Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-09-09

! FILLMORE "ABIDES By HIS ANTECE-
Dentists OPPOSED To THE ENTEN-
| SION OF SLAYERY.-IMPORTAN TESrI-
| MONY FROM 4 RESPONSIBLE PERSON.
! MIR. Hiram Kechum, OF New York, is among Fill
mores most confidential and influential friends, in q
personal rs well as political sense. If any inan III
the North is entitled ;u know aud ID authorized 10 de-
clare Fillmores opinions Oh public affairs, Mr.. Hiram
k.tcbu,n is tina, individual justified BY the Intimate
relations which have long subsiSted between himself
and the Know Nothing candidate Mr.. ketchum ven
tur.d some time eucc, 10 define Fi.mures position
in r.,nrd TO the extens of slavery The following
latter from the New York Courier and Enquirer ot
in. I'D of September, will be understood without fur
ther comment;
TO thc Edtt0rs of The Gom'sr anil Enquirer:
In your leading article Of Saturday morning you
have seen it 10 make tree use ol my haihe CONNECT
in, il with iuputatons which celbound TO repel
In nv speech at New Haven speaking upon the
suh;.ct of Slavery Extension, said:
"Uut do not intend to ignore that subject on this
occlsiop If there is any nan here, Or III the Stale
ot Connecticut that has ever opposed the e1rIIslon
of slavery more than le who addresses you 10 night,
ar hns ever done more give the slave his legal and
constitutional rights, then would like to see that
man, iApplausej Gentlemen, attached myself ear.
v e
opnnsed to the extension of slavery. And say here
tonight that the Whg party OF the North has al
ways hnG that creed, and these Repubicans can [
take out paten. for it for many long yenr-merr-
nent and sppnuseI- land say that MIllard filinore
ha l,een true to that party, and has had since
he entered into political life, any other principle but
that which would prevent the further extension ot
slavery. (AppIuuse.l
"Bm upon his S"Gjrci Of The extension Of s'an",y
MIN, n,s fr, F;Rmorl' principles! IFhy, hr Mimks
NIL | tyill Vel n IL lly
friend will allow to use hls name. that if the Rev.
Dr. Taylor Of this city, now present, and Mr. Fill.
more should sit down together, they would not dis
agree particle, and l OILY txeinpIiiy by these dis
tnruisbrd peIsous the common feeling of the North.
| rhry think alike-thcy would act alike Now, what
i, Mr. killmore's opinions upon The present crsol
r..d from one of his recent speeches:
nave no hesitation in sHyin. that most OF you know
arrmdy that was decidedly opposed to the repeal OF
,hst Ni..ouiil Compromise Good inth, ne we'll as the
nacc nj th, country seemed G require that cOmpro.
mise which had stood for more Than thirty year, should
not be wantonly disturbed Those were my sentiments
,hcp. uly and freely expressed verbally and in writing
| 70 all nv friends, North and South who solicited my
noinon This repeal seems to have been a Pnnd"ra's
box OF which have Issued all the political eus thnt
nuw rlct the country, and scarcely leaving hope be-
hind Many. perceive, are ready tU impute hil the
blame 10 our Southern brethren. But is this just; No,
ni II must be borne mind that the origins
u ,.d with Northern Senator, and sustained and
&" sanctioned By Northern President" IApplausel
| Now. my friends, what would Mr.. Fillmore dol
WILL 7 cannot undertake to say what he would do,
but IN mn judgmeRt, he wnuM CrrrciSC all ms Bnmcr
and IN tuencc ~ arOr ct limiting sIarcry 10 ~hrrsd IS.
In nv Judgment he would do al he could to zee fair
nlav in Kansas. aud if ho would do us should recon-
| ,n,nd 10 him. Kansas should not be admitted as q
Sinte under two years from this date. We have had
| enough of admitting these unhedged StaIes. am
utterly opposed to admitting any other States, since
we have admitted California, until we see bow she
behaves herself Territory, and whether the peo.
ple are capable of governing themselves. Therefore,
upou this subject, believe Mr.. Fillmore to be entire
| ly sound and a,n | would not advocate him
| here to night if did not.
| By every word that then said, stand, and shall
cav It again. l support Mr.. Fdimor> for The Presi-
dsncv because Qf hts t!,.tao-n dtece,ents pu6
lie man, and because haze seen eridencc that he
yrjccts iose an',ccdcnts and because satisfied Mat
hp abdcs by th0se antcCCdes, ami distinctly placcS
himsclt upon them b,tore tic country.
What are hi- aut-ccdents upon the sute ect of the
extension of slavery You know them. gentlemen,
as well as do,hry hare and olarays Gcrn oPpos
ed TO the extension " sarsry While Le in pub.
lie e that settled question under the Missouri
Compromise. BY this Compromise, all territory North
of So deg. 80 made Free Territory, and oil
South might be made Slave Territory. The only ques-
tious, therefore, upon which his principles upon the
subject of the extension of slavery could be tested
were questions 10 the acquisition Of territory which
must become Slave Territory. TO sVch acyhisH.0"s'
M. Fillmore and The rho'e Wig party Of tie AGrfA
trers opposed. l have shown above what were Af'