Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-15

11iE RfpuBrsrAS imraie- ineniasisteneY to u.
because approving the repeal Of The Missouri
cnmpreinl-s. we support Ma. Fillmore. who DIS
approved il. We have given in another artcls
sufficient reasons for concluding that, however
much Mr.. Fillmore may have regretted the die.
,urbance Of Tim, measure account of the con
sequences which he foresaw would result. the
country has nothisg TO lear from any attenp, at
its restoration. If he should he elected Cur in
consistency. II any. is too trivial for noter.-
Perhaps. IL the Republican had looked Ia itself
It's candidate and its party. rs atientvely a. II
has regarded us, instead Of discovering n mote in
our eye. ii might have seen beam in lis own
How long has the Republican, the party with
which II acts, or The candidate whom il supports.
been opposed to the Missouri COMPROMISED
When the Virginia Democratic Convention of
1873 resolved TINT they were "unmilfing 10 dis
tub the Missouri Compromise" did ar did not
tho Republican agree with them, When tho
Nashville Convention Of the same or the sue
ceeding year insisted that il should be ertendfa
10 The Pacific" did or did not the Republican
agree with theml When in SIG Mr. buchanan
declared that he regarded thi. compromise ITO
be almost sacred as the Constitutions" aud
when in lsi7 he took the ground that it should
be attended 10 any ne'e Tefritory which we may
acquire from Mexico" and when in 1sls he snid
II CLING 10 the Missouri Compromise" aud
when. during the present year. in his letter from
TINT no Democrat should be oensurcd who might
have opposed the repeal-did or did no, the Re
publican agree with him If yen, whnt extra.
ordinary merit is there now in shouting over the
repeal of TINT measure, aud warning on gentle
mhn who has expressed his regret at It's repeal,
Mr.. buchanan thinks any Democrat who may
have opposed its repeal should be exempted from
.oensnrc Why, then. may not Mr.. Fillmore bel
Does the Republican doubt that, AZ hart. Mr..
buchanan was Jnst as much opposed 10 the
peal of the Missouri Compromise MS Mr. Fill
more' In 1917 he said that Its adoption in
ls20 sared the Union from threatened eonpui
sion" and that its extension in l5is 10 any new
Territory we may acquire from Mexico will 80.
cure the iike happy result" lie bad spoken of
il as being almost as sdcred rs the constitution"
aud declared that he chung toit In his letter To
Slidell he accepts the Kansas bill, because, he
says mournfully enough, the Missouri Compro.
mise " is gpne--nnd gone forever" With all
these evidences Of Mr.. Bnehanan's intense devo-
ton to that measure, does the Republican doubt,
we repeat, that he regretted lis repeal Just as
much AIr. Fillmore If he has any mind of
his own any consistency. any regard for thugs
sacred any attachment for an agency which had
once saved the country" aud could do so again
If "cimg"is n word which has any meaning 10
him. he could not have seon n measure TO which
he was so long md earnestly devoted STRICKEN
from the statute book, without the deepest mort
honton and rcgroi aud are obliged To believe
that il be had been frank aud fearless in the
ayowal OF his sentiments US Mr.. Fillmore, ho
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