Washington telegraph., 1856-10-29
WASHINGTON, ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 1856

tizens, We welcome You to our homes and
our hearts"
The Democratic Review has always been
standard authority with the Buchanan lea
ders- The Review, speaking of Mr. Fill
more's conduct during the troublous times
that marked the commencement of his ad-
ministration, pays him this noble and we'll
deserved tribute:
"MonentouS events were transpiring.
The agitation of the question of slavery
was paramount in the public mind. In
this crisis, 1t was well that So reliable a
man as Mr. Fillmore was found In the
Presidential chair The safety and per-
petuity of the Union were threatened =
Already had fanaticisn raised its hydra
head Schemes and '.isms'' leaped from.
i thousand ambuscades. Tie enemies of
the Union started forth on every side
abOiltlonisIn here; sccessionism there; ac-
QUESTION and iiIlibusteriSm cISewhere-
These are the formidable elements of mis-
rule with which the executive had to cope
How well he met, and how entirely he,
tor the time, Overcame these enemies OF
the peace of the republic, we leave the
historian to relate; but our retrospect
would be incomplete and disingenuous,
did We not accord the need OF praise
justly due to high moral excellence, and
intellectual and administrative honesty
and talent, as developed in the administra-
ton of Mr. Fillmore
The Courier des Etats Uais, French
journal printed in New York, bitterly
averse to the American party and Its
principles, says:
Eve have already expressed cur opinion
and personal preference Tor MIR Fillmore.
Notwithstanding our profound antipathy
Tor the party OF which he is the standard
bearer, We are more than ever convinced
that he Is the man whom the people of the
United States should, by acclamation, call
to the Presidential chair. lie is the only
one Oh whom any reliance n be placed
for firm, moderate, and, what the coun-
try most needs, tranquilizing admins
tration. lie is the only one about whose
political creed there can be no doubt or
suspicious ambiguity, as it rests not on
vague, illusory formulas, but on practical
past
In September, 1913, the Hon. \. H.
Stephens, of Georgia, now Democrat,
addressed meeting of citizens at Griffin,
on the questions OF the day. After dis
cussing, at considerable length, the vari-
Gus questions that agitated the public
mind, during which he told the people
! that Gen. Cass' squatter sovereignty '-was
worse, if anything, than the Wilmot pro-
viso, he endorsed Mr.. Fillmore's sound
ness on the slavery question, in the. fol-
lowing decided and emphatic terms:
But it has been said by the supporters
of Gen Cass that Mr.. Fillmore was an
Abolitionist- He fMr. s. had for him
self examined into the matter, both from
his votes whilst in Congress, and from
those personally acquainted with him
and he would assert, without the fear of
successful contradiction, that Millard Fill
more was as true friend to the South
and Southern institutions as any man.
Whig or Democrat, North of Mason and
Dixon's line The charge against Fill
n.Ore was only brought up to prevent
full investigation of the opinions and posi-
tIon OF Gen Cas-
The Hon. Charles James Faulkner is
now chairman of the resident Democratic
National Committee In Washington
Four years ago, when he was trying to
smooth over his apostacy from the Wing
party, he said IN a speech in Congress
Il would have been pleased to record
my vote for that EMINENT MAN, Mr.. FIJI
more, whose name will forever appear on
the rolls of Legislation, appended to the
Fugitive slave) law. as having constitu-
tionally sanctioned and approved it, and
who has sought honestly and faithfully to
execute it.
Ex-Governor Aaron Y. Brown, a dis
tincuished Tennessee Democratic politi-
clan. spoke as follows at Columbia on the
9th August, 1852:
LET us now turn, with every degree of
fairness, to the proceedings of the Whig
Convention They put no interrogatories
to their candidates, as we did. Had they
done so. Mr. Fillmore would have answer
ed, will maintain the fugitive slave law
as | have done through my administration.
Mr. Webster would have answered, too
will maintain it as L have done as one of
MIR. Fillmore cabinet, etc."
Mr. James NJ. Davidson, Buchanan
electOr In Tennessee, thus addressed Mr..
Fillmore at Allisonia, In that State, when
the ex-President was on his Southern
tour:
81 hail you, sir, addressing Mr.. Fill
more.) not as a hero returning in triumph
from scenes of carnage and of death; with
the spoils of victory in your train, with
the dust of the battlefield upon Your gar
ments, and honorable scars upon your
p rson. Yielding to none in our admira-
tion of those who have earned true mil
itary distinction, and disposed, on all ap-
propriate occasions, to render them due
need of praise. we tender an offering to-
day to excellence, of kind still more ex-
allied. / hail thee as the hero of nobler
cause.-The cOnqueror of glorious peace
IA victor on field unstained by blood,
where clear consciousness of duty. and
la nerve to execute it, were the great agen-
cies of success. [ hail thee as the man
IL L