Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-08-21
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To the Editor of The Port Tobacco Times: :,

DEAR SIR,-In your paper of the 18th, |
find a report of Mr.. Crisfeld's Speech, CIV
ing his reasons for supporting Mr.. Buchan-
an. hope that you will take as much plea
sure in placing before the readers of your
paper the enclosed Letter of Charles B.
Calvert, assigning his reasons for giving
Mr.. Fillmore his support. Hoping that I
may see the enclosed letter in your next
paper, L remain yours, &c.
LETTER OF CHARLES B. CALVERT, ESQ.
WHO SHOULD TIE OLD CLAY WINGS SUPPORT
To The Editors of the Baltimore Patriot.
MEssEs. ED1ToRs The above question
is daily asked by the members OF the old
Wing party, and, without supposing that
my opinion will influence the decision of a
single individual, I desire small space in
your paper to assign the reason which in
duce me to support Mr.. Fillmore. The
contest in Maryland can only be between
Fillmore and Buchanan, and | deny the
propriety Of going beyond those candidates
to hunt up reasons for our choice. Let ev-
cry man ia the Union ask his own consci-
ence and not the political triksters who en-
deavor to control their selection by estab
fishing political platforms and other devi-
ces, who of the candidates will make the
best President for the whole Union accord
ING to his own decision of the question ?
Ask Yourselves which of these candidates
from his past life and services, deserves the
support of the old-line Wings, or rather the
old Clay Wings [ make distinction
between those who left the line to look for
military leaders and those who remained in
to the last It is said that comparisons are
odious and we can only judge of persons or
things by comparison, and | therefore pro-
pose to compare the antecedents OF these two
gentlemen.
Mr.. Fillmore, after ably serving the
Wing party, in many distinguished posi-
tons, was selected in 1913 as one of their
standard bearers, and we all recollect the
excitement which prevailed all classes over
the whole Union, when he became by the
death of Gen. Tayler, the President. He
at once became the President of the Union,
and not of party, and by that very act
drove off from his future support all politi
SISltfr fcS2Q Oll1 oCSlIC GU tilC SuCCCSS VI CuSi
jealousy and strife which had been running
mountain high, were Gained in a moment,
and he gained for himself, and richly de-
served it, the title of the s'Model President"
for it may be safely asserted that no admin
istration since the days of Washington, ever
gave more universal satisfaction to the mass
es Of all parties. If the true interests of
the Wing party and the country had been
consulted, he would, in 1852, have receiv-
cd the unanimous nomination Of the Wing
Convention, but he was defeated by politi-
clans, who misrepresented the wishes of
their constituents, because he had been the
President Of the Union, and not Of their
party. Up to the time of his acceptance of
the American nomination, Mr. Fillmore GER
tainly was the choice of the Old-Line Wings;
and 1 now propose to take peep at the his
tory of, the Democratic nominee.
In reviewing history find nothing worth
recording until we come to the celebrated
Bargain and Corruption story, which first
brought up Mr.. Buchanan prominently be-
fore the pubiic-and as many attempts have
been made to free Mr. Buchanan from the
odium attached to all concerned in that
transaction, propose to examine the testi-
mony. He certainly was the foundation on
which the whole calunny rested, and altho'
his friends attempt to show that he did Mr..
Clay full justice, by promptly denying,
when called upon, that he had any authori-
ty from Mr.. Clay, or his friends, to make
any propositions to General jackson, or that
he had done SO. It was in the power of
Mr.. Buchanan to have at once silenced the
SANDER, by stating conversation which he
had previously had with Mr.. Clay in the
presence of Gov. Letcher, but not satisfied
with withholding the substance of this con-
yersation from the public himsslf, he sue
ceeded in sealing the lips of both Mr.. Clay
and Gov Letcher, by personal appeal to
their magnanimity, he is, therefore, in no
better position than if he had endorsed the
statement. From that time up to his late
nomination, if 1 have read his history cor
rectly, he has waged unrelenting war upon
Wing principles and leaders, and in his last
speech to the keystone Club he says
being the representative of the GREAT
DEMocRATTc party, | must square my con-
duct according to that platform, and insert
no new plank or take one from it. That
platform is sufficiently broad and national
for the whole Democratic party" After
this, his last declaration, ask the Wings,
in the words of Webster, ''Where am l to
gov'
SINCE writing the foregoing, I have seen
the letter of Gov. Pratt, and examined it to
ascertain what course he advised the Wings
To nursue in this emergency. In the first
place he endeavors to read Mr.. Fillmore out
Of the Wing party, because he joined the A
mericans, but Mr.. Fillmore did no moro than
Gov. Pratt, myself and many thousand 9TH
er Whigs did. who believing that the Whio