Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-09-08
AS WE EXPECTED |

Paans over Fillmore's letter 10 Governor Gayle
of Alabama, which, so far from relieving him
from the damning odium Of his abolition letter OF
1888, furnishes conclusive evidence 10 stamp
him with abolilonism-tor, he says in it, sail my
ACTS, public and private, will be found IN accord
ance with this view" ("on the subject OF slavery
i. tls Statss")-and we have shown BY bis votes
in Congress, OPP to lS43, that he uniformly"
voted with Giddings &C., for their alrocious
propositions in favor of abolishipg the slave
trade be,peen tie States, and slavery in the Dis
tra of Columbia. His Gayle letter goes no far.
sher than Gddings Hale and the Buffalo fana-
tics, for they, too, claim no jurisdiction OF Con-
sress over slavery in The Statss-bul their aboli.
tionsm consists in attacking the South, by abo-
fishing the slave trade between the States and
slavery in the District Of Columbia, in which
Fillmore, by his letter OF 1888 and his votes 10
Congress fully and heartily cooperated with
Them. and which this Gayle letter does mol
fo41A.
The Wing says, "Mr. Fillmore o. K. " and
upon this text goes on 10 argue that ne us Inc
soundes, man, North of Maryland, upon this and
kindred subjects; Abbot Lawrence always except
cdr The Whig mono "begins 10 entertain strong
suspicions" ,ha, Fillmore's letter OF 1888 is "a
forgery," though that matter is placed beyond con-
troversy. TIE Wing goes on 10 argue itself into
the belief that "sounder views cannot be enter
tanned" than are held in this Gayle letter. Blu
the Whie itself admits that this letter refers
merely TO slavery in the States for it puts form
the following ridiculous argument:
"The soundness OF Mr.. F. upon The question OF
State jurisdiction over slavery being established,
that OF The internal slave trade goes along with 1t
If Congress can pass no law interfering With
slavery in Stale, il can Of course pass none pro
hbting The carrying them IRON 1t, or receiving
them into it, from other States"
Now, we have shown that though Fillmore
voted against the jurisdiction OF Congress over
slavery in the States, he praetssed the principles
of his letter Of 1888 by voting 10 favor OF the abo
li,ion of the slave trade between The States and
slavery in the District OF Columbia.
And We, be Wing boasts that This weapon IS
struck from the hands OF Locoiocoism." On The
contrary, it is still more firmly fixed by This hum
buesing letter 70 Governor Gayle.
The Times publishes the Gayle letter With
pampous capitals, and vauntingly exclaims:
"We earnestly call the attention o! our reader
10 the briet and ADMIRABLE letter OF Mr.. Fillmore
10 Mr.. Gayle OF Alabama. They will see mat
we did not misjudse The sentiments of The wing
candidate for the Vice Presidency, when we de-
ciared The conviction that OF ALL Northern men
Mr.. Fillmore should be ONE OF The MOST 40
cEprAsLE to The people Of The South"
The Republican says, that the Gayle letter
scompe.ely annihiaes the groundess charge
that Mr.. Fillmore is an Abolilionist. As the
Democrats give 10 General Cass the b:neh' "l
his presen, opinions, without reference 10 The
past, we hope they will place in their columns,
with the letter of ten years ago, the following
leuer, fresh from the hands OF Mr.. Fillmore"
We have YOU there. Mr.. Republican. aal you
canno, escape from your own proposition. we
have "placed 10 our columns" the "tresh" letter OF
Fillmore, and we now demand that you place IN
yosr columns "the letter of ten years ago. so
raa, your readers may Judge for themselves whe-
Their the Gayle letter is satisfactory 10 IN, Soulh'
or whether Fillmore does hot still continue, by
his own words, as unqualified an Aboli,iouiss az
Giddings, Hale and Adams. Wetake this occa
sion 10 proclaim 10 the Wings OF Virginia, that
the Whie press of Richmond dare not lei them
see the whole truth. They have suppressed an
abolition letter Of their candidate for Vice Presi-
dent which remains in full force and effect, for
~etsisg has ye, come from him which in The least
extenuates the arocious sentiments OF thai letter,
or impairs its meaning and power. We again
proclaim Willard Fillmore an Aboli'ionist, and
we challenge the Wing press to publish the lei
ter, and let their readers judge for Asmssus' Let
NO, the Wings OF Virginia degrade their State BY
voting for man whose arts IN we'll as t0ords
prove him TO be an Aboilionist.
We must confess our surprise al the bald and
ridiculous attempts OF lhe Wing press 10 hum
bug the Wings into belief in the soundness OF
MilIard Fillmore. Their tri,e argument is, that
he is as sound as Gen. Cass. But this is not true |;
for Gen. Cas- has declared 10 the PLANES, lam
euase bis unequivoca hostility 10 the interfe.
renee Of Congress with slavery in the States in
the ssyri.srus and every where else. Has Fill
more done sol Does his much-yaunled letter
contain solitary word about the right or propri-
ely Of Congress prohibiting slavery in the Terri.
,ories, The Wilmot Proviso. the Missouri Com.
nromise, the Compromise Bill Of the last session,
slavery in the District Of Columbia or even "abo.
lhionism" ilselt7 II refers exclusively TO slavery
IN The Sss.ss-and, as the Mobile Register we'll
says
"There is not IN opinion expressed in It in
xvh,eh The rankest abolitonists Giddings Hale,
corwin, Biruey or Tappan, does not agree; not q