Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-05-24


with the owner Of hundreds OF Slaves.
FOR the highest honors the South can
bestow The coalition is complete
ebony and ivory are cemeuted-here
a little white piece, there black-politi'
cal anna gamation triumphs at last, and can
go no farther, Well may the happy sui
tor at this hodf says:
overt thou all that wish thee, great glorious and
FREE,
First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea,
] might hail thee with prouder, and happier brow,
But, oh could Tore thee more deeply than now
Mol Thy chains as they ronkle, thy Blood MS trtis,
But make thee more painfully dear to thy soI.S
Whose hearts, like .e young OF the desertblrds hest
Drink love in each lfe-drop that flows from thy
breast"
THIS may be regarded somewhat ou.re
ePisodical; but listen TO this most amorous
lack a-daital eplstle-contrast it with his
previous .ettimeuts and then tell US what
you think. 1t bears date November 10,
1S4S Immediately after the Presidential
election. and was 'irst published in the
Buffalo Advertiser few days afterwards :
the cordiahty aud 1nanimity with which
the Wing ticket has been sustained every
where's North and South, Fast aud West,
it IS Just cause OF national iecili,ation.-
1t proves that the great Wing party is truly
national party (; that it occupies hat safe
and conservative ground which secures TO
every section OF the country all that it has
4 fight TO Claim under the guaranty of the
Constitution; and as 10 all other questions
of mere policy, where Congress has the
constitutional right 10 legislate, the will OF
The peofle, as ez pressed through their rep
resenta,ives i'll Congress is, to control. aud
that will is not to be defeated by the abb
trary interposition OF the veto power
This simple rule, which leaves the law
making power where the Constitution
placed it in Congress, relieves the party al
once from all the embarrassing questions
that arise out OF sectional differences
of opinion, and enable il TO act harmo-
niously for the good oil the country
When the President ceases 10 control the
lawmaking power, his individual opinions
of what the law ought TO be, become COM
paratively unimpor,ant ="
Having thus made the President mere
automton, with dominant majority in
Congress, as its marcel; he is seized with
the fine phrenzy of the lover, aud slghs
out his passion, like an anthracite furnace
blast its hot air
REALLY, those Southern Wings are no.
bic fellows! Would you not lament 10 SEE
the Union dissolved, if fos no other reason
than 1t separated us from such true, noble
aud hlgh-minaed associates -
As I'VE vre tracing Nir. Fillmore up
step by step, year by year, uniil lie sue.
eeeLed to Tie Presidency, for the purpose
OF unfolding his opinions aid acts 10 The
present time, we are necessarily eompeli-
ed to refer TO the policy of Genera! I'ay lor
to explain more fully the condition, Of
things at his death. If there was any thing
upon which General Taylor was 2le,e-
ly committed, it was in regard to the sys-
ten Of executive action, which Mr.. Fill
more insists upon in the letter we have
Just given. The General said in his ALI
son letter: Il have thought that for ma
ny years pas: that the known wishes and
opinions of the Executive have exercised
undue and IN INJURIOUS influence Oh the leg.
islative department OF the government; and
for this cause, have thought our system
was undergoing change from its true the.
ory. The personal opinions OF the indi-
vidual who may happen TO occupy the Elk
ecdtive chair, ought not to control the ac-
ton of Congress uFon questions Of domes-
tic policy"
Here then, we have Gen. Taylor and
Mr.. Fillmore both uequivocally committed
But the General was met at the very out
set of his administration by difficulties
seemingly insuperable. The Wings of the
North ahd the South yelped and ran to-
gether like leashed hounds, as long as the
game was in scent or sight-but fell aloul
of each Other, when the noble stag laid
PROSTATE and bleeding. Instead Of being
united by those great national considera-
tons of which Mr.. Fillmore boosted in has
pronunciamento, after the election, they
were divided upon the question OF the Will
mot Pioviso. as applicable to the territories
recently acquired from Mexico. CaIifor-
MIA was importunate for admission, and
deep passions We're enlisted Oh both sides
Under these circumstances, it became III,
plan of the President to force Cal;iornH
into IA State government at once. aid Il
press her admason into the Union, it'll
whatever territory her people might claim
to leave all the other territories without
civil government and the country wilhou
the Fugitive Slave law. One of the frs,
acts of General Taylor in this respect, was
to send Thomas Butler King, member o
Congress from Georgia, to California. ant
Che following extract from John Nj. Clay
ton, to the Secretary oil the State. explains
itself:
"You are fully possessed of the Plesi,
dents views, and can with propriety, sug
gest to the people of California the adop.
ton Of measures best calculated to give
them effect. Assure them of the SINGER,
desire of the President OF the U. States L
protect and defend them in the iormaIiof
Of any government, republican in its char
actcr, hereafter to be Submitted to Con-
gress. Our naral and military officers vii
be fully instructed TO cooperate with the
friends OF order and good government"
For the first, and we trust for the las
time, in the history Of this rspublrc. th,
naval and military commanders in Cal!so.
ria had been so instructed. Brigade
General Riley, exercising over tine terrific
nv OF the Union, martial law and all III,
dreadful necessities OF conquered prov
ince, instead oil leaving the people to ar
10 their own wav, ard form their own gov
arnnent nfoclatmed from his t,nt a Ter.