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auspices, the ADMINISTRATION has achieved
such all overwhelming victory. While we
write a letter is placed in our hands which con-
firms our own view of Governor CAMPBELL's
position, in the following distinct statement:
"The lightning will have informed you long be-
fore this reaches you Of the fate of LocofOcoism
: in Tennessee. Our gallant CAMPBELL no
bly, sustained himself in the fight.
''This election is an endorsement of Mr..
FILLMORE by Tennessee; for CAMPBELL pro-
claimed him as his choice for the next Presi-
dency from one end of the State to the other"
We have said that the DEMOCRATIC jour
nails represented this election as involving a
personal as well as a political issue. They
were determined TO hold Mr.. FILLMORE re-
sponsible for the result which they anticipated,
and to bruit it through the country as the de-
feat of Mr. FILLMORE. Governor CAMPBELL
was willing to assume that responsibility for
the WHIGs and the Administration. Colonel
GENTRY had already assumed it, in his admi-
rable speech delivered before the Wing State
Convention at Nashville on the Goth of March
last an extract from which, that we commend
to the especial attention of our readers, we Sc
lect as suitable accompaniment to any sug
gestions in regard 10 the recent WING and
UMdN triumph in TENNESSEE:
There is yet a greater question than any which
have yet stated that will be decided by the next
election That question is-shan Tennessee APP
/ prove OF condemn the conduct of President FILL
MoaE, in his administration Of the Executive
power Of the Governmcnt? AS the vote of the
State in August next eha be for or against his
friends and supporters, so will it be construed as
approving or condemning his Administration.
{ This is an issue which is all-embracing in its
character. Its decision by the people involves a
Judgment upon the conduct of the Wings in re-
lation TO those measures which all candid men
will now admit have involved the Republic in
its present perous difficultee; and also judg-
ment upon their position in relation to the rem
edies proposed TO extricate it from danger II
connects itself in its consequences with the
past, the present, and the future. Should the
decision be against us, repeat that it will be
strued as condemnation of our past action
it will consgn the men Of the Wing party often
to political existence; and it will, for
reasons heretofore stated, determine the political
position of the State, for ten years at least, ad-
versely to our principles and views. Never in
called upon to express their judgment at the bal
lot box when questions of such high and enduring
importance to them to be determined by their
voice. President FILLMORE succeeded 10 his high
station at period of extraordinary difficulty.
Congress had been in session for extraordina-
ry period of hme-engaged in abortive efforts to
adjust the sectional questions which had been pre-
cipitated upon the country by the acquisition of
extensive territories from Mexico. The extreme
"opinions and prejudices of the North and South
seemed to be in rreconcilable conflict, and, loud
above the roar and din of maddened factionists,
the thunders of disunion broke in terrible and
startling peals upon the ear of the nation. The
most sanguine patriots almost ready to de-
spair and the most resolute trembled for the fate of
the Union. The public anxiety, especially in the
southern States, was intense beyond description.
The impression had been acknowledgements
during the preceding contest for the Presidency,
that Mr. FILLMORE was himself an abotionst.
The national heart throbbed high with anxiety.
All eyes were fixed upon the Capitol with intense
solicitude Had the PRESIDENT listened to the
suggestions of mean and selfish ambition, or
needed the counsels of a cowardly timidity,
G. cd only knows what would have been the result
But he did not hesitate moment. With that
promptitude which characterizes great men in
great emergencies, he chose his line of conduct.
With a courage and patriotism unsurpassed in
history. he determined TO throw himself into the
| breach and save his country, reckless of oonse-
quences himself, Defying the rawlings Of north
ern abotionists and southern disunionists, he
openly and fearleesy directed all the influences
which legitimately attach to his high position in
support of those bills then pending in Congress
generally known as the Compromise measures,
and under hs auspices they became laws and
| Z A. hs~h,
{ of the Republic safely passed, for time
at least. Good men of all parties ceased their
chickering's and united in congratulating one an
other upon the safety Of the Republic and in pro-
nouncing plauds upon the President who had 30
nobly performed his duty. But curses loud and
deep came up from disunionists and abolitionists
| and concentrated upon him. Northern abolition
and southern disunion have not been queted.
Forcible opposition to the execution of the Fug-
tive Slave law is threatened in the North, and
South Carolina proclains it to be her purpose to
secede from the Union Agitators and extremists,
nullifers seccssioniss, and disunionists are uni
ted in furious and malignant opposition to the
President, and by every in their power
arc seeking to break down his Administration,
and destroy its capacity to serve and the coun
| { try Calm amidst the raging storm, he firmly
| performs his duty to the whole country; and re-
luHes 10 DC the supple INSTRUMENT OF any laCtOn.
With moral courage which high patriotism and
conscious rectitude could alone inspire, he has
stretched forth arm the North, and the other
to the South, and throtted the monsters, abolition
and disunon; and he calls upon the lovers of the
Union, upon all good men of every party, 10 come
to the rescue and aid him in strangling them to
death. FiH Tennessee go to tie rescue, and aid him
in his great effort? UiH she invigOrate his tcit
cheering voice Of approuaP Or will she strike it
nerveless by a sentence of condemnation? These
questions will be answered on the first Thursday in
August"
Touch not the Amounted.
The Democratic Carbonari of Ohio, who
have conspired against the peace of the Union,
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