The republic., 1851-09-08
From The Neio Orleans True Della.
Ia the President a Tyrant.

Start not, gentle reader, at the strangeness Of
the interrogatory, nor utter exclamation of sur
prise at an answer to question involving
great national reproach-consequence so deeply
humliating-should be eXtorted from us.
For some weeks past portion OF the public
press of this city has labored with extraordinary
assiduity, with diligence not to be accounted
for by any thing that has transpired around or
amongst us, to bring the Executive of our coun-
try into contempt and disgrace with the people.
If the efforts of the men engaged in work
so scandalous and reprehensible could be ac-
counted for by any recent public act of that
exalted gentleman; if their objections were the
offspring of an honest Indignation at some usur-
patton of the officer, some transgression of the
laws, some outrageous violations of the Con-
stitution which, rightfully or wrongfully they
believed chargeable to him, we could sympa-
thize in their feelings, if not extenuate the
gross improperly committed by their seditious
publications and the dangerous and unj justlfi-
able precedent they seek to establish, by their
contempt for an authority derivable from, and
resting solely on, the sovereignty of the peo-
ple But in the official conduct of MILLARD
FILLMORE no such offences can be detected,
no crime of omission or commission in regard to
affairs transpiring here brought home to him.
1t is alleged against the President that he is
an ally of monarchy, supporter OF tyranny, an
enemy Of freedom; and the evidence adduced to
convict him of these enormities, on which
charges so grave, so ignominlous, and unwor-
thy rest is sought to be extracted from proclama-
ton issued eighteen months ago. in anticipation of
events that take it for granted never occurred,
as the conduct of his Administration not gov
erned in the Cardenns affair by the doctrine avow
ed in the obnoxious State paper.
II has been on various occasions duty, at
least we so deemed it, to comment with some &C.
verity-but with due regard to propriety, and with
all the respect that belongs to the Executive of the
greatest nation il earh-upon the public acts OF
the Presdent;w may be compelled to do so again,
and we shall most assuredly not shrink from it, If
we deem it necessary; but unfathful and unwor
thy to our trust, as humble servants of the peo-
pie, enabled by their encouragement to main
tain and conduct an independent journal, we
would prove ourselves to be, if we hesitated to
bear our willing testimony, feeble though It be,
to the eminent deserts of the worthy and estima-
bic citizen who now directs the destinies of this
great Republic Since the removal by the D-
vine command of the soldier and patriot, Gen
eral Zachary Taylor, the duties of the Presiden
tial office have been faithfully, ably, and honoraby
discharged by his successor, and personal malig
nity political difference or sectional jealousy, will
search in vain for just of dissatisfaction with
Millard Fillmore. We know nothing personally of
the President, nothing of his Cabinet; neither
their personal friends nor their political supporters;
when they do right, according to our notions, we
are not chary of praise; when they do wrong,
we condemn them in language we deem demanded
by the extent of their transgresson; but regard
with Just alarm, with unfeigned apprehension, the
designs now on foot TO degrade the Executive of
the nation, contemn his authority, and resist his
execution of the laws.
With the political principles he entertains, or the
manner OF their embodiment by his political sup
porters, in or out of Congress, we have nothing to
do except to such extent we are called upon to
supervise them as independent journalists; but as
President Of this Republic, we respect honor, and
reverence the officer, and will with the pen or in
any other manner demanded by the emergency,
according to our ability sustain his authority and
carry out his orders, go long as he is controlled by
the laws and the Constitution, and we believe him
incapable knowingly, of invading the one, or
trampling on the other
From every indication, it is impossible TO avoid
the conclusion that the domestic clique who
duced a mere handful of gallant and determined
souls to rush to destruction in Cuba WILL TO shelter
themselves from the responsibilities they have in
CURED, make every endeavor to compromise our
Government, il it be not already committed to hos
tilities with Spain; in which event, we have every
reason to believe a coalition with France and Eng
land will be- if it be not already, sought by Spain
In this contingency, which s far from improbable,
Federal Government will admit that il is better