New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-17
Interesting Revelations,

Col Perry, the editor of the Greenye g. C) Southern
Patriot Is writing letters from Washington to that excel
lent paper In of them dated February 81 he makes
some very interesting political revelations as to the
President Fillmore intended to pursue if needul to put
down the secession movemept and also the conduct
Of Gen. Tayor's Cabinet on the death of their chief
Every new day furnishes additional evidence of the diff
euties OF President Fillmore encountered trumphed
over during his administration, Col Perry says:
went up this morning, with Col Orr to call on pres
dent Fillmore. and was delighted with him have sell
dom seen gentleman more prepossessng in his appear
ance and manners He Is Of the rnest aud mldest
Of men, He Immediately began to talk the slavery
question and dsunion and made great many inquiries
about South Carolina and the state of party feel
ngs amongst He said he had to contend with two
fires, the from the North and the other from the
South At one time he said 1t looked very much like he
would have to shed little blood In the cradle OF liberty
Boston and having signed the fugitive slave law he was
prepared to enforce it, lie said there would be
difficulty about that matter again till new generation
had sprung up In regard to South Carolina he said it
was his purpose to avoid the shedding of blood IL possible
He intended to stop the mails and cut off their commerce
and bring them to terms in that way 1t his purpose
also to defend the forts and public property of United
States. Both Col Orr and myself expressed the belief
that had old Gen Taylor lived he would involved the
country In boodshed. think Mr.. Fillmore admitted
That the policy Of Gen Taylor calculated to produce
That dire result In regard to Texas.
We both complimented him for his hrmness and the
change which he made in his Cabinet the death of
his Administration He said the moment Gen Taylors
death was announced the whole Cabinet resigned and
would not continue to day unless assured that
ney would be continued In this trying difficulty he
ordered the chief clerks in the respective departments to
NC, 10 place Of the Secretaries till he could organize his
Cabinet This he would attempt till after he funeral
OF zen iayior He said, then there was necessarily
great dimcuty IN organizing the Cabinet lie spoke Of
me rise IN the value Of property in the Federal City since
the passage OF the compromise acts and attributed ii to
the settled condition Of the country and the CON
told him attributed in part the rise In the value Of me-
groes at the South to the cause President Fin
inquired of what the feeling Of South Carolina
was on the subject Of Cuba. told him thought sonb
Carolina sound on that subject any State in the
Union He said he thought too from the newspapers
He spoke Of the facility with which the fugitive law
which extremely hard and yet the parties had
been convicted for preventing arrest Syracuse
MY. lie remarked that two years ago Il would have
been as difficult TO have convicted there of inter
ering with the fugitive slave law would have been
tlibpstering.