Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-09-18


conservative men, respecting the Constitu-
tion, true to their whole country, and "n-
dignantly frowning upon the first dawning
Of disunion," should stand shoulder to shoul-
der, and unite in placing at the head of the
government Chief Magistrate in whose ca
pacity, honesty and patriotism all could con.
fide. The National American party have
now presented such man-one who has
been tried and found faithful TO every trust
who, being suddenly called upon to take
the helm OF government, at a time when the
Heavens were lurid with the angry tempest
of l849-'5O, so successfully rode out that
storm, so faithfully and galantly secured the
safety of the noble ship of State, as to win
from an admiring people the most heartfelt
plaudits, "Well done thou good and faith
full servant"
We point you to another fearful cancer on
the body politic-the humiliating struggle
now goin on between the Democratic and
Republican parties for the foreign uote, and
to the tremulous apprehensions expressed
for the fate OF the one or the other of those
parties, as the uncertain movements of the
Germans or Irish oscilate between them
We warn you that the fate of this great gov
ernment may soon be equally dependent up
on the unstable movements of those mighty
masses, fresh from the monarchies of Eu-
rope. Large portions Of our Union are al
ready overf1cwing with foreign population
"a population such as has shown itself ut
terly incapable of sustaining popular gov
ernments in the Old World. So immense is
now the influx that we can scarcely be re-
garded as the same, or the descendants of
same people we were twenty years ago.
Where, and in what, is this to end? MILL
ARD FILLMORE alone, of the candidates for
the Presidency, has refused 10 court this
gigantic and growing element of power
While he has no hostility TO foreigners, he
frankly warns his counrymen that it is safer
for American born citizens to rule the des-
TIMES of America. Having witnessed their
deplorable condition in their own father
lands, he would share with them all the
privileges and blessings of ours, save the
single privilege of seizing the reins of gov
ernment, and overturning the car of State,
in which we are all passengers. We be-
seech you to see the danger we have briefly
glanced al, and to shun them, before it is too
late forever.
We urge you to unite with lis in support
Of the patriot statesman who has always
fearlessy out-spoken his sentiments-wh
has ever made the constitution his guiding
star-who has risen from an apprentice boy
to the Presidency who, when President,
frowned upon disorganIzers and radicals,
North and South, and, with the aid OF con-
servative Wings and Democrats, bravely
restored peace to distracted Countrywide
has just said ''lf there be those either North
or South, who desire an administration Tor
the North as against the South, or for the
South as against the North, they are not the
men who should give their suifrages to
me-"
From the moment Mr.. Fillmore was first
placed in nomination, every effort has been
resorted to 10 induce the country to believe,
first, that he would not accept the nomina-
ton: secondly, that he had no strength at
the North, and could not carry single
Northern State, even his own; thirdly, that
he had no strength at the South, and could
not carry a single Southern State; fourthly,
that he was s. Southern IN his feelings and
views, that the North ought not 10 support
him, and would not; and, filthy, that he was
an .Aboi,tionist, and could not and ought not
to be supported by the South. ...
In regard to the charges against Mr.
Fillmore which related to his views and
opinions of public policy, his friends have
deemed it best 10 permit them 10 be refuted,
as they have been most amply and triumph
antly, by the record of his model administra-
tion; by his own bold, frank, and manly
speeches, which the people have everywhere
read with admiration and delight, and by his
own pure, unsullied reputation and spotless
character. or these the people themselves
had the means Of forming an accurate judg-
ment, and to that judgment both he and his
friends have been at all times, and are now,
ready to bow with respectful Submission
they ask no appeal to any other tribunal.
But the arts and falsehoods which have
been resorted TO by the two sectional parties
of the country to weaken Mr.. Fillmore, by
inducing the belief that he was without
strength elsewhere than in the place where
the falsehood was told the people have NO
been so well able to understand. They have
heard these assertions generally with sur
prise and Incredibly, though the frequenc,
of their repetition, the confident tone il