Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-10-03

my purpose, as believe it to be
to yield him my support in the
election.
cannot approve, and do not
to adopt the platform of principles
llgated by the late Democratic
ention at Cincinnati, feel assured
Notwithstanding the exceptional
mes it announces, especially those
ring to our foreign relations, the
Illustration of Mr.. Buchanan would
afe, prudent and conservative. OF
abundant assurance is afforded by
tenor of his letter accepting the
nation.
regard to our foreign policy, he
1T is quite impossible for any human
nowledge to prescribe positive rules
advance to regulate the conduct of a
uturc administration in all the exigen-
lies which may arise in our various and
ever changing relations with foreign
powers. The federal government must,
necessity. exercise sound discretion
dealing with international questions as
may occur; but this, under the
ct responsibility which the Executive
st always feel to the people of the
ted States and the judgment of pos
You will excuse me for not en-
ng into particulars; whilst | heartily
eur with you in the general sentiment
our foreign affairs ought to be con-
ted with such wisdom and frmness as
assure the prosperity of the people at
le whilst the interests and honor of
country are wisely but infexibly
,aintained abroad. Our foreign policy
ought ever to be based upon the principle
of doing justice to all nations, and re-
quiring justice from them in return !;
and from this principle l shall never
depart
Some of the partisans Of Mr.. Fillmore
claim that all Wings, on account of their
former party relations, are under some
obligation to support him, against his
competitors in the election, without re-
gard to consequences | can recognize
no such obligation, and, if did, would
feel equally bound to support Mr.. Day
ton, the nominee of the republican party
for the Vice Presidency. He, too, was
Wing, to as late period, and with as
fair arecord as Mr.. Fillmore. These.
gentlemen, however, have abandoned the
Wing party; and they, and those who
remain faithful to their flag, stand in no
nearer relation to each other than if they
had never belonged to the same organi-
cation.
Besides, Mr.. Fillmore has associated
with him as a candidate for the Vice
Presidency, nominated by the same par
ty, and to be supported by the same
votes, a gentleman who certainly has no
special claims to Wing support on ac-
count of his antecedents. Mr.. Donel-
son was editor of the Washington Union,
the organ of the Democratic party, during
the administration Of Mr. Fillmore; his
only political record is to be found in the
columns of that paper, and that exhibits
him in continual and uncompromising
opposition to Wing men and measures,
condemning, Unfortunately, the acts
of the then administration. He would
not even allow Mr.. Fillmore the credit
awarded to him by national and conser-
vative men, of all parties, for the crown
ing act of his able, patriotic and success
ful administration, the approval of the
compromise measures of 1850 In re-
lation to that the editor of the Union
said -
Z" AS to the assertion that the admin
istration of Fillmore is entitled to the
credit Of standing up to the measures of
the compromise in good faith, it is too
ridiculous to require denial, and too
preposterous to demand refutation.-
Every free, white citizen. who s not an
infant, idiot or lunatic, or wofully for
getful, knows that it is utterly and en-
tirely without foundation. All the
measures of the compromise, except the
Fugitive Slave Law, were self enacting.
As to that law, Mr. Fillmore was unwil-
ling to permit it to become law before
he consulted Mr. Crittenden on the sub
ject-a fact which the Republic, his
own organ, mentioned at the time, in or
der to justify Mr.. Fillmore before his
Northern higher law friends for not re-
turning the bill with his objections"
This impeachment of Mr.. Fillmorc's
integrity having been published to the
world by Mr.. Donelson, and never pub
licly retracted, then being placed on the
same ticket to be voted for together for
the two highest offices of the republic,
remains among the mysteries of the par
ty they represent. Certainly the Wings
are under no party obligations to give
them their support.
Had the political associations and
principles of Mr.. Fillmore, as they we're
at the close Of his administration, re-
manned unchanged-had be been brought
forward as candidate, resting his claims
upon the acts and results Of that admin
istration--he would have been entitled
to the confidence and support of national
and conservative men Of all parties. But
he has become a member, and has ac-
cepted the nomination, of a party--a Sc
cret, mysterious, oath bound organiza-
ton, claiming TO have arisen on the
ruins, and in spite of the opposition of
the Wing and Democratic parties" re-
pudiating and denouncing both, and he
cannot expect TO derive support from eli
Their; but his claims must be judged by
the principles of the party of which he is
the representative. Ofthat party have
only to say, in the language Of Senator
Pesrce, Of Maryland, (whose admirable