Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-11-25
LETTER FROM Mn. FILLMORE.
FROM THE BUFFALO COMMERCIAL ADVERTISE


In publishing the following extract from letter
received yesterday afternoon from the VICE PREsI-
DENT ELECT, we plead guilty to trenching some
what upon the inviolability of private correspond
ence; but the sentiments avowed by Mr.. FILLMORE
are SO honorable and just, SO truly patriotic and ma
tional, and will every where be read with so much
pleasure that we feel we are justified and rendering
a service in making them public:
"To me there is no manifestation of po-
pular sentiment which calls up such deep feelings
of gratitude that generous vote Of my old friends
and early constituents of the county of Erie. Ii
is now twenty years since they first elected me to
the Assembly, and from that day TO this they have
stood by me through good and through evil report,
and sustained me under all circumstances with a
zeal and fidelity almost unknown in this country !;
and the last browning act Of their continued kind
ness and confidence awakens the deepest emotions
OF a grateful heart.
81 trust too, that you will not blame me for ex-
pressing the qualification and pride which feel in
receiving flaterng vote in my native State.
But these things are in measure personal to my
self, and therefore of very little importance. But
the cordially and unanimty with which the Wing
ticket has been sustained every where, North and
South, East and West, is Just cause of national
is truly national parfy-that IL occupies thai
safe and conservative ground Which secures TO
every section Of the country aHthat 1t has a righl
TO claim under the guaranty Of the constitution
that such rights are inviolate-and to all other
| questions of mere policy, where Congress has the
constitutional right to egisate, the will of the Peo-
pie, as expressed through their Representatives in
Congress, is to CONTROL and that will is not to be
defeated by the arbitrary nerposition of the veto
power. This simple rule which holds sacred al
constitutional guarantees, and leaves the law-mak
ing power where the constitution placed it, in Con
gress, relieves the party at once from all the EN-
barrassng questions that arise out of sectional diff
ferences of opinion and enables it to act harmon
ously for the good Of the couAry.
When the President ceases 10 control the law.
making power, his individual opinions of what the
law ought to be become comparatively unimportant
! Hence we have seen General TAYLOR, though at
tackled as STAKEHOLDER and pro-slavery man al
the North cordially supported and triumphan1y
elected by men opposed to slavery in all its forms
and though | have been charged at the South, in
the most gross and wanton manner, with being ar
aboionist and an incendiary, yet the Wings of the
South have cast these caumnes to the winds, anL
without asking or expecting any thing more than
what the constitution guarantees to them on this
subject, they have yielded TO most hearty and
enthusiastic support. This was particularly SO in
New Orleans, where the attack was most violent.
Really these Southern Wings are noble fellows
Would you not lament to see the Union dissolved
if for no other than that it separated from
such true noble, and high-minded associates Bu
I regard this election putting an end TO all
ideas Of disunion. IL raises up a national party
occupying middle ground, and leares The fa,af.
les aud disu,aionists, North and South. ,oithoui
the hope Of destroying the fair fabric Of or con.
stiftion. May it be perpetual y