The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-06-17
From the New York Tribune.
The Wings Of New YOrk-Whai Principle,
they have Pr0fesSed! .' W

! The State of New York, as early as
1920, proclaimed its unanimous hostility to
the extension of human slavery. I'm 1890
: Gf we do not mistake the year, our legis.
lature resoved-Francis Granger, with
nearly all the wings in the assembly voting
yea-that slavery in the district of Coum.
bia ought to be abolished. In 1888, be.
fore VIM. II. Seward was chosed Cover
nor or known as politically hostile to slave
ry. Milard Fillmore was a Candidate for
Congress in Erie county, and under no sort
of political necessity Tor SO doing since the
whg vote of this district was large ma
lority of the whole, sent the following re.
ply to the questions of the abolilionists of
this county, viz: "tE ,...
.... ... BUFFALO, Oct IL, 1888.
SIR. Your communication Of the 18th
instant, as chairman of committee OPP
pointed by the Anti-Slavery Society of the
county of Erie, has just come to hand.
You solicit my answer to the following in.
terogatories
lst Do you believe that petitions to
Congress on the subject OF slavery and the
slave trade ought to be received, read, and
respectfully considered by the representa-.
lives Of the people!
I'd. Are you opposed to the annexation of
Texas to this Union under any crcumstan.
ces so long as slaves are held therein?
I'd. Are you in tavorof Congress exer-
cising all the constitutional power it pos
sesses to GbotiSh the internal stare trade
betceen he StateS,
4th. Are yOu IN faro, Of in,mdid.e leg
islation far the abotitiOn Of sIavc''y IN the
District gf CoIu"sbia." 4. .....
al ain much engaged, and have no time
to enter Into an argument, or TO explain at
englh my reasons for my opinion. shall
therefore content myself, for The present, by
a,,SWertng all your antcrrogatorieS tn The
affirmative, and leave for some future oc-
caslona more extended discussion OF the
subject. ....... ..... .. -.... .
MILLARD FILLMORE"
This letter was paraded through the loco.
foco journa's of the slave States through
oul the at presiden, al canvass. when Mr..
Fillmore was the whig candidate for Vice
President. vet while its authenticity was
admitted they never made expenses out
of il. VI Fillmore refused To explain
or uuarfy it with respect TO the abolition oil
slavery in the District Of Columbia, the
right of petition, or the grounds of resist.
ance TO the annexation OF Texas; and he
only qualified his strong doctrine with re-
gard to the internal slave trade by referring
% the recent case of Prigg against Penn
sylvauia. in which the Supreme Court had
rusd against him. And we don't believe
he whg ticket has thousand votes
throughout the South because of that letter
As early as l6l4--the question being
forced upon US by intrigues for annexation
the whig party OF New York took decided
. ground against the extension of our slave
. holding territory. The following is one o
> the resolves unanimously passed by tn
whig State Convention Of that year.
} Resolred. That the aHnesatIon Of Tex
+ as 20 thu Union, without the previous All
: rogation Of the national contribution OF Tex
Il as, woud render slavery perpetual through
$ ,ut the doininions held by that republic a
s the time Of annexation, because The preser
|. constitution of Texas makes slave perpe
e uaI, and neither the treaty-making powe
: nor the legislative power Of governmer
= IAN abolish or repeal constitutional prc
e visos" '
Is That this doctriue was orerrued and d.
,fea,ed with regard TO Texas was not th