Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-02
From the New York Evening Post.l
Fillmore Cure for Political Evils.

lllmore meetsnS. nsld yesterday AFTERNOON
on the Common, in Rahway-a meeting
which figures in the Express of this morn
ing as Tremendous demonstration. Tht
Commodore's speech was the great gun o
the occasion, and though we have attentive
ly read the report of it furnished by the Er
press, we see nothing in it to be frightened
at 1t is likely to be quite as tremendous
to his friends es to his enemies.r The Com.
modore is good navigator on the na,ura
ocean, but when he comes to plough the
political sea, he gets sadly out of his reck-
oning. He falls among all manner of quick
3sapds and puzzlng currents, sometimes finds
himself off No Mans Land, sometimes runs
aground at the Isle of Shoals, and at other
times gets afoul of the rocks Of Scilly.
We give sample of the Commodore's
style of political navigation from his speech
of Yesterday:
"All parties agree that there is great Ham
ger to the country, but they differ as to the
means of remedying the evils. 1t is sup
posed by many that the institutions Of our
country are to pass through severe ordeal.
For my part, am filled with anxiety for the
future. The question of slavery has unne-
cessarily been agitated anew by the repeal
of the compromise Tie national honor has
been tainted, and we are threatened with
decentralization of principle. We are thrown
back to the fearful agitation of 1920. What
was the inducement our fathers had to pass
the Missouri Compromise! The conining
of slavery within thirteen States. Fearful
passions were excited. The wisest, most
patriotic, Calhoun, Webster, Clay ana hos;
of Others, determined that the agitation
must be subdued then and forever. After
mature deliberation, those sages concluded
that So 80 should forever be the line, and
this compromise was made, ayd signed. and
ratified by the people. Thirty years passed.
and we had peace; but delnagogues arose,
and through political ambition violated that
peace, and threw rs back to that agitatio !.
And what do they say! that it was mere
act of Congress- 1t was no act of Congress
lit was an Interpretation OF the Constitu-
ton, made for expediency and for the best
purpose. ask the gentlemen Democrats
what remedy do they propose in the matter
of slavery! What do the Buchinan men
advise! The country is not to Oe settled by
electing either Buchanan or Fremont
There are no two sides to this question:
They have repealed the Missouri Compro-
mise, and they propose no substitute. This
constitutional question remains the same,
something must be done to al!ay the excite
meut. You must satisfy the North, you
must satisfy the South, and yon want good
man to do it, and that man is Miilard Fill
more. Cheers The South has defed
the North 10 the contest, and the North has
accepted the issue. In this condition Of
affairs the American party is the only one
from which a national candidate can be
presented to the people. Our candidates
stand upon national, conservative plstfofms1
and they will vindicate their claim to be
supported by true and independent DEM
ocracy."
Agrin:
"That repea. of the Missouri Compromise
deceived the people of 1850. When think
of this matter | sometimes rub my eyes and
imagine it dream, that sane men could act
! in such A manner. The Missouri Compro-
mise was intended to secure peace. A
fratrIcidal war has already ensued from its
repeal, and the blood of brothers is smoking
from the ground, There is one thing plain,
and that is, that the whole North consit cred
the Missouri Compromise as compact ofl
honor. The people of New Jersey, by voting
against Fremont and Buchanan, will give
proper expression Of opinion Oh the subject
os the compromise. 1t remains alone for
the American party to save the country
"l have felt an utter adherence Of such
principles as Fremont advocates. Mr.. Fill.
more is the man for the crisis; fulsome eulo-
gium is disgusting 10 me, but point to Mr..
Fillmore's acts as a guaranty for what he
will do hereafter. He has been President,
and is the only man who has retired from
office with credit in number Of years, and
lett the country in a good condition.
[Cheers.l We have got Mr.. Pierce-g
and ask his best friend what he thinks of
him. 1t is too much to allow such men to
rule the destinies of a country. TAX e an.
other mani. c. Fremont. If he is an hon.
orable man he must be an abolitionist. Bu-
chanan said he would stand by the compru-
mise, and has renounced it: he says he 10
Buchanan no longer, but belongs to his
party. Therefore, when we Come to speak
of Mr. Fillmore, we speak of a man who
has always acted consistently. and left the
office with as much reputation as ne took
into it,"
The occasion of the quarrel between the
North and the politicians who claim to man
age the affairs OF the South is. according to
the gallant Commodore, the repeal of tie
Missouri Comprom;se, great wrong, ac-
cording to him, breach Of faith, and vio-
lstion of "a compact of honor" So far very
we'll; we agree with the Commodore entire
ly. But what is to be the remedy! How
is the wrong to be rtdressct, the broken
:ai;h TO be made whole, the violated COM
pact of honor atoned fu-! Comm odure
Stockton is evidently puzzled when he cames
to this part of the subject. He has no REM
edy to recommends; his party has proposed
none, his candidate contemplates none, for
what the Commodore acknowledges to be
the great wrong of the day, the cause IF
civil dissensions and bloOdshed, ar,d the
probable source, he tells US, of f.ercer dis.
sensions, and bloodshed more! profuse. The
seventh article Of the Native American
platform frat adopted at Washington, and
then by the Council of the Order assembled
at Philadelphia, simply declares that the
party recognise the right of the Terrific
res to frame their own domestic and social
institutions in their own way, subject only
to the provisions Of the Constitution of the
United States," which Is the very cant oI
the violators of the Missouri Compromise
3 the very phraseology used by the supporters
of Pierce and Buchanan. and intended BY
them to justify that repeal Of the Missoar
Compromise, which the unconscious Com
modore denounces 50 bitterly.
"Mr. Buchanan" says Commodore Stock
ton, "has renounced the Missouri Compro
, mise - That ia his offense in the Com mo