Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-09-04
A True Record.

1he following pungent article from the Al
bany Evening .jonrmdi places the political acts
OF MILLARD FIILRoRE SO well before the ruLic
eye that we give it a place, Few Fillmore
men, we oplne, will have the hardhood to
question this statement of facts which cut M
by the roots all pretensons of Mr.. Fillmore's
being opposed to Slavery extension
While Vice President he entered into a
secret bargain with Foote and other Pro-Sla-
very Senators, to defeat in the Senate such of
Gen, Iaylor'S appointments as were distasteful
to the Slaveholding interest
When he became President he rekndled the
DiSunion panic, which the judiciouS policy of
Gen. Taylor had suppressed
BY industriously tanning and stimulating
this panic he defeated the unconditional ad-
mission of California, which otherwise would
have taken place within two weeks after Gen.
eral Tayor's death.
He forced the Fugitive Slave Bill through
Congress as condition of the admission of
California, employing for that purpose bribes
in the shape of Offices and patronage conferred
upon plant Members themselves orupon their
relatives and friends
1t was during his administration that, for the
6rst time in our national history men and wo-
men were hunted through Northern streets like
beasts, and Northern citizens, ordered, under
penalty OF the prison, to join in the hunt like
hounds 1t has been only during and since his
administration, that such scenes have occurred
under color of " the law" as the shooting at
" llkeSbarre, the chase and riot at Christiana,
the claiming of Boston Court II ouse, the mur
der OF a cIiid by its mother to save it from
Slavery, a 'rcinnati, the char.oring of YES
sells and r." !,s-nent of Troote at the cost
of thocs f..S ami ems of THOUSANDS of dollars,
10 cht"'r rnGHBy negroes, and enhance the
tiOnal experience from the days OF W asGIiIIstvm
to those of Taylor, no such event had occurred
in any Northern State before. The honor OF
originating this phase of American life and
manners rests exclusively and indisputably with
Millard Fillmore.
He made office under him the reward of
trucking to Slavery and removal the penalty
of sympathy with Free Soil. He rejected
General TayIors Cabinet because they were
not subscrvent enough to the slayeholdins in
terest. He turned out Post Masters, Custom
House Officers and Department Clerks, by the
dozen, for the mere expression of opinions ad-
verse to the extension of Slavery lie gave
the control of the Army, the Navy, and the
III crIOT, dll 10 1CldN
He withdrew the nomination Of Edward A
Bradford to the Bench of the Supreme Court
because he held (the view taken by Chief Jus,
tice Story that Congress had a right to pro
! hibt Slavery in the Territories, and went q
thousand miles out of the Circuit to get a can
didate Geo. y. Badger holding the opposite
| view.
Having aided by public approval, and prl
vate connivancc, the rigorous tyranny OF th'
act respecting fugitives to an extent not con
templated even by It's author, he boaSted o
having done so in both his official Messages
and urged that it be made a " tnality to al
eternity
He made the tour OF the Southern States
declaring that he had abandaned his earl,
preiudices against Slavery" recanting his form
er speeches against it, and protesting deVotlol
to its interests, under the hypocrtical plea Q
saving the Union" thereby.
He has uttered no word of remonstranc
against the breach of faith involved i'll the re
peal ofthe Missouri Compromise, or the atroe
ties committed in Kansas; while OF th.' eol
trarv, his Southern supporters proclaim his ri
proval of them both, and urge his election a
the sure way to save Kansas for Slavery.
And finally, after abandoning his own patt
because it had become tainted with Frt
Soil" and being himself abandoned by MOI
than half of the new one he had joined h
travels up and down procIaimlnS that tll
South will make treaSonabe attempt to dis
I-soIye the Union. and ough to make it, If he
defeated and his opponent elected.
FALL OF 4 BRIDGE WITH Two Locomotive
-Easton Pa,, august 2l.-A span OF Tn
Lehigh Valley Railroad bridge across the DE
aware river, on the Jersey side, gave way la
evening, whilst two engines were passing owe
George Howe, a frenan, was killed, and Jo
) Gcary, engineer, was fatally wounded.