Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-08-13

s FILLMORE ves1 MGDOvIs s9s&
An Interesting rolitiea1 Correspondents has
spfnae up between George LaW, Of New York.
whoh strongly ID favor Of Fyesnonts eieetion
TO The Presidepcv, and Gen. Gnssarus Augustus
SeroEgs, of Buffalo, champion 81 Fillmore
'.Amcfscanfsni. Mt Law repudiates Fillmore,
on account Of his aabsersiency 70 the Slave
Power.
In his last letter, published in the New York
papers, he thus incontrovertibly proves Fillmore
a pro-slavery man, by reviewing his course when
he occupied the Presidential chair:
y Mr.. Fillmore began his suhserviency and made
up his Cabinet by . bargain with the $4,000
slave owners Of the South, placing the war and
Navy Department in the hands Of Secretaries
fcon, their section. The $50, 600 slave owners
Of the South required IT, as also that the Secrc-
tary Of the interior. whose business Was with
the Territories should be Southern man.
This was the bargain. Mr.. Fillmore should be
the last person to pirate about sectional parties.
He did more thany an other man, while Prcsi
dent, to divide the couatry into two great Sec
tional parties. as
Mr.. Fillmore, while acting President, never
represented the party that elected him iior the
principles that he was nominated or elected up
on or that he had protested prior to his elections
He proved faithiess to the party that elected
him--fathless to his own protested political
principles prior to his election He betrayed all
for the selfish purpose Of accomplishing a re.
nomination and a reelection. For this selfish
purpose he made his administration sectional
and subservient to the $4,000 slave owners.
He divided his party upon that issue, and des-
troyed It By seeking Southern support His APP
pontments we're all directed to that end l
will give You instances--In the spring OF 1852,
Hon. Jon McGinley, Judge of the United States
Supreme Court for the States OF Alabama and
Louisiana, died. The President, after nomina-
ting William 9. Micon Esq, Of New Orleans,
as his successor, and receiving that gentleman's
refusal toserye, nominated Edward A. Bradford,
Esq, OF the same city. Both these gentlemen
were partners of the present Louisiana Senator,
Hon. Judah p. Benjamin. The nomination was
laid on the table, and a committee waited on
Mr.. Fillmore to say that he had better withdraw
the name. Mr.. Fillmore enquiSed why; was he
not OF proper ageT Veg, he was man of gray
hairs. Was he not an eminent lawyer Yes;
that it was conceded as advisable that Louisia-
Eas civil law should be represented in the Cir
cult and the Supreme cours. What, then was
the obiectian? s43
z Mr.. Bradford was New England man, and
to be unsound on the question of
the constitutional right of Congress to prohibit
slavery in the Territories, holding similar views
with Judge Story. Upon this intimaton Mr.
Fillmore withdrew the name and substituted the
name of George +. Badger, the Senator of North
Carolina, most bitter foe to freedom, and who
gories in the institution of slavery, the same as
Mr., Donelson, the nominee for Vice President
with MIR. Fillmore. Mr.. Badger lived one thou.
sand miles out OF the circuit wherein the vacan-
cy happened. Mr.. Fillmore went out of his way
to get pro-slavery candidate But the Senate
were compelled by the voice of the New Orleans
and Mobile bar, to reject the interoper.
q L will give another instance, and could add
hundreds, II it were worth while to do So A
Southern gentleman, member of the House of
Representatives, took sudden and unexpected
part for Mr.. Fillmore. He made a speech on
the floor of the House in his favor, and support
ed him for nomination. He was appointed bv
Mr.. Fillmore to valuable pecuniary mission TO
a distant country. He could not have reached
his destination before Mr.. Fillmore's admiuistra.
ton was brought to close This was the result
of direct bargain, and was q sample of the
manner in which Mr.. Fillmore used his patron
age and his power to secure n nomination from
the delegates Of the $4,000 slave owners
But he played his game too far, aud the result
was, that although he obtained the support of
the delegates of the $4,000 slave owners, yet
he disgasted the delegates from the free States;
they went for General Scott and he was NOM
mated.
Mr.. Law, having at length reviewed the acts
of Mr.. Fillmore, and established the fac. that if
elected he will be a sectional President, pander-
ing to the wishes of the shareholders, he then
turns to Mr.. Fremont toihow why he is the pre-
ferable candidate. He says
Mr.. Fremont, if elected, will not pander to
the extremists of any section, and this COM
monds him to the support of the whole people.
=, In electing Mr.. Fremont VIC will show the
people of the South that VIC are willing to bring
the country back to the position it was in before
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and we
say to the Southern citizens, "unite with us in
doing So" for it will be a triumph of the great
medium, conservative principles Of the country
over the extremists who have pushed the Union
into its present dangerous position by the repeal
of the Mo. Compromises compromise nearly
half as old as the Constitution itself-a wrong
which cannot and will not be submitted to, and if
persisted in then the question will be raised rs to
Slavery in the States as well as Slavery in the |
Territories; for if no compromise can be kept |
that relates to the institution-if no discussion
can be tolerated without violence, and if such |
violence is to be approved and complimented |
by the three hundred and fifty thousand Slave
owners power, then the institution itself, con-
fined as it really is 20 the interests of the three
hundred and fifty thousand men, becomes such
IN evil to the whole country as disturber of
he public quiet, that it must be abolished eve.
'ywhere. ~.
Now this has become a question seriously to
oe considered, both North and South, for if men
If extreme views on the subject of Slavery are
o be elected and controlled by the $4,000
'lave owners of the South, and are to push the
institution of Slavery all over this country, in
collation. of all compromises, and regardless of
II the feelings that exist upon the SUBJECT by
nore than three-fourths of the population of
hcse States, it will then become a question
neither Slavery is to exist everywhere through.
ut this Union, or whether Freedom shall rise
a its majesty, welded, as it will be, by more
han three-lourths of our entire population, and
rive Slavery from a foothold or an existence
nder our Government. --,.z
These are the issues that will come, if the
olicy of the 100000 Slave owners power pre-
ails and elects Mr.. Fillmore or Mr. Buchanan
nder the guidance, as they are now, of these
lme 35o,0oo Shareholders of the South.
sY- The Hon. Josiah Quincy, sen, now S.
or AL /