Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1856-09-03

present crisis. He has none of the
varied experience that Buchanan has
as Statesman. The only thing that
Fillmore has to recommend him to
the South, is his assignment of the
Fugitive Slave Bill, while he was acG
dtdentally President. Heis not en-
titled to any credit even forthat act,
as he was not prompted1to it by his
Town volition of mind, being goa
ded to theassignment by his cabinet.
This fact, | am somewhat acquainted
with, as was at Washington on bus
mess soon after the passage and as
tsignmeht of said Bill, when / heard
that matter spoken Of privately a.
mongst Fillmore's friends and sup
fporters, who said, that had it not
been for Mr.. Crittendon and of others
of the cabinet, the South would never
have, had at that time any legal means
of recovering its runaway negroes. -
And as to Mr.. >Fillmores claims for
the support of Old line Wings who
have held themselves aloft from the
so called American party, consider
them absurd and insulting, after his
having deserted the Wing party that
had been the means of raising him
to the highest Office in the gift of the
people, when he saw the Star Of that
party was waning, and to throw him
self into the polluting arms Of the
harlot Know Nothingism. But Mr..
Fillmore's chances for success in the
present contest, are SO feeble, that |
am really surprised to see sane men
persisting in them. In my humble
| judgement, look upon the election
of Mr.. Fillmore as moral irnpossi-
bility-as All occurrence not likely to
flake place within the pale Of the ut
most possible contingencies of the
future. The contest for the Presi-
dency is therefore between Buchanan
and Fremont, or otherwise, to come
practically to the point, the contest is
between the usurpations of the North
and the constitutional rights of the
South, or, Union or disunion, and
then Republic, or no Repu bic
Therefore, with this view Of the por-
tentous affair, when ii is plainly to be
seen, as think all4sane men will see,
that Mr.. Fillmore has no chance for
success l think his supporters, by
still pcrsisting in pressing his claims,
are evincing disposition to rule OF
ruin; that is, they, by throwing away
the vote of some Of Southern States
upon Mr.. Fillmore, will defeat Blu
chanan, and elect Fremont, which
election would bring ruin to the coun-
try. May. God interpose to prevent
such bedlamitc procedure
entertain no other than feelings Of
respect for Mr.. Fillmore as the1ate
chief Magistrate of the Republic
But for the party now supporting!him
for the Presidency and that party's
platform ofzPropnsea~ measures that
can only be equalled by those propos-
ia BY the Black Republican party
II entertain the most supreme, con-
tempt and hatred. \ look upon those
measures as being unfit to be tolera-
! ted in a Republican government-as
being unfit>to be sancti oned by any
man right in head and in heart;
l look upon the Anerican or Know
Nothing party as having gated
before the youth of the>county some
of the most damnable political meas
nres that could have possibly been
hatchedAby the brain of the most de-
PRAYED man; thereby laying the most
odious and dangerous examples and
precedents before those who are to be
our future Statesman. ! alludeto the
American party's proscriptive and
fintolerable tenets in regard toreligion
and birth, and the secret and clandes-
time feature of conducting matters
THAT should only be conducted openly.
This is the party that is now 1strug-
Cling, vainly | hope, for supremacy
! in the affairs Of our national govern
ment. !: h/ 49,.
Takinga retrospective view, / can
mot. help thinking that the oath OF
May, 1855, should be looked upon by
every one, as being one of the prou-
Edest days in the existence of the
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