Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-03-15
Fhe Nephew OF NY Aunt on rillmore.

o'"ec Nsays thc ooutn oI0e Democracy some
rich developments, in the shape of Ar
drew Jackson Donelson's diatribes against
President Fillmore. during the last admin
'stra'ion. We give the first Of the list this
morning, IN the following extracts from
the Washington Union Of May 29,h, 1851.
1t will be seen that Mr. Fillmore, accor-
ding to the greasy Tennesscan, is not oh
national grounds in politics; that he i. as
much OF ali aboliti onist,as Robert RantouI
or Charles Sumner, and utterly unworthy,
therefore, the support of Southern people.
The article, we may premise, is review
Of speech Of Mr.. Wooster at Buffalo,
N. Y.
1--WE shall be ready to show that the
ascendepc1 OF such party (the wing par
" VIII be not only caamitous to the fu-
ture Interests OF The country, but that it
VIII derogate from mach OF hat has been
done by the tried patriots of the land
heretofore to preserve for our institutions
tneirrepubIlcan energy and durability
we venture even TO say that a Just analy.
SIS OF the view Mr.. Webster has taken of
the compromise and slavery question, will
prove that the restriction of Mr. Fillmore
VIII unsettis all that has been yet done to
deprive the questions o. the power of dis
turblng hereafter the peace aud :ranquili-
ty otthc country.
But, as remarked in the first expressl On
we gave to our views after reading the
speech oil Mr.. Webster, we thank him
that he has been SO homes, and capd,d in
liking the true position OF his party. He
has saved the democracy of the land from
all trouble in proving to the people that
neither Mir. Fillmore nor the wing party
occupy the true national ground on those
compaets OF the constitution 10 the faith.
iul observance of which ali The Interests of
the State and the people are protected, and
all separate tendencies reconciied and
made to work in harmonious co-opera,,on
for the general good.
1t will be in vain hereafter that the spe.
cial organ may ;later itself that there i, a
substantial difference between Messrs.
Sumner and Rantoul, aud the President
and the members OF his cabinet. If the
head OF the great wing party is SO welded
to the infected abolition feeling Of a per-
ton o! New York as TO be obliged to de-
nounce all the great men who have sanc.
toned the acquisitions Of territory from
France. Spain, and Mexico-ii the r.vol-
ted sentiment OF Massachusetts is to be ap-
peased by the assurance that it was a mis-
fortune that southern obstinacy and prriu.
dice woulu not agree for abolition iuries
to try their right OF property-if the anti.
slavery fana.ici.m not only of this country
but OF all Europe, is to be propitiated by
the assurance that the admission of slave
territory INTO our Union is unconsti,ulion.
ai-the time mas come when the people Of
this country will not be amused by the
ilimsy idea that Mr.. Sumner is a monster
because he declares that the fugitive in
Boston shall not be surrendered before fri.
al there, and Mr.. Fillmore is patriot and
hero because he thinks the negro ought to
have that trial. but yet drclaies that he
will execute the laws refusing it.
But we do not despair if all administra-
ton. whose boas! it has been that it was
faithful to The compromise of the slavery
question as a measure OF peace and hsrmo.
ny, Is ne sooner i'll contact with the people
than il acknowledges Itself to be actualed
10y sentimen, ui deadly hostility to the
southern section of this Union; for that
can BE- more hostile than the Declaration
that the STAKEHOLDER ought to be dependent
Oh abolition uiies for his property, and
that the adMsssion of slave territory INTO
the United States is stain upon the men,
DRY Of the great men who committed
tins trespass Oil the constitution? There
are sound msn. constitutional majority
we trust. in tie North ard West, as we'll
as the South, who will recognize IN these
sentiments only the usual fallacies OF
party that has never yet been identified
with the national tests Of tue republican
ism, and cannot therefore WELD the mo-
mentary prejudices which gave it power
in such manner asto perpetuate that
ooXer. Does rot every one SEE that the
neat effect, if not, the design of President
FiIlmo,e's recent visit to the people Of
New York will be the continued organi.
cation of an snti-slavery party reconcilei
to the Compromise only because il enables
4 whig administration to familiarize the
people to the idea that slavery is politi-
cal evil-an evil prescribed b, the wing
conscience, limited TO its present urea, and
proper to be assailrd hereafter in all the
ways which are possible, short of the vio-
lent disruption Of the Union?
If the public sentiment had not been
misled by such letters as Mr.. Fillmore
wrote TO the abolition societies of New
York and By the eloquence Of Mr.. Web.
ster. drnouDcng, as he admits be did, The
institution of slavery asa curse and the
extension Of our territory IN the South as
Il violation Of the constitution, the dangers
foreseen by Washington would not now
be the subject of humiliatina explanation
and apology on the part OF the President
and his cabinet, aud the means BY which
the whig party hopes to psrpstuste Its
power.
Second and Third Editiens-C Corrected
ana Revised by the Author.
We publish on our frs, page the note
of Governor Wise to the Washington
Union. denying that he ever said Fill
more's Administration WAS "Wasangton-
like Below we publish q second card