New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-25
!, I1grvrI5 /, Flson prIs. FILLMORE,


NOBLE LErTER Kiso0 DrR. FILLMORE u 2.
W. nnbIsh Tie reply BE MI. Fillmore to the an.
nounceraent Of his nomination by the Macon Georgia
Convention, with unalloyed satisfaction The resol
t;ons Of that Convention, which were sent 70 hir kii
5o,e we're strictly Southern, embracing deeldea
lanaage tie vital principles Of the Georgia platform
of we are glad to see 50 hearty and none
respos,se from Mr.. Fillmoreit was expected q NM
a1a Ill like HIM manly and uneqnivo ceafas 2
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secept the nomination generously with CRATE
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81 remain your friend and fellow citizen MORE
To use i common, but often misapped phrase, the
above letter needs no comment general perasal
Of itoud lead TO general appreciation on the part
of the rejecting and intelligent 1t has the ring OF
the true nettthe pure silver. There is neither al
loy nor baseness nor a symptom Of counterfeitabout
\ it. IL sraaeks of grand old q AIRY CLAY--the man
who would rather be right than President. 1t IS
inst such letter as he would have written under sim
liar circumstances. He would have pointed to his
character his record his services, and then said if
that was not sufficient could not help t,just as Mr.
4 Fillmore has done.
tits not our purpose to eulogze this letter, or any
other letter that has come may come from the pen
A of MI. Fillmore, during the present canvass We
only desire to direct public attention to them, in order
that they may be duly weighed and judiciousy con-
sidered As earnest advocates Of his election beey
ing the highest interests of the South and the Union
to be involved materially in the result, we ask the
people-not the trading politicians or manufacturers
4 Of bogus public opnion-to read the letters and
speeches Of this truly great, good and initebly 1n
man. to call to mind his acts as President, to go over
his record when the times troublous when it re-
quired strong hand, a righteous heart and sound
head to navigate the ship state from the pers that
Eenyroned her on every handto recolect how he vim
deated and protected the constitutional rights Of the
South to the fullest extent, when those rights were
about to be- tramped under foot by hordes of raging
fanatics from his own section of country-how he
brought calm and repose upon the land, how wisely
4 judciously and economically he discharged the high
trusts confded to his keepinghow the whole people
(the abotonists excepted hailed him as the "model
President onhis retirement from ofice-how digni-
edy yet unostentatiously,h has ever borne himself,
in or out Of public lifeand then act and vote in ac-
y, cordance with the judgment made up from these
! reflections and Investigations.
One more remark to which we beg leave to call the
earnest attention Of ON readers There is not in this
vast confederaey single advocate of the election OF
Mr.. Buchanan, who enjoys prominence character, Or
even reputation for common honesty who will dare
charge Willard Fillmore with falsehood or dishonor.
All admit that as an individual, not the slightest
preach attaches to him. After the nomination of
Gen. Scott in 1852, md in the spring and summer
Of 1853 the Democratic orators and journals almost
without exception gave him full credit for the pos
session of the exalted virtues of integrity and patrio
tisn and freely admitted, although they differed from
him politically that he was entitled to the respect
: and gratitude Of his countrymen.
: Now, if Mr.. Fillmore was an honest man, man
who would not deceive, and who would not lie three
or four years ago, he is an honest man now. Men
never change at his period Of life. Implicit confidence
can be reposed in such man. Mr.. Fillmore points
to his Presidential career his character and services
as the only pledges he give as to what his con
duct will be if elected to the Presidency. Those
services are well KNOWN that character has not {
blemish upon its purity, and his Presidential caree
was marked by all the attributes of equal and exac
Justice to every section Of the Union SO far as it wa
in his power to extend it under the Constitution, ant
received the decided appreciation of an overwhelm
] ing majority of the Southern people. -5
Hence we argue that a man like Willard Fillmore
: who has been tried and found true, who has beer
y weighed in the balances and not found wanting Wit
has been subjected to the seyeest test that eve
applied to any President and came out all the brghe
:, from the ordeal, and who stands forth before tn
# world peur ct sans reproche should be agai
invested with the powers and dgnities that appertai
ia to the mightiest elective Office ever known to tn
y earth. .-4
In deliberate opinion, policy, safety and seeut
N call for the election of Mr.. Fillmore. Although
Northern man he proved true to the South during
trying period Therefore he should receive Southcr
$, support. His whole administration was marked b
ly fathfuness to the Constitution, from which thel
st was deviation. This should entte him to the col
dence of all who believe that the mandates Of the Coz
90 sttuton should be carried out as Washington ar
jackson carried them out. His devotion to the Union
at ardent and fealty to thas been trie
. and proved. This should commend him to the suppo
of all Union men without distinction of party. He
ce conservative patriotic statesman od-fshiont
G. conservatism in these days of radcasm sectionals
nd and anaticisn, should induce all conservative men
% rally around his banner without delay.
N. Mr. Buchanan, although very respectable gent
man and party statesman OF no mean prctensior
Ecannot point to any such record. He has alwa
ny floated with the current-has never stemmed it
" Mr. Fillmore has. Consequently we are without
he formation as to his capacity in that particuls
Which, then, is it safest for the people OF the Sou
to trust? The tried or the untried man?
-, RECOVERY OF MORE OF SUPPOSED LOST,
M Further Disasters BY the Gale-We yesterday aft
noon received notes from Messrs. H E. Lawrence
eg- A. r, Raglan, by the Opeousas Railroad, from viii
we arc much gratifed to learn of the safety of
nv. and Mrs. A. NJ. Foley, of Lafourche, Mr.. VIM.
mis- ehelle and negro servant of Mrs Hines and
two other servants These persons found in
he marsh in the vicinity Of Last Island where they