The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-17
.mr. FILLMORE AT Home."
Correspondence Of the Albany ". W State Register.
R,,pu.,o Nav n 1880

Correspondence Of the Albany ~. W State Register.
| BUFFALO, May IL. 1852.
| You will have been advised by telegraph, before
| you receive this letter, of the result of the
cuses held here yesterday. know not that should
designate the triumph of the friends OF Mr.. FILL
MORE over the Abolition Wing faction "lat-
terng victory" because no less significant an APP
proyal of his policy TO be anticipated in the
| home quarters Of a President deeply respected
and beloved by his fellow citizens. And yet the
termination of yesterdays contest is gratifying IA
aiiording complete reiutation Of those base and
baseless insinuaiions thrown out by certain parties
to the effect that Mr.. FILLMORE was unpopular at
home II is gratifying, because all the efforts Of
personal Inalignity were strained to the utmost 10
ensure contrary expression from the voters. and
| nothing that perseverance,, bribery, and intrigue
could accomplish to defeat the popular will was
| left untried.
AS you are doubtless aware. untring efforts have
been made for some months past, by the abolition
organ in this city, to convey abroad the impression
that President Fillmore is unpopular at home,''
and could not by any possibility secure delegate
to the National Cony cnton from this district. 9th
or papers have re-echoed the predictions of the
Buffalo Express, and mado them the basis upon
which to ground representations of the defeat of
Mr. Fillmore in the convention and thus has gone
lofth to the world the glazing falsehood and the
Islander upon the inhabitants Of Erie county, that
"hlr. Fillmore 10 unpopular at home" Here,
where the characters of the assailants Of the Prcsi
dent are known, their assertions are as uncurrcnt
as black mail vote; but they unfortunately may
have had the effect of misleading others the sub
ject of the prospects Of the candidates.
The total discontinue Of the Abolition Wings
was not unaccompanied by comcal features. Dur
ing the previous week every tdng Of reverse in
the adjacent towns in the country had been met by
loud vaunts of what the "city'' would do; and the
tale told by the place where +" Fillmore ia best
known" was TO be terrific in it's announcement
and fatal in its consequences. need not inform
you that, by the hour for closing the polls the crisp
was entirely taken out of their curls; and in pro
portion to the loudness Of their abusive boasts is
the degrading ttloncss into which they have now
shrunk The boldest of them o-day can only stink
away into obscure corners, and mouth and growl
at the futilty Of their desperate efforts.
The vote was n most emphatic The ma
jority for MIR. Fillmore mus. have been
thousand, while the "Woolly Heads" after their
almost superhuman efforts, could only muster
average Of seuenty rotes in each ward, and under
stand that many Of these exercised the right to the
elective franchise in every ward in the city. Had
it been necessary, much larger vote could have
been secured, for | have seldom and
universal feeling in favor Of any individual as
manifested by tho good Wings Of the Queen City
for Willard Fillmore during the test of yesterday.
But the despicable plight oftthe Abolitioniss, and
personal enemies of the President, was appa.
rent, that il readily foreseen what must be the
inevitable result Of the vote, and many III
quence did not trouble themselves to swell the
number.
The proceedings Of yesterday brought forcibly
home to my conviction the damage which Gen
Scott has sustained by the support of those ind-
yiduals who have used his name only means
of gratifying personal malice against the Pres-
dent. Incompetent and dishonest OK officials, dis
appointed place hunters and political gamblers
have INDUCED in bitter revilings and indecent
abuse of Mr.. Fillmore, openly and uublushingy.
What wonder then that any name in their mouths
should become tainted with their own foulncss?
am confident that the degraded Of the
Express newspaper in this city, low as il has fallen
in consequence of the exposures in which it has
been implicated, and of similar organs elsewhere,
has done more injury to General Scott than can be
remediod by the honest support of an hundred
efficient and sterling Wing journals. This every
friend Of the party must deeply deplorc. But
enough Of this. The contest here is over, and il
would be difficult TO conceive a moro pitiabc and
degraded position than lie now occupied by the
Woolly Heads Of Baifilo.