The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-06-24
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DoNE1SoN ON FILLMORE.

their own witness. Hear what he says about
Filmore's abolitionism.
In October 1851, Mr.. Fillmore was the
President at Washington. Major Donelson
was there as the editor of the Washington
Union. Understanding the subject as he
did, he thus speaks of Millard Fillmore:
There has been an idea that Mr.. Fill
more was strong before the people of the
South This idea made him, for "a time. the
favorite candidate for nomination there
But the idea is fast fading away. In fact,
Mr.. Fillmore's strength at the South nerer
had any root IN the public mind. HE WAS
BITTER PILL--A VERY BITTER PILL TO
THE SOUTH IN 1913; and they took him on
ly for the sake of General Taylor; and
since then he has done literally nothing
specially to commend himself to southern
favor. 1t is true, he signed the fugitive law;
but it would have been stark madness-ut-
ter lunacy in him, or in any other President
to have refused that signature. 1t was an
act of the most indisputable and imperative
necessity and nothing more. And with the
single exception of that act, his alminis-
tration has been one long, sad, tedious fai-
lure and bIunder. Who believes that, with
the proper spirit, capacity and effort in the
White House, we should have had this dis
graceful muster roll of triumphant insulting
and yet unpunished negro and abolition
mobs, insurrectio and murders Who
believes, that with the right kind of an Ex
ecutivc, our government would now have to
stand in its present attitude of humiliation
towards Spain and the European interven-
ing powers, and at the same time in such
miserable self contradiction in its course to-
wards the revolutionary provinces of Mexi-
CO! The Executive inefliciency in the ex-
cution of the fugitive law, and the wretched
blunder in the whole Cuban business, from
its commencement to its close, in so far as
it is vet closed, have doomed the admins
tration at the South--add to this that its
tariff policy is utterly at war with southern
interests, and the last official explanation of
that policy in the columns of the Republic,
point directly to the restoration of the
throughout the whole South, the most bitter
and wide spread hostility. With these facts
in view, it is plain that President Fillmore
can have no real strength with the people
of the South, even if we leave out of view
the great Galphin odium which his admin
istrasion inherited, or the great Gardiner
odium in which it is implicated. And it is
in these circumstances that we find Presi-
dent Fillmore putting the last hand to his
ruin at the South, by bringing out anew,and
with justification, HIS OLD, AND FOR
A TIME DORMANT ABOLITIONISM
Our own explanation, therefore, of the
Webster movement in the New York Cou-
rier and Washington Republic is, that the
politicians of the whig party feel that the
southern game for President Fillmore is
lost, and that some other candidate must be
found. 1t seems to us that the President
himself must have come to this conclusion.
On any other supposition the revival of the
Erie letter is inexplcable. It's re-publica-
ton, with comments in justification of it,
was Mr.. Fillmore's desperate dash at the
support of the North; or, if not so, it was
a blunder without parallel in the records of
political blunders and folly"
The Chattanooga Advertiser, commenting
on the above, very truthfully says:
'Mr. Fillmore is no longer President and |
A. j. Donelson no longer the editor of the |
Union. In the spring of 1852, both were
thrown overheard by their respective par
ties, and consigned to the rctiracy of pri-
vate life. tits a trite old adage that misfor-
tune makes strange bed fellows. 1t is strik-
ingly exemplifed in the case of Fillmore
and Donclson. The Abolitionist and the
Southron, or the slandered and the SANDER
er, take it as you choose, are now kennel
ing together and making a common cause
against the two old parties, which, in their
they deserted. 1t is certainly
a humi liating and disgusting spectacle; SO
shocking to the common honesty and sense
Of the American people, that their political
disgrace will be referred to in the future as
a warning and lesson to the huckstering
politicians that may come after them"
RECEPTION OF Ex-PREsIDENT FILL
City Council of Philadelphia
On Thursday, granted the use of Indepen-
dence Hall for the reception of Ex-Presi-
dent Fillmore. The Democrats favored
the measure whilst the Know n othings op-
posed it. 1t will be recollected that the
Know \ Nothings refused the hall to Mr.. Bu-
chanan.
NORTH CAROLINA IN THE NATIONAL
learn, from the Cinci-
natl Enquirer, that the following delegates
were in attendance from North Carolina -
w. s. Ashe, r. r. Heath, Bedford Brown
w. w. Avery, w. Sloan, J. T. Cranberry,
Milton Selby, WI. Yates. T. d. M'Dowell, !!
Burton Craige, I. L. Clingman, Fl. G. Will /
liams, F. A. Thornton, John Morrison, A. /
J. Stafford, JOS. w. Neal, J. B. Gordon, |
and Ivy F. Lewis. The Hon. Bedford |
Brown was one of the Vice Presidents, and