The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-21

involving the PEOPLE Of all the States La b guilt and dis
gracea guilt and disgrace enhanced by the consideration
that those laws virtual usupaton Of power the con
Sttuton OF the United States having conferred upon Con
right TO establish the relation Of slavery OK II
SANCTION AND PROTECT SLAVE TRADE IN AMY PORTION Oh
TINS cosFEDERAoY therefore resolved &c, &c.
Mr. Fillmore voted in favor OF this preamble and resou
ton, with his parcpatos in negrodom Adams Giddings
and Sade And yet orsooh, We TO regard the decia
ration that the question was settled In his mind since ls4
and that good easy honest soul he perfectly impartial
and unpfeudieed after the Supreme Court had tapped a
wings over his conscience "A ie eips good aposearyP
"Ths flesh viii culver where the Pinesrs tear ),
The blood will follow where the knife Is dryenW
WISE on FILLMORE.
We shall call one now to the stand who served with him
from his first entrance into CongressHenry A. Wise In
letter which that gentleman addressed r. j. Alfred OF
Augusta dated July 49, l84a and published at the time
we find many important Developments He says; 4" TOO
served with Mr. Fillmore much longer than Mr. Stuart did
ia Congress and intimately acquainted with bis
speeches and votes in the House of Representatives the
subject of slavery and of its abolition in all their forms
and do not hesitate my own personal knowledge and
responsibility TO pronounce the charge of aboiionsm
against MIR. Fillmore appeal to the journals OF the
House. for the whole period Of Mr. Flmores service in
Congress- to prove that If he is not aboonst John
Quincy Adams not Giddngs not. He voted with
them and against the South every question OF slavery
or its abolition without exception within my knowl-
edge recollection The darkest day saw, during
eleven years experience from 1888 TO 1874 In the House.
the goth Of December 1887 which, have already
explained, WAS on the OCCASION Wnlcu
cussed the question OF slavery in the States. Mr. Wise
then proceeds: .am -.
Mr. Slade was a most excellent mania and very able
one, too able by far than Mr.. Fillmore was
the hottest because the most honest kind of fanatic
He sincerely religious in his antislavery zeal Mr..
Fillmore was not SO. The latter only sectionay and
politically opposed to the institution of slavery. MIR. Sade
had the better excuse therefore of the two There are
three classes Of enemies 10 the peculiar institutions Of the
South The first class consists of the religious zealots
who little less than crazy fanatics. Such Tappan,
Thompson Garrison, Giddngs Sade, &c. They COM
p1ratvey harmless because they regarded by
body as persons running muck, who know not what
they do and pardonabe for extravaganza of sentiment
or action, even, because they hardly nationally
responsible The second class consists of what called
moderate anti-slayery Such bound ip public
with their constituents but regarded anxious to
strain their rampant constituents If possible and con-
sidered wanting only little countenance and support
from southern in order that they may strengthen
themselves home To this latter belong all such of
the North as Mr. r. G. Winthrop and Dir. Fillmore. The
first class extreme they cannot at present. hope to
get into principal places Of and trust But the sec
ond class prepares the way for the first and is the most
dangerous to the South Of the to They profess to be most
reluctant to vote with all such Gddings but
such themselves always to vote with them and leaving
such as Gddings and Sade and Palfrey and Ashmun
make the rude onset to outrage all reason and to propose
to do violence to the constitution they sit silent vote only
and Of the odum which prevents the first class
from getting southern votes to make them speakers chair
of committees and Vice Presdens The second class
therefore, get these posts power and thereby enabled
to get near enough to strike at slavery the most deadly
blowsp
MR., FILLMORE IN 1914. *.
In this connexon must not fail to state two crcum
stances in the life of Mr. Fillmore which, in our esma
on put him in much less liberal category than that in
which he is placed by Mr. WiEe. We have the papers
prove that in 1874 at meeting in the State of New
York, $4,000 persons presently Mr.. Fillmore made speech
from BOOTH nearly under banner which painted
General jackson and James X Polk the latter mounted
by negro, who bore small flag bearing the of
Texas In his address Mr. Fillmore exhibited the strongest
acrimonious hostility against the South and converted
great national question the tariff into sectional
onedenied that the southern people could become
manufacturing people wthom pong their opsr retain
their SLAVES We have the papers to prove that In ls4T
Rochester in the State of New York. Mr. Fillmore made
speech in Minerva Hall against rHE
SLAVE POWER" The greater part OF the speech upon
the Entertainments OF slavery upon the monopoly which
the southern ogarchy nest Of 100000 SHAREHOLDERS had
enjoyed in all the offices of trust in the Union how many
Presidents from the South how few from the North how
he commented the dsproporon of Judges foreign
Minister'S Speakers Of the House. members of the cabinet
&C. with ungracous filings at what he alleged be south
ern arrogance and injustice
1t is quite remarkable that southern should find
such record sample evidence of the most perfac.
NY o' sentiment .leedom from sectional prejudice
But this bad is is far from being his whole rec
ord there are Other counts in the indictment yet to
come,