Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-08-16
1r. Fillmore as he Was.

When Mr.. FILLMORE was administer,
ing the Government, and after the Whie
Convention of 1882 committed the &C,
which gave the dea:hblow to the Wing
,arty, in nominating Gen. Scorr for the
Presidency-the rejected candidate fo'
the nomination was, in the estimation o1
the Democracy, marvellously proper
man. Some Of the venal party journals,
which could then, without prejudice to
their interest, afford to vindicate the
cause Of historical truth and justice, saw
in him all the virtues and qualifications
Of an UPRIGHT man and wise and faith
ful chief magistrate. This view of Mr..
FILLMORE and his administration was
taken just previously to the election in
! 1852. If Mr.. FILLMORE was the man
then he was represented to be, he is the
same now, for he tells us he has nothing
to retract, but is willing to be judged by
his antecedents. That bitter partizan
paper, the Richmond Enquirer, thus
spoke of Nr. FILLMORE in September,
1852:
Gen. Taylor died at the very crisis of
affairs. The country felt relieved from
an awful agony when Mr.. Fillmore took
the reins Of government, threw aside
Gen. Taylor's advisers, formed better
Cabinet, and gave his conscience to other
keepers than Seward. The whole policy
Of The government was Immediately
changed.
The Compromise measures quickly
passed, and the ,chole country 1as re-
ltercd of its painful anr'ety.
Ever since that change the Southern
Wings have become more and more de-
voted 20 Mr.. Fillmore. He became their
chosen leader-their special and particu-
lar candidate for the Presidency. Whilst
the North deserving him, took up with
another, who suits their purposes better,
and used him to put down Mr.. Fillmore
because he rentured to brnve their indig>
nation. This is all history.-lt is truth.
Gen. Taylor was born in Virginia, and
he was reared in the South. was large
STAKEHOLDER, whilst Mr.. Fillmore had
been educated in New York, and was
proved to hold doctrines exceedingly OBJ
jectionable to the South. But how weak,
the restraints Of education with these
men The one, listening to the voice Of
advisers into whose souls Seward had
breathed the poison Of bis unhoiy poll
tics, pursued policy which came near
wrecking this nation upon the shoals Of
disunion; whilst the other, cleansing The
Capitol of its traitorous dcnizens, disre
garded the whispers Of eor'y prejudice,
and helped by the miyhfy engine 81
Executive influence to quie' the country,
md to soec all portions J;on1 injury and
dshonor.
We do not approve Of Mr.. Fillmores
administration i'll all It's policy. but we
are free to say he has made an Infinitely
better President for the South than Gen.
Taylor dill or would have done, and we
believe there is not Wing South OF
Mason and Dixon's line who does not in
his heart believe the same thing.
One of the oldest and most influential
Democratic papers in the State Of Ala
bama is the Florence Gazette. On the
18th of June, 1852, its spoke Of Mr..
FILLMORE in the following terms
M1LLARD FlLLMoRE.-If the,e is one
trait of character which we possess
above all others, it is political indepen~
dence that kind Of polilia independence
which promotes one to do justice to the
acts and motives Of a political adversary
regardless Of that party circumspeetion
which says, "tbus far shalt tlIou 60, and
no further" Prompted by the feelings,
we unhesitating|y express the ardent
hope that Millard Fillmore may be the
nominee of the Wing Convention.-|
Should the nomination fall upon him, we
should oppose his election with all our
zeal, but should he be elected, we would
feel that in him the South had a true
and reliable friend.
We notice that several of our Democ-
raric contemporaries call him "Aboliticn
Fillmore" THIS IS AN UNJUST 1MPUTA.
r1oN. When Mr.. Fillmore was first nom
mated as a candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency, we shuddered at the thought Of
bis election. We saw that he had given
votes obnoxious to the South: and there
fore believed him uusound upon the