Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-08-14
President EiIlmare,s Letter,

The presses Of the South have devoted but little at
tenon to the letter of President Fillmore, addressed
TO the President of the National wing Convention =
That letter contains some important matter, and is
worthy of serious consideration this uncture of the
canvass, deveopingin remarkable degree the OPP
position that the President anticipated to his renomi-
nation. Mr.. Fillmore was the candidate of fourteen
Southern Statesin fact, he had opposition in the
South and presented to the convention by her
her candidate, his claim for denomination resting
his open and distinctly avowed determination abide
by the Compromise Acts Final settlement in prin-
ciple and substance the subjects they embrace
This, say, was his position deliberately taken, and
for this, he selected by the Southern States as
their candidate Mr.. Fillmore tells the country that
he had determined to withdraw his name and not per-
nit it to go before the convention but induced by
friends not to do because, says he, it "would not
only endonger the pcrPetuy Of those Measures which
deemed essential TO the peace and welfare of the
country, but rouM sacrifice many friends cho stood By
my administration in the dark and perilous crisis thro'
which it had so recently passed" This is candid
admission Now, he could not hayeleared that by his
withdrawal of his that he would have sacrificed
any Southern friends who had stood by his administers
ton, nor that he would jeapord the perpetuy of those
measures the South because every Southern State
except South Carolina, had demonstrated in the most
pointed manner at the baot-box that they were deter
mined to stand by those Measures. This is history
and cannot be impeached The question of the 'per-
petuity of those measures them rested not with the
South, and they were disturbed, the South would not
be the party to do it. Who then, did Mr.. Fillmore
fear The North--Ycs He feared that his name
was withdrawn, that the South would be again me-
naced with agitation, and the compromise measures
endangered and to avoid calamity he much feared
he yielded to his friends and did publicly announce
that he would not again be candidate
Mr.. Fillmore was presentedto the convention then
the Compromise candidate-his friends believed il
his name was withdrawn that it would endanger the
perpetuty of the Compromise acts and if this is true
he being defeated before the convention By those who
were not his friends it follows that his defeat must
have been compassed by those who were opposed to
the "perpetuity of Those acts" By whom was Mr.
Fillmore defeated We see the Southern States
standing up for him through every ballot almost in
solid body. They his friends to the last, and
the end of the chapter learn by the record that ht
was defeated by the Northern States.
Let US glance at the history of those compromise
'acts. We desire to know who were their friends II
Congress And as there is but of the series about
which the south is sensitive, shall bring that for
ward rearkiag, that it is to that act of the series
gapst which the North is most violent. We mean, o.
course. the Fugitive Slave act. We find that but
Northern wkig members of Congress voted for thai
act and that theze were bat - Northern Senator's
This sote occasioned many wings in this section t
assert openly that the Northern democrats were more
reliable for the South, than Northern wings. Bn
that has now become matter of history since the &C
ton of the two conventions After the comPromis
acts became laws, there was division took place il
the whic party North The division favorable to re
,ar.lng those measures as Final, adhered to the ad