The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-09-06
Willard Fillmore an Abolitionist.

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presented by these men in the present contest?
Do they assail slavery in the states? they say
not. Then what is the difference between
them and Willard Fillmore upon this question
of slavery? We have examined the position
Of Mr.. Fillmore thoroughly, we have looked to
all his public acts and votes and we have found
in every vote which he has ever given upon
this vital southern question that he has been
uniformly IN ranks with Sade, Giddings, and
other abolitionsts. He has nerer roted in op-
position 10 them, OH the slavery question,
through his whole course in Congress. Does
this signify nothing? We have challenged his
friends and supporters in the South and we
now repeat the challenge and dare them to show
q single vote of Willard Fillmore, while in Con-
grcss, that was in opposition to Slade and Gid
dings, or in favor of the South, on the slavery
question!
Such is Mr.. Fillmore's record up to his cleo
ton as Vice President with Gen. Taylor. He
succeeded to position on Gen. Taylor's death
to which he never could have been elected by
the American people. Was his administra-
ton satisfactory one? Southern Know
Nothings now call it n "model administra-
ton" His own party did not then so consid.
err it, they did not approve it and cvinced that
disapprobation in refusing to endorse 1t by his
denomination. The South was cheated and
degraded in the admission of California under
it. His new friends of the new order of Know
Nothingism, now, at this late day, comes for
ward to endorse and approve an admnstra-
ton of the aid Wig party upon whose ruins
they boast to have arisen and whose obaor-
ious acts" and riolated pledges" constitutes
their standing charge against that old and
honest party. They pretend to say there was
peace and quiet in the country during that
administration, this is false. The agitation Of
the slavery question was carried above all 9th
ers until the Compromise measures of 1850
settled it down upon just and equitable ba-
sis. Was this the work of Fillmore? far from
it, he was not fitted for such noble purposes, it
was the great work of the noble patriots OF
the United States Senate, before whose sub
lime moral power and greatness the creature
Fillmore quailed and cringed with fear and
trembling lie mechanically signed these
great measures like shrinking coward. He
was opposed to them. An abotionist at heart,
, ed to sign them Henry Clay madc him do H.
and he signed them with a sneaking, pitifu
excuse to his abolition bretheren, that his
attorney general, not him, said the fugitive
slave law was constitutional He had oblec
tons to some of its provisions and he signed
that law with n protest against its constitu
, tionality, and we charge it upon him now tina,
he is opposed to the execution of that law be
6 cause he believes it to be unconstitutional.
These great measures gave comparative qui
, ct to tho country on this question during til,
i, remaining portion of Mr. Fimore's admins
= tration, but does he continue to adhere t.
them! Not he. Since the death of Cha,
and Webster, he has taken his old position
he has returned to his wallow and now plant
himself upon his protest and his objections
. when he sgDed those measures, and the yer,
first territorial organization under the princi
pies Of that great compromise, he opposes ant
=, denounces in true abolition stile.
No other act of Fillmores administration
has u zembance of southern justice in it. w
: challenge his southern friends to show one
On the contrary all his acts in regard to tn
Cuba question shows him to have been govern
ed by the most ultra abolition spirit and tn
; bittcrest hatred to the interest and rights Q
: the south. No man but black spirited abe
= litonsts would have branded the high spirited
. chivarous and honorable young men who com
. posed that unfortunate expedition to Cuba, a
plundererssand robbers. None other but a
:, abolition heart could conceive, and an abo
ton spirit direct such cold booded and COW
&c ardly official deed. From his seat, in tn
;s chief magistral chair of the nation, withou
trial or evidence, he pronounced those me
plnnderers and robbers who "must meet tn