Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-05-22

IHc bOstoh lIuUttT puUnoHee tuo lol-
lowing letter from Mr.. Haven, the friend
and former law partner Of Mr.. Fillmore,
and now member Of Congress:
House Of Representatives,
WAsHINoToN, April 30, 1866.
NY Dear Sir: Your letter of the 2sth in
stant, containing quotation from some Bos-
ton paper, has been this moment handed me
at my seat. will answer it before lay it
down. The quotation is as follows: at is |
now conceded that Mr.. Fillmore will de-
cline the nomination of the American Party.
| learn from what l consider good authority,
that he has written TO his friends in New
York that he is not an "American" in the
party sense Of that word, that he cannot ac-
cept the nominaton-and that as soon as he
arrives in New York, he will make his de-
cision known"
/ have not seen the paper from which
you make the extract, but have seen much
similar nonsense in free circulation in the
anti-American press. Supposing the SEN
sible men of the country knew fully how to
appreciate it, no one has taken occasion to
reply to it.
The circulation of these reports seems to
be about half the stock in trade of the De-
mocracy of the South, and approximates 10
the entire assortment of the Republicans
and AbolitionistS of the North.
These extreme men make a parade of is
sues with each other, on purely sectional
questions, but upon this subject they look
into each others eyes with mutual sympathy
and satisfaction.
They believe in common, if they can drive
from the field the man who is standing in
the very midst of the great American mass
es-of the people themselves-as distin-
guished from the politician, and the intrigues
for place, that their work in the coming
cam paign will be more than half completed =,
that the winds of discord and sectional strife
will again be let loose, and the cry will then
again be raised, that the Constitution is "on
i'll considered compact" attrocious bar
gain," and that the time has come TO "let
the Union slide"
My dear sir, the wish of these men is
father to the thought, that they will be dis
appointed in all their calculations.
Mr.. Fillmore was not nominated to de-
cline. His nomination was the result Of
deliberations Of as intelligent, warm-heart-
ed, cool-headed, discreet and patriotic body
of men as has met in this country since the
convention that framed the constitution.
Mr.. Fillmore will not decline. He has
not so informed me in terms it is true; but
were he to decline, he would prove a traitor
to that sentiment in the country which 81
nobly, so generousl y sustained him in tht
very trying times of his previous admins
tration, and to those just and comprehensive
American sentiments which mculcate atc
insist upon exact justice to every section o
our common country, with all its diversified
institutions, interests, prejudices and pur
suits.
The great American spirit and American
heart sustained him in that former Admins
tration, upon which he entered amidst diff
culties, peris and sectional strife. He car
ried II OH from the necessities of the case
with the appointees Of his predecessor, AM
not with men Of his own selection; save hi
} Cabinet, in which, for obvious reasons,
change was necessary, without casting an
imputaton on those not retained, and saw
also very limited number, less than doz
, en-, think, that self-respect compelled hin
4 to change, in his own State.
That Administration brought peace, ,quiel
contentment and satisfaction TO the Who'll
country. Our foreign relations were main
tanned on high, honorable, and America
grounds. In all our domestic affairs, thing
subsided into equiescence, satisfaction, an
approval. Sectional strife dared not sho,
lis head, and the Territorial acquisition.
: that came with the peace, then lately con
SIuucuj WCiO PiaOVu uhuSi SiFAi boNCiN
ments that were satisfactory TO all.
The government machinery, when h
A handed it over to his successor, was bright
well oiled, fabricated, and in complete run
| ming order; whether the engineer in charg
since that time has kept it SO, or whether h
+ has let it become rusty and deeayed, or ha
!, switched the engine and entire train of tn
d track, let the nation declare.
: Mr.. Fillmore has not yet received officia
: advice of hi1 nomination had not, d
least, on the est of March, when at Flor
d ence; but in letter from there of that dat
2 Z to me, after regretting the necessity Of S
e early nomination, and that the choice ha
: not fallen upon another, he says, 81 am full
= prepared for any sacrifice which it may
# necessary to make, and any responsibility