Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1856-08-09

We hssf mush hirfinl af.n single sif.ns- A.
talking and ssulisi'er r. H .Is .l - ihii b. fe.
e. sifurt any rut ai1 uu.b fr.f e,ssIi che En.u
NoihiuEs uha cling o. Il a. fioIn h,Ts in lhs pee
cat smsfgshsy. We mean me oohiinuel assertion
that Me- rillmpre Is souni IN the as,sTy qur.iion
bssauss he suPpr,si the h'Fil's slave ss, an ~ Il
justice "a the souh, guaranteed ny The oon.,ituii'u
Il the United State. AMI reTstiton II previous
act by hath lIouss virtually the same, The Hnow
Meetings. II Texas point Nth pride 10 This as ~
Mr, Fillmors as suiirisnl or relsmpiion-ss ample
ezpiatOn ~ hs ether sins, AMI consider him safely
redeemed irola PurgatTy, vhose fires have Puri6ci
him sni rcnlcrl him purs and blsmel1ss ia the
sigh, af m gosl anl loyal Knew NolhiuSs, They
found lhsu,selyfs, Immediately sfter HE nomns'i,n
to the Presidency aounierlng in the Slough Il Ne
sI0ni, aud booked With Nshfl eyes 10 the other side
fr help AMI mirl, Al last they sOt relief fom III,
letter Il aecrpaneei but he Was thrown into worse
eonliItn than the one into which they hal betn
themselves, The North would not unite on hlm--the
ablssI anil mCsi influential journals ignored him AMI
found him uRsultol to their tastes, The South could
not eOnseiehlousy endorse him. because they do not
Ike his an,e,sdents in the rs place, anl in the
cond they eoul not support him in his present p,sl-
ton. Thus driven from pillar to post, he is accused
by the North with advocating treasOnahle doctrines
and other RbUmlnatOns while At the South, We can
dlly believe that none hut Know Nothngs Of tle
deepest dye care anything about him, anil would
soon believe one thing as another. lie Is considered
rs out Of the race here at the South, except far
holding such position probably to throw the clec
tion into the House. hut this possibility is 50 remote
that II is not I'm object Of termrno enough to throw
one man from his course.
/ II the Know Nolhlngs swell themselves nigh 10
bursting on this one act Of Mr.. Fillmore upon the
slavery question, Of what rloicings may mol the
friends of Mr.. Buchanan he excused when they re-
member his high conservative democratic, constitu-
tional course through long series Of actions bril-
liant as they are pure and uneontamlnatcd by Sec
tonasm lie Is one who has ever, in every vote mp
record, adhered as faithfully to the constitution as
any man living, and who never gave a vote contrary
10 the constitua interest Of slavery. Nor has lie done
one act for which the South could rcpudatc him. On
the other hand, has not Fillmore voted always on the
same side with Gidiings and his rabii clique' Let
any one gifted with ordinary patience, examine for
himself the records of Congress- and see il our posi-
ton is not true. In 1866 Mr.. Buchanan approves Of
the repeal Of the Missouri compromise (morc proper
y called the Missouri rcstrction) in 1851 he urgent
" demonstrated, in exciting times, against the action
Of the Legislature for the prevention Of the arrest
and return Of fugitive slaves; he has ever employed
all his influence in favor Of the execution of the flu
gitiyc slave law and acquicsrcd in the compromise of
1850; in 1Sii'5 he voted for the admission Of Texas
in 1850 he proposed the extension of the Missouri
compromise to the Pacifc--(M Mr.. Fillmore is in favor
of restoring the restriction eren now)-in 1S3S'9I0,
he always voted with the South against the conscra
ton of ant-aycry petitions, and early 1886, he
voted for bill to prevent the circulation of the in
ccndiary abolition documents through the States
posing their evil tendencies towards exciting servilc
instruction and all of its accompanying horrors In
1887 he supported Mr. Calhoun's famous resolutions,
which fully defined the rights of the States and the
limits of Federal authority, said resolutions affirming
upheld the institutions of the South, guaranteed to
us by our common constitution, lie has ever been
opposed to the abolition Of slavery in the District Of
Columbia, and in the year in which he thus vc-
tod he proposed and voted for the admission of Ar
kansas into the confcderacy of Statcs-in said bill
propoundng the true theory of territorial sovereign
ty, and laying down the true grounds for the adnis
sion of States, which plain, conclusive and
constitutona as well us democratic, that the party
has never seen fit to devatc from his positions from
that time to the present He approved of the Clay
ton compromise of 1S47, and always cxhored his own
constituents and the citizens of the North to faith
full Observance of the obligations of the fugitive slave
law while the widest abotonists and the most shame
less, canting parsons were leading on the lawlcss
mobs that disgraced the Northern towns and cities.
and were attempting to get up n general commotion
against the Onion, in favor of niggerism and fanati
cism.
The Hon. j. Clancy Jones cxoncratcs Mr., Buchan-
IN from the charge that he the author and pro-
mulgator Of the antslaycry resolutions of 1919 He
gives distinct and emphatic denial to this charge;
and since this denial, none are found but few reck-
less journals that will cling to the charge of that
mythical period. Mr.. Buchanan was made the me-
dunn of presenting petition from the Society Friends
in 1885, for the abolition of slavery in the District
CT Columbia; but, during the debate on the question,
he openly disscntcd from the opinion which they cx-
pressed and gave his reasons for so doing, "hat
Congress has right, pocer over the question OF
slavery in the States where it exists !" and when the
vote was takcn he is to be found voting with Clay
Browne of North Carolina, Crittcnden, King of
Georgia, King of Alabama, Grundy and others.
This s not complete rccapituation of all that Mr..
Buchanan has done, but it is sufficient to show how
he has stood and how he now stands on this impor
tant question. That Southern democrats and old line
wings should support him as the only reliable candi-
date in the field is too evident to be doubted and the
utter absurdy of trying TO prove Mr.. Fillmore
ceptable to the South is open to all. If the Know
Nothing party possess any vitality, it is the vitality
of certain nocturnal insects which show best in the
dark, preferring darkness to light their proper