SPEECH OF WILLIAM E. ROBINSON, IN EXPOSITION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRACY IN ITS RELATIONS TO CATHOLIC EMPANCIPATION, INCLUDING A SCRUTINY OF THE PART TAKEN WITH REFERENCE THERETO, BY GEN. FRANKLIN PIERCE. AND AN EXPOSURE OF THE FALSE PRETENCES AND FALSE ASSERTIONS OF GEO. M. DALLAS AND OTHERS, RESPECTING THE ACTION OF THE WHIGS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
New York: Published at the Tribune Office, 1852. 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound with last leaf lightly spotted, else Very Good.
A New York lawyer who was born in Ireland, Robinson was appointed Lincoln's assessor of internal revenue for his district in 1862. Speaking before the Scott and Graham Clubs of the Fourth Congressional District, he attempts to sway the votes of increasingly influential Catholics in the 1852 presidential election. The Democrats' presidential candidate, Franklin Pierce, is an anti-Catholic bigot. "When Religious Liberty needed a champion Gen. Pierce was found-- wanting." New Hampshire refused the privilege of public office to Catholics. Pierce and his New Hampshire Democratic Party opposed "Catholic Emancipation" during the recent New Hampshire Convention. Robinson marshals a mass of evidence to support his charges.
Robinson supports Winfield Scott. "General Scott commends himself to the support of all sects, sections, and parties." He warns his fellow Irishmen that they "have been misled by the specious" claims of Democrats, and that their religious freedom depends on a vote for the Whig Scott.
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