The true Democrat., 1856-04-01

the assurance that it was misfortune that southern obstnacy and prejudice would not agree for abolition iuries to try their right of property-if the anti-slavery fanaticism not only of this country, but all Europe, is to be propitiated by the assurance that the admission ot slave territory into our Union is unconstitu- tlonal-the time has come when the people of tnis country will not be amused by the llimsy ldea that MT. Sumner Is a monster because he declares that the fugitive in Boston shall not be surrendered before trial there and Mir Fill more IS pdtr1ot and hero because he thinks the negro ought to have that trial but vet declares that he will execute the laws refusing it.
 lNr. Fs31more's abolition proc1ivities furtAer
 exposed.
 E But we do not despair if an administration. whose boast it has been that it was faithful to the compromise of the slavery question as measure of peace and harmony, is no sooner in contact with the people than it acknowledges itself to be actuated by a sentiment of deadly hostility to the southern section of this Union; for what can be more hostile than the declaration that the shareholder ought to be dependent on abolition juries for his property, and that the admission of slave territory into the United States is stain upon the memory of the great men who committed this trespass on the con- stltutlon? There are sound men, a constitu- tlOnal majority we trust, in the north and west well as the south who will recognize in these sentiments only the usual falacieS of a party that has never yet been identified with the national tests of true republicanism, and cannot, therefore, wield the momentary preiu- dices which gave 1t power in such manner as to perpetuate that power. Does not every one see that the real effect, if not the design, of President FIllmore's recent visit to the people of New York will be the continued organza- tlon af an anti-siavery party reconciled to the compromise only because it enables whg ad- minlstraton to familiarize the people to the idea that slavery is political evil-an evil proscrb- ed by the whig conscience, limited to its pre- sent area, and proper to be assailed hereafter in all the ways which are possible, short of the violent disruption of the Union.
 IT.. Fillmore responsible tor the dangers ct dis
 union.
 If the public sentiment had not been mislel by such letters as Mr. Fillmore wrote to the abolition societies of New York, and by the eloquence of MT. Webster denouncing, as he admits he did, the institution of slavery as curse, and the extention of our territory in the south as violation of tue constitution, the dangers foreseen by Washington would not now be the subject of humiating explanation and apology on the part of the President aud his cabinet, and the means by which the whs party hopes to perpetuate its power.
 Every word of the foregoing is from the pro life pen of Andrew Jackson Donelson. It is a single article, occupying two columns of the Washington Union of which he was then tsa editor. We give it as specimen of the opin- ion entertained by him of the American candi- date for the presidency. How it could eve1 enter the heads of convention of reasonable men to nominate a ticket of such discordan and antagonstc materials will puzzle all who have been deluded with the idea that KuoN Nottingham has any regard for principle. One of two things is reduced to a certanty-either that Mir. Fillmore Is very bad man, or that Mr. Donelson has greatly slandered him, and is, therefore, himself as bad as he represents Mir. Fillmore.