Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-08-19
Willard Fillmore Triumph
b antTy Defended,

The Bee 81 tho 10th August publishes
the following able and complete yihdica-
ton ofMr. Fillmore. We invite Our read
ers Wings and Democrats 10 give II an
attentive persual
TIM CASE or fHH CREUbE--MH FIT.
MoRE's VoTBs-AEoTtER CALUMNY Ex-
rosEp.-In the batch of ISLANDERS which
%L,deofueoiym in Louisiana has fabricated,
in The desperate hope ofinjuring Gen. lay.
lor by striking al him through Willard Fill
more, by far the most prominent is The
charge, that during the Congressional
session Of Is42, Mr.. Fillmore aided and
allotted Giddings, tho abolitionist, in his
infamous attempt 10 justify, by solemn re-
solution, the mutiny and murder Perpetrat.
cd by a number Of Virginia slaves on board
of the brig Creole. The charges Is false
from beginning TO end--it IL foun led on
falsehood, sustained by ingenious and dis
honest garbling Of the Congressional re-
cords, and wantonly palmed upon the PEG.
pie of louisiana by a party, whose solitary
chance Of success rests upon the possibility
of deluding and misleading the public
mind. We have taken some pains TO in
vestigate this atrocious libel, and an exa.
mination of the Journals Of the House Of
Representatives will conclusively establish
Mr.. Fillmore's innocence, and expose the
upcrupulousness and malice of his adver.
saries.
The authors oflhe Creole SANDER assert,
in the first place, that when GtDDfNos pre-
sented his incendiaty resolutions a motion
was made to lay them on the table, and
that Mr.. Fillmore voted in the negative,
leaving the bare and naked inference, by
inserting Fillmore and negative IN large
letters, that the wing candidate for Vice
President was, therefore, in favor Of the
resolutions. This alsehood, by implica-
ton, may at once be denuded Of its himsy
covering. The Journal Of the House shows
that ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
FIVE MEMBERS voted with Mr.. FIT.
MORE against laying the resolution on the
table; and among these names we find
those Of JOHN b. DAWSON, JOHN
MO@RE and EDWARD d. WHITE,
being the entire delegation from Louisiana
together with a large number of members
from the s~laveholding States.
This staten ent proves incontrovertibly
that Mr.. Fillmore went with the South on
that memorable occasion, and that in
common with a large majority OF the mem.
bers he would not consent to treat the ne
farious resolutions with the usual p%arlia-
mentary courtesy, but was in favor of com
polling Giddings to sue for permission to
withdraw them. And yet, this vote of
Fillmore, which is 10 be found in CONJUNCTION
with that of the whole Louisiana delega
ton, is recklessly and fa~gitiously distorted
by locofocoism, and represented as a vote
ofaid and comfort to Giddings. We wish
the people Of the State to remember that
Iocofocoism Feviles Willard Fillmore for
voting side by side with John Moore and
the lamented Dawson and White.
This, however, IS only part Of the evid.
ence we shall present Of the trickery and
duplicity of ~locofocOism. Much remains
to be added. The Cas- and Butler press
|designedIy ounits all reference to another
vote of Mr.. Fillmore, in reference to the
resolutions Of Giddings. Before the latter
withdrew his resolutions, another question
came before the House, to wit 'sShan the
main question be now put" Mr.. Fillmore,
with a MAJORITY ofthe House, voted NO,
thereby refusing to entertain the main ques
ton, which was. athat the House do agree
TO the resolutions" see Journal House of
Representatives, I'd Session 81 Congress,
pages 567-S-9 and 370.
II is true that Mr.. Fillmore voted against
the preamble and resolutions offered by Mr.
Weller. His object was to treat Giddings