The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-17
The Abolition Organs and President
Fillmore


wards the administration of Mr. Fillmore, immedi-
ately after the demise of the larsented General lay
lor, or is attempting mystify il 10 such degree
as 10 conceal far possible his real intentions
forthe future as well AS those of the ultra abolition
lists in the interior of the State. While endeavonng
TO do this, he nevertheless tries hard to prove that
Mr. Fillmore is bound 10 carry out the plan OF the
late administration, in regard 10 the slavery ques
ton, in connection with the new territories.
Let us see by what arguments our friend Thur
low Weed seeks 10 make il appear that Mr.. Fill
more should adopt this course. He says General
Tsylor's policy had commended itself to the wise
and the good 10 the friends of the Union and of
freedom all the republic. In the first place, in
answer to this broad assertion, we deny emphati-
cay that the plan of settling, or rather of keeping
alive, the slavery que stion originated with Gene
raj Taylor. That venerable man had no policy in
the matter but the administration plan IT is cali
ed, was cooked up by Mr.. Clay ton and his associ-
ates to accomplish thsir own purposes, and with
the intention TO keep alive the agitation as long as
possible. 1t was no more General Taylor's policy
than il was ours and we believe there is not aman
in the country who knows this better than does
Thurlow Weed himself AS for the administration
plan which was thus concocted and palmed oil on
friends of the Union, the assertion is simply
without a particle Of foundation. II is very
well known that it has been repudiaed by wings in
Congress well as out of it, and that but for the
cabinet influence which was held m termem
certain members of the Senate and House of Re-
personalities the Compromise BILL introduced and
so periodically advocated and favored by Mr.. Clay,
Mr.. Webster, and other great lights of the whig
party, would have received the sanction of Con-
gress, at least that of the Senate, long before this
Ii was the influence of the Gaphin cabinet which
prevented that consummaton SO devoutly to be-
wished
Again Thurlow Weed says, that the late Pres-
dents policy-that is, the cabinet's-has been APP
proved by all wing governors and wing legisa-
lures, by the wing press with isolated exceptions
and by the wing people almost universally. THIS
in plain language, is "whopper." The assertion
is on par with the other, and is equally destitute
of foundation In few instances the Galphin
policy may have been approved by wing governors
and wing legislatures; but that it has been appro
we'd of by the wing people generally, we most EN-
phaticay deny. Meetings of the people, wings
well as democrats, but at which the wings
predomiRated, have been held in many OF the
large cities, at which resolutions were ,assed,
directly approving of the compromise with which
Mr. Clay and Mr.. Webster are identified and by
implication disappearing of the Galphin scheme of
keeping open the slavery agitation, and condemn
ing the administration plan. This is matter fhisory
but the ura-abolitionists of the Weed and Seward
school, as well their organs, very scrupu-
lous in their attention to truth; but the contrary
have no hesitation in disregarding it altogether,
whenever it suits their purpose to do so. Will il be
said at this day, that cabinet composed of such
materials as the men who now under condem-
nation, soemnly pronounced upon by the House OF
Representatives, would be looked up to as guides as
pilots, directors Of public opinion at this crisis,
in preference to such men as Clay, Webster, and
those associated with them, who have grown gray
in the service of their country, and whose patriot
ism, honesty and integrity have always deem above
suspicion! Yet this is what Thurow Weed asserts
in substance. In connection with the Compromise
bill, Weed says, how widely different would now
have been the condition and prospects of the repub
lie, had Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster given the great
weight of their voices and their votes to the mea
sures of the administration This is unadulierated
trash. Messrs. Clay and Webster are eminenty
entitled TO, and do enjoy, the confidence of the
American people, of all classes and parties, the
slavery question. Whatever propositions they may
introduce, or favor, for he3ing the difficulties
which have arisen between different sections OF
the country-and which have been produced by the
Stewards, Greeleys, and Weeds, of the wing party,
and by the Van Burens and other free soilers ofthe
democratic party-the people know spring from
honest and patriotic motives, and the assaults that
are from day to day, made upqSp those two distin-
gushed patriots, will recoil the heads of those
who make them. Free soilism, Wimot proviso-
ism, and abolltIonism in general, are at a low ebb;
and their authors, agitdtors and supporters are
about to be hurled from the Tarpeian rock, and
consigned to that oblivion Of which they have
shown themselves so worthy. In after years,
when the crisis in which the country is now
placed shall have been passed over in safety,
when the clouds and fogs which now obscure
the political horizon shall have been dissipated,
and the Union shall stand forth again in all
Its strength and grandeur, the patriotic masses Of
the American people will know how TO estimate
those ho, in the hour of danger and dismay, used
their pens, their tongues, and the presses at their
command, TO create and foster III feeling between
the North and the South, and did their utmost to
produce dissolution of this glorious coniederacy.
MIR. Fillmore may expect the opposition of the
ultra sbolitionsts of this State in the event OF his
not following the plan of the Galphin cabinet
connection with the slavery question, but n need
not care for that lie is now President of he
United States and responsible to the people of all
parties for the policy which he may parsue With
such men as Clay and Webster to consult with,
and with the great heart of the people to s,mpt-
thHe with hun, he need pay no more attention 10 he
opposition Of The free soil or abslition f,iitcs OF
the North, than he would to the rustlag OF The
wind. We have every confidence IA Mr Fillmore,
aud feel satisfied that he will devote himself l1 he
settlement of the slavery question IN manner sal.
isfactory all sections of the country and 10
strengthen the bonds that bind them together IN a
vast and mighty whole, the wonder and admiration
of the world
Tn NEXT MAYOR or NEw YoRK.-The social
ists. who have insinuated themselves among the