Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-07-25
From the Hisanond Enquirer.


States We have established beyond a doubt that
his record presents entire sheet OF anti-savery
votes He assails it is true, Fremont & Co , in his
Albany speech as sectional party; deprecates sec
tonal partes and pictures In beautiful coors the re-
suits which are flow from an organization The most
dangerous to civil liberty and the perpetuty OF the
American Union. Yet Mr.. Fillmore is asserting and
asserting in his stump speeches the doctrine
which is hurled against the South by Fremont and
the black republicans Pouring out his jerem lads
over the repeal of the Missouri restriction and
whilst he deprecates sectional lines in this election
of President and Wee resident, yet mourns over
tie obIlteraton of sectional line excluding one-half
of the Sovereign States OF The Union from any par
ticipation in tie benefits which to flow from the
common property of all the Sates-the property of
the South equally with the North
With what show of consistency can Mr.. Fillmore
assail Fremont & Co., when he and his friends are
occupying the same position
Opposition to the repeal of the Missouri restriction
and the restoration of that unjust and uncons THU
tional sectional measure is the rallying cry of both
parties
The friends of MIR. Fillmore can't deny that his
past record is inimca TO the South They cannot
deny his opposition 10 the annexation Of Texas
They can't deny that he was in favor OF Congress
exercising al the constitutional power it possessed
to abolish the internal slave trade between the States.
They cannot deny that he said 81 am in favor
of immediate Legislation for the abolition of slavery
in the District of Columbia
Joshua GiddngS, Wm. Slade, J. Quincy Aadms,
and against all national men, North and South.
His record according to his admissions, during
his 81 accidencys" Term President Of the United
States, will show that every feeling OF his heart was
at with the rights and institutions of the South
Hear him in his Albany speech. See how fully
be confirms the declaration Of Mr.. Dixon, an old line
Wing, of Kentucky, and the bosom friend of Henry
Clay, when be charges that Mr.. Fillmore was prompt
ed TO sign the Fugitive Slave Law, aud TO endorse
the M thrOuOh Influence Of
Clay and Webster, and that his Mr. F.'s) private
objections were almost insurnOuntable and for do
ing which, he Is now proclaimed by Southern know
nothngs TO be Southern par excellence, a, the
same time striking mg ht and main at the Kan.
sas Nebraska BILL the only measure calculated to
restore peace 20 the country, establish State
equality and take from the arena Of national Legis,
ation question which properly belongs to the PEG
pie directly interested, and who alone the safe
arbers of their own interests and peculiar institu
tons
quote from his Newburg speech, in which he ad
mits that bis support of the Fugitive Slave Law and
the principles of intervention for the territories
of Utah and New Mexico, was given against his own
convictions of light; for this all the South gain
ed by the adjustment, as we thought at the time
He says; sc You all know when was called to the
Executive Chair by "a bereavement which overwhelm
ed the nation with grief, that the country
fortunately agitated from end to the other upon
the IleXciting subject Of slavery 1t then that
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cherished preudices aud disregard party claims
Here is a frank, unequiv0cal admission that he
was opposed TO the fugitive slave law. What else I
1t was all tie South leceIved-if Mr. F. is right in
his construction that the Missouri restric ion not
ahrogaed in principle by the passage of the Com2ro
mise of 1880 for the South did get the
doctrine of non intervention by the compromise
If our Southern Know Nothing friends will dvest
themselves of party reudce, and take the record of
A;r. Fillmore. with the declaration made in his New
burg speech, they forced convict him of occu
plying ground equally dangerous to the liberties Of
one half Of the sovereign States of this Union, equal
y nimical to State rights, State equality and State
sovereignty AS Fremont aod Black Rerubcanism.
The pure, simple issue in the pending canvass is Ne
braska and anti Nebraska The rights, he honor
The salvation Of The South, and The perpetuty of this
UnlOn rests upon II, in our humble opinion
So long as The flag of country affords the
South protection, justice and equality, she will honor
and defend it, Convert it into an emblem of degre-
dalton and injustice and she will spurn and despse it
10 preserve The Constitution with all its guaran-
tees and preserve The Union as it was designed to
exist, and as we received it from the hands of our
toretathers is great mission to ich every patri-
otto heart should be called. 1t is Il glorious work
worthy of our noblost efforts
On the one hand, we have an openly avowed sec
tiQnal party OF Northern candidates. on the other
those who are arrayed in deadly opposition to South
ern rghtS, Tie foreign born citizen and the Catholic
We have to contend single handed against all the
parties factions and fanatics of the lay The Know
Nothngs, with nier prescription ant intolerance, the
Black Republicans, with their sectional hatred of the
South the crazy fanaticism of political priest craft
and heatless abolition sympathisers though widely
differing from ZACH Other some questions all unite
IN common feeling of hostility TO the Democratic
party. The Democracy alone stand before the coun
try as great national and united rar1y, upon prin
cples as broad the Union, and national as the
American Constitution. Maintaining the same great
political truths upon the shores of the Atlantic and
Pacific, upon The soil of Maine and New Hampshire,
as in glorious South It is a great party WELD
ing glorious banner. having inscribed upon its
broad folds-the rights of the States, JUSTICE equal.
~, civil and religious freedom.
Who can, in the present contest, stand quietly by
! and the Constitution of our glorious country
stabbed, Union peled, and be indffe, ent specta-
tors of the issue? With national men, everywhere,
let past differences and pejudices be forgotten willis,
present obligations and hopes should inspire with
a common zeal in defence of common country and
| common Constitution.
! This great country OF ours is the most beautiful
the sun of Heaven ever shone upon, and the wisdom
OF man never before erected such government as
that under which we live. Let US stand by our Clio.
nous Constitution. 1t is the sheet anchor Of our
hope 1t has made us glorious in the past and. if
faithfully adhered to, will make US still more glorious
IN the future. When administered in its true letter
and spirit, ii commands admiration when its
true spirit which gives life, vitality equality and
justice to all sections, is abandoned it is not worth
The parchment upon which it is written
JEFFERSON
4" TAKEN WATER."-The disqualification of Senator
Sumner, on the day before the trial of Mr. Brooks
came off before the Criminal Court, has generated a.
hearty laugh Washington The truth is, it
WCnld never have done for the Republican cause to
have submitted him to a cross examination unon tho