The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-03
From the Ne,o York Express.
Politics North and south,


From the New York Express.
Politics North and South.
Mr.. CaITTENDEN, the Attorney General, has
many friends in Kentucky who would be glad to
see him nominated for the Presidency, or, at
least, many friends who would be glad TO show
him that Kentucky would rejoice to see him
nominated for that high Office. We are told by
the Frankfort Commonwealth that a number of
Mr.. Crittenden's friends wished the late Ken.
lucky State Convention to present his name for
the Presidency. Mr. c. wrote to friend pri-
waite letter, requesting that this should not be
done, and IN that letter expressed his preference for
Mr.. FILLMoRE. The conclusions of the conven-
ton, We need not repeat, were entirely without
dissent, and perfectly unanimous for MIR. Fill
more. They do honor to Kentucky, who. with
such gallant son as Mr.. Crttendcn, agreed with
Henry Clay, the foremost man of the country,
that MIR. Fillmore was worthy Of State and
national nomination for the Presidency.
We are not surprised to see, after the manner
in which Mr.. Ciay's letter in behalf of MIR. Fill
more has been received in certain quarters, that
Mr.. Crttendens too, should be blamed for express
ing his preference for a candidate. Anybody may
do that it seems, except those who are friends Of
the present Administration, and who wish fur the
continuance of the present Chief Magistrate in
office.
1t 10 a novel spectacle we behold Just nowIn the
American political world. There is Kentucky, al
ways Wing, always patriotic and intelligent,
always generous and just toward her sister States
Of the Union, which, with almost one voice. speaks
out for MIR. Fillmore's nomination. There ia Ten
ncssee, the home Of two Democratic Presidents,
where politics are better understood and better ar
gued than in almost any other quarter Of the coun-
try; where poitical results are always close, and
political contests hard fought; where even Demo-
cratic candidates have been beaten for the Prcsi.
dency who have passed all their lives in the State
and the Wings Of Tennessee, with extraordinar
unanimty, are for Fillmore. So also the gallant
Wings OF North Carolina, towards whom cverv
Wing in the free States must feel an attachment of
uncommon strength for their uniform defence of
the honest, national, and patriotic sentiments of
the Wings OF the North towards them and towards
the Wings Of the whole Union. No amount of
southern fanaticism or northern ultrai.m could
mako the Wings OF the old North Stnte-thc Man.
gums, the Grahams, the Morehesds, the Stanlys,
and host OF other kindred spirits-untrue to their
brethren Of the free States We should as soon
think OF parting from a brother or our best friend,
as from such Wings, from those Of Louisiana,
who to- day give US, in the victory at New Orleans
foretaste Of victories to come
Our recollection warns, too, at tn. mention of
such Wings as Dawson OF eorgia, Bell and Jones
OF Tennessee, and those who have stood by them
from the Potomac and the Ohio to the Gulf for
years and years. All these honor and are true TO
a Wing Administration, and true, TOO, to its hon.
orcd chief
But where stands New York; Not the great
body OF the Wings Of New York-for they will DO
true to their party whether Fillmore. Webster or
Scott be nominatcd-but where stand those politi.
clans who in oldcn time have directed the party
destines Of this Statel Some are quarreing over
the canal contracts, in the benefits of which they
were made shsrers with their old political enemies
Some are hankering after tho flesh. pots of Egypt
Some are devising ways and means to defeat Mr.
Fillmore should he be nominated by misrepre-
scnting his motives and eliminating his actions
since he has been President. The anti Fillmore
presses, in their fury, outstrip the anti Admins
trstion presses of the Democratic party in their
zeal and hatred Of the Administration. They re-
mind daily Of the address of Mooch to the fallen
angels. If called upon to support Mr. Fillmore,
they cry
---"No, let us rather choose
Armed with hell flames. and fury, all at once
Ocr heavens high towers TO force resstlcss way,
Turning our tortures in borrid arms
Againsf the tortnrer"
II the Whigs in National Convention should no. |
inmate the present Chief Magistrate they are given
to understand that
---"Hc shall bear
Internal thunder, and FOR lightning zee
Black fire and horror shot with equal rage"
II we hadn't seen many OF these demonstra-
lions before, should really fear that some Guy
Fawks WAS about, and that the White House at |
Washington about to be undermined, and |
blown, with all its inmates on some Cabnet meet |
ing day, sky high
But, seriously, trust there is no danger to the
country because Mr.. Fillmore il President, and |
we hope that, even in the language of some of our
nost amiabIc and satirical Frecsoil contempora-
-ics, "the Union will be safc," shouId he even be
nominated for another and for n higher Office than
nc wac voted for nearly four years ago. The Fill.
more men mean TO work for and secure the cleo
ion of the Wing nominee, having confidence that
will be n nominate N "ft to be made" when IL
hall be endorsed by representation Of National
Wings And now, gentlemen who oppose Mr..
'iporc's nornin tion what do you mean TO do If
'c ia nominated Will you support tho nomins-
ion, or veto t' Or, supporting it. II made, you
nay incline to in the end, will you make your
elves contemplate by denouncing that in advance
which you may, upon sober sccond thought feel
allied upon finally to sustain
THE Nsw ORLEANS DyEL.--Dr Hunt, j. II
Maddox II, BouIigny, and Colonel Bell. indiciod