The republic., 1851-07-16
From the augusta { (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel.
MIR. 'Fillmore's Position.

1t is not uncommon to hear MIR. Fillmore de-
nounced by the southern disunionists as an Aboli-
tonist and Free-soiler. With such epithets the
southern is quite familiar but it is not fa-
miliar with the denunciations heaped upon the
President and his Administration by the northern
olaborers of the southern disunionsts, the Aboli
tionists and Free soiers and therefore subjoin
specimen from John Van Buren-an extract
from speech recently delivered by him before a
Free-soil Democratic Convention in Burlington,
Vermont. Here it is:
"Mr. Fillmore came into the Office of President
by the death of General Taylor. He had it in his
power TO put an end to the entire slavery agitation
in twenty days.
But he chose TO take the opposite course to turn his
back upon the friends who had elevated him, to fall
sfy the professions Of his past life, to throw himself
into the arms of those who are prostuting the
Government to the extension of slavery, and to set
the seal of his appreciation TO law which, in my
humble Judgment, civilized government on
earth, except our own, would now enact"
Conservative men of the South will have little
difficulty in determining the character of ad-
ministration which is thus denounced by the ultra
factions in both sections of the Union. Each as
sert that the policy of the President is danetrcally
opposite-the one that he has yielded every thing
to the South, the other that he is seeking its de-
struction to build up the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that
every intelligent mind knows to be untrue, and
wholly without foundation.
There can be no mistakng the fact that the time
is rapidly approaching when tho people of this
co antry must either repudiate and put down the
ultra factions of the North and South or submit
destruction of the Government and the annihila-
ton of our institutions. The signs are ominous,
and those who desire to perpetuate the Republic,
the Constitution, and the liberties secured by the
,atri in4,o IF tka,r Ea4b obo,
stand by quiet lockers on in such contest.
Since writing the foregoing, our eye has fallen
upon the following precious moroccan from the
Alabama State Journal, which is copied by the Co
lumbus Times
''It is fact well known at ashington city and
elsewhere, by the pimps of the present Abolition
Administration that if Footo is elected in Missis
sippi, and Howell Cobb in Georgia, the Abolition
Government at Washington, whose adviser ia
Daniel Webster, will use military force to carry
out certain laws of this Abolition Government and
will hang every citizen of that State for TRKAsor
who murnurs at any law that abotonsts may
establish. But If neither of these Esaus of the
South is elected, South Carolina can do Just what
she peases and nothing will be said to her by free
negro Fillmore and his colortd fellow citizens of
Buffalo"
The disunon organs in Georgia and Alabama
arc evidently in strait, when they are driven to
the necessity of indulging in such vituperation.
They are, however, TO be pitied; they have no ar
guments with which to vindicate their positions,
and they hope to succeed by substituting coarse
epithets They have evidently not profited by the
lessons taught by the people of Georgia in Novem-
Der last, save and except in the single fact that
they have been forced to abandon their open advo-
cacy Of secession in Georgia, and are now seeking
to accomplish, by intrigue, and indirection, what
they dare not openly and directly attempt or
nvow.