The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-12
Eom the Columbia Is. C.) Telegraph.

gencer, and sundry tin-trumpet organs that try
to re-bellow its thunder on all occasions have
labored to produce the impression that the press
Of South Carolina is one-sided and partial, and
! by many the charge has been specifically brought
against the Telegraph. We deny the charge in
toto, and we point to ourcOlumns as triumphant
vindication of our course on the great contro-
versy now raging. We have not, it is true
written editorials Of the CANNON and barney
order, about the Union, simply because we don't
believe in government which cannot show its
good points and merits practically, but must be
kept up by putting and certificates like quack
bread-pill. We do not devote all our space to
abusing Mr.. Rhett or Jefferson Davis, or to en-
logizing Dir. Fillmore and his snap, CANNON,
and quirk" cabinet, because we see no good end
to be attained by such course. We do not
abuse South Carolina, because we were born,
and have spent our life thus far on her soil, and
know no reason to be ashamed of her. We
have not done many things which court journals,
from the Intelligencer down to the Augusta
Chronicle, daily and habitnally do for the very
simple reason that we advocate cause from
conviction, and must write and speak as we
honestly think, or cease to write and speak at
all. We plead guilty, therefore, to many of the
sins of omission laid against us by the InteIi-
gencer and its satellites, and ae even venture to
assert, that the documents Of all kinds, procla-
nations and puffs, messages and manifestoes,
&c., which have been published by many az i'm
portant, within the last year, but have not ap.
peared in extenso in the Telegraph, would make
as large a volume AZ the catalogue and directory
of the great Worlds Fair, which Is to be a
gathering together of the notions, and a mena-
gerie exhibition of the Yankees of all nations
to each other, and the rest of mankind.
We plead guilty even, to the offence (unpar-
donabe as it may seem'to some, and rank as it
may seem to those who can only appreciate an
"order of nationality'D of not publishing in full
the message or proclaim ition which Mr. Fill
more launched against those few negroes in
Boston, who instigated by the devil and un-
mindful of the ''holy alliance" entered into at
Washington, as a compromise, frightened the
people of that city (nineteen twentieths of
whom, according to the Websterian standard,
are good men and true) from their proprety,
and defed the authorities Of the city, the State,
and the Union. We plead guilty we say, and
we propose reparaiion which we trust will sat
isfy the Intelligencsr and bring its conductors
to as cool and refreshing state of repose as
their hebdomadal Carolinians have often tend
ed to produce with u.s. We propose a repara-
ton we say, and as favor and qualification to
the other party we will call it a compromise.
In the first place we can not publish all that
Mr. Fillmore or Mr. Webster promise or threat
en- to do, but we will give good account when
ever they actually do anything
Secondly, We will publish any article no! i'm
proper for newspaper, or not too long for our
space for any editor who will let us edit his pa
per and dictate In the same manner how his col
umns are to be filed
Tbiy,if, \Va pou puhlisb /, l,ttnr &c NJ
Fillmore, which is clear, explicit and unequivo-
cal, and which puts his opinions on slavery and
the slavery question, in condensed form, so lu-
eddy and clearly that no one who reads can
misunderstood or doubt his position
We copy the letter written in reply to certain
queries propounded by a committee to Willard
Fillmore, then candidate for. the gubernato rial
chair of New York
BUFFALO, Oct II, 1898.
SIR Your communication Of the 18th inst,
as chairman of a committee appointed by " the
Anti-slavery Society of the county of Erie, has
net come TO hand. You solicit my answer TO
the following interrogatories
|. DO you believe that petitions to Congress
on the subject Of slavery and the slave trade,
ought to be received, read, and respectfully con-
sdered by the representatives of the people?
2. Are you opposed to the annexation Of
Texas to this Union, under any circumstances,
so long rs slaves are held thereinl
3. Are you in favor of Congress exercising
all the constitutional powers it possesses, to
abolish the internal slave trade between the
States
A. Are you in favor of immediate legislation
for the abolition of slavery in the District Of
Columbia.
am much engaged, and have no time to en-
ter into argument or explain at length my rea-
sons for my opinion. shall, therefore, content
myself for the present, by ons,oering all your
interrogatories an The affirmative, and leave for
some fut re occasion a more extended discus
sion on the subject
WILLARD FILLMORE