope? And were they not striving for conquest everywhere, and to set up their religion of Church anil State? * » ♦ Were not nunneries and Catholic schools springing up all around us? And were they not teichlug the children that we are all heretics ? * * • And should Ireland be free from England to-day, would she sustain a Republic ? No. Let Ireland be free from England, and the Pope WILLIAM E. KOBINSOn's SPEECH would have the power. And would he sustain a Repub- lic? Look to Mexico," #:c. Mr. Klchaidsou, (Loco Foco,) of Hanover, followed Mr. Cans, aud apobe agalnet the resolutloD, but took occasion tu have a flin^ at the Cathollca. He said : " It was idle to suppose that a narrow-minded Jesuit should bd elevated w ntJlce. * * * In this country, with Its Uberalizine Influence, we had no reason to fear anything from Catholics." Other speeches followed on the same question, and 1 iubmlttoMr. O'Conor whether this was not an occa- sion when religious liberty needed a champion t PIERCE FAILS TO DEFEND. Did Franklin Pierce jump from his chair to answer his two friends! Did he rule Cass's resolution out of order, as he might have done? No; he opened not his mouth Bgalast U, though one might suppose that Judge Woodbury bBing absent, the mantle of religious cham- pionship would tall upon him. He quietly put the ques- tion, aud the resolution was Indutioltely postponed. During that same day, however, he f(»und time to make another speech on the everlasting question of Re pre- sentatljn, occupying nearly a column in the official report The Concord Patriot of Deo. 13, speaking of this Rep- resentation ameudraent, calls it "the moat imporia-nt amendment proposed." This declaration, by the official orgao of Franttlln Pierce and printer to the Convention, showed th*t the party attributed very little importance to the religious test. In fact, Pierce and his party adopted a system of Representation similar to the rot- ten borough system of Great Britain, for no other ap- parent reason than So defeat all amendments of the Constitution. FOREIGNERS NOT PEOPLE. Dec. 12, Gov. Steele,(Loco,) on this subject of the basis »f Representation, moved that paupers and foreigners be not counted as part of the people. Mr. Cass complained that "two towns, during the building of the Northern Railroad, had sent two extra representatives on the score of the Irishmen at work on this road." (Awful I) Here now was a glorious chance for the ehamplon o( Catholics and Irishmen, but Mr. Frankiln Pierce was dumb, and Gov. Steele's amendment was carried by 103 to 63. Dec. 13. In the evening the religious test on repre- sentation was stricken out, but no remarks from Mr. Pierce. PIERCE ON OTHER MATTERS. Dee. 19. Franklin Pierce spoke two or three times on t'ae Judiciary. In fact, Catbolle Emancipation seemed to ha thn nnlv eubieM nn which his toneue whs Hod. Dec. 24. Franklin Pierce spoke on the calling out of the mllltla. Dec. ae. Franklin Pierce opposed the election of clerks of the Courts by the people, and had that clause stricken out The same day he spoke several times on the election and jurisdiction of petty Judges. No sub ject was too peity for his tongue but Catholic Emdnolpa tion. Dec. 27. Franklin Pierce opposed districting the State nto iwentv Seoatorlal Districu, on the ground that it would en'laogfr his party's superiority, and It was de- feat«d The same evening he spoke four or five times r.n Petty Justices' Courts. CONCLUSION OF THE SESSION. The Convention finally adjourned on the 3d day of January, 1851, and during Its whole session Frankiln Pierce found time to speak on almost every subjeet, trivial, petty, St*te and National, and that, too, wltcout decendlng from the Chair, but never once during the whole session of the CoQvention, wtiiie the religious lest was before the Convention, did he say one wordia favor of striking It out. And yet every lylog sheet and Loco-Foco mouth is full of fulsome pralfes on Franfclla Pierce for doing what he neve' did I Wcat dependence, then, can naturalized citizens place upon anything these people say ? SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE. The question was submitted to the people at the regu- lar election held In New-Hampshireon the second Tues- day of March, 1851. During tbe whole of that time, from January to March, no public meeting was called by Mr. Pierce or his friends to speak in favor of Catho- lic Emancipation. They did not , he did not give him- self as much trouble to rescue the Catholics from their disabilities as a common humane person would take to extricate a tly from the meshes of a spider's web. Tbe amendments »ere submitted In the form of fif- teen questions, and the repeal of the antl-Cathollc t«>st was No. 8. Let us look at a few of the towns to see the unblushing ett'rontry of Geo. M. Dallas and tbe whole Loco-Foco party. I take these returns from The Con- cord Patriot, of March VH, 1851, which says, In announc- ing the result: " Every proposition submitted has been rejeaU'd by a very large majority." Geo. M. Dallas says It was rejected for want of a two-thirds vote 1 THE VOTE. I have given the vote In the same towns, the same year, for Dinsmore, the Pierce candidate, a man whom Franklin Pierce had put up against Atwood, the regular Loco-Foco candiWate. It will be seen that In towns where Franklin Pierce rallied his party to vote by hun- dreds for hi* candidate, he did not think it worth while to secure a single baker's dozen for Catholic Emanci- pation. Here are a few towns. On the eighth proposition, as voted for In March, 1851, with votes fer Governor given at the same election, from The ^ew- Hampshire Patriot of March 27, 1851. : Brentwood... 76 Seabronk 85 Windham.... 46 Durham 155 Farmlogton ..304 New- Durham. 113 Staflord 244 Chatham 82 Effingham 129 Ossipea 194 >inAmors Catholic o Pierce Emanci ndidate. patioi Sandwich 113 Wakefield.... 176 WoUborou(jh.279 London 120 Aiex»ndrla.. .134 Ellsworth 59 Hill 130 H 'ldernes8...153 Milan 64 Diosmoor CathoHc Loco Pierce Emanci- Canditlate. patiou. A QUESTION. Ye men of too credulous a dlsposWon, who may have too easily jlelded credence to tbe supposilon that a Loco-Foco can tell tbe truth, compare the above table with the assertions of Geo. ftl. Dallas and the Loco-Foco party, and what Uttle word will Involuntarily flutter on every tongue I Here U the Loco-Foeo town of New Durham, which gave 113 votes for Pierce's pet for Governor, and only tour votes for CaiboUa Emanclpailon. Yet George M. Dallxs and pvrty say thai It tailed only because the Whigs and Free SoUers combined against It I Here is the Loco-Foco town of Effingham, 129 votes for Pierce's Governor, and only one suliturv vote for Catholic Eman- cipation ; Wakefield, with 176 Loco-Focos and only one vote for Catholic Emnnclpaiion ; and yet, Geo M. Dal- las and bis party — his head woltenlng with blossoms for the grave, once Vice President of the United States, and Pre»ident of the most Oistlngulabed, reliberste elecrtve body In the world— states that tbe VVhles and Free SoU- ers rtefealed a measure. In sj>ite of the exertions of a party which otly polled one vote out of 176 — one out of 129 of their own party vote for the measure. What chonce has truth of ever rising again, when crushed to earth with such mtrclless audacity as this 1 What wonder that letters are forged for General Scott, which he never wrote, when " Falsehood puts on the faoe of simple truth, Aud maski in the habit of plain henesty, When she intends most villainy" THE VOTE AGAIN. The vote In the whole State was, for Dinsmore, (Pierce's candidate) 24,425 For Sawver, (Whig) 18.«58 For Atwood, (Free Soil) 12,049 Atwood had been the regularly nominated Loco-Foco candidate; and so the two Loco-Focos carried 36,474, a majority of about two-tblrds over the Whig vote. And yet the vote on the Constitution was : F«r Catholic Emancipation 13,575 Against it 24,971 It must be remarked thst. In this vote, as In 1852, the great majority of those who voted for Catholic Saianct- ©N CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. patloD were Whiga. iDdecd, the vote against Catholic EmanclpHtloD is just about tbe vote whicti wa« cast for Piercb'g candidate for Governor. THE CONVENTION REASSEMBLES. The Convention reasgeuabled on the 16th of April, 1852, — and here we meet with more Loco-Foco forgery and falsehood. A SLANDER REFUTED. Mr. Chamberlain, the Whig candidate for Governor, and a warm triend of Catholic Emancipation, was in fa- vor of having the Convention adjourn, and therefore oppdsed the proposition to submit any further amend- meniB to toe people. The people had bocome so exaa- perated with t&o Convention, and tired of ita delibera- tions, that Mr. Chamberiainsaidlt would ruin the chance for CatDolic EoaaDcipation for a century, to crowd it back ujon them then; but this was what the Loco-Foco party seemed lo want, to do up tbe business at once, lo as forever to exclude other chances of future redress to Cathoii'-.s ; and because Mr. Chamberlain thus spoke, ho has been accused of opposing Cathollo Emancipa- tion, whereas ne voted for It in all its stages, and when (contrary to his ad rice) the subject wss forced upon the people ajiain. at the next election — when, as he foretold, It was voted down, receiving about 4,(J00 votes less than the previous year — the town in which he lived (Keene) did not give a single vote against ii, but gave 217 votes for it. This thH slanderers of Mr. Chamberlain know. Tke Co7icord Patriot, of Jan. 3, 1851, says that " it wa» a grave qutnion ichetker the Convention, hace the avthririty to make any further ame7tdme7Us afterthose now made shad have bee7i acted upon by the people " And yet now they abuse and slander Mr. Chamberlain for taking the cor- rect view of this grave question. NEW DISCUSSION ON THE TEST. Well, the Convention was two days in session, (June 16 and 17.) and in that time speeches were made upon this Catholic Emancipation by Messrs. Smith, Cham- berlain, Bell, ErtStman, Woodbury, &c., &,c.; but not one word did Franklin Pierce say during the whole time. GOV. DINSMORE'S MESSAGE. Nor is this all. In June, 1851, the Legislature assem- bled, and Pierce's canoldate being elf oted Governor, de- livered his message to the Legislature. If Franklin Pierce had asked nim to put in a paragraph expressing regret at the failure of the last trial, and urging support in the new trial ordered, he would undoubtedly have done It — but no, in place of any such thing we have the following paragraph rtjoirAng over the defeat of Catho- lic Emancipation, which was undoubtedly seen and ap- proved by Mr. Pierce before it was delivered : " It la apparent from this decisive expression (says Gov. Pinsmore) of the popular will, that the preaent Constitution is. in the main. ter 64 for Pleice's Governor, but not one for CatholUo Eman- cipation; Northwood 152 for Pierce's Governor, and only one for Catholic Emancipation; Madbury 48 for Pierce's Governor, and not one for Emancipation j Wolf- borough 291 for Pierce's candidate, and only one for Emancipation ; Pittffield 228 for Pierce's Governor, and 7iot 07ie hold a man responsible for the acts of bis fa her. Far belt from mo to needlessly Insult the memory of old Revolutionary John Adams; but when the Loco-Focoi taunt us with being decendants of the Federalists, we may well remind them that the father of their leader was one. When they ring the changes on Alien and Sadltlin Laws, we may tell them that the lather of their candidate voted for them, and stands recorded while the Republicshallla^t, as voting for them; Pnd when they tell us the fa!sphood,so tilmsy and transparentthat the Pierces of Chelmsford and Wobum, in Massachusetts, were the posterity of the Londonderry lettlement, we may ha permitted to tell them that Sir Boyle Roach long ago In- formed such blockheads that posterity could net possi- bly mean those that preceded us I In fact, the friends of Pierce, finding that s majority of the American people, born In the country, Intena to go for Scott, hope to carry some naturalized citizens to vote against their best friend ; and they think no falsehood too ridiculous, no humbug too transparent to deceive us. We thank them for their compliments, but we have our f ye-teeth cut, and we can judge between right and wrong, truth and falsehood. ANOTHER INSULT TO IRISHMEN. There Is one other New-Hampshire LocoFcco In- sult to Irishmen to which I wish to refer. In the Spring Election of 1838, the Pierce party of Concord were afraid that they might lose the town of Concord In the election of some Municipal officers. So they iniled that the foreign-born Inhabitants should be allowed to vote for town officers, whether they were naturalized or not. Accordingly some 23 Irishmen were admitted to vote, but 17 out of the 23 voted with the VVblgs, to show their contempt of the Pierce party, that had so long oppressed and insulted them. "The Pierce party grew so Infuriated at this, that they passed a bill, that very year, "to regulate the rii;ht of suflVage," and the following is Section 2, In full, which I copied from the official records : " 8ec 2. And be it further enact'd. That no Alien shall ho entitled to vote at any town meeting." This law was passed, and the record stands thus : "Approved, July 4, 1838. Isaac Hill." W. L. MARCY AND THE B AMBERS. I had intended to dwell on the insult of ered the Natti- raltzed citizens of this StRte by the LocoFoco Delegates from this State, with others, whi» voted for Wiliium L. Marcy, who gave up the Bambers to the tender mercies of Gieat Britain, when he wp.s Governor. If Washing- ton Hunt should now seize Thomas Francis Meagher and hand him over to the Britleh Consul, and the Whias should then nominate, or vote for him, for President, we would hear some Loco-Foco music; but thia is what the Loco-Focos did to us with W. L. Marcy I "OLD CHIPPEWA." And now, fellow-citizens, here I am at the end of my time and your patience, and mt a word about " Old Chlpp-iwa'' and " Churubusco." I must only reserve my fire on that subject for some other occasion. I can only say that all edorcs to misrepresent him to the natu- ralized citizens of this countij will fail. FORGERIES. The letter which they attribute to him as written to Geo. W. Reed, I know— those that publish it know it to be a forgery. I have, for several weeks past, had put up fifty dollars on the truth of my aisertlon that it is a forgery. They have sent deputations to Geo. W. Reed, and th^y have failed to get or to produce one particle of evidence from him that Scott ever wrote that letter.— They haul up some old anonymous srtlcle signed ON CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. " AmflricuB," said to be written eight or ten yeara ago, atid attribute it to Gen. Scott. Now, why all thla nonsecEe! Who cares to know that about the same number of year* tlnce, Smith O'Brien was a Tory ? All his friends are contented with his po- sition cow, except the bonds and exUe he is wearing and enduring, aa badge* of hl( tidelity and devotion to his countrymen. WHAT THEY KNOW. Do they not know that Gen. Scott, four yeari ego, In repljioi; to the welcome of the Common Council of the City of New- York, boldly declared his friendship for the naturalized citizens? Do they not know that In 1848 he wrote a letter, which is published in all his biographies, in which be declares : '•Certainly it would be i.-npossitle for me to recommend or support any measure intended to exclude them (the natu- ralized citizens) from a just anri full participation in all civil and political rights now secured to them by our Kapubhcan law9 and inaCitutloDs." * Do they not know that Gen. Scott is now In favor of giving such foreign-born subjects as serve one year in the aiTiiy or navy, the right to vote, In addition to the privilpges already enjoyed, and having the general nat- uralization laws remnin as they are J To their disgrace, be it said, the Loco-Foco* are opposing this measure, though they must know that hundreds of gallant Ger- mans and Irish, who had fought through the Mexican War, covering themselves and their country with glory, returned to the land for whose safety they had fought, and could not approach the ballot-box to vote for those who are to manage the Government of their country. Do they not know that Gen. Scott has borne testimo- ny to the fidelity and valor of the Irish, Germans, Sec, "Iq maintaining our flag in the face of every danger," and that in hia letter to Robert Tyler, of Piiiladelphia, nod others who invited him to the celebration of St. Patrick's Day In that city, he replied, speaking of the naturalized citizens : " Many of I hem marched and fought under my command in the War of lol2-'15, and many more — thousands — in the recent war with Mexico, not one of whom was ever known to turn his back upon the enemy or a friend.'' The Loco-Foco partj presses, to their disgrace be It told, tried to prevent the circulation of this tkstimony, so honorable to our naturalized soldiery— tettimony, too, which Is supported by letters written by Richard M.Johnson, Zachary Taylor, and others; and further to the sname, and I hope to the confusion of the Loco- Foco party, be ii said, they reply with the slander, that the Irish deierted the American flag, and were hanged as traitors. But I have not time nor patience to deal with thla Loco-Foco slander as it deserves. WHO FOR SCOTT ? Fellowcltlzenj, General Scott commends himself to the support of all sects, seclions and parties of our coun- try. Since George Washington, no man has done so much for his country as Wlnfield Scott. His blood, on our Northern borders, rescued Michigan and other por- tion* of eur Territory from being what else It might have been — British Territory. The gold, and riches, and wide Territory of California, (raiUlons of gold Bow- ing monthly into our port,) are the benefits be purchased for us by his unparalleled mUltary conquests In Mexico. Tbat flag of England which has waved, the emblem of tyranny over Ireland for seven centuries — which now flaps its sullen felds over O'Brien aad Mitchell in Van Dieman's Land — (Jeneral Scott pulled down and tram- pled in the dust at Fort George. When the Irish soldier* under him were taken prisoners at Queenstown, and were about to be sent to England to be hanged as trait- ors, he stood between them and destruction, and by holding an EDgUshman's life as forfeit for every Irish- man's, he saved them frjm destruction. When he marched over Mexico, in a career of glorlou* achieve- ments, his dUpbtches bef~re the battles, becoming his- tories of the victories, his course was marked with so much wise statesmanship, such enlarged and enligb ened toleration to the opinions and religious peculiarities of the people, that terror for the conqueror *we led into love for the benefactor, and a whole nation, who*a for- tresses, one by one, surrendered to bis sword, finally jlelded their hearts a tribute of homage to his humanity. " How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more tlian Conqueror V I And shall this man be forgotten or left to die without I any mark of the people's gratitude 1 Sball he carry to j his grave the British lead which he recf Ived at Lundy'* Lane,and receive no welghtleracknowledgementof a peo- ! pie's grutliude ? Had America elected Aaron Burr over : George Washington, as first President, or should Ire- j land become a Republic, and some Peter Brown or I John Smith defeat John Mitcbel or Smith O'Brien, I in a contest for the Presidency, we would vent our In- dignation in language which shall be butblstorv's echo on ue as a nation, if wo elect Franklin Fierce over Win- I field Scott HIS ELECTION CERTAIN. But I have no fear of General Scott'i triumphant election. My great anxiety is th*t the naturalized citi- zens should not be put in a potition now, slmiiar to that which they were cheated into In 1844, by voting for Mr. Polk against Henry Clay. I believe that at the next election will be polled about three million* of vote*. The whole naturalized vote throughout the Statei will be sbuut a quarter of a naiiUon. U( the nadve burn voter* of the United States, I believe General Seo» will get one million six hundred thousand, so that be Is sure of an election, if the vote In the several State* be distributed as it has been heretofore ; but It Is my desire that my countrymen should go for a great American, with a great majority, rather than to be eternalty uo- holdtag little men for smaller factions. And why should any hberal naturalized citizen vote for Franklin Pierce, the candidate of The London Timts, which calls our Irish people half civilized savages, their religion mum- mery, (as It la called by the Pierce party in New-Hamp- shire,; and their priesthood surpliced ruffians ? Why should naturalized citizens here begin to wear British manufactures, to enable the British Government to keep their country In misery, and their patriot] In chains! Why not vote for the Whigs, with Protection to Home Industry against British Capital? For Internal Improre- ments, where honest poverty may get from the l^easu- ry a part of the hoarded treasures which Loco FocoUm watches with a miser's care, or expend* oclj on erlsto- eratic aSice holders? OPPOSITION NO USE. Gentlemen Loco-Foco*, your appeal* to the natural- ized citizens are In vain. If you wish to kill Gen. Scott you mus{ appeal to your frier ds of England, atd not to the republican naturalized citizen of thl* country. If Scott, the only man living who, with his own bands, In a fair stand up fight, tore down the British fl«j, Is to be hanged to appease the offended wrath of England, yon must appeal to some other nation than Ireland — Irish- men would rather furnish other victims to the scalibid than become the executioner. You cannot tear from the popular breast the maternal love for the children of It* pride. Nor can you get the people to support the Idols set up by the Uerods of the Baltimore Convention, whose hand* are yet reeking with tbe blood ol the alaughtered Loco-Foco innocent*. Michigan is leaning on her broken sword; Pennsylva- nia Is pouring from her vein* the last drop ot Demo- cratic blood; lllinoi* is straining her eye* through iha magnifying glas* by which she had fondly manufactured 6 giant out of a Douglass ; New- York U covered with sackcloth and paichai, at her unMircylul condltloiL All these, joined wUh Kentucky, Indiana, and other dis- consolate mothers, are shedding tears lufliclent to create a f'-esbet In Salt River, weeping for their children, and refusing to be comforted because they are net I No, gentlemen, no , you cannot defeat Gen. Winfield Scott. Nay, all the tiadera of all the parties In the ' Union, eomoined against him, could not defeat him. I Your Hulls may surrender, and your Casses may break their swords on a Michigan stuinj) In place of an Eng- lishman, hut " Old Chippewa" Is onward and upward, like the flight y enlarging the demand for and reward of their own labor and signally incrj^sing the efliciency of that labor. They demand an Irish Par- liament to legislate for Irish interests and Irish industry. In short, the National party in Ireland, (in which terra we include both the "Old' and " Young" sections, the fol- lowers of O'Connell and those of John Mitchell, )take es- sentially the same view of national economy that we do, and look to similar means to produce the desired results. During the agitation preceding the revolutionary ef- fort of 16-18, many meetings of the friends of Irish Na- tionality were held in this city, at one of which the wri- ter hereof presided. A resolution was handed to him while in the chair, pledging every friend of Ireland in America thenceforward to the non-consumption of Briiish manufactures and the discouragement of their use in this country. He ohjected to put it to the meeting, not as improper or ineflective in itself, but because it would never be lived up to — wou d, in fact, be only one more added to the innumerable mass of doughty Irish resolves which have supplied John Bull with amusement for the last half century. But all those around him said '■ Put the resolution," and the meeting clamored for it, and it was put and carried liy one unanimous yell of ap- proval. Five thousand Irishmen-born nearly tore the iiirmiiigham buttons oil' the Lancashire cloth that served them for vests in .-liontiiig " Ay I" to the resolution, nine- tenihs of whom have worn little else but British cloth cv( r since, and not only worn it but voted steadily for the poficy of keeping this country dependent on Great Bri- tain for the bulk of its fabrics and metals evermore. VVe are not the enemy of England. We render full justice to her great qualities and great deeds. VVe do not doubt tljat Providence has assigned her a lofty and important c'areer in the future as well as the past. But to that policy which aims to render her the focus and arbiter of the world's industry — the general market of raw staples and the chief supplier of fabrics for other nations — we are intensely hostile, because we believe it at war with Human Progress, with general well-being, and even with the ultimate interest of England herself. We regard that policy as tending to prolong the reign of boorishness and barbarism by kcepin? the nations ignorant of these arts through which skill is attained, intelligence diffussed, knowledjre increased, and a just and proper independence realized. We believe that, if Great Britain would take oar wool, cotton, flax, bides, wheat, &.C., and return them all to us fabricated into clothes, shoes, and bread, charging us nothing for the labor, it would still be a damage to us to have our work so done for nothing, because we ought to understand the making of clothes, shoes, and bread, and do for our- selves. We believe Labor, in the wise Providence of God, not a curse, but a pract cal blessing — a chief instru- ment of man's moral, intellectual, and social elevation. But to this end it must be redeemed from the character of mindless drudgery — it must be no perpetual round of iteration and imitation — but a process which calls into play mental as well as physical faculties. The people of Italy, like those of Ireland, are naturallv quick-wjtted, active, enterpri.-ing ; they are degiaded and brutalized in part by the absence of that diversified and compre- hensive industry which is essential to a true national I life. Belgium has the same religion, no better soil, and is heavily burthened ; yet its people are far above the Italians and the Irish in culture, comfort and thrift, be- cause the industry of Belgium is happily diversified, and j the surplus products of her ailmirable agriculture I find markets at the farmers' doors in her ample manu- factures. The London Times chronicles the wholesale expa- triation of the Irish from Ireland with open complacency and thinly-concealed exultation, seeing that their places will be taken by English and Scotch farmers, whose skill and knowledge, acquired under happier auspices, will enable them to obtain larger crops per acre with less labor, and so paj' higher rents to Engli.sh landlords, and turn off larger surpluses of produce for English markets. Then, the expatriated Irish, says the Times, are not lost. Driven to America by the pressure of ■famine at home, they earn better wages, and buy more British goods than they were able to procure in their [native land. Pat, who could hardly afi"ord to cover his lEISH AiEEKICANS. 15 bones once a year with some tliree-penny stuff while he lived in Ireland, and jumped at the chance of earning ninepence a day, when tran.-ferred to an American Rail- road track or embryo Canal, aud SPt to work at a dollar per day, »ooa clothes himself respectably in woollen, and buys gingham dresses for his wife and children, causing the heart of British Manchester to lau?h outright. Bull has a habit of reirardinif everybody from the shopkeep- ing point of view, and he finds that every Iri.-liman in America is equal as a customer to three Irishmen in Ire- land ; 80 the more he drives into exile, the greater are his trade a-.id profits. But he does not seem to under- j stand that the uses of Pat are not all exhausted yet- ' Seven-eights of the Irishmen in America have hitherto given their votes and their efforts to sustain the British manufacturing supremacy in this country. Without those votes, air. CIny could not have been defeated in 1844, nor the Tariff cut down in 184*). By tlie.-e votrs. this country was thrown back into the path of Coloniui .subserviency to British ascendancy and British policy. We are sure the voters did not mean this, but such was the tendency; such has been the result. We have strong faith that the Irish Americans, as a body, will take a different course hcreaflrr. They have at no time meant to be the fervitors of British policy; but they have been misled by the specious cr> of Demo- cracy into t-upporting a policy opposed to their own most cherifhed aspirations. We trust they will act and vote hereafter for that policy which sustains American Labor and American Independence. — New York Tribune. i University of California SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY 305 De Neve Drive • Parking Lot 17 • Box 951388 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1388 Return this material to the library from which it was borrowed. Hord : Syracuse, N. Y. ' Stockton, Calif. 3 1205 02576 2517 AA 000 942 072 Unr S