Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1856-05-10
The Big Greasy TsnHesseean" on President
Fillmore,

We furnish oni readers this week with a
couple Of leaders from the Washington Union
of 1912, written by A, ]. Donelson, then ed
itor OF that paper They are pretty spicy doe
uments, and will be read, Just now, with some
interest. We accidentally came across them
the other day in some stray copies from ouI
files of the Union, Should we find any more
of the "same sort" We shall lay Them before
our readers;
From the Ha,hus'on CnlOn Of Oct. lsls5ll
PRESIDENT FILLMORE AND THE SOUTH,
We have laid before our readers the course
which the Republic few days since saw iii
TO take in regard TO Mr.. Wcbsters nomination.
We find in the Trenton True American an
explanation of the matter, in which is quite in.
genious enough to be copied, On the Ameri.
cans views OF the matter, how can the Presi-
dents republication and justification of his nb.
olinonist letter be explained 7 Again; we
think the American altogether in error in its
estimates OF President Fillmore's strength nj
the South. We doubt whether, as against any
one Of several Of the prominent democratic
candidates, he can be SAID nj this time TO be-
sure of single southern State. He might
possibly carry Kentucky, North Carolina and
Florida. In Tennessee and Louisiana the
chances would be strongly against him; and in
no other State south Of Washington would he
have, as we think, any chance at all. We are
aware that the American refers not to Mr..
Filmores strength at the South in carrying
the States in the election but in securing the
vote of their delegates in the Wing National
Convention. Yet the two facts nre closely
connected. There has been an idea that Mr..
Fillmore was strong before the people Of the
South. This idea made him, for time, the
favorte candidate for nomination there. But
the idea is fast fading away. In fact, Mr.. Fill
mores strength at the South nerer had any
TER PlLL-A VERY BITTER PlLL-TO
THE SOUTH IN 1913; and they took him
only for the sake Of General Taylor; and since
then he has done literally nothing specially to
commend himself to southern favor. 1t is
true, he signed the fugitive law; but it would
have been stark mndness-utter lunacy-in
him. or in any other President, to have refused
that signature. 1t was an act of the most in
disputable and imperative necessity, and moth
ing more. And with the single exception of
that act, HIS ADMINISTRATION HAS
BEEN ONE LONG, SAD, TEDIOUS
FAILURE AND BLUNDER. Who believes
that, with the proper spirit, capacity, and ef.
f rt in the White House, we should have had
this disgraceful muster roll of triumphant, in
sulting, and yet unpunished negro and aboi.
tonist mobs, instructions, and murders 3
Who believes that, with the right kind of an
Executive our government would now have TO
stand in its present attitude of humiliation to.
wards Spain and the European intervening
powers, and at the same time in such miserable
self contradiction in its course towards the rev.
olutonary provinces Of Mexico? The Exc.
cutive inefficiency in the execution of the fug.
tive law, and the wretched blunder in the
whole Cuban buslness-from its commence.
ment to its close, in SO far as it is yet closed
have doomed the administration at the South.
Add to this that its tariff policy is utterly at
war with southern interests, and the last offic-
ial explanation Of that policy in the columns
OF the Republic, point directly to restora-
ton Of the "black tariff of lS42, is enough
to rouse throughout the whole South the most
bitter and wide spread hostility. With these
facts in view, it is PLAIN that President Fill
more can have no real strength with the peo-
pie of the South, even if we leave out of view
the great Galphin odium which his admins
tration inherited, or the great Gardiner odium
in which it is implicated. And it is in these
circumstances that we find President Fillmore
putting the last hand to his ruin at the South,
by bringing out anew, and with justification,
HIS OLD, AND FOR A TINE DORMANT,
ABOLITIONISM.
Our own explanation, therefore, of the Web.
ster movement in the New York Courier and
Washington Republic is, that the politicians
of the whig party feel that the southern game
for President Fillmore is lost, and that some
other candidate must be found 1t seems to
US that the President himself must have come
TO this conclusion. On any other suppostion
the revival Of the Erie letter is inexplicable.-
Its republication, with comments in iustifca.
ion of it was Mr.. Fillmore's desperate dash
1t the support of the North; or, il not so, 1t
vas bunder without parallel in the records
If political blunders and folly.
From the Washington Union Of Sept 10, ISSll
The Baltimore American is not well suited
With our contemptuous rejection of its absurd
proposition that the democrats who rally upon
he maintenance ot tha Com hromisc nc tlot