Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-08-15

that the trade in slaves between the States should be
broken up; that abolition petitions should be recev
ed and agitated upon in Congress and that Texas
haUlng saves, should therefore, have been kept out
of the Union"
But Mr. Fillmore's special organ had irtima,ed
that he ought 10 be judged by his acts rather than by
his arords. To this Major Doneson replied:
Nothing can be fairer And noqc qUe (Maior
deny 1t, that TIN ough President Fmo'es entire
gressondL term of seruice-embraung several Con-
greSses oil subsequent TO the date of the Erie letter
l838-he invariably. and tvihout one instance Of er-
eepon, Uoted the opinion Of that letter every
tionaL question that came before him as member of
Congress. Here then, the acts to which the
Republic appeals President Fillmore (adds Major
Donelson) get plants himself on has old pl1torm."
In the same month some paper ntimated that Mr..
Fillmore was very strong at the South. Major Don
elson crushes out that idea in few words as fol-
lows
&c There has been an idea that Mr.. Fillmore was
strong before the people of the South; bat the idea
Is fast fading away. In fact Mr.. Fimores strength
a, the South never had any root in the public mind
He sUaS a bitter p'I-a gerry bitter piN-to the South
m l848 and they took him only for the sake of Gen
Taylor; and since then he has done literally nothing
specially to commend himself to southern faUor"
Major Doneison welded very prolific pen, and
was untlrlng in his pursuit of his object He belev
ed and asserted more times than he had fingers and
toes, that MIR Fillmore an aholitionist in 1898,
D0nelson's retirement from The Union took place,
and he felt it his duty to the country prove his
sertions just often as he made them and it must
be admitted that his resources were wonderful as he
proved that Mr. Fillmore abolationaSt accord
a7g 10 eUery Speces of evidence knon to the QaU books
We have only culled few variegated flowers from
his wide field of rhetorical discussion as we have
passed through and could readily fill all OF our twen-
ty-four broad Columns What we have thrown to-
geher will serve for short head of answers to the
nothing orators in the South who are trying to
convince the people there that Mr.. Buchanan is an
abolltionist and that Mr. Fillmore has none of the
smell OF tanatcism on his garments. To make such
answers irresistible, introduce Ma DonelsOns
strong endorsement of Mr Buchanan as a true friend
of the Compromise of $780, in June a. 1851, as fol-
lows:
"Now every at all acquainted with the pub
lie conduct OF Mr.. Buchanan knows that there is not
man in the Union, not even Mr.. Clay or Mr.. w eb-
ster, who is more thoroughly committed to the sup
port of the Compromise than he Is, who would
be further from lnsinuating the idea that resistance
to that is either necessary, expedenl patr
otto. Mr.. Buchanan is not only committed in this
by his wri ten declaration to the Union meet
ing of the people of Philadelphia after the passage
of the Compromise, but by his known sanction OF
the proceeding of the late democratic convention of
the State of Pennsylvania, where the execution OF
that measure was made party watch word without
dissenting voice in the body;
AS most of the supporters of Fillmore and Donel-
son were wings unll latelF, we may be pardoned tOI
one or two choice flowers from Major Donel
sons pen illustrative of his opinion of southern whigs
in 1851. The following will suffice:
During the whole time that the whig party was
engaged in giving strength and volume to the anti
slavery current the chigs Of The South acted avith
them, and labored with them in the same political
organization THIS southern synpathu and al
liance which, for party purposes, gave thai
power to the factioniss of the North enabled then
to shake the very foundations of the republic is now
claiming all credit and praise because their founda
tons are not upturned and overhrown, and the con
ederacy shattered to pieces The wig party of the
South seems determined TO learn nothing from tht
past. If it not blind it would see-if it was no
deaf it would hear and understand how it has aidec
and suSained and IS notv aiding and SUSTAINING a
spirit Of wrongfui aggression which has sdrven por
ton of the southern people we'll nigh to madness AM
insanity, so as to shake the Union by reactiv
blow
That is enough. We need 10, add that MaIo
Donelson did not neglect 10 prove conclusivey
and almost daily, that the democratic party was tn
only sound, national, and reliable political organiza
tion for the safety and preservation of the constitu
ton ami the Union. Il may be necessary for us
devote another column hereafter 10 some further nc
tice of Mr.. Fillmores claims to the title of :" Til
model President, as found in the diary made up b
his Vice Presidential associate on the American ticl
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