Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-20

nsmeasatle mssit OF, haYa each noby awafdsa
to the President the fullest acknowledgements O.
the patriotism and lirmness which he mas dis
played in the discharge of his difficult duties
Even Judge Butler, of South Carolina, avowcd
in the Senate his high opinion of the character of
Mr.. Fillmore So did Gen. Cass; so did Mr..
King, of Alabama so did Mr.. Downs. of Loui
siana The efforts of the Union to shake the
confidence of the people in such President will
only recoil upon the head of its own party; for
they cannot fail to excite, amongst all fair men,
feeling of Indignation at such bald injustice.
The Republic lately repubshed the Buffalo let.
ter o. Mr.. Fillmore not for the purpose of reiter-
ating its sentiments, but of showing that, by
emitting portions of it, the Democratic press had
| materially misrepresented its character. The
| Union, thereupon, raises the cry that the Buffalo
letter is again put forth as a declaration of Mr..
Fillmoro's position on the slavery question. To
| this poor appeal the Republic makes conclusive
reply which we insert elsewhere.
The following paragraphs from another article
of the Republic also serve to exhibit the merits
of this controversy:
The Union says thaNMr. Fillmore did not vote
iOi iustVe Save OIL ana thar ne COlIQ Hot nave
voted Tor without turning his back upon every vote
he ever did give on the slavery questions" Well
suppose that it will be admitted that Mr.. Fillmore in
signing the bill, didque much towards making
1t law as 1t he had voted Tor it in of the Houses
OF Congress. Certain it is that he did quite as much
| Tor the bill In signing it, if ne had been Qike Gen
eral CaSs and Judge Douglas member of the Senate
| and had omitted to vote crit. This we assume to be
demonsrabie Ii, then, by voting for the BILL he would
| have turned his back upon" all his votes on the
slavery question, which way did he turn his back wher
| he signed il?
And what did Mr.. Fillmore himself say in his.lette
to Governor Gayle, in reference to this very charged?
He said that he REGARDED slavery a matter witt
which the National Government had nothing to do
lie SAID that by the Constitution OF the United State
the whole power over that question was vested in thu
several States where the institution as tolerated
they regarded as blessing they had constitutional
right to enoyit; and it they regarded it as an evil
they had the power and knew best how to apply tht
! remedy did not conceive that Congress had any
| power over It, or was in any way responsible for it
continuance in the several States where it existed.
nave entertained no other sentiments on this subec
since L examined it sufficiently to form an opinion
and doubt not that all my acts, public aud private,
| VIII be found in accordance with this view"
| In publishing this correspondence, The Mobile Ad-
verser made aVerment which has been sustained TO
the letter by the whole tenor OF Mr.. Filnores official
! conduct and which reproduce for the benefit oil
the calumnlators who seek 10 asten upon MIR. Fill
| more charge which they know to be unfounded.-
There is not prominent man. said the Advertiser
"otany party, north Of the Potomac, who is treer from
all tant or suspicion of aboitionstn none who, in
feeling or principle is further removed from tanaticsn
none entertaining sounder aryntive views
aud none more ready stand by the Cons tuton and
the rights OF the South guaranteed by the Coustiu
ton, than Millard Fillmore