Washington sentinel., 1856-07-26
Let Southern Men Read.
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

We have taken the trouble to hunt up from
well authenticated public records, the facts
which are found below We challenge Know
nothing newspapers of Alabama, to distinctly dis
avow-and successfully refute them Here they
stand-let Southern men read Florence
Gazette.
IL IS a fact, That Millard Fillmore, the
know-nothing candidate for President com
menced his polcal career as an anti Mason
and in opposition to all secret societies.
II IS a fact, That he facored the reception,
reading and consideration by Congress Of
abolition petitions on tie subject Of slapery and
the sld0e trade.
It's a fact, That he declared himself oppos.
ed to the annexation of Texas to the Union.
so long as starery eriSts therein.
II is a fact, That he favored the exercise by
Congress of all its Constitutional power 10
abolish the internal slave trade between the
States.
II is a fact That he favored immediate lep
slaton for the abolition Of slavery in the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
is a fact, That he entertained doubts as
to the Constitutionslity Of the Fugitive Slave
Law, and did not sign il until advised TO do SO
by bis Attorney General.
II IS a fact, That he is opposed to the exer
else Of the veto power, and that be is no where
pledged to veto a bill for the repeal Of the Fu-
pitive Slave law, or for the abolition Of the
slave trade between the States, or of slavery in
the District of Columbia.
II is fact, That he was nominated by
Convention, a majority of whose members were
notorious Abolitonists, and that he has ac-
cepted and endorsed platform which de-
nounces the repeal Of the odous Missouri
restriction, as reckless and unwise.
Hisa fact, That he nowhere approved the
Kansas act, and that he is nowhere pledged
against its repeal.
IL is a fact, That in 1888, he wrote his "a
nous letter TO the Erie Committee, in which
he declared himself in favor Of abolishing
slavery in the District OF Columbia and in all
the Territories.
IL IS a Jdct, That while member Of Con-
gress he voted with the Aboitionists, against
the Atherton resolutions, which declared g That
Congress has no right to do that indirectly
which it cannot do directly; and that the agi.
tation Of slavery in the District Of Columbia
or the Territories, as a means, and with the
view Of disturbing or overthrowing that insti-
tuition in the several States, is against the true
spirit and meaning Of the Constitution, an in.
trngement OF the rights OF the States affected
and a breach Of the public faitl upon which
they entered into the Confederacy
II is fact, That he voted with John O.
Adams, in all his efforts to abolish the 2lst
rule, which forbid the reference of abolition
petitions.
His a fact, That he voted in favor Of pro.
position Of John Q. Adams, 10 establish diplo.
matte relations Of the negro government Of
Hayti.
II is a fact, That he voted against propo.
sition to forbid the enlisting Of negroes in the
Navy, and prohibiting them from giving
testimony upon court-martials against white
men.
lis a fact, That while President he se-
lected the subordinate officers Of the Govern,
ment, principally from the Freesoil ranks.
Hisa fact, That he would never have signed
the Fugitive Slave Law, had not Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster, and other great conservative
leaders of bis party forced him to do il by their
urgent opportunities.
II is a fact, That while President OF the
United States, he signed the Washington
Territorial Bill, one clause of which allows
foreigners 10 vote in that Territory, after an
actual residence OF two years, with certain
other limitations and restrictions, and in op-