Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-05-10

bone having been strengthened by the influence
of some of his Southern supporters ne was worked
up to the point of declaring that Congress has no
constitutional power either to legslate slavery
or exclude it FROM Territory"
One day, during the present session. ne tells US,
eff the Missouri Compromise line can be restored,
he would most certainly be in favor OF its restora
ton ); and another day, during the same session,
he tells US that the whole thing is unconstitutional!
| that Congress has no power to exclude slavery!
Still, if he could he would restore this unconstltl.
tional restriction! leave it to his admirers ana
supporters to reconcile and harmonize these decar-
| atoms. l freely admit my incapacity. >
| But he gets further down South than 60, Qor nc
| is fast traveller when he does sart) lie say =
'Neither has the territorial legislature, in my Jadg
1nent, any right to legisate upon that subject eX-
cept so far as may be necessary to protect inc c't
zcns of the Territory in the enjoyment OF ther prop
erty" This is the extreme ground OF the hreea'eis.
| believe that, under the powers conierreu ny '',o
their own domestic concerns" they may either es'
tabsh or prohibit slavery, just as they think proper
| Again: he says in his speech, in answer 10 tue
| Observation-Disclosures he believed the Wilmot pro-
viso consiitutiona,s-
81 was no: a member Of the Congress OF leoo,
and have been called on to either a'nr!n VI
aesv the conS,itutionalily OF the Wilmot proVso.
X "My political existence commenced SINCE
that flood; aud having never taken any puonc po-
si,son, am willing, in all rankness and cand0r "
do so now"
will show YOU that his memory is as obvious
as his sudden conversion is marvellous. Inns same
Henry NJ Fuller, on the 18th Of August, lS49, wrote
letter to B. F. Saxton-a letter from which the fol-
lowing extracts:
.You state in your letter that the FREE.soILERs
will hold convention at Hyde Park on the SOth
inst There is pretty strong probability that l
will be in the field for canal commissioner, and II
would certainly AID PROSPECTS VERY MATERIALLY
to receive NOMINATION FROM YOUR PARTY.
He had not then this holy horror of "wild hunt
after office" denounced by his brethren in Philadei'
phia Oh, no. 1t would Every materially aid his
prospects to get a nomination from regular Tree
Soil convention, and as it would aid those prospects
he wanted it; and had good reasons to give why he
should have it. Hear him:
81 am in favor of FREE SOIL, free speech, free Ia
Dor and free men, BEING a wILMoT PRovIso MAN UP
TO THE HUB, AND UTTERLY OPPOSED TO TIE EXTENSION
OF SLAVERY u"
He was up to the HUB SOIL when he want
cd frce-soil nomination; and have never heard OF
his PRIzlNG OUT until he wanted the votes OF sound
national men for the speakership. He goes on:
"The matter will require prudent management,
and know of no man who can accomplish it better
than yourself 1t would be bad lolicy to attcnptlt
without certainty of success. Consult with our
mutual friends, Hackly and johnson, and write me
soon. Yours, truly, HENRY NJ. FULLER"
Thus it appears that on the 18th day of August,
1919, he "wILMoT PRovIso MAN Up TO THE
HUB" and on the 18th day of January, 1856, he de-
clares that he never took any public position on
the subject of slavery-that his political existence
commenced since that food!" will comment no
further on this letter!
Mr. FULLER became candidate for canal COM
missioner, and, while candidate, made speeches.
among Others in Allegheny city, reported in the
Pitsburg Gazette, then wing paper, and then sup
porting Mr.. FULLER. In that speech, published at
the time, and uncontradcted, Mr. Fuller says
Let the people of the South talk as they please,
slavery was dark and damning stain upon their es-
cutcheon" Let US say to the proud
waves of slavery, they beat against the barriers
of freedom, thus far shalt thou go, and no further
Let US give lands free, in every sense Of the
word, to citizens, and TO the poor and Cypress
| ed of other nations" "As lords of free
dom, had duty to perform to the South. Let
us do it with proper regard to our friends, there,
but let US INSIST ON THE EARLIEST PRACTICAL ABoLI-
TIoN OF sLAvERY!'
Aye, 1.-THE EARLIEST PRACTICAL ABOLITION OF sLA-
VERY" Look at it! For :" free soIl'-' opposed
to the extension of slavery-in favor of its earli-
est practical abolition"-intrigung for the nomina-
ton of freeso convention and, in addition to all
this, when the final vote for Speaker came-the last
-vote-the vote which " tried the souls of men,
the vote which to determine whether BANKS,
the political abolitionst-the bla ok republican-the
| northern know nothing-the Union sliding"-the
"absorbtion" BANKs-should be elected Speaker of
| the American House of Representatives, that
compshed gentleman and sound, national and con-
servative man, Governor WM. AIKEN-he, under
the iimsy and miserable prcext of having paired
off with a man who present, being present HIM
| SELF dotlged and did not vote at all
| And now with his record fairly before you-elec-
| ted upon the principles On which was elected Il
submit it to your candor if would not have expos
| ed myself to the just and contempt of every
| good man Of my district of any party, i'll had
voted for Henry NJ. Fuller? l voted for William A.
Richardson of Illinois l kneao him. had served
| with him in the last Congress- | knew him to be
the very soul of honor-a man whose 6. word was
as good his bond," whose large heart
could take all the Union into its affections; man
| who was all scanned with received in battles
for the rights of the South; man who had been
passed around by the abolitlonists (within black
lines) in what they call their roll of nfamy" be-
Of his gallant bearing in those battles man
who has stood unmoved while mad fanaticism poured
its walls of wrath upon his head man who breast
ed the storm in its widest ragings" after the pas
sage of the Kansas Nebraska bill the man who
bid them proud and bold defiance; the statesman
who was our champion and leader through all the
great struggle upon that bill the statesman who
had counscled his friends in the North to stand
and brave the fire without f1inchng ;" the man who
full of courage and patriotism dares to do whatever
| his large heart approves and his comprehensive
| mind suggests; and man, too, who is of the West,
western-who is of us and with US. I would not,
should not could not, did not, hesitate for mo-
ment which to choose-ths man, or Henry M. Full
| Ter. WAS l NOT RIGHT?
1 had seen Judge Douglas, of Illinois, after anx-
ous deliberation Introduce that bill, and stake his
political life upon the justice Of its principles had
seen the administration commit its fortunes to it /;
had seen the great body of the national wings in
the Senate, in the House, in the country come up
to its support; had seen the Democracy adopt it
article in their creed of faith l had seen the
people of my district almost one man, endorse
the principles of that bill, and uas 1 to desert the
gallant ship, with her tried and trusy crew. as she