Southern shield., 1850-08-17
From the Washington Republic.
 President Fillmore.

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 The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, ot November 18th, lS4S, contains the follow ing extract from a private letter written from Albany by MT. Fillmore, then comp troler of the State of New York, immedi- ately after the result of the elections had shown that he was chosen Vice President The letter not being intended for publica, ton, the editor of the Advertiser prefaced it with the following remarks, which suffi- ciently explain our reasons for now repro ducing it;
 1 "ln publishing the following extract from a letter received yesterday afternoon from the Vice President elect, we plead guilty to trenching somewhat upon the involabilty of private correspondence; but the senti- ments avowed by MT. Fillmore are so honorable and just, so truly patriotic and national, and will everywhere be read with so much pleasure, that we feel we are justi- | fled, and rendering service, in making them public.-Bufalo Com. Advertiser.
 "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 constitu- ents of the county of Erie. It is now twenty 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 circumstances with zeal and fidelity almost unknown in this country; and the last crowning act of their continued kind ness and confidence awakens the deepest emotions of grateful heart.
 'l trust, too, that you will not blame me for expressing the qualification and pride which feel in receiving so fattering a vote in my native State. But these things are, in measure, personal to myself, and there fore of little importance. But the cordiaIi- ty and unanimity with which the Whig ticket has been sustained everywhere, North, South, East and West, is a just cause of national feIicitation. It proves that the great Whg party is truly a nation- al Party-that it occupies that safe and conservative ground which secures 10 every section ot the country all that it has a right to claim under the guaranty of the Consti- tutlon-that such rights are inviolate; and as to all other questions of mere policy, where Congress has the constitutional right to legislate, the will of the people, as ex- pressed through their representatives in Congress, is to control, and that will is not to be defeated by the arbitrary interpostion of the veto power. This simple rule, which holds sacred all constitutional guar antees, and leaves the law-making power where the Constitution placed it, in Con- gress, relieves the party at once from all the embarrassing questions that arise out of sectional differences of opinion, and enables il to act harmoniously for the good of the country. When the President ceases to control the law-making power, his indvidu- al opinions, of what the law ought to be, be- come comparatively unmportant Hence we have seen General Taylor, though at tackled as shareholder and a pro-slavery man at the North, cordially supported and triumphantly 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 AboIitioniSt and an ncendiary, yet the Wings of the South have cast these caluna- aaeS to the winds, and, without asking or expecting any thing more than what the Constitution guaranties 10 them on this sub- ject, they have yielded to me most hearty and enthusiastic support. This was par ticularly so in New Orleans (and Georgia,) where the attack was most violent.
 "Rcally, these southern Wings are noble fellows. Would you not lament 10 see the Union dissolved, if for no other cause than that il separated us from such true, noble, and hgh-minded associates? But I regard this election as putting an end 10 all ideas ot disunon. It raises up a national party, occupying middle ground, and leaves the fanatics and disunionists, North and South without the fair fabric of the Constitution May it be perpetual"
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