Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-08-11
A Sign.

sterling old democrat Of this county ON MONDAY last
called Office and subscribed for the Wing. stating
that he intended his for Fillmore and Donc
son. He had Just len the democratic meeting at the
Court house. and he al will no longer with that
party which abuses such patriot as Misrd Fillmore
He il great and good man, and will rot stand by and
hear him slandcred. voted for WISE and have never
given anv other than democratic vote but help
God am done with them" This IL not the only instance
we know of in this We hope the democracy will
continue hoi just such mecngs-let them sbuse the
noble chieain who heads ticket their hearts
tcnt-and they will crsaie such an indignation in the no
the yeopanry OF the country will teach these
spouters that Mr. Fillmore has hold upon their affections
which slander cannot The friends OF the Constu
ton and Union coming molly the work. and the
greatest enthusiasm pervades our ranks. Push the
column boys; 60 to work in earnest, and the Old Dom
ion will shake of the shackes that etter her and i'm
pede her progress and take her position under the gor
Tag OF Fillmore and the Union.
We find the foregoing in the Piedmont Whig.-
The abuse which Democratic orators are now be.
slowing on Mr.. Fillmore with such liberal employ
of bitter cpthetS is in perfect accordance with
the practice of the Democracy for years and years
They vilifed Mr.. Clay, and exhausted the whole
rhetoric of vituperaon in aSsailng his lofty charac
ter he was a gambler, a drunkard, political char
latan combining all the worst traits that into
the composition of the dema gogue and the adventu-
rer. When death removed the great patriot of Ash
land from among us, and the music Of his eloquence
heard no more in the Senate house, when there
no longer any thing TO Toe gained by detraction
Of his shining qualities, then all the Democ
racy found out that he was man Of whom every
American should be proud, and began to pour out
eulogums the grandeur Of his intellect and the
purity Of his private life 1t the same thing OF
General Scott when the Wing party put forward the
hero of Chippewa and Mexico their candidate for
the Presidency He was n bad mamie had defrau-
ded his soldiers-he was overbearing cruel,-a cox
comb-everything indeed that the President ought
TO he. AT that time when nothing was to be lost
by praiSing Fillmore the Democracy was pleased to
shower the highest compliments upon him, by way
OF placing him in effective contrast to the Wing no.
minee Why had so pure a statesman, one who had
been tried and found equal to the high responsible
ties of the first office in the gift of the people, been
thrust aside to bring forward vain old man. unwor
thy of the confidence Of the nation, who would be
the tool of Seward Set off against the foiblc
and folies of General Scott Mr.. Fillmore stood upon
the OF the Democratic painters very angel
of light, of whom (the Wing party were not wor-
thy. Every croSs-road orator. like Hamlet asked us
to look the two portraits and dwelt the Type
rion graces of the retiring President which had so
little attraction for the ungrateful Wings.
1t does at all emblrrass the Democracy at this
moment in their abuse Of Mr. Fillmore that four wears
ago they had high regard for him. The fact OF
their former commentator lends rather keencr
edge to the hatred with which they now pursue him
Very true is this of those peculiar friends of Fillmore
in 1852 who left the Wing party because he was
not nominated. To hear of these 2ursts descant-
ing the danger Of entrusting Southern interests
the hands OF Mr.. Fillmore, who once so faithfully
guarded them, and the vital importance of handing
them over to Buchanan, with Dix and Tom Benton
and Van Buren, and the entire Old Guard of Free
Soil around him. is to be convinced Of the instability
all political friendships and the holowness of all par
" professions The author of the Vanity OF Human
Wishes" might have found antithesis pointed
enough for the exercise Of his abundant epigram in
the desertion of these quondam adhcrentS to the
cause Of one who has only proved himself worthier
of their support
The people, we feel assured, will rebuke this spi
rit of malignant abuse The "sterng old Democrat
of Fiuquier will be alone in his refusal to endorse
this unqualified detraction of our noble champion
Others of the honest Democrats of Virginia will Join
him in the determination he has taken, and we agree
with the Piedmont WAig that it will only be necessa-
ry for the leaders of the Buchanan party to continue
such dcnunciaton until the day Of election in order
TO swell our ranks with sturdy patriots from their
own forces, largely Outnumberng the weak minded
renegades who have gohe to Democracy