Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-11-29
Letter from MIR. Fillmore.
From the Buffalo CONNIE rcial Advert.

From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
In publishing the following extract from
4 letter received yesterday afternoon from
the Nice-President elect, we plead guilty
to trenching somewha, upon the inviola-
biiity OF private correspondence: but the
sentiments avowcd by Mr. FILLMORE are
so honorable and just. SO truly patriotic
and national. and will everywhere be read
with SO much pleasure, that we feel we arc
justified and rendering service in making
them public.
- To me iherc is no manifesto
ton OF popular sentiment which calls up
such deep feelings of gratitude as that
generous vote of my old friends and err
iyconstituents Of the county of Erie Ills
now twenty years since they first elected
ne 10 the Assembly, and from that day to
this they have stood by me throush 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 contin-
ued kindness and confidence awaken> the
deepest emotions Of grateful heart
9" trust, too. that YOU will not blame me
Tor expressing the qualification and pride
which feel in receiving SO ilaitering vote
in my native State. But these things are.
in measure personal to myself, and there
fore OF very little Importance. But the
cordially and unanmity with which the
" hig ticket has been sustained every
where. North and South. East and West.
is a Just cause of national felcitation.-
1t proves that the great Wing party is truly
a national party that il occupies that safe
and conservative ground which secures 10
every section OF the country all that it has
Il right to claim under the Constitution
that such rights are inviolate--and as TO
all other questions of mere policy. where I
Congress has the Constitutional right to
lcgislate, the will of the people. as express /
ed through their Representatives in Con- |
gress. is 10 control, and that will is not to |
be defeated by the arbitrary interposition
OF the veto power. This simple rule,
which holds sacred all constitutional guar
antees. and leaves the law-maling power
where the Constitution placed it. in Con-
gress. relieved the party at once from all
the embarrassing questions that arise out
of the sectional differences of opinion,
and enables i, TO act tremendously for the
good of the country.
When the President ceases to control
the law-makins power. his individual opin
ions Of what the law ought 10 be become
uniinporiant Hence We
have seen Gea. TAYLOR, though attacked
AS Shareholder and a pro Slavery man at
the North, cordially supported and tri-
elected by men opposed 10
Slavery III all its forms; aud though have
been charged at the South. in the most
Aboitionist and an incendiarv, yet the /
Wings of the South have cast these cal +
unnics TO the winds, and without asking
OF expecting anything more than what the I
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 I
the attack was most violent.
Really these Southern Wings are no.
BILE fellows. Would you not lament 10 see
the Union dissolved, if for no other cause
than that it separated us from such true.
noble and high minded associates Bu'
| regard this Election as putting an end TO
all ideas of disunion. 1t raises up a ma
tional party, occupying a middle ground,
and leaves the fanatics and disunionsis. +
North and South, without the hope of des- I
the fair fabric of our Constitution.
May ii be perpetual"