Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-12
AMERICAN ORGAN.


What has been said by Mr.. FiIlmore's
Opponents. 4.re
We are sure there is not another living states
man in this country that was ever so strongly and
generally eulogized by his political opponents as
Millard Fillmore has been. We suppose inde ed
that there is not in the Union prominent Demo
cratic organ four years old, or prominent Demo-
cratic politician, that has not In times past praised
Mr. Fillmore as brave and high-souled patriot.
1t is, as the Lynchburg Virginian says, difficult
to realize that Milard Fillmore, as represented to
us at this time by the Democratic leaders of the
South, is the same Millard Fillmore who retired
from the Presidency in 1852, the object of their
warmest praise and fullest confidence Or, if he is
the same man, one not acquainted with the facts
would conclude that since that time he must have
been guilty of some heinous and objectionable
crime, by which he had forfeited every claim to
decent regard or respectful consideration. Never
theless, he is the same Mlard Fillmore, and since
that time has been occupied only with the honor
able avocations of private lfe-with domestic aE
nictlons, and with travels at home and abroad, as
well for the purpose of seeking relief from the
heavy sorrows that were pressing on him, as for
svely with those affairs that interest the patriot
the statesman, and the scholar. That the public
may see in how absurd and unenviable a position
these Democratic leaders place themselves by the
sort OF opposition they are now making to Mr.
Fillmore, we copy, without order or system, nu-
merous expressions of the sentiments they held
toward him before he was nominated as a cand-
date for the Presidency--as also some. frcm the
more candid of that party, who have had the eou-
rage to speak as they feel, since his nomination
In presenting to our readers few specimens of
what has been said Of Mr.. Fillmore by his strong
est and most influential opponents, we gladly avail
ourselves OF the results of the labors of the able
editor of the Lynchburg Virginian: .r
... HEAR HENRY A. WISE #
Lis administration was Washington-like." p,
Wen done, good and faithful servant"
HEAR JAMES BUCHANAN
In speech delivered in Greensburg, Pa. Octo
Der, 1882 he said: " 49,
"To secure the vote Of Pennsylvania was one
OF the main inducements for the nomination of
General Scott over the head Of Millard Fillmore.
Is there one unprejudced citizen of any party in
the United States, who can lay his hand upon his
heart and declare that he believes Gen. Scott
would make as good and as safe President as
MIR. Fillmore? No, fellow citizens, all of us must
concur in opinion with Mr.. Clay that Fillmore had
superior claims and qualifications to those of Scott
for the highest civil station"
Mr.. Fillmore had spoken out like man in
favor OF the Compromise, and had thus done his
daty 10 hss country He was, for this very reason,
rejected by the Wing National Convention and
Gen. Scott was nominated by the votes and inAu-
ence OF the Northern Free soil Wings" ..-
HEAR THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
The Richmond Enquirer of September l4th,
1852, says:
1" The country felt relieved from an awful agony
When Mr.. Fillmore took the reins of government,
threw aside General Taylor's advisers. formed
better Cabinet, and gave his conscience to other
keepers than Seward" "The whole policy of
government was Immediately changed" .#s'
THE Compromise Measures were quickly passed q.
and the whole country was relieved from its pain
full anxiety" e'''''
g Ever since that change the Southern Whps
have become more and more devoted to Mr.. Fill
more tie became their chosen leader. their
speclai and particular candidate for the Presi-
dency." Whilst the North, deserving him, took
up with another who suits their purposes better
and used him to put down Mr.. Fillmore because
he ventured to brave their indignation.n ,"Tbis
is all history" at is truth" -. -"
General Taylor was born in Virginia, he was
reared in tie South, was large STAKEHOLDER, whilst
Mr.. Fillmore had been educated in New York, and
was proved to hold doctrines exceedingly objec-
tionable to the South But how weak the restraints
OF education with these men The one. listening
to the voice Of advisers into whose souls Seward
had breathed the poison of his unholy politics
pursued policy which came near wreckinp this
nation upon the shoals of disunon while tho
other, cleansing the Capitol of its tratorous deni
zens, disregarded the whispers of early prejudice.
and helped, by the mighty engine of Executive
influence, to quiet the country and to save all por-
tions from injury and dishonor
rs HEAR GEN. cAss 81 1%s44~ 90
The Administration has placed itself high in the
great work of pacifying the country. and thew
have received the need of appreciation from pot-
ical friends and political foes | partake of the
sentiment This is Whig Administration, but
there is no reason why should not do them jus.
tice; and do it with pleasure in this great mat
ter of the salvation of this country, if | may say
So | have done SO; shall continue TO do so,
whatever sneers their papers may contain, for
do 1t not for their sake, but for the sake of the
country.-[Speech of Mr. Cass in the Senate,
March 10, 1851.
So far as | understand the measures Of the
President, approve them, and believe he ia de-
termined to do his duty firmly in respect to this
law and, as one member of the Senate 1 will
say that, if the law is defective am willing to
clothe him with any necessary power within the
limits'of the CONSTITUTIONS Gen. Lewis Cass, Feb
IL, 1851.
HEAR SENATOR CLAY, OF ALA.
think there is no just ground of reproach
whatever towards the Executive of the nation
l am happy to see the Senator from Michigan
though standing in different political relations to
the President do him the justice which he has
done this day by the declaration of opinion which
he has made. Sir, am perfectly satisfied, from
all | know of the President and his Cabinet, that
there is a most perfect and immovable determine
ton to carry into execution the laws Of the land,