Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-04-03
FOR PRESIDENT.
WILLARD FILLMORE,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDREW j. DONEISON,
OF TENNESSEE.

Tne Democratic Review on Mi. Fillmore
The Democratic Review for December, 1855,
having the Compromise measures of 1850. and
contemporaneous events under consideration
thus speaks Of Mr.. Fillmore:
.Momentous events we're transpiring. The
agitation of the question Of slavery was para
mount in the public mind. Ia this crisis, u was
we'll that SO reliable man rs Mr.. Fillmore was
found in the Presidential chair. The safety and
perpetuity of the Union were threatened. Al
ready had fanaticism raised its hydra heal.
schemes and '.isms' leaped from a thousand am
buscades. The caemies Of the Union started
forth on every sile-Abolitionism here. seces-
sionism there; acquisition and fllibusterism else
where. these are the formidable elements OF
misrule with which the Executive bad to cope.
How we'll he met, and how entirely he, for tho
time, oyercams these enemies of the peace Of
the republic, We leave the historian to relate;
but our retrospect would be incomplete and dis
ingenious. did We not accord the need Of praise
Justly due to high moral erceiience and infeiiee-
tu6l and administrative honesty and talent. a.
developed in the administration Of Mr.. Fillmore"
The slavery agitation came nearer n quietus
towards the close Of Mr.. Fillmore's adminstra-
ton, than it had ever done from the time 1t first
became an active element in the politics OF the
oosntry. But scarcely had that "reliabe man"
retired from Office. and his SUCCESSOR the present
incumbent, assumed control, when the agitation
began again with redoubled fury. " Fanaticism
raised it's by dra head Schemes and isms leaped
from thon sand ambuscades." Is il not won
zderful that with these facts before the country,
the Democratic party should have the audaoity
to contend that they alone capable Of mana
ging the question of slavery that they alone
are worthy of being trusted by tho South !! II
the Democratic party are competent to the dis
posal and adjustment of this subject, il they
have the art of solving this terrible enigma, and
the power to paoify the country, pray how does
it happen they have not done SO before this
For much the larger time since, ii like the sound
of a fire bell at night" it first broke upon the
country, they have had control Of the government
in all its branches and departments. With q
ruling majority in Congress, a President and
Heads of Departments OF their own choosing,
with Territorial Governors and Judges appoint
ed from their own party-with every means and
appliance for putting in execution whatever poll
oy they might prefer, how does 1t happen, We
repeat. that the slavery agitation, instead of
having been quoted. has been all the time in
Credsing IN intensity ana extent, ana Inc power
Of the abolitonists growing more fatally strong
and presumptuoas every day Does not this
prove that the claim of the party to BIO capable |
land to be the only party capable) of conducting
the slavery controversy to "a peaceful and salts
factory termination is false as it is arrogant
There is no denying the fact that the Democrat
ic party have. in variety Of ways, contributed |
to swell and inhame this warfare Of sections |
Their policy of territorial acquisition has con-
stantly furnished new subjects for excitement;
and the conduct of men made influential by them.
selves has corrupted, and Is oorruptng, the senti
ments Of nearly the whole Northern people. They
made Van Buren, potent for mischief, and his
power has been exercised with dreadful effect.
So with Benton, Blair, Bryant, Banks, Wilmot.
King. and many others who were first elevated
nto prominence by the Democratic party, and
Who, from the position thus given them. have
dispensed their malign doctrines far and wls,
md with an influence hundred fold greater
Than they would otherwise have had, The seeds
from which the pestituous crop of abolitionism
nas grown were scattered largely by democratic
hands. When the country has gathered in tho
full harvest it will know how much it is indebted
to the Democratic party for the reception, pro-
yress and end Of the slavery agitation.
Letter from r n Hanfan