Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1848-12-07
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
LETTER FROM MR.. FILLMORE.


LETTER FROM MR.. FILLMORE.
In publishing the following extract from
n letter received yesterday afternoon from
the Vice President elect, we plead guilty 10
upon the invioabili,y of private
but the sentiments avow-
ed by Mr.. Fillmore are so honorable and
lust. so truly patriotic and national, and
will everywhere be read with so much pleas
ure, that we feel we are justified and render
ing a service in making them public:
"To me there is no manifestation
of popular sentiment which calls up such
deep feelings of gratitude as that generous
vote of my old friends and early cons,tu-
cnis of the county of Erie. Ii is now twen-
" 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 cir.
cumstances with zeal and fidelity almost
unknown in this country, and the last
GROWING act of their continued kindness
and confidence awakens the deepest emo
tons of grateful heart
II trust too, that you will not blame me
for expressing the qualification and pride
which feel in receiving SO flatterng a vote
in my native State. But these things are
in measure personal 10 myself, and there
fore of very little importance. But the cor
dialily and unanimity with which the Wing
ticket has been sustained every where, North
and South, East and West is just cause of
national feliciation. 1t proves thatMe great
Wing party is truly national party--that
1t occupies that safe and conservative ground
,uhich secures to eUe,y section of the country,
all that ii has a right TO claim underthe gu7r-
anti of the c0nStitution--that such rights
are inviolate-and as to all other questions
Of mere policy, where Congress has the con-
s,i,u,onal right TO legisa,e, the will Of the
People, as expressed through their Repre-
sentalives in Congress is to control, and that
will is not to be defeated by the arbitrary
in,erposilion of the veto power. This sim
pie rule, which holds sacred all constitu-
tiona guarantees, and leaves the law-making
power where the constitution placed it, in
| Congress, relieves the party at once from
all the embarrassing questions that arise
out of sectional differences of opinion, and
and enables it to act harmouiously for the
good Of the country. .E.
"When the President ceases 10 control
the law making power, his individual opin-
ions of what the law ought to be come CON-
paratively unimportant. Hence we have
seen General Taylor, though attacked as a
STAKEHOLDER and pro slavery man at the
North, cordially supported and triumphant
ly 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 an aboilionist and an
incendiary, yet the wings of the South have
cast these calumnies 10 the winds, and with
out asking or expecting any thing more than
what the constitution guarantees TO them,
on this subject, they have yielded to me a
most hearty and enthusiastic support. This
was particularly so in New Orleans, where
the attack was most violent.
"Realy these Southern Wings are noble
) fellows. Would you not lament to see the
Union dissolved, if for no other cause than
that it separated from such true, noble, and
high minded associates! But regard this
election as putting an end TO all ideas of dis.
union 1t raises up national party occu-
. plying middle ground, and leaves the ia,
f natics and disunionists, North and South
| without the hope of destroying the fair fab.
rio of our constitution. Mayit be perpet.
ual!'