The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-07-15
UNFORTUNATE MIR. FILLMORE.

Mr.. Fillmore, in his late Albany speech,
with surprising neodesty said: "When Ileft
the Presidential chair, the whole nation was
prosperous and contented, and our relations
with foreign nations were of the most ami
cable kind. But where are we now p
Threatened at home with civil war and from
abroad with a rupture of our peaceful rela-
lations."
This attack upon Gen. Pierce and the
Administration was not only out of place and
void of good taste. but has proved particu-
larly unfortunate for Mr.. Fillmore. At the
very moment he was making his ill-natured
speech, vessel was approaching our shores,
conveying tidings that there would be no
war with England-that the English gov
ernment had virtually acknowledged that
Gen. Pierce was right-and that there would
not even be temporary suspension of
friendly and commercial intercourse with
England. On this subject the Richmond
Enquirer says:
THE fact is, the British Ministry set out
with the purpose of bullying this country.
They received our first representations on
the enlistment dispute with characteristic
insolence; and our demand for redress was
answered by an increase of the British ma
val force in the American waters. At eve
ry subsequent stage of the controversy in
which they found themselves embarrassed
by our diplomacy, they repeated the same
expedient of a warlike demonstration OH
our borders. Persisting in the refusal to
comply with our conditions of adjustment,
they attempted to frighten our government
from its purpose by charging their organs
with every sort ofmenace. At first we were
distinctly told that the dismissal of Cramp-
ton would provoke instant and severe re-
prisal; and to aggravate the terrors of this
mysterious threat, their writer's INDUCED a
ferocious fancy in depicting the sack of our
cities and the ravage of our coast. In the
end they backed down to the position, that
the disgrace of their Minister would be re-
taliated by the dismissal of ours; and they
rested upon the gentle intimidation of sus-
pension of amicable intercourse with the
American government.
lin no way alarmed by the menacious at
titude of the British Government, our Pre-
sident held on to his original position, and
our inexhorable Secretary repeated his de-
mands with irresistible persistency of pur-
pose. Reciprocating the friendly protesta-
tions of the English Ministry in the bland
est phraseology, and demolishing their ar
guments with sort of anesthetic operation
of logic, Mr.. Marcy, at every turn of the
correspondence, would rcmorselessly re-
peat the demand for the recall Of Mr.. Cramp-
ton. Wearied at last with the shufIling and
equivocation of his adversaries, he suffered
the blow to fall upon their heads but with
so gentle descent, that, however indig-
nant in their hearts, they had no recourse
but to pocket the affTont and behave like a
good-natured gentleman. For it is un-
doubtedly due to the staunch policy of Pre-
sident Pierce. so ably and skilfully carried
out by Mr.. Marcy. that the country escap-
ed the hazard of war with Great Britain,
or the more depLora6te alternative of an in
famous accumulation"
Gen. Pierce and Mr.. Marcy have triumph
ed, and England now begins to acknow.
| ledge that she was in the wrong and we
were in the right.-The Times, which of all
the English journals has threatened the se-
verest retaliation for the disgrace Of Cramp-