Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-08-21
Willard Fillmore Triumphantly De
Tended. .

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We copy from the Bee, says the Ma
%tional, with great pleasure, the following
able vindication of Mr.. Fillmore, and
overwhelming exposure of the infamous
false, fraudulent, and malicious ISLANDERS
published against him by vcnal and sub
sidized papers in support of the veto
power and kingly prerogative party, who
sail under the false and hypocritieal flag
of democracy. 1t is a perfect e%xtinguish-
er, and we invite honest democrats, who
neither seek nor expect office, and whose
only motive of action in a contest like the
present is to promote the good of their
country, to come up and look at the mis-
cradle deformity Of their unprincipled
leaders as they stand unmasked in all
their ann before the world, and to
inAict upon them the scorpion lash of in
dignant rebuke.
The CASE OF THE CREoLE-MR. FILL
moRE's VoTEs-ANorHER CALUMNY Ex-
posED.-In the batch of ISLANDERS which
Locofocism in Louisiana has fabricated,
in the desperate hope of injuring Gen.
Taylor by striking at him through Mil
lard Fillmore, by far the most prominent
is the charge, that during the Congression-
nal session of 1912, Mr.. Fillmore aided
and abetted Giddings, the aboli.ionist in his
Infamous attempt to justify, by solemn
resolution, the mutiny and murder perpe-
trated by a number ofVirginia slaves on
board ofthe brig Creoh. The charge is
false from beginning to end-it is founded
on falsehood, sustained by ingenious and
dishonest garbling Of the Congressional
records, and waptonly palmed upon the
people of Louisiana by a party, whose So
litary chance of success rests upon the.
possibility of deluding and misleading the
public mind. We have taken some pains
to investigate this %atrocious libel, and an
examination of the journals of the House
of Representatives, will co%nclusively es-
tablish Mr.. Fillmore's innocence, and
expose the unscrupulousness and malice
of his adversaries.
The authors of the Creole SANDER as
sert, in the first place, that when Giddings
presented his incendiary resolutions, q
motion was made to lay them on the ia
bic, and that Mr.. Fillmore voted in the
negative, leaving the bare and naked in
ference by inserting Fillmore and Negative
in large letters, that the wing candidate
for Vice President, was therefore, in favor
of the resolutions. This falsehood, by
implication, may at cnce be aenuded in
its fiimsy covering. The journal of the
House shows that one hundred and aoenty-
foe members voted with Mr.. Fillmore
against laying the resolution on the table;
and among their names we find those Of
John B. Dawson, John Moore and Ed
ward ID. White, being the entire delega-
ton from Louisiana, together with a large
number of members from the slavehold-
ing States.
This statement proves incontrovertibly
Mr.. Fillmore went with the South
that memorable occasion, and that in
common with a large majority of the
members he would not consent to treat
the ~nefarious resolutions with the usual
parliamentary courtesy, but vas in favor
Of compelling Giddings to sue for permis-
sion to withdraw them. And yet, this
vote of Fillmore, which is to be found in
conjunction with that ofthe whole LOUISE
ana delegation, is ~recklessly and lagi-
distorted by locofocoism, and rep
resented as a vote of aid and comfort to
Giddiugs. We wish the people Of the
State to remember that ~locofocoism reviles
Willard Fillmore for voting side by side
with John Moore and the lamented Daw-
and White. !
This, however, is only part of the cvi-
dence we shall present of the trickery and