New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-20

Free spirit and humane insuncts OF inc
North. Yet the great mass of those who
inns regard that law are also aware that
the Constitution arms the slave-hunter
with certain powers-that the whole subject
il beset with difficuties-and they have
never attempted to make acquiescence in
or hostility to the Fugitive Slave Law a
test of political orthodoxy. At our two
State Elections, which have transpired
since the Compromise measures were
passed, Wing friends of those measures
were elected to Congress and to important
State Offices by the votes Of Wings per-
sonaIly adverse to those measures-and so
on the other side. The exceptions to this
rule have been few and local. Mr.. Ullmann,
q warm, open, leading Compromise man,
was supported last fall by at least forty
nine out of every fifty anti-Compromise
Wings in the State, and we presume would
be again.
Why, then, is Mr.. Fillmore obnoxious to
large majority Of the Wings Of our State
We apswer-Becau.e he has seen fit to
prescribe and ostracise many of the most
efficient and beloved Wings in the State on
account of their alleged sympathy with
the anti C Compromise majority ofthe party
on account of their acquiescence in the
declarations Of principle and jealous sup
port of the candidates of the Wing party.
For NO better cause than this, Mr.. Fillmore
has seen fit to remove a number of those
Wings whom Gen. Taylor had appointed
to responsible stations in our State, ale
though by far the larger number of desira-
bic appointments were and had been given by
Gen. Taylor to lower law men. The Col
lector, Marshal, District Attorney, Naval
Officer, Surveyor, Navy Agent, Naval
Store-keeper; &c. &c. at this place, WELD
ing three fourths of all the Federal pa
trenage in the State, were all Jealous
Compromise and Fillmore men, from the
day that the Compromise and Fillmore
gained the ascendancy, and several of them
before at all events, we had never known
them classed as Seward men, or sus-
pected of any sort Of fsnaticism while
from the hour of Gen. Taylor's death
they have all fraternized cordially and
heartily with those politicians who regard
that death of their benefactor as special
interposition of Divine Mercy for the pres
ervation of the Union. In the interior Of
the State, however, Seward men, so
called, held BY Gen. Taylor's appointment
the posts of Marshal and Pestmasters at
several important points, and these MIR.
Fillmore has seen fit to remove, without
alleging incempetency or official inidel-
ity against any of them. And this pre-
scription of faithful and beloved Whigs
throughout the Rural Dissricts' for their
presumed sympathy in preference and
feeling with the great mass of the Wings
of those Districts, it will be very hard to
make the People forget in the approaching
Election.
Gentlemen of the South and Southwest !!
regard this matter nationally. Suppose
your favorite and trusted leaders had been
prescribed by Mr.. Fillmore because Of their
sympathy with you on some collateral ques-
ton in regard to which you felt deeply-how
would you like to have him put upon you by
the votes of other sections as candidate
for reflections Do you think you could
carry Tennessee and Nerth Carolina for
candidate so nominated1 Ponder the mat
Ter coolly, and then be guided by your rea-
son or your passions, as you shall see fit.
We presume you can, by the help Of the
Struggling Delegates whom the sffics.hold-
ers can pick up here and there, make Mr..
Fillmore the candidate. Virginia, Alabama
and Arkansas can put him on the shoulders
Of New-York Pennsylvania and Ohio but
that is Only leading the horse to the water,
after all. How many votes will al the
States which insist on Mr.. Fillmore's NOM
nation be able to give toward his election !
And what sort Of job do you give US in
the North, when you virtually say to US,
You, Sirs, will answer to help elect a
Wing President, but you won't answer to
hold Office under him if he should be
electsd' Our man prsscribes you whom
ever he can reach you; wherefore you
must help secure to him the power OF so
doing for four years longer The pros
peet thus held out seems rather unattxact-
ive-does il aoti
Eleven years ago, when Gen. Harri-
son assumed the Presidency, he nominated