Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-07-14

EXTRACTS from the Speech Of lie Hon. DAvIr
OUTLAW, Of North Carolina, deLipereG in tie Hous
Of Representatives., June 10, 1852.
l shall not pretend to conceal, that have STRONG
personal preferences as to who shall be the candidate
OF the Wing party for the Presidency of the United
States. am free to declare here, that prefer Mill
ard Fillmore to any man in this Republic, north o.
SOUTH east or wes-Dot for avors received or favors
expected. never asked any favor of that distin.
guIshed man, save only the appointment of a GRAND
son of my legal preceptor, for whose memory abiI.
ties, and virtues l have affectonate remembrance
and veneration. l mean the late Judge CASTOR
shall not, upon this occasion, attempt to review all
the measures of his administration. NV time wonId
not permit me 70 do it; bat may be allowed TO saw
what sincerely and honestly believe when that Al.
minisraton shall come to be passed upon by the calm
and impartial judgment of posterity-when the mists
OF party pref JUDGE shall have been removed men of
all parties will pronounce it of the wisest purest
and best administrations which we have had in this
country since the earlier days of the Republic MI
Fillmore succeeded to the high Office which he now
nils at time of unexampled difficulty and inf mite
peril to the Republic. The councils of this bodv
were torn and distracted by sectional divisions grow.
ing out OF the subjects which have already aIIu
ded. Every man, who was actor here upon this
theatre, knows-with his opposton-nay, but for his
active cooperation, no settlement of these vexed
questions could have been effected. The country
was then in imminent peril of a civil war; There
was danger Of conflict between the authorities of
this Government and the Republic of Texas Thos.
questions were settled. He risked popularity. infu
ence, every thing at home, stand BY the consttu-
iIona rights OF my section of the Union and in do
ing that he had only 10 stand by the Constitution
o. his country. l adhere to MiIlard Fillmore upon
principle OF honor, which is also principle of the
highest exPediency-of being faithful to those who
have been faithful to the Constitution and tn the
rights OF all sections of the country
1t MT. Fillmore is 10 be passed by what is IN he.
come OF that other great and eminent statesman assoc
eiaed with him in the administration of the Govern
ment! ! mean the Secretary of State-that man
VINO stands prominent, by his colossal intellectual pro-
pofuons, amongst the public men Of the country.
since the death Of Mr. Calhoun and the illness Of
MT. Clay-as prominent as the frozen peaks of MI.
Blanc are above the lesser Alps, by which thew are
suTrounded-am man whose name will be Remembered
while the English language is written or snoken :.
truly his IS cL0rum et venerable nOmen one which
makes this country hoDored and respected in everv
other country upon the civilized globe Al the very
crisis Of fate, when darkness and DANGER seemed
TO be impending, that great man and patriot threw M
the weight Of his great character and mighty abiIi
ties into the conflict, roll back the tide Of North
ern fanaticism which sweeping through the
North. / should like to inquire what these two in
dividuas have done 10 forfeit the confidence of the
Wing party of this nation. Before Mr.. Fillmore
became compromise man, before MIR. Webster sus.
tanned the execution Of the fugitive slave law there
were no two men in the Northern portion Of this
Union more popular, and justly popular, with the
whole OF that party, than these two eminent indivd-
uals: put II 70 my Southern fFiends-if there be