The true Democrat., 1856-04-22

banks and fiscal corporations latitudinarlan Tn | all respects, and was decidedly and unequivo cally an antl-slavery representative and man, If John Quincy Adams ever gave an anti.Savery | vote which MT. Fillmore did not give, while l served with the two do not remember the in- stance. In debate he complained that the clanking of the chains of slavery in the District of Columbia disturbed him in his seat on the floor of the House. Yet he was temperate man, moderate in all things. He was no rabid fanatic-I verify believe conscientious in his unsound construction of the constitution. He was highly esteemed by me as good man, and we daily exchanged every courtesy and kindness without personal breach; acting together, at times, in opposition to Van Burenism, and again opposing each other under Mir. Tyler's admin lstratlon. Within the last few weeks l have | received the klndest message from him in Eu- | rope, congratulatlng me on my election as Go- | vernon of Virginia, and saying that tue election | of no democrat could have been more agreeable | 10 his feelings. Indeed, such is my friendly personal regard for the man, such is my esti mate of his good sense, discretion and modestv, | that 1 would not believe he would accept the nomination rendered to him, if had not been so egregiously disappointed heretofore in similar calculations uI on men nominated for high office. | We will see whether he will accept or not On the hypothesis that he would accept the nomination, because he had, as runor says, joined the order of Know Nothingism; that he would disappoint my high estimate of him as d man and patriot, wrote my letter of the 10th lns!., correcting the remark of Mir Stuart. l stated that the conservative conscientious, constitution-loving whigs of Virginia, who had voted the democratic ticket in May, 1855, could not be reclaimed by the Fillmore and Donelson ticket, for two reasonS: l. On the hypothesis stated, because Mir. Fillmore Was no longera Whig, but was chang ed by the hOcus pocus of the necrUmancy of Sam. 9 Because the Fillmore and Doncson ticket "a cross of northern and southern Know Moth lngs--waS mulatto ticket.
 Now, have not word or phrase in that letter to modify, but will live or die by its jus titication according to every law of legitimate construction. 1 don't retract jot or little of it, but calmly repeat and will prove its justice and its truth, both fguratively and substantial-
 "; and, as 10 its taste, l will abide by the nature of the subject to which the figure of speech was applied. | Itis upon the authority of Sam himsef--bad, even against himself admit--that assert if MT. Fillmore has joined his order, he is no longer whig. Sam derided and denounced by | cared both in ruin and defunct He pretend e to something beyond sprituali>m; that he could change living natures from themselves, and convert opposite natures into each other, and fuse Whigs into democrats democrats into whl9s, until that neutral political salt was pro ducel ycleped--S m. Neither whi- nor de- mocrat-but, just by uecromancy-Slm. There fore, if Mir. Fillmore ia joined unto Sam, he is just Sam-no longer whig. A whig had | principles, sam has none; he ignores all rin- ciples-he i, pro-everything and con-everything and in one word, is-Know Nothing. And that is rot whiggery. l suspect, most shrewd- ly, however, that this was but a spring to catch democratic woodcocks. But yesterday the at tempt was made to turn Whiggery into Know Nottingham; and the nomination of to-day Is the counter change of the charm tO turn Know Nottingham into whSgery. If so let it be ln- derstood, then, as trickery- more than trckcry and even then, no conservative con- scientous, notwithstanding whigs will De caught within the circle of tine blue flame magic They men of principles and of pride; they are not surer,titious, and they are honest men,
 Mark you, am speaking of those have nam cd-comseryatve, conscientious, constitutions loving wings. l don't speak Of those who are not whigs when they are prose lyting democrats and who are wings when they are appearing to quontMn Whig> to restore the very " W Washing, ton-hke" Pre- 'ideut whom they rejected for the widow of fat and forty," with the avalabli- ties against executing the fugitive slave law!
 Then, to the second proposition, it is Liman classification; it is hneal cross; it is a cross of northern hlack repubIicanism and southern Know Nottingham NoW at the time my letter of the 1Obh Was written, and inst be- fore, what had we not seen in tha metropolis? An uiteneche war over the twelfth section, be- tween Eotsites and the pretenders to pro-slave- " oi the Richmond council of the order The former had dared to name their man, and they played boldly for the north by openly ignoring the twelfth section. What is the twelfth sec ton? It Is all article of faith which was once adopted, u June last, by Samite convention in Philadelphia It contains sundry propos-
 lst. That the American patty had risen upon the ruins of the whig and democratic parties 2d. That it could not be held responsible for the obnoxious acts or violated pledges of either That, therefore, it interposed to declare, for peace sake
 3l. That the national council has deemed 1t the best guaranty of common justice and future peace to abide by and maintain the eX. sting laws upon the subject of slavery, as a final and conclusive settlement of that subject, |.
 in spirit and in substance
 4h. That Congress possesses no power un- der the constitution to legislate upon the sub ject of slavery in the States where it does or may exist
 5th. Or toeXcude any State from admission into the Union because its constitution does or does not recognize the institution of slavery as a part of it's social system.
 9th. That Congress ought not to egislate upon the subject of slavery within the terrto- ries of the United States.
 7th. And that any interference by Congress with slavery it exists in the District of Co., lumbia would be violation of the spirit and intention of the compact by which the State of Maryland ceded the district to the United States and breach of the national faith
 Every one of these propositions the Bott- sites ignored, and at once the party of the Rich mond Wing newspaper ignored the Bottstes. The latter were denounced as black republicans, as anti slavery and freesol traitors, as false to the south and to the American order in Vir- ginia. For weeks this war ragged, openly out before all eyes, and one would have thought that if any on earth were indignant that the twelfth section was ignored, it was the pre- tenders of the Richmond Whig who claimed to be simon pure southern; and were unmeaSured in their backing abuse of the Bottstes. This was all as 1t were yesterday. They minced no terms, but blacked their opponents all over as if with soot and grease. The Bottsites were firm and defiant; they took up the glove, met
 che enemy in primary assembly and defeated them before the eyes of all the people One and another thought there would be split; but no! Sam performed few charms, by hic hec hoc of ceremony; brought all again into a fu- sion, sent delegates to Philadelphia and To! one of the first things that the Philadelphia convention did was to exclude the twelfth sec
 tion and to admit the anti-twelfth section dele gation 'of Pennsylvania; and, after sitting for
 days and hearing the slaveholder and his State
 institutions denounced and scoffed to scorn, the Virginia delegates with the rest, consented to ignore the twelfth section at Philadelphia as the Bottstes had done at Richmond, and a
 platform was adopted "sorter so" and "s0rter