Washington telegraph., 1856-08-27

the Office of President wise conserva-
tism, which will insure to all sections
equal and exact justice, and which, by
scrupulously guarding the rights and in
terests of all, will, if any mortal power
can do it, assuage the virulence of parti-
zan and sectional feeling, now SO unhap-
PLY rife in the land, and restore our
| Union to those fraternal and intimate re-
lations which should exist between the
different parts of this great confederacy
For he, Millard Fillmore, offers in his
name, if in naught beside, a sufficient
guarantee to the people of this Union,
that, as President, he would so administer
the laws and the government, as to put
down and crush out the foul spirit of dis
union, which now stalks rampant through
out the land. Who can contemplate, in
spirit of candor and justice, the glorious
and honorable career of Millard Fillmore
and refuse to accord to him the possession
of all the elements which 60 to make up
a great and safe public man? Patriotism,
frmness, integrity, an enlarged and COM
prehensive knowledge of public affairs,
thorough and answering devotion to the
Union and unsullied purity of character
all unite in him to make up model man,
of whom history, in the years to come,
will speak, as one worthy of the highest
honors paid to the good and great
Again, when we are asked achy we should
wish to secure his elevation to the Presi-
dency, we would point you to his record
as President Have you forgotten the
services he rendered to the Republic at a
time when the perpetuity of our institu-
tions was threatened-when all was
dark ? 1t cannot be. The people of this
Union know the worth of Millard Fill
more; they appreciate his merits, and
they will, in November next, set the broad
seal of their appreciation on him as the
man of their choice. We should work
| for Millard Fillmore because to him we
are indebted, the whole world is indebted.
for the nOblest lessons of selfsacrifcing
patriotism which have been uttered in the
hearing of men, for 10, these many years.
We owe him debt OF gratitude for his
manly rebuke of the treacherous section
alism of the North, which the national
men of the Union would but poorly repay,
did they rise en- snosse, and with one voice
proclaim him President We repeat it.
Friend and foe have alike awarded to Mil
lard Fillmore the largest need of praise
for the bold defiance which he flung down
at the feet of these traitors And now,
when the labor of those who have follow
ed the glorious patriot thus far, is need
ed, will you, can you, prove rccreant p
We put the question to you
Are these not reasons srhy you should
work, Americans? And will you not
buckle ON your armor and 90 forth into
the fight resolved to win the day? Throw
off the incubns which seems to hang over
you and impair your energies Let your
cry be, Our country, our whole country,
and the rights of the American people J
Trust in your own strength and in the
might and power of your cause Think
of the issue which is rendered. Millard
Fillmore and four years of calm, wise,
conservative, national rule-or James Bu-
chanan, with all the wild. impracticable,
theoretical schemings of another dynasty
after the manner of Franklin Pierce
How viii ye choose? For ourselves we
know no variableness nor shadow of turn
ing. We hold in our hand the banner of
the Union, of Millard Fillmore and Amer
ican rights. We will hold it aloft, in the
tempest and in the sunshine; nor shall
We lay it down save at the bidding of that
irreversible verdict, the voice of the peo-
pie, heard through the ballot-box We
do not believe we shall be called upon to
do this, If Americans will but do their
duty. We call upon you then, Ameri-
cans, wherever you may be, to whom our
words come, to arouse yourselves, Never
despair. Do not falter. Laugh at your
idle fears and WORK, and the day will be
ours. Let every man resolve himself into
a committee of one, aud labor for the
cause. Shake off your apathy, put your
shoulders to the wheel, and all will yet be
we'll