New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-30

jority-the Radical Democrats refusing to support
the Hunker Pro-Slavery ticket. And, down to
ls49-5O, there was no reason 10 doubt that Mr.
Fillmore concurred heartily with the great mass OF
his fellow Wings of State on .ll questions re-
lating to Slavery. But personal rivalry and cool
ness had sprung up between him and Gov Seward,
which now led TO his alienation from his old friends
and old principles. Gov. Seward having the conf.
dence of Gen. Taylor, and using it 10 favor the
cause of Free Territory, Mr.. Fillmore was led to
take opposite grounds Senator H. 5. Foote of
Mississippi, then prominent adversary of Gen.
Taylor in Know-Nothing speech in California in
1854, thus develops the history of Mr.. Fillmore
Transformation:
:" had not long taken nv seat before Mr. Badger
of North Carolina of the purest and most patriotic
men that ever occupied place in the National Coun-
cik, 10 and stated that Vice President tnl-
more, the then presiding officer OF the Senate, had re-
quested him 10 make known 20 me that he perfectly
cOncurrod in the views which had just expressed and
that be would be pleased 10 have an interview with me
the subject in his official at the Capitol, a.
the hour of 9 clock the next morning. promised
to attend upon him at the time and place specified.
did 50.
"Wi;hout going into particulars at present it is sui
oent for me 10 say that obtained by the dire tion of
Mr. Fillmore from the hands OF an accredited irend Of
his list of the NOMINEE subject TO the objection Oi
being sgiiators on the question OF Slavery. Iht'
rhOe catalogue of tcOrthics TdS disposed ot m ne
Senate; in other words, they were sacrificed 10 the
peace OF the country one or two. whose nonna-
tons remained TO be acted upon on the last night OF the
session of Congress. They were disposed of by Mr.
Fillmore himself the night for Just before the
clock struck twelve this gentleman being then PresI-
dent, S1Ht special message, TithdrGrt"g all the
ofHsire nominations and substituting others in their
stead
Thenceiorward, Mr. Fillmores position has been
one of hostility to the great body Of the Wings of
our State, especially with regard 10 Slavery.
Though his partner and intimate counselor. 5. q.
Haven voted against the Nebraska blu throughout.
M Fillmore declined TO preside ever II meeting of
his felIow-citizens called To resist its passage and
he now stands candidate for the Presidency on a
platform of unequivocal approval of the funda-
mental principle of that bill. Here il Isl
Seycnh The recognition of the right of the ma
tiSebon and natralzed citizens Of the United States
permanently residing in any territory thereof, 10 frame
their constitution and laws and 20 regulate their do
nestle and social affairs in their mode subject
only to the provisions of the Federal Constitution,
with the right of admission into the Union whenever
they have the requisite population for one Representa-
tive IN Congress.
This is the precise doctrine affirmed by the South
and combated by the North in the Missouri strug-
ge-the doctrine OF Gen. Cass's Nicholson letter.
the doctrine of the ultra Slave Power in opposition
to Thomas Jefferson in l7Si-the doctrine over
ruled BY Congress in the passage of the Ordinance
OF 81: the vote to Oyerrule being affirmed and
sanctioned by George Washington and the first
Federal Congress in l790-the doctrine which, if
acceded to by Congress in lSO2-7 in Difference TO
TIE prayer Of Indiana Territory, would have made
ey. ~ State west of Ohio Slave Statt-the doc
trne which Millard Fillmore always resisted and
condemned until he joined the opposition to Gen.
Taylor in 1850 For this, and because to support
him would be TO aid the election of Buchanan aud
the triumph of Slavery in Kansas We oppose Mil
lard Fillmore.