New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-30

VirtuOus achievements are not the only passports
to distinction. Great crimes often make men no.
torious. Our readers will bear US witness that
during the present Presidential canvass we have
hardly mentioned the name Of Willard Fillmore.
We have regarded his unimportance az too utter TO
waste words upon him. Suddenly, however, he
has doomed up into position, not more i'm
portant, to be sure, but far more extrsord'
nary than any which he has before occupied
He has suddenly distinguished hiuself by the
Open and public avowal of such reasonable
doctrines as have never before fallen from any man
who had occupied, either otherwise or BY accident,
the hish official position to which Fillmore sue
ceedsd on the death Of Gen. Taylor. Nay more
such clear and distinct notification never fell in the
hottest and stormiest times from the lips of Cal
houn, Hayne, or McDufie. In his speech at Al
bany on Friday last, Mr.. Fillmore says:
Eve zee political party presenting candidates for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency selected for the first
time from the Free States alone, with the avowed pur
pose of eectiDg there candidates by surnges OF one
part of the Union only to rule over the whole United
States Can it be possible that those who are engaged
in such a measure, can seriously have reflected upon
the consequences which must inevitably follow, in case
Of SUGGEST Can they have the madness or the folly
to believe that our Southern brethren would submit to
"
Suppose that the South having majority OF the Elec-
toral votes should declare that they would ouly have
slaveboldes for President and resident; and
should elect such by their exclusive sursges to rule
oven at the North. Do you think we would submit
to it7 No, not for moment. And do you believe
that your Southern brethren less sensitive on this
subject than you are less jealous Of their rights! II
you do let me tell you that you are mistaken. And,
therefore, you must that if this sectional party suc-
c. eds il leads inevitably to the obstruction OF this
beautiful fabric cared by forefathe cemented by
their blood and bequathed to US as priceless inner
itapce"
That is to cay, if the Peoples party elect Col.
Fremont as President and he receives no electoral
votes from any Slave Slate, albeit be receives
clear and undoubted majority of all the electoral
vOtee it lie "madnes and folly to believe that our
"Southern brethren would submit to be governed
by such Chief Magistrate" and he (Mr. Fill
more) would justify and uphold them in refusing
btdience to Chief Magistrate thus elected.
Now, as We read the Constitution, it says that
"tbe person having the greatest number Of votes
"for President shall be the President, if such
"number be majority of the whole number Of
ELECTORS appointed" 1t says nothing about the
votes coming from Slave States OF Free States.
To resist, in the peculiar manner suggested by
Mr.. Fillmore, the authority Of Chief Magistrate
on the ground that he was elected only by the
votes Of part of the States, although he received
majority Of the whole number Of Electors ap-
pointed" would be plainly and unequivOc lily
treasoh-the very highest crime known to
the law. Mr.. Fillmore is thus, by his
own deliberate avowal, at heart and in
intentiOn-in all but the overt act, which yet re-
mains to be committed-s traitor, This is no OK.
oggeratiop, no extravaganza of language. We
refer to the very words of Mr.. Fillmore to sus-
tain u.s. inct ntrovertiby, in this posiriou-words
uttered, too, when his parrot.Eke prating about
TIE Union was hardly cold from his lips.
Well, from present appearances, Col. Fremont i.
very likely to be elected ard by votes of the Free
States exclusively, although he is as reliable pro.
,ector of all the constitutional rights of the Slave
States as Mr. Fillmore himself. In thatevent let Nc.
Fillmore try on his treason. If the Southern
States do nothing else for us in this campaign, they
yet produce hemp. ut IL rather an awkward buzz
"neu,' said Mr.. Webster in his reply to Me-
Hsyne, "ihis dying without touching the ground.
Does our hitherto calm and complacent Ex
President wish to try the experiment.