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The AbOlIiiOnist, on Fillmore and DOnel,on.

iuc AooulVui>S VI rihuio'c auu bVHei>oh
The entire phaanx of Northern Abolitionists anC
nccndiaries are down like a thousand of brick OF
the nomination Of Fillmore and Donelson. This wa
expected-it is natural-it is right and proper tina
it should be So No man in his senses ever drea meC
Of such approved patriot and statesman-such
conservative, national, Union-loving. Constitution
revcrencing politician as Mr. Fillmore-being sup
ported for any Office much less the Presidency, by
the horde of antslsvery zealots and fanatics at th
North. No sane man, We say, ever conceived sucl
thing possible, and patriotic desired it
We are consequently by no means surprised at the
fury and violence with which these peStent Gna
tics and sworn enemies of the South and the Con
sttution pitch into the nominees of the American
party. Aud glad that they do-for it proves
incontestbly the Southern people that the ticket
nominated at Philadelphia is just what it should
have been-one which should command their Yea
lous and enthusiastic support The honesty, con
servatsm, and nationality of Mr. FillmoreS admins
tration-which Gov. Wise indeed says was Wdsl-
a-iike"-provoked the relentless hostility o:
the entire Abolition party at the North, and this
party hating him, as he does them, with intense
and consuming hatred, will exert themseve,
with fiendsh energy to prevent his election. This
being the case, what is the duty of all true and 10y
al Southern men, irrespective OF party considera-
tons Should they not rally one around a
statesman they have tried, and whose administra.
ton will involve violence and no wrong to South
ern insttutions-an administration in which all sec
tons of our common country may cheerfully con-
de and which will most certainly protect the South
in all her rights and nterestsr We appeal to South
ern men of all parties to deliberate well and long be-
fore they conclude to discard a man 50 firm so true
and so perfectly unexceptionable. We ask them rs
patriots and loyal Southrons not against one
whom the Abolitonists hate and fear, and in
whose conservative straightforward administration
of the government the South may implicitly con
fde without the remotest danger of any invasion o
her honor or injury to her institutions.
But our object was merely to call the attention OF
the Southern people to the following extract con-
corning the American nomination from the Ne,r
Yors TriJvne-Horace Greely's paper-the most
villanous and dangerous Abolition sheet in the Uni
ted States. This extract will speak for itself and
show to the South how hitter and uncomprom,ing
war these Northern fanatics intend to wage against
Fillmore aud Donelson account of the nationality
and soundness of their principles and character
Here il is:
"Tze Slarery party has f.ally and boyo,,bly co,.
qerci me Amsricou NofiDaai ganisGfyH ana ,ecur
the nomination OF Willard Fillmore of New York for Pr.
sident and Andrew Jackson DOneson of Tennessee 10
vce-Presid-ut We hope they will have good tin,
electing them. Yet what the ever-shr,wi Black POwr
means this shall 10. there il danger it may accou,
psh thst IS divide the North and the trump
OF the PrpSlavery Democracy again. II is quite III,
70 the South, and truly quite bad for Freedom
Slavery trumphs whether it be falsely labelled Amer
carsm or Democracy
About fifty sincere and earnest Northern men left ~,
American Convention before these results were accoi
pshed; but they left behind more than equal uumh,
of miserable doughlces. to whom the FreeS,ate Amer
cans are indebted for the dcbauchery and destruction
their party"