Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-29

WILLARD FILLMoRE.-The Boston Chroai
Gle, an independent journal. whose editor is
better posted on politics than almost any 9TH
er man in the country, has the following view
of the Philadelphia nominee for the Presiden
cy
The nomination of Mr.. Fillmore must be
looked upon as the completest specimen of
folly that ever illustrated party history. Here
Is man more odious to the people of the free
States than any other, because of his dirty,
sneaking subserviency to slavery, and he is
PUT up for the Presidency by party that as
sumes to be peculiarly national in its charac-
ter. Commencing his national career as
violent abolitionst, IN order to get elected to
Congress, Fillmore, on accidentally becoming
President of the United States, became the
basest, the most abiect, the flthiest tool Of
the slaveholding interest that ever held office
i'll America. His name stands on the inta-
nous Fugitive Slave Law, the most villainous
statute ever enacted since the writ de heretlco
cunbrerendo was provided for the destruction
of the Lollards. 1t was never meant that any
such law should be presented to President
Taylor, but tie moment that his death led to
Fillmore's elevation, it was determined that
the law should lie pressed, in order that he
might be compelled TO give bonds TO the South.
| The readiness with which he submitted to tbs
acquisitions of the shareholders was one of the
| causes of their subsequent boldness, and their
increase i'll insolence towards the North
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise was
one of the consequences of Fillmore's alb
| jectness and servility. His conduct left the
| impression that Northern men would do any
thing that might be demanded of them by
the South, if the language of the demand
was sufficiently imperative. In enforcing the
Fugitive Slave Law, Fillmore showed himself
to be even meaner than Pierce has proved
himself. He would have had the doctrine of
constructive treason,' that last resort of
| tyrants and aristocrats in constitutonally gov
erned countries, enforced against all who were
net as mean as himself In a contest between
| Pierce and Fillmore the former would tri-
umph, and would deserve to triumph. He is
the better man of the two, which does not
prove his exaltation, but Fillmore degrade
ton. The latter, in degrading politics, has
found that "depth still more profound which
the poet says lies beyond the "deepest hell"
There could not happen for the Democrats a
| better thing than Fillmore's nomination, for
| it actually puts their chief, by tie mere force
| of contrast into a respectable position, or
something that might be mistaken for it. On
| the supposition that FillmoTe's nomination is
to be maintained, all hope of defeating the
Democrats might as well be given up. Men
never contend with much heart when they
know the chances are ten thousand to one
against them. There must be some hepo of
success crowning their labors, or they cannot
fight. Now, there can be no hope of electng
Fillmore, because he stands in a position such
as forbids the possibility of the mass of the
Northern people supporting him for any high
office. Their doing so is moral impossibili-
ty. As well might it be expected that they
should revere the memory of Benedict Ar.
mold, as have any respect for Willard Fill
more, who has been quite as false to princI-
pie as ever was Arnold. When the South
shall nominate Mr.. Garrison for the Presiden-
cy, when the Free State men of Kanzas shall
call upon Strinfellow to lead them, when Gen
eral Gushing shall be called an honest man
by any one who is acquainted with him, and
when President Pierce shall be looked upon
as a statesman then, but not ill then, will
the North support Fillmore for the Presiden-
cy. The bringing of such string of dry
bones for leader in mighty war, is every
whit as ridiculous as it would be to send
recruiting sergeant into an old graveyard to
search after soldiers.