Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-04-06
MilIard Fillmore.

The efforts of few interested partizans to
bolster the pretensions of Millard Fillmore to a
reelection to the Presidency, are truly ridiculous
They have been indulging in paroxysms of pa
triotic admiration for the chief who has exhalted
them, and we anticipate an explosion shortly, Of
this over-abundance of semi-official furore
What has Millard Fillmore done to deserve this
fulsome praise His accidental administration
has accomplished no great political deed-He
has suggested no project of public policy neither
has he or his cabinet established system in any
way national, or in any particular conductive to
general prosperity. Sycophancy, and degrading
humiliation to tyrants, have been the distinguish
ed features of his administration. He quaied
before the blusterings of Spain and winked at
the inffmy of the bastard Napoleon. course
in relation to the Irish patriots has been as hu-
initiating to the country as has been the conduct
of England overbearing and tyranical. Every
where the democratic press are out in loud de-
nunciation of his course All blend their voices
to crush him with just censure, and the Vicks-
burg Sentinel says truly, when it declares that,
although possessing no national reputation pre-
vious to his having been put on the whig ticket
with the presidential robes, every blind support
er Of the administration, simply because it was
,ohig, seemed or at least professed to know much
about him, and all to the effect that he was a
very great man. His name has almost invaria-
bly, been coupled with prediction to the effect,
that during the remainder of the presidential
term that he would render himself no less illus
trious than the most renowned men that had
preceded him III that dignifed and exhalted sta
ton. He has now filled that station for nearly
two years. The presidential term is drawing to
a close, he has had opportunities, perhaps equal
to those of any former president, to immortalise
himself by some master stroke Of policy, or by
prompt and efficient action in a trying crisis.
But has he done this No-emphatically NO
must be the prompt answer Corruption and
anti-republican sympathy for tyrants have been
the main characteristics of his contemplate and
and dsreputable conduct. Infamy such as
should render any man odious through all coming
times, has attached itself to his almost every
act. Only his own party, and those who held
office under him by special appointment, find it
in their hearts to laud him, or enter into de-
fence of his equivocal and corrupt conduct. The
high-sounding phrase in which he threatened to
call out the army and navy to enforce the exc
cution Of the fugitive slave law, and his timid
and dillitory movements when decision and
prompt action was needed, all 60 to show that
he was man afraid of his own shadow, and ut
terly unfit for the station he occupies. The
praises Of his talents that were sung so early
have proven to be in advance of the music, and
the poor aspirant finds that those among whom
he distributed the loaves and fishes, only urge
his claims for second election. He can rest in
peace after his present term has expired, the re-
mander of his sdays.-Pennsylvaniap.