Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-09-27
Uai0nsaying Fillmore.

the eoGntry.' What win he do to. restore
peace? Can he stopthc mouths ofNorthefNl
fanatics Will he burn up -'Unelc Toms
Cabin and the thousands of anti-slatsr
publications Of the Nufsh2 VIII he nit a
stop to the circulation If Summers speeches.
" Ill he hush the br,shsling abolition Preach
ers who desecrate the sacred desk from day
to day ? Will he convince the deluded fol-
lowers OF Garrison, Philips &c, that God
does net require them to subvert the consti-
tuition and abolish the Federal Union If
so: how will he accomplish all this ? Will
he restore the Missouri Compromise =
Some of his Southern supporters. say no
viii he abolish slavery in the District of CO.
lumbia, abolish the interstate slave trade.
and prohibit slavery in the territories? Mr..
Bolts says this is inevitable. VIII Mr..
Fillmore satisfy the Abolitionists if he con-
code all this No. They will insist as
hard after all these concessions, for change
Of the Constitution and the abolition of slave
ry in the States as they now do upon the
restoration of the Missouri Restriction.
Again we ask, what will MIR. Fillmore do
to restore peace? His northern and South
ern friends say he woeld restore the Mis-
souri, line some of bis southern friends say
be would net restore It, and that it ought not
now be restored, in as much as it is repealed
Here then, instead of giving peace to the
country he would plunge the few adherents
which he still has into bitter feud. Bolts
and his southern friends would swear it must
be restored, and some Of his southern sur
porters would declare that, no matter how
inexpedient it was to repeal it, it shall not
be restored; and thus, the quarrel would
begin. His party have quarrelled and di-
yidcd in every national convention which
they have had yet and there is no prospect
FOR better state OF things in the future.
It is not IN the power of any one man to
control The fanatical clements Of the North
There is but one way to continue the gov
ernment. and that is, to unite the law abb
ding and eonservatiye citizens Of the whole
country in support Of the constitutional rights
Of all the states Of the coaiederaoy There
can be no peace 50 long as any Of the states
are degraded and abridged in their equal
rights i'll the common property, by uneon-
and unjd5i restrictions. 4 party
that will abide the constitution and that has
sufficient strength to elce; its candidates to
tao Offices of the government in sufficient
rddlases.t9 control it BY constitutional means
and enforce the laws. may keep the govern
ulen, ~ tae right track and the wheels in
moeaa.
ar. iillmor.s party have not been abl
to make even respectable show Of strength
in some states Of the Union. It is admitted
that he is the weakest candidate in the field.
When the present House Of Representatives
was elected his friends were largely in tie
ascendancy, but they were soon divided and
the Black Republican party formed out Of
the major portion, so that his party in the
House isnow in asmall minority. The Senate
is Democratic. Ii Mr.. FILLMORE were cleo
ted he would be without a party to sustain
him. His party has now nohope of gaining
the asoendancy in the House or Senate,
and we can seo 10 special advantage to be
derived from his elevation to the Presiden-
cy, admitting for the sake of the argument
that he is as great a pacilicator as he is claim
ed by his friends to be; and that the De-
mocracy are as vile agitators as they are
charged by the opposition. The Democra-
ey who are now engaged in defending the
laws, the constitution and the Union against
the fanatical assaults of the Black Republi-
cans, and who are sanguine of success in
November, who know that all that is yalua-
bic Of the Union and Constitution will be
lost if they are defeated, are asked most
modestly by the Know Nothing party, to
discard in the midst OF the great bat
tie of the country, the leaders of the Dem
ocratc hosts, and take up Fillmore and
Donelson in their stead. This is one Of the
coolest pieces of presumption that ever has
been presented in politics. Why forsake
our gallant leaders who are leading on to
victory and take up those who are leading
on their party to certain defeat Let Mr..
Fillmore be as good a man as his most san
guine friends claim him to be, and still it
would be folly now to attempt to change
the command in the very face Of TIE enemy
If Mr. Fillmorc's friends desire to contrib
ute to the preservation of the Constitution,
let them support the Democratic ticket
Richmond Know Melting Meet'Yg.