The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-03-10
For the Evansville Jou nal.
Mr. Fillmore.

number VINO prefer Mr.. Fillmore as my fiTSt
choice for the Presidency; yet as | regard him
as man of sterling integrity, and certainly
superior to any President in point of talent,
that has been elected to that high office since
tie days Of Martin Van Buren,, (of whom, by
the way, was no admirer,) cannot see the
policy of abusing him. We certainly all pre-
fer him infinitely Before any Democrat VINO
stands the least CHARGE Of getting the nomina-
ton. Therefore, we all(E mean ne Republi-
cans,0 may be glad to support Mr.. Fillmore
with our might. l know it has been said that
the Democrats will try their old game Of bring
ing some unknown man before the people
That game will never win, until the people
forget the bitter fruits they are reaping from
the last experiment of that KIND they have
tried, the one that fosted the present weak,
and wicked as weak, Administration into power
and place.
/ Had ehe miserable man, who, by accident,
holds the office of President, kept his pledge
not to agitate the subject ofslaFery during his
Administration, Millard Fillmore, to. day would
have been the strongest candidate that codld
b. selected. But instead of this Mr. Pierce
has created the strongest and most dangerous
agitation that ever has threatened the stability
Of this government. He has pushed US to the
VERY verge Of a civil war, if indeed we shlll be
SO happy as by the blessing Of God and the
good sense of our peop.e, to yet escape-that hor-
rible alternative.
Now the greatest, and perhaps the only OBJ
lection, the Republicans, (of which number l
am proud to acknowledge myself one) have to
Mr.. Fillmore, is his signing the Fugitive Slave
law. Though | believe this was wrong, yet
we ought to remember the circumstances under
which he signed that bill. The slavery agita-
ton was at great height-caused, most prob
ably, by the refusal of the South, aided by
doughiaces Of the North, most Of which were
blue-light Loeofocos, to admit California into
; the Union unless some concessions were made
to the South. a committee of thirteen was
appointed to devise compromise and report
it to the Senate Of the United States On
; this committee was the lamented Clay, togeth-
er with Gen. Cass, and the great Webster, and
I other distinguished patriots of that august
f body. The result o. their deliberations, was the
;, celebrated compromise measure, including the
Fugitive Slave bill. We may, many of us dc
: doubt, the justice and policy of that bill, yet
4 none will doubt the talents of large majority
r of that committee, and but few will doubt Their
! integrity, especially that of the eminent and
Iamented Webster and CLAW
With the Compromise measures the result
S of the labors of those patriots, ninoteen-tmen
/ tieths of the pe6plewere satisfied, and reocet
{ at their passage, hoping that all agitation OF
= the subject of slavery was laid, and that now
J.. we would as in days of yore, have peace
It Now if Mr.. Fillmore, or any other man, placed
II in his position, had, by the exercise of the vetc
power, destroyed all the labors of those pa
, triots, what would the nation have said o
d him?
/ 1t is within the recollection of all, that hi
n conduct, at that time, met with almost uni
$ versal appreciation That even Tocofocoism
d could find nothing to say against him. Thu
IS matters stood until the -frst session of the las
s. Congress, when, to gain the South, the Ne
id braska swindle was sprung upon an unsus
n, pceting and confdiHg people, by Pierce, Doug
las & Co., the Co. being that irredeemabI
" scoundrel, Atchison. They have ever sine
tie been endeavoring to out-bid each other for th
1C honor Of being sunk to their native insignifi
g canoe by an overwhelming vote of the people
hi at the next Presidential election Now no
re body believes that if Willard Fillmore ha,
been in the Presidential chair IN 1854 tia
rascally repeal of the Missouri Compromis
ig would ever have taken place. Yet, that yer,
- act has, not only reused the whole North, bu
- it has made them suspicious Of all men no
fully and fairly committed to its repeal-fo
to repealed it most surely will be.
Had it net been for this total disregard of
he solemn compromise by the present imbecil
al administration, this suspicion would have hac
; no place in the minds of the people of tn
N North, and Mr. Fillmore's nomination woult
A. have beerhailed with enthusiasm from Main
m to California. And though Preserve the RICH
Re to myself to await the action of the Republi
- can Convention, and now expect to supper
le the candidate Of that party Yeti think it I'm
lie wise, if not ungenerous, to abuse Nr Fill
lg more.
4: a. These, Mr.. Editor, are some Of the views Q
rs rs an old REPUBLICAN.
If 4--
e. 0EFThe Enquirer says we ''carry water OF
I'd both shoulders" He has, whether accidentl,
l. or Intentionally we,ctre not, hit upon the trutl