The true Democrat., 1856-04-15
itlE 'ilo " ttSf,in LlHn mon. March 2l. What is Mir. I7illmoye's Present Political Status?

CllI4SdL EOtdLUS:
 The nomination of Mr. Fillmore for the pre- sidency was the most remarkable instance of ''golns 1t blind' that has occurred in the history oi party warfare Although the nominee of convention of Know NOthings it was not set tied at the time whether he was a member of the order ornot. The proof, however, has since been made which fixes the fact that before leaving for Europe to enjoy the courtesies and Inequalities of foreigners he took the ncces- Sary steps to qualify himself to be the caudi- date of the party which proscrbes and perse- cutes emigrants from those foreign lands in which Mr. Fillmore is sojourning and travel ing. But the other great mystery as to Mr. FllInore's political status is still shrouded in darkness-that is, whether his sentiments on the Nebraska question coincide with the black republicans or with the South Americans. On thls pont, which is the paramount issue before the country. no friend of Mr. Fillmore has come forward to lift the veil. We have abun- dance Of conjecture and speculation, but this is all SueSs-WorN. What the country expects, and will demand, i, an authoritative and uuc- qulvocal location of Mr. Fillmore, either with aboItionism or with nalionalism, with the black republicans or the democrats and South Amc- ricans-thc two latter agreeing on this point. It is certain that Mir. Fillmore was nominated upon the faith that his approval of the con- promise measures of 1850 furnished sufficient evidence of his present national position on the Nebraska question. In the blindness of their confidence the South Americans deemed it use- less to look for other evidence The only ex- cuse that can be made for them is that 1t was an act of desperation-it was the only escape from the utter ruin of their party, which had made itself so ridiculous, by its frequent fail ures m trying to patch up national platforms, that they resolved to stake everything on the supposed strength of Mr. Fillmores name The recollection that, in his message of 1850 he had recommended his countrymen to adhere to the compromises of that year as 6 final set tlement' of the slavery subject, was enough to satisfy Southern Americans that he would be found, in 1856, approving and sustaining the same principles in the Nebraska bl They failed to remember that in the same message, Mr. Fillmore defined the term final settle ment' to mean "l,tI time and experience shall demonstrate the necessity of further legislation to guard agalnss evasion or abuse;' just as Mir. Irumbull defines toyever," in the Missouri re- strlchon, to mean only until the territory is ready for admission as State.
 But, whilst the South Americans are confd- ing in Mr. Filmore's nationality, and his ac- qulescence in the principles of the Nebraska blll, the few northern Americans who support hlm are asserting with vehemencc that he can never countenance what they may term the ebraska swindle'
 The New York Express is conceded to be the chief organ of the Fillmore Know Nothinqs. That paper infers, from the fact that MT. Fill more approved the Compromise of 1850. that he cannot sanction the Nebraska bill After quoting from his message of 1850, the Express says:
 NO man can doubt that the writer of this message would, if in public life in 1854, have resisted the disturbance made of these compro- mise bills by Mir. Senator Douglas and Mr. President Pierce, both northern men. No man can doubt that Mr. Fillmore thus regrets, and deeply regrets, the annulment of the compact of 1920, and all the fearful sectional passions excited by it.'
 The Express does not speak as positively as the Indiana Tribune, Know Nothing organ of the black republican stripe It will be re- collected that this journal proposed to the black republicans coalition, hy the terms of which each party should agree to support the same electors and that the votes of the electors should be given either to Mr. Fillmore or to the black republican candidate for President, according to the relative strength of the two coailtlonists, as indicated by the vote for elec- tors. The Indiana Journal, black republi- can organ, objects to the coalition upon the ground that as MT. Fillmore is committed to the compromise of 1850, he will acquiesce in the Nebraska bill, and, therefore, that the plan of the Tribune proposes, in effect, conces- sion of the whole Nebraska issue." To this sug- gestion Mir. Fillmore's organ, the Tribune, re- spends indignantly as follows:
 "How do you know that Mir. Fillmore does