The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-25
THE REPUBLIC.
From the Nsio York Express, Novernber %.
Rerversion AZ Truth

State are extremely sensitive, we see, TO the
comment of others upon their conduct during
the recent election, and previously TO it. We
are glad of it. 1t is natural for all men TO de-
sire the good opinion of others, especially when
those whose good opinion is desirable have
right TO act as counsellors and advisers. The
Wing press out of New York are very naturally
shocked at the ISLANDERS which papers, profess
edly Wing in New York, from day 10 day utter
against the President ofthe United States and the
Administration. They hear it asserted that the
Administration did this, that, and the other thing;
and knowing, from the natural instincts of self
preservation, that ttere can be no truth in these
charges, they feel, as friends of the Adminstra-
ton, indignant that the President is thus wound
ed in his own State, in the house of those who
ought to be his friends.
1t is due to truth, often perverted here, to state
that the opposition to the President is more person
al than political. 1t grows from an old grudge
against Mr. Fillmore, because he was not the man
to be the tool of corrupt regency at Albany, not
far removed from the old Albany Regency, which
was for so many years obnoxious all over the coun
try In public office in the State service he was
pure man, and not one to be used by ciques or
factions He had no friends to reward and no
mics to punish He was no mans man, but u man
of strict integrity, great capacity pcrseverng in
dustry and above all the brides and temptations Of
those who turn public office into the means of re-
ceiving private sinecurcs. Hence the enemies he
has in Albany and elsewhere in the State come
from those under the influence of the corrupt die
tator there. But, as the President has IT. reality
done nothing in office which any man can
take offence at it is found necessary to indulge in
system of studied Misrepresentation against him
In the first place, there is constant attack upon
those who hold office under the Government, cape
cialy If they received that Office from Mr. Fillmore,
or if they sympathize with the measures of his Ad
mnstration
Now, it is notorious that, when Mr.. Fillmore was
Vice President Of the United States, his biterest
enemies had the dispensation of the patronage of
this State; and it is known, too, that the measure
of dislike which claimants for office held towards
the Vice President the principal standard OF
| their recommendation. Even in his own town,
county, and district his worst enemies select
| ed for the most important places. Mr.. Fillmore
bore all this with the dignity and calmness becom-
| ing the high place TO which he had been called.
| No one heard him murmur or complain at an af'
front which he no doubt felt most kcenly, but an
affront which, whether he felt it not, made his
old friends feel keeny the outrage which had been
pcrpetrated through Senator Seward and his CO.
laborers at Washington.
President, and, before General Taylor in his
grave, his successor was met with the threats and
stern defiance of his old enemies at Albany. They
knew they could not rule him, and they knew they
had wronged him, and therefore at once commenced
their foul work of detrac ton. There is hatred
quite bitter that which springs up in the minds
OF malicious men who have never had any good
cause for their malice; and so the President was
first threatened then assailed, and finally traddced
and illuminated, as we hear him from day
to day.
But, under Providence, the President his Adj
ministration, and his friends in Congress, led on
by Messrs. Clay and Webster, and good men of
the opposite party who were happy to cooperate
with them, had the honor to be largely nstru-
mental in the passage of the six Compromise mea-
sures. The country was profoundly excited, and
never before had there been such all-pervading
sectional excitement From the grave of General
Taylor--he who had been made by his predecessor
the instrument of conquering and acquiring the
foreign territory which gave rise TO the domestic
difficulties under which the country suffer-
ing-many good men resolved to bury their pas
sions, and TO cultivate the better feelings Of pa
riotism and brotherhood which afterwards happily
were in the ascendant in Congress and the
country.
Under the impulses of patriotism, and the
storation of better feeling, the Compromise acts
were passed by Congress, and approved and signed
by the President. Five Of the six measures are
such as the North have generally approved of
They are mainly northern measures, such max
ing free State the Pacific, providing terrific
rial governments for disorderly and savage COM
munities, defining boundary favorable to free
territory by equivalent of money to Texas, and
abolishing the slave trade in the District of Column
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act strictly constitutional, and in it's operation
more kindly towards the fugitive from service than
the law of 1898. It is called a southern measure,
but is in truth, an act required of Congress by the
Constitution of the country. The South has the
benefit of it to the extent, and no more, of a sur
render to her people by the North of what is, or
what if there be any dispute about the fact, the
Constitution makes her own.
The South has never anywhere heartily approved
of these Compromise measures, and the North has
never approved Of the Fugitive Slave law; but the
good sense of the country has acquicsced in them
and shown disposition not to disturb them. Now
the great peryersion of TRUTH INDUCED in by the
so-caled Wing opponents OF the Administration,
is the holding up Of the one law, single measure
of the Compromise, an isolated measure for pub
lie comment and public judgment This is a base
and mean perversion of the truth II is the Com
tained-not approved, if there are any compunc-
tions of conscience out that-not even voted for
or concurred in whcn before Congress- but now
that they are laws, and the free States have got all
the good which can possibly be secured from them
they should be acquiesced in at least unt til all par
tics shall agree to change thom in the language
OF the Presidents message to Congress, until time
and crcum stances shall demonstrate the necessity
OF their change"
Is it not, then, wiful perverson of truth to re-
present any number of Wings here as singing out
and demanding of National Convention any
other convention, an isolated approval of the Flu
gi.ive Slave law? We sing no hosannas to that
law. We take the Compromise whole, we
take the Constitution a whole; and, if the nation
is wisc as wise it will be in this respect, though at
Wing cost, if rsryaEse counsels are 10 prevail. it
will stand by both as a settlement, in principle and
substance, of every sectional difficulty which can
arise between the North and South.
10 the Editor of The Republic:
have been much pleased with the several nrti