Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1851-185?, 1852-05-05

Il
ture to the "Silver Grays "-Fillmoreines-
in New York and elsewhere; that. paper
speaks the sentiments Of four-fths Of the Whig
party in the empire State. and tho free State:
generally How il digs EN-:
Mn. FILLMORE As CANDDATE-ThC
Alabama State Register had lately letter
from Cayuge county, Of which the drift (if We
remember it) was that President Fillmore was
remarkably popular in that (his native) county
although it would probably send a delegate
to the Wing National Convention in favor Of
another candidate This letter provoked q
train Of tho1g ght to which we invite attention,
Il is not true that the resistance to Mr..
Fillmore's denomination is mainly melted BY
disappointed aspiration and personal hostility.
These impulses are not absent, but a Presi-
dent in power and popular with the masses
might set them at defiance The real and
formidable impediments to that denomination
are mainly,
/. A conciousness that the Wing party i
plainly committed to the 0NE-TERM principle
by its own repeated protestations as well a.
by profound conviction, founded on expert
ence, that a Presidential place-hunter must
ever be strongly tempted to abuse his patron
age to subserye personal ends.
,. A general feeling that his nomination
would to a moral certainty, be followed BY his
defeat-that it would only be laying him out
for his political funeral, and exposing him to
the reproach Of having wantonly, selashly
broken down his party
3. A strong conviction that there is another
eminent and capable Wing who, if harmoni-
ously nominated and not oyerburdened, can
be triumphantly elected.
These are the real reasons for the disincli-
nation eyinced by the great majority Of the
Wings with whom We have conferred % put
Mr. Fillmore again before the country. Are
they not weighty! DO they not deserve the
respect at least Of Mr.. Fillmore himself, who
in 1912 spoke Of John Tyler's tergiversation,
VIGOROUSLY impelled BY desire Of reelection.
cas- an additional proof that our only security
against treachery and inordinato ambition is
found in the 0ME-TERM PRINCIPLE. That
takes away all inducement in the Executive
70 tse his P0lcer % secure a reelection"
In the face Of this ayowal, how paltry the
pettifoggingwhich would exempt Mr.. Fillmore
from the operation Of this principle because
he has not Jeen elected PRESIDENT That,
you perceive does not touch the point; it was
"all inducement in the Executive to use his
LOfhciall power" for q personal end, that he
warned US to guard against How can he now
ask us to disregard his own admonition?
In case like the pres
Yent, where President engages in a canvass
for reelection with bis own State notoriously
against him-With even his native county GER
tain to elect an adverse delegate-with large
majority Of the States usually inclining to bis
party entreating him not to run-it seems to
us that most unseemly dragging Of the
Presidential robes is involved in his descen-
ding into the arena Of candidateship. With
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Maine, Delaware, and nearly all the States
which must decide the contest asking, implo-
ring that fresh and strong candidate be taken
up, 50 as to give them chance, it seems to us
a most ungenerous return for past honors that
a President should be willing to see himself
forced on the party by the votes Of Virginia,
Alabama, Arkansas and Texas--all certain
not to cast An Electoral Vote for him or any
Wing whatever Is it not so?