The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-20
MIR. Fillmore ia New York.
From The No,o York Express

1t ~ stated in an Auburn IN. 70 paper that
President Fillmore will be boed in this State into
fifty thousand minority if nominated by the
Wing National Convention n that is to say, We
have proclamation from Auburn that nifty thou
sand Wings of the Auburn school will bolt his
nomination! This ID pretty plain talk, and 1t is
such like to hear when the thought is in
duiged in Plain out-spoken treason commands a
certain degree Of respect, if we dcspise the
principles Of the traitor We like to know the
worst of things, for then we know how to grupple
with them. If there ia hcroism, however, in the
utterance of such thought, there is defiance in
ii also that justifies preparation and punishment,
and that Leads us to investigate if the power of rea
son is equal to the will. We apprehend. however,
that the Auburn pronunciamento ia very like
Mexican one, only on paper, intended to scare of
the outside barbarans of the South and West from
Fillmore. with a consciousness that it 10 nothing
but paper bulletin at home.
The value Of such a pronunciamento as this, in
deed, we have tested already in this State. We
had just such one in 1874, when Henry Clay
nominated for the Presidency. and from just this
Auburn quarter. We were told that, if Mr.. Clay
was nominated, he would be defeated by fifty thou
sand majority in the State. We were told, just as
are Of Mr.. Fillmore, that it of sort of
use to run him, (Nr. Clay) Placards were out,
and speeches were made, that che was the owner
Of come ninety odd slaves" and ''that no slave
holder could he elected to the Presidency" But
all these proclamations, preparations, and pro-
nunciamentos, had no effect, Birney was got up
a candidate; and speeches made by profess
ing Wings, coldly and ostensby for Clay, but
really for Brney; and the consequence was that
by bare majority, aided and abetted by secret
treasure, in an immense poll Birney diverted just
votes enough from Clay to give the State to MIR.
Polk. The fifty thousand boilers never appeared,
and never were heard OF. Nine hundred and
ninety mine Of every thousand Wings preferred
Clay and voted for Clay, and he was only the ten
thousandth part of Wing who bolted and voted
for Birney
Now, the very same thing may happen to Mr..
Fillmore, and he may turn the scale in the same
way, through the action OF the same men, by the
very same sort of petty tresson, i'll case he be nom
mated and accept nomination; but no fifty thou
sand boilers be conjured up, any more in 1852
than in 1874. And in case Mr.. Fillmore should be
run, accept a nomination and be defeated, under
such circumstances, we can stand the defeat
well as, and little better, think, than the bolt
ers Certain it is such threat neither awes
nor US to being dictated into an Auburn
candidate; but, on the contrary, rather stimulates
US to initiate, in 1852, the precedent and principle
Of nomination in lS44.
There lie not one word Of truth in this Auburn
pronunciamento, that Mr. Fillmore has not been,
is not now, and is not likely to be, as popular as
any Wing candidate for the Presidency that can
be offered to New York. There are difficulties that
environ and embarrass our party in this State
whatsoever way we turn--such as do not pro
pose to discuss here, in our coumns-but there is
no public named for the Presidency so
from ltv NV nd nal
popularity, as Willard Fillmore. For every Abo-
htion Wing vote he loses, he will gain ten from
the Opposition party; but it is not true that he
would lose many bona fde Wing votes, if any.
The boiling threat OF $4,000 is only brutun fid-
men. Wings that are Frcesoil Wings, if men Of
principle, are not going to Birnspxs again, as in
l544 and thus annex another Texas over the Rio
Grande, and reopen another Mexican war, as they
did then, because Mr.. Fillmore has done nothing
but what, as Wing, he was pledged beforehand
to do; that is approve acts Of Congress not uncon
sttutional, and execute laws Of the United States
enacted in pursuance of the Constitution. Mr..
Fillmore can carry. in 1852, just As good Wing
vote as he got for Vice President, Comptroller Of
The State, or when he run for its Governor
lie has the full strength of the party before
the people not before the politicians, for of them
lake but little account, embittered some OF
them are; but before the people no man ia stronger
and there has not bees of late years stronger
in the State than Willard Fillmore When run for
Office previously here, he was just odous to the
Auburn politicians as he is now; and when run for
Vice President he and elected in spite Of
them all, though their spite was great as at one
time to summon a meeting at Albany, with a
struggle to overthrow even General Taylor, in or
der TO overthrow the candidate with him This
81, 900 threat have been hearing in this State for
ten or twelve years now; and during these ten or
twelve years Mr. Fillmore has been rising from a
humble member Of Congress from Buffalo TO being
the premier Of the House Of Representatives at the
head Of lite Finance Committee, then Comptroller
Of the State, then Vice President, and now Presi
dents in all and each Of which positions he has dis
tinguished himself by eminent ability and faithful
service both 10 his State and country. The so 900
threat has been the great impulse OF bis advance
mcnt from the start; and. If il lie persisted in, it will
run him for the Presidency and elect him. Human
nature and human pride revolt against the pcrse-
cuton Of the Auburn boilers, and human generos-
fly always succors an honorable man thus assailed
To our southern and western Wing fricnds we
ssy. in reply to this Auburn pronunciamento, Gin
tended for outside barbarisns only.) New York is
just as safe for Mr. Fillmore as for any Wing like
ly To be put up and that Mr.. Fillmore can carry
the state II he ~ pitted against three, nj least of
the gentlemen who are prominent Democratic can
didates. We do not say this because Mr.. Fillmore
s thought Of 10 be candidate, but because
do not mean to old, tried, true, gallant, emf
nent Wing trampled down pronounced down
Mr. Fillmore has done well by US Wings, and bet
ter yet by the country, and he il to have an honor
able discbarge--if discharge at all-neycr to be
kicked of with impunity. The thing must be done
gracefully and genteelly, IL Is done, and when IL
is done, for purer man never directed and firm
or hand never held the rcins Of government. lie
has restored the better days and the better princ
plos Of the Republic amid threats and dangers that
would have appalled, or crushed n weaker man.
He became President in the midst Of pcrils, and in
the fury of sectional escitcmens that the
very existence of tho nation, and that were plung-
ing Il directly into civil The fret week Of his
Administration nc had 20 change and to create a
Cabinet, and fix lie policy. and tell Texas. by
solemn proclsma tion, with the whole power Of the
United States army concentrating then by order
in New Mexico. that IL Texas in arms ramped
upon foot Of her soil she would be resisted by the
whole power and force Of the United States Gov
eminent. The energy, the solemn, sincere char.