The true Democrat., 1856-05-06
Is Fillmore Sound on the Southern
 Question?


 the northern fanatics upon the slavery question, and it must be fairly and boldly accepted by the south The time is now at hand when the fact is to be tested, whether the southern people are to have justice 5n the Union, or whether they are to be driven to the desperate alternative of seeking it out of the Union. The question must now be met and solved There must be no dodging-no pretermitting-nO circumlocu- tion-no evasion. Clap-trap notices and high sounding but unmeaning phraseology will not satisfy the public mind in this fearful crisis-it demands plain, palpabe, downright English that has a meaning, and that cannot be misun- derstood or misconstrued. The south must present to the north man who is true upon all the points at issue and make his election the test. Dilligent inquiry then should be institut- ed into every candidates soundness upon the slavery question: and that man should be in- dorsed and sustained in whom there is no doubt.
 On the slavery question, Mir. Fillmore is not true to the south This is proven not only by his friends at the north, but by his acts and his letters and his speeches.
 The New Albany Tribune, Know Nothing paper and the organ of Mir. Fillmore in Indiana, says that Mir. Fillmore gave his official sanction to the fugitive slave law because, :" in So doing, he aoas but carrylng out one o the great principles of tue party a0hich elected hina-that the personal opinions of tue erecaaive mere questions o po- Hcy, ought never to De brought into congRad aoih the peoples representatives,, Jy an arbitrary erer else cf tue veto powey."
 Such is the reason that Mir Fillmores free soil friends give for his official approval of the fugitive slave law. He did not approve it be- cause it was an act of justice to the southern States, but he approved 1t because he was pledged against the exercise or the veto power
 But on this point Mr. Filmores own acts and speeches are explicit. In speech at Lou isvlle, in the spring of 1S54 he said, "TMs lau had some provisions in t to aDhich he had ob .jections. He regretted the necessity of its being passed at aU' He further said 4 doubt came as denying the right cf hoJeos corpus to the fugi. tue s1ave. He reterred the question to Mr. Crit tende D. his attorney general aco gaos his opinion that the ha,o a0as not uiolation of tue constitu- ton; AND THEREuIpN, said lNr Fillmore, / gaze my signature 10 hle hN."
 Thus we are into the secret. MT. Fillmore approved the fugitive slave law with the great est reluctance. He refused to approve it at all until he had shufled off the responsibility of it upon the shoulders of the attorney general. His feelings upon the subject are still further betrayed by his explicit declaration, made at Louisville, in 1854, before southern audience, that "he had drwnk in a0ith his mih and cherisled from Ais youth vp, teeling, pre- Judice against s1auery."
 And more still, it is fact, that in the strug gle over the fugitive slave law, MT. Fillmore did not use the ntlence of his position to aid in its passage. Not single senator of his party voted for it. They aN votet agai7st h. So far from using his influence among his friends to obtain its passage, he was in doubt, up to the moment of signing 1t, whether he would sign it at all. When it was finally passed by the votes of northern democrats and sent to him for his approval, he submitted it to his attorney general to know if he ought to sign it.
 And agan--hs organ in Indiana, the Tr- bune, says Mir. Fillmore uo~M os read1y sign c hN repeaAng or ame'p}ing Me fuyitive slace iqw Having signed it, at first, only because he was pledged against the "exercise of the veto power," he would as readily sign bill repealing or amending it.
 These facts show that Mr. Fillmore is no friend of the south. They show it too papa- ply for the most prejudiced or unintelligent to be deceived.
 It is well established fact that he called out the military power of the government to op- pose the just and righteous claim of Texas to it's territory. The dispute was between Texas and the territory of New Mexico. New Mex ico claimed part of the territory of Texas and desired to make free SoI of it. Fillmore called out the military to lash the State of Texas into submission to the deed. The task was a con. genial one--it was in the cause of aboitionism it suited the abolition views of MT. Fillmore.
 The Know Nothing candidate for the Pre- sdency has shown his fondneSs for aboltionistS in other ways besides. Some seventy negroes were stolen at Washington city by some abo- tionists, put in a vessel and started down the Potomac. The theft was discovered, steam- CT was dispatched after the vessel, she was overtaken, the negroes were reclaimed and re- turned to their owners, and the abolition thieves committed to the Washington city pen tentiary In the Summer of 1852, Ar Fillmore pardoned Aten7 out of the penitentlary,
 All these facts, taken in connection with MT. Fillmore's Erie letter, written in 1888, in which he says: he is m fav0r of a5oEishinq the trule in saues bet0een the States; n tavor of abosing s2a Uery an the District of Colunaba oaa opposed Co he annexation ot Ieras because d agas q saue State, justify the encomiums passed upon him in the northern States, and shown that he is totally an unsafe man for the south The platform he stands upon, now, does not mend the mat ter at all. He Is left free upon it. to carry out all of his cherished ideas of abolitionisng the country by crushing the power of the slave States. Let southerners beware of Willard Fillmore.
 The Bradley County Democracy Appre-
 ciates Gen. James Yell.
 We believe that Bradley is one of the coun- ties to which Gen. Yell confidently looks for