Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-07-01
MIR. Fillmore al Albany.

thing good politically in the foremost patriot of
day, and who are pensioned sin hope of favors yet
to come" from the Great Unsettled" Of Wheatand
no American eye read without glowing prid,
and reviviied hopes the speech Of MIR. Fillmore Al
Albany which We publish to-day. In breadth u
sentiment-in national fidelity-in modest firm
ness it fully realises not only what hoped, but
what we expected IRON one whose past career gives
such abiding assurance Of safety, and peace, and
prosperity hereafter IL breathcs spirit of modera
ton and charity and conservatism, almost fear,
too pure for the times Certain it is, it will find no
favor with the spoiis-ioying, excitement-creatine
Democracy We fear that not even 'giZZard foot
who has in our last Issue been legally and duly
victed at the hands of Imbodcn, of praisng Mr. Fill
more's administration as "Washington-like," aud
therefore mercilessly impaled, viii he willing to
endorse so "Washington-like" speech.
We commend it to our readers, however for We
are persuaded that there thousands of Democrats
in this steadfast aud conservative old Commonwealth
who will approve the elevated sentiments expressed
by Mr. Fillmore, and who will prefer in these peri
lous times confde the helm Of State TO hands al
ready ui ed and found and trusty, rather than
TO commit il TO one who, whsteyer may be said in
anticipation furnish in positive acts so high
evidence of capacity and fitness to ride the whrlwnd
and direct the storm.
In truth and in all candor, what the evidence,
furnished by the accomplished act of Buchanan, la
authorize the bestowal Of the most effective moral
and political power now capable Of being gathered
into one hand to him. Is it not true of him. as Wise
said II was of Dickerson, of New Jersey, -"The Se
cretary has piddled Mr. Speaker; old bachelors al
ways pddle." Where, in the whole course Of hi,
long political career, is the evidence of robust,
1
he accomplished. What great sentiment in po
iitics, morals, science literature has he at
tered: Where and on what has lac made his mark
He is sterile in political he is childless in hn
man progeny. lie has nothing human, nothing pc
htical, to call him father. What great measure o
policy expcdiency, utility success has he orgina
ted and propelled As Benton said OF Calhoun, VIII,
had charged old Bullion with starting humbIg-
Mr President the gentleman has not fertility enough
to invent even a humbug" What are Buchanan
political antecedents: We do not deny to him =
smooth, decent oily mediocriy of talent and perso
nal success. Born and reared Federalist he yer,
soon learned the Shbboleth of Democracy, and Will
the can't phrases and catch words of that party il
his mouth, lac has glided along upon the current o
party triumph, aided by supple subServience to il
mandates, from post to post and place to place, lea
wing everything undone that was 10 be done and Ii
terally bidding where he attempted anything new
He rode the tempest Of Jacksonian Democracy
by clingng the skirts Of that brave but credulou
and violent old man. He insured promotion iron
him by slanderipg Mr.. Clay to him, while, at thu
time, lac essayed to keep in fair with Mr. Clay
in case Of contingencies, by making representation
TO Mr.. Clay a. from General Jackson, which he sal
afterwards had 10 foundation whatever. He bull
himself up nth jackson and the Democracy, b
lending himself falsely TO the charge Of bargain an
corruption" against that great man, while he wrot
deprecatory and supplicating letters Mr. Clay an
Hon. II. p. Letcher, who had the means in hand ,
danning him forever, until these two truthful an
chiyalrous passed to the tomb having spare
him in mercy for nearly thirty years, and now h
sneaks forth from the painfully tight place in who
he has been crammed tor thirty years and dares
hold up his head as candidate Tor the Presidenc
OF the United States. But Clay and Letcher left III
record behind them, aud il is known aud req
OF all (true and honest) men. In Russia he did n,
thing; in the Senate he unfruitful; as Folks s
cretsry of State he pdded about the Oregon bushes
He did worse than piddle ut Ostend At St James
wrote, and palavered ADD wTiggled, and left ever
thing at skies and seveDs-so much So as to ga
the ht sobrquet "of the great unsettled" bache
In domestic, he has been a eunuch ~ rIiS-f rfrc,
begetine nothing hi,,Isef, but employed in guardir
and laequeyiBg the progeny Of others. And no
that he is a candidate unlike Fillmore, who ute
his free, outspoken, patriotic sentiments
whines out that "having been put upon n platforI
he must say nothing Inconsistent with it," He c,
no longer speak James Buchanan And this
the man who contests the palm Of American approx
ton with Willard Fillmore Look to your bachel
pet, on volumnous and windy "GizzardF Foot!