Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-18
MI. Fiilmore,s Letter.


journals In the country, thus refers 10 Mr.. Fillmore
In connection with his letter Of acceptance:
Pure, calm, wise, and good, Willard Fillmore
was, emphatically, the choice of the Wings of Ma
ryland &C the Convention OF 1852, and had he then
received the nomination he 80 richly deserved, he
would likewise have been supported by mAny mod
crate Democrats who admired his Straightforward
course a. Chief Magistrate, and were inspired
thereby with implicit confidence in his frnaness
and integrity. We do not say that America has
not other statesmen equally honest and governed
by equally patriotic motives but we do assert
that she has none worthiF Of popular regard, or
whose whole political life has been more consist
emily in accord with the great principles Embodied
IA the Federal Constitution What Willard Fill
moro was in 1859 he still continues to be In 1856
IS . man without guile, as statesman above re-
proach His nomination upon the platform Of his
antecedents appeals to the intelligence Of the peo
pie and not TO their less estimsble quslitics--tO
their prudence, and not to their passions-to their
spirit of conservatism and not to their agrarian
tendencies, and to their patriotism contradistn
guished from sectional feeling, and ultraisms of
cliques and factions.
10 his great political rival, Mr. Buchanan, man
Of excellent personal characterY So is Willard Fiji
more. Is he an experienced Statesman? So 10
Willard Fillmore. Has he defended and denounced
the same political measuresy So has not Millard
Fillmore. Has he been Federalst and DemocratY
SO has not Willard Fillmore. The personal char
acter of Mr.. Buchanan we respect but his poti-
cal changes, his timdity, subserviency and shift
ness, by no imeans meet with our approval He
reminds us of certain pieces of music, where the
excellence of the air is smothered up and utterly
spoiled by the variations which have been engraft-
ed upon it. His really good personal qualities have
been overlad and lost sight of in his political aber
ratona.
Willard Fillmore, on the contrary, has remained
Ia h,r<
accurate reflection Of the man, and the man of the
statesman. Simplicity, honesty, integrity, pru-
dance and frmness, these are his leading charac-
teristics no outside pressure would induce him to
swerve a hairs breadth from the line of duty no
specious eloquence could affect the calmness of his
Judgment. Taking broad views of things, and true
to the best interests of the Republic, he embraces
every portion of it within the scope of his regard,
and has won for himself the confidence which is
reposed in him, by the simple, manly course of re-
specting the rights Of al, unmoved by the clamor
OF maicontents or by the more insidious wiles OF
processing friends.
We believe Willard Fillmore the more purely
national the more truly conservative, and In every
respect the safest Of the two candidates now be-
fore tho people. Whether we are correct in our
belief it is for them to Judge.
We speak, be it understood, as Wings, and to
the Wings; to those gallant men with whom we
have gone 30 often into battle in times past; in
whose reverses we have shared, and in whose
fewer triunphs we have rejoiced. We speak Of
kllaxd Fillmore as the man whom Henry Clay
loved, and whom the Wings honored. As one
who being suddenly called by dispensation of
Providence to assume the duties Of the highest
sffce in the Republic comported himself so nobly
and impartially as to justify the expectations of
his political friends and win honest plaudits even
from his political opponents. A man endowed
with qualities like these has claims upon the true
men Of the Republic superior to those of mere
party afiinities, because they are based upon
broader grounds and sustained by broader acts.
Such . man must be national inasmuch as his
policy met with the approval not merely Of the
people of this section Or Of that but of thoughtful
men In every portion Of the Union. Such man,
moreover, must be conservative, because wise
conservatism alone recognises that Just mean In
political measures which is calculated to preserve
harmony In the Republic and an amicable under
standing with foreign nations.