The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-07-22
The ALBANY FILLMORE SPEECH.

list. Let us see how Tar IL goes III tnhL III
rection.
Mr.. Fillmore has deliberately said:
~ GeIiere that Petitions TO Congress, on
The subject If sIarery and the stare trade
ought TO be receired, read, and RESPECT
FULLY considered by the representatives. Of
the people"
Does his Albany speech take back that
declaration!
Mr.. Fillmore has deliberately said:
II am opposed to tie annexation Of Ieras
10 hjs Union, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES,
SO long as sLarcs are held therein"
Does his Albany speech show that Mr..
Fillmore has changed his sentiments on
this subject! Is he not still opposed to the
annexation Of ANY STATE to this Union, SO
long as slaves arc to be held therein!
Mr.. Fillmore has deliberately said:
II am IN taror Of Congress exercising all
the Constitutional PO1cer az possesses, TO a.
BoLish the internal stare trade BETWEEN THE
STATES"
Docs his Albany speech show that he is
not now in favor of abOlishing the slave
trade BETWEEN THE STATES!
Mr.. Fillmore has deliberately said:
"I am in .faror Of IMMEDIATE LEGIsLA-
rION for HE abolition Of !Starery in the Dis
nict Of CoLumbia"
Does his Albany speech slow any change
of opinion On this subject
Mr.. Fillmore has said:
II am opposed to The reckless and unwise
policy Of The present administration in the
general management Of our national affairs,
AS SHOWN IN RE-OPENING SECTIONAL AGI-
TATIoN By the repeal Of The Missouri Com
promise 20
Does his Albany speech show that he is
not still opposed to the ''reckless and un-
wise" act of repeating the Missouri Com
promise!
Mr.. Fillmore while in Congress voted:
j. In JtIrOr Of a6OtiShimg sLdUery IN the
District Of COtu1abia-eUen going so far as
tn support COTS resolution in taror Of al
ioooing The negroes themselves to cote on the
question:
?. In .fapOv Of abolishing the Interstate
slare trade.
B Infaro' q our Government receiUing
black oooty- headed semi sauage negro Ain
iStcr from Hayti, to associate lrith gentle
"'eH, iH the Court circles Of Washington.
1. He uOted and acted icih Joshua r.
Gidd'ngs, John Q. adams. SLade, Corwin,
j. Co., and againt all national men and
southern measures, from first TO last.
Does the Albany speech show that he
would not again give precisely the same
votos, if opportunity be presented!
Mr.. Fillmore pardoned out of the peni-
Tertiary of the District of Columbia two
nbolitiOnists sent there for stealing negroes.
Docs his Albany speech show any re-
pentence of that act!
Does Dir. Fillmore's denunciatiop, in his
Albany speech, against that measure of
justice to the South, the removal of the
Missouri restriction, prove that he is not
an abolitionist!
Does his unguarded admission in the same
sPeech, that he was compelled to overcome
''iOng cherished Prejudices" in yielding as
sent to the Compromise measures 1.-THE fugi-
tive slave lnw,) prove that he does not still
entertain opinions alluded to above on the
slavery question!
The truth is the Albany speech, while it
subtracts nothing from Mr.. F.'s abolition
platform, adds another plank thereto, viz:
Opposition to the Kansas Nebraska bill
and the removal of the Missouri restriction
In short, if there is now any difference
between the platform of Fremont and the
Black Republicans, and the anti-slavery
platform of Mr.. Fillmore, we would be OBJ
liged to his friends, if they would point it
out. We have his own declarations and
votes to prove that he entertains the same
sentiments on the slavery question enter
tanned by GidGings, Seward, Hale, and
Wilson. If he has ever charged his opin-
ions, there is no evidence to prove it.
The President is the only protection of
the South when Congress becomes aboli-
hOnized; and tor one we have no hope that
Willard Fillmore would place his veto upon
any act which free-soil Congress might
send up to him for signature-and he could
point triumphantly to his ''long cherished
abolition declarations, sentiments, and
votes, to sustain him and to show his con-
sistency. 1.-THE South, at crisis like the
present, votes for man for President, with
an abolition record as long and black as
Willard Fillmore's, she would deserve to
have enforced against her all the pains and
Penalties which would result fir ON prac-
teal enforcement of the abolition sentiments
of Willard Fillmore.
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An anonymous scribbIer in last weeks
''North Carolina Wing" charges us with
"garbling" the Albany speech of Mr.. Fill
more, which appeared in our paper of the
9Th instant-and talks about our utter and
reckless" course in regard TO that speech.