Washington telegraph., 1854-06-28
Partisan ObIi,iuity.

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to give twist 10 the moral sense Of men.
ineapociiating il,sm alke from starting with
fair premises OF coming to fair conclusions.
This enforced obliquiiy Of the moral vision
causes them TO see nothing that is wrong in
men II their own party. aud nothing that i.
right in those protesting an opposite poliii
cal creed 1t sets them, in defiance Of all
consistency. to finding out great error in The
sane thing. done by one man or set Of men.
which done by another is perfectly correct
and praiseworlhy Like the landscape view.
ed through the shifting lcnse. If Glaudr
Lorraine glass, the same object which just
before bad a sickly, iaundiecd, lonk, wears
now the most charming coakeHr ne aoe.
/ This hnbi, of locking at everything thfo
a merely political, or rather partisan meli.
um, induees most uncomfortable suspi.
eiousncss of character, a tendency tn see
very large aud Ioricntiuus mountains of
wrong in very little and innocen, moehills
+ What any one not liable To impniaiions Of
being Influenced by politics. might do. with.
out exciting the least attention uf remark,
be. who is supposed BY euc Of those suspi.
eiOus qnid nHnes to have partisan motives
fof everything he does, may no, do without
eensure. If the act. 50 far from being sel.
fish, and sinister is most purely disinteresi.
ed aud humane. il may not be done without
suejeeiing the actor To the sncet that be is
leoking to the future for reward Of his
vel. doing
II does not require very closc observa.
tion of the savings and doings Of parties
aud rartisans to hhd illustrations in abun.
dance Of the truth Of what We have been
saying. We will select single instance,
MlLLaRp FILLanRE. man who stands
before the country in a position made emi.
nent by the unqucsionable purity Of his
private character. aud the cearness and up.
| righness rs well as the usefulness Of his
public career, having discharged with sbili.
| ~, and with a CONSCIENTIOUS regard to duty.
the functions Of the highest office in the
Go,crnmcni of his country aud retired to
4le quiet walks Of private life, has lately
seen 6, TO make tour To parts Of the Union
be had never before visited. This be did
IN compliance with a promise which he
made to several friends residing in those
sections at the moment when his term Of Of.
fee expired Domestic calamity preeluded
the possibility Of his performing his promise
until year or more had passed aud when,
at length he proceeded 10 pu, it into execu.
tian a. mas A., NATL l.. l.I hon uruap,l,,
reminded Of il by one of the friends to
whom he made it, lie leit bis home in the
North without ostcntnilon. taking with him
a single travelling companion, and commenc.
ed his Western anu Southern tour,
lie was received at the different points Of
his sojournings with marks Of attention By
many Of his iellow.ciiizens. some Of whom,
in offering him such honors, intended there
by to compliment gentleman who had &C.
cupied the highest post in the Government
Of their country, while others were moved to
pay him such honor. By their admiration of
the ability. the patriotism. and the devotion
to duty which had signalized his administrn.
tion. These honors were not sought by
him; but, on the contrary, whenever they
could be avoided or cyaded with delieacy,
they were so. But they were spontaneous.
y offered, and were gracefully aud modcstly
acknowledged by the recipient
Surely never was there anything in the
shape Of few weeks travel in the West
and South that looked less like an election.
cering tour than this fying visi, Of Mr. Fill.
more. And yet the New York Evening
Post" secs in il nothing else. and would have
the world believe that Fillmore is again in
the field :"
lie snufTs the incense held under his
nostrils with an mir Of complacency, and
leaves us to understand that he has no par.
ticulnr disnclination to occupy the White
House for another term"
The proofs the Post offers to sustain
this entirely gratuitous assertion are-frst
this unfortunate private tour secondly, the
fact that, besides his reception, on arriving
home. Of visit Of compliment to the Young
Wings Committee If the cty Of New York
he got n civil note from gentleman said to
be Seward man and thirdly, the following
paragraph. which says the Post" "aiier
writing thus far. met our eye in one Of the
newspapers :"
Mrs Prcwctt, the widow editreS Of a
Mississippi paper, nominatcs Millard Fill.
more for the Presidency
So Of course "Mlr Fillmore is in the
field again I" We'll, we imagine if it should
prove to be so, tue principal mourners over
the fac; would be those who like the Post,
have old grievances to remember in the EN-.
inently conservative and the purely Ameri-
can manner with which Mr.. Fillmore ad.
ministered the Government when he was at
its head INew Orleans Pieayne
1 resolve, says Bishop Bcveridee. never
to speak Of n mans virtues TO bis face, nor
of his faults behind bis back" A golden
rule, the observation of which would, at
one stroke, banish aattcry and defamation
from lhe earth