Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-08-31
MIR. Fillmore VS.. the Democratic
PamDhIet-Judgement by Default.

MIR. Fillmore VS.. the Democratic
Pamphlet-Judgement by Default.
At a regular meeting of the Central
Rough and Ready CLUB of the parish of
Jefferson, held al Rough and Ready
Hall, on Monday evening, the ODD instant,
the President having invited Alexander
Phillips, Esq, to the chair, and appointed
DR.. James Jones, assistant Secretary,
called the attention of the Club to their
proceedings at the last regular meeting,
in reference to a pamphlet which has been
circulated in that parish, charging and
purportipgt to prove fron the journals of
Congress, that MiIlard Fillmore is an
Abolitionist, and with a few explanatory
remarks, submitted for consideration the
following preamble and resolutions, which
were read, and on motion, unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, At the last regular meeting
of this Club, on Monday evening, the l4th
inst, the President brought to the notice of
the assembly a pamphlet supposed to have
been put forth by the leaders Of the So
called Democratic party of Louisiana.
charging that Willard Fillmore, the whig
candidate of the true Republican party
for Vice President, is an AbAitionist; and
purporting to contain extracts from the
Journals TO prove the charge by his votes
in Congress.
And Whereas, The said President on
his official responsibility, in the name of
this Club, then and there pronounced
said charge to be false and slanderous,
and supported in said pamphlet by a sup
preston of the most material and lmpor-
tant parts of the record, and by exhibiting
unfair, uncandid and garfield extracts
FROM the journals, which, if fairly given,
would have proven it to be without the
| shadow offoundation.
AnH Whereas, The said President, then
proceeding to review said pamphlet,
clearly showed to the satisfaction of every
candid man present, that it was a tissue of
false, fraudulent and deceptive represent
%tations, arfulIy and cunnsngly devised to
make a false and rroneou impression
upon the mind Of the casual aad unsus-
pecting reader. That in attempting to
prove the charge by showing that MIR.
Fillmore voted agains: Atherton's resolu-
tons in 1888, the first and the only one OF
them involved the question of abolition
ism, and which emphatically declares that
Congress has no power to interfere with
slavery in the States of this c~ontederacy
is wilfully suppressed, because MIR. Fill
more voted for it, and that vote OF itself
proves that he is no abolitionist. lie also
showed to the satisfaction of all candid
minds, then and there present, that the
said pamphlet was false, fraudulent and
deceptive in this, that it represents Mr..
Fillmore IN numerous instances as voting
alone with Adams, SIade and Giddings,
to make the impression OH the casual and
unsuspecting reader that Mr.. Fillmore
generally acted and sympathized with
those men, when a candid exposition of
the votes would have shown that in al
most every instance he voted also wish a
large ~number'of the leading members of
the ~so-called Democratic party, whom
the authors of this pamphlet are now
proud to claim and act with, but whose
names have been ~purposely suppressed in
order to mislead and deceive the honest
voter, and make him believe this false
and slanderous charge.
He further showed that. said pamphlet
graveIy charges Mr.. Fillmore with hav-
ing justified, by his votes, mut'ny and
the murder Of white men by negroes
That an attempt is therein made to prove
this monstrous and shocking charge, by
merely showing that he voted against q
motion to lay on the table Gidding's reso-
luton touching the mutiny and murder
on board the brig Creole, in 1912. That