The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1856-07-10

SDAY, JULY 10, 1866.
Mr.. Fillmore's Unsoundness On ths
Slavery Issues.
We think we have furnished yer,
conclusive proof from the files Of the
Banner, from the letters Of his person.
al, political and confidential friends
Messrs. Haven and Kennedy, and from
other sources committed to his sup
port, that Mr.. Fillmore is not the man
that the South would be willing to
trust her all to in the present crisis.
We have one other witness to bring
upon the stand. One that we defy
the Patriot to discredit. One who
made it his exclusive business to study
and record the political history Of Mr..
Fillmore's administration. One who
was at Washington, furnished with
the records Of Congress with newspa-
peIs throughout the country, and every
other source Of information necessary
to 4 correct and thorough understand
ing Of. the subject. A witness who
from his past high position among the
officials Of the government from his
enlarged experience ofmen and things,
from early tutilagc and a life time as
sociation with gentlemen ofthc strict
est integrity, would not be supposed
to basely falsify the truth and heap
wilfnl ISLANDERS upon man whom the
people had honorcd as their President
by reason ofa simple party difference,
unless he was satisfied, BY proof strong
as holy writ, of the, truth Of his asser.
tions.
!. We therefore introduce Andrew J.
Donclson. In October 1851, Mr..
Fillmore was the President at Wash
ington. !, Maj. Donclson was there as
the Editor Of the Washington Union.
Understanding the subject az he did,
he thus. speaks ofMillard Fillmore.
[ (Nashrile Union.
"Therc has 6een an idea that Mr..
Fillmore was strong before the people
Of the South. This idea made him,
for time, the favorite candidate for
nomination there. But the idea is
fast fading away. In fact, Mr.. Fill
morc's strength at the South neucr had
any root in the public mind. HE WAS
A BITTER plLL--A VERY BIT.
TER PILL--TO THE SOUTH IN
lS4s; and they took him only for the
sake. of. General Taylor; and since
then he has done literally nothing spc-
cially to recommend himself to south
ern favor. 1t is true, he signed the
fugitive law; but it would have been
stark madness utter lunacy--in him,
or In any other President. to have re.
fused that signature. 1t was an act of
the most inlisputable and imperative
necessity, and nothing more. And with
the single exception of that.act, HIS
ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN
ONE LONG, SAD, TEDIOUS FAIL
URE AND BLUNDER. Who be-
lieves that, with the proper spirit, ca
pacity, and effort in the White House,
we should have had this disgraceful
muster roll Of triumphant, insulting,
and yet unfinished negro and aboli-
ZIONIST mobs, instructions, and MUIR
ders'-Who believes that, with the
right kind Of an Executive, our gov
ernment would now have to stand in
its present attitude o! humiliation to-
wards Spain and the Europern inter
vening powers, and at the same time
in such miserable self contradiction in
its course towards the revolutionary,
provinces in Mcxicoi The Executive
inefiiciency in the execution Of the fa.
gitive law, and the wretchcd blunder
in the whole Cuban busincss--from
its commencement to its close, in 80
far as it is yet closed have doomed
the administration atthe South. Add
to this that its tariff policy 10 utterly at
war with southern interests, and the
last official explanation ofthat policy
in the columns Of the Republic, point
directly 20 arestoration Of the black
tariff Of 1872, is enoughto rouse
throughout the whole South the most
bitter and wide spread hostility.
With these facts in view, It IL plain
that Fillmore can have no real
strength withthc people Of the South,
even IL we leave out Of ofvicw the great
Galphin odium which his administra-
ton Inherited, or the great Gardiner
odium in which II Il implicated. And
il il in these circumstances that we find
President Fillmore putting. the last
hand to his ruin at the South, by bring
inn out anew, and with justification,
His OLD, AND FOR A TINE DOR
ABOLITIONlSM.
Our own explanation, therefore Of
the Webster movement in the N. York
Courier and Washington Republic is.
that the politicians Of the whig party
feel that the southern game for
President Fillmore is lost, and that
some other candidate must be found.
Il seems to us that the President him
self must have come to this conclu-
sion. On any other supposition the
revival Of the Erie letter Is inexplica-
bic. lbrcpublicati0n, with comments
in justification Of It, was Mr.. Fill
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