The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

occasion to define his position again; and, il the meantime, his "back-boae'' having beer strengthened by the influence of some of hi southern supporters, he was worked up to thu point of declaring, that Congress has no con stltutlonal power either to legislate slavery in to- or exclude 1t from, a terrtorv.'
 On one day, during the present session, h. tells us, Eff tue Missouri compromise line can restored he aoouM most certainly be in fauor of It restoration;' and on another day. during tho same session. he tells us that the whole thins IS unconstitutiona!-tha Congress has m po,cer to erclude slavery!" Still, if he couM ht a00uld restore this unconstitutional restriction l leave it to his admirers and supporters to re concie and harlnonize these declarations; freely admit my incapacity.
 But he gets further down south than I % (for he is fast traveller when he does start He says: " Neither has the territorial Legisla ture, in my judgment any right to legislate upon that subject, except so far as may be ne cessary to protect the citizens of the territory in the enjoyment of their property" This is the extreme ground of the .1ire-eaters. I be- lleve that, under the powers conferred by the organic act of Kansas and Nebraska " to regu- late their own domestic concerns" they may either establish prohibit slavery, just as they may think proper
 Again: He says, in his last speech, in answer to the interrogatory, whether he believed the Wilmot proviso constitutional?-
 q was not member of the Congress of 1850 and have never been called on to either affirm or deny the coastitaiona1ity cf tue gNlm1ot Provi- so.' My political existence connnaenc- el since tsat flood; and never having taken an1 public position, am aotAing, in aU frankness a,ao c0ndOr, to do so noac''
 l will show you that his memory is as obzivi- Ous as his sudden conversion is marvellous This same Henry M Fuller, on the 18th of August 1849, wrote letter to B. F. Saxton-a letter from which the following are extracts:
 "You state in your letter, that the FREE. BOILERS will hold convention at Hyde Park on the Both instant. There is pretty stronG probability that I will be in the field for cana commissioner, and it would certainly AID MY PROSPECTS VERY MATERIALLY to receive . NOMINATION FROM YOUR PARITY
 He had not then his holy horror of wild hunt after office" denounced by his brethren 1T Philadelphia. Oh, no. It would very mate riaily aid his prospects" to get nomination from regular .freesoH convention; and as it would aid those prospects, he wanted it. and had good reasons to give why he should have it, Hear him:
 'I am in favor of FREESOIL, free speech free labor, and free men; BEING A WILMOI PROVISO MAN UP TO THE HUB, AND UTTERLY OPPOSED TO THE EXTEN SION OF SLAVERY"!!
 He was up to the HUB IN FREESOII when he wanted freesoil nomination; and have never heard of his PRIZING OUT, un- til he wanted the votes of sound national mer for the speakership. He goes on:
 The matter will require prudent manage. ment, and 1 know of no man who can accom- plish it better than yourself. It would be bad policy to attempt 1t without a certainty of sue. cess. Consult with our mutual friends, Hack. ley and Johnson, and write me soon
 "Yours, truly,
 HENRY M. FULLER"
 Thus it appears, that on the 18th day of Au. gust 1S49, he was a "WILMOT PROVISC MAN UP TO THE HUB,' and on the 17th day of January 1856, he declares hat he neUe, took ony public position on tue suyect of sJave,y' that his "potltlcat existence cOnanenceR sinct hat food' /! 1 will comment no further or this letter!
 Mr. Fuller became a candidate for canal commissioner, and, while a candidate, made speeches-among others one in Alleghanv citv reported in the Pittsburg Gazette, then whia paper, and then supporting MT. Fuller In that speech, published at the time and uncontradct ed, Mir. Fuller says:
 Let the people of the south talk as they please, slauery a0as dark and danuaing stain up- on haeir eScutcheon." "Let us say to the proud waves of slavery, as they beat agains the barriers of freedom, Thus far shalt thor go, and no further Let us gtve our lands free in every sense of the word, to our citizens, and to the poor and oppressed of other nations" 4 As lords of freedom, we had a duty tC perform to the south. Let us do it with pro- per regard to our friends there, but let us IN SYST ON THE EARLIEST PRACTICAL ABOLITION OF SLAVERY"!!!
 Ay, THE EARLIEST PRACTICAL ABOLITION OF SLAVERY" Look at it For "freesoiP' opposed to the extension of savery' in favor of its earliest pyactical aJoLi- tjon"-ntriguing for the nomination. of a rec soil convention; and in addition to all this, whet the final vote for speaker came-the last vote the vote which tried the souls of men''-- the vote which was to determine whether Banks, the political abolitonist--the black re- publlcan-the northern Know Nothing-thC Unon-sIldng" the absorption'' Banks should be elected speaker of the American House of Representatives, or that accomplished gentleman and sound, national, and conservative man, Governor William Aken-he under the fimsy and miserable pretext of having paired off with man who was present, being present himself, dodged, and did not vote at all
 And now with this record fairly before you elected upon the principles on which l was elected-l submit 1t to your candor, if 1 would not have exposed myself to the just scorn a,ao contempt of every good man of my district, o any pa,ty, if 1 had voted for Henry M Fullerl 1 voted for William A. Richardson, of Illinois 1 h7ae,0 him. 1 had served with him in the las Congress. knew him to be the very soul ol honor. A man whose word was as good as his bond;'' man whose large heart could take all the Union into its afection man who was all scanned with scars received in battles for the rights of the south; man who had been pas sed around by the abolitionists (wthin black lines) in what they call their roll of infamy,' because of his gallant bearing in those battles man who has stood unmoved while mad fa- naticism poured its vials of wrath upon his head; man who breasted the storm in "its widest ragings" after the passage of the Kan sas-N Nebraska bill; the man who bid them g proud and bold defiance; the statesman who was our champion and leader through all the great struggle upon that bill; the statesman who counseled his friends in the north to {" stand and brave the fire without finching;' the man who full of courage and patriotism, dares to do whatever his large heart approves and his com prehensve mind suggests; and man, too, who is of the west western--aoho is of us and a0ita us. 1 would not, l should not l could not did not hesitate for moment which to choose this man, or Henru M Fuller. WAS 1 NOT RIGHT?
 had seen Judge Douglas of Illinois, after anxious deliberation, introduce that bill and stake his political life upon the justice of its principles. had seen the administration com init its fortunes to it; had seen the great body of the national whigs in the Senate, in the House, in the country, come up to its support I had seen the democracy adopt it as an arttch in uieir creed cf taita; had seen the people o my district as almost one man, endorse the principles of that bill and acas to desert tht gallant ship, with her tried and trusted crew os she nlowed her majestic way, unmoved by