Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-03-22

mat FOod and hdctng neccr tdheB any
public position, Ian,,eilling, IN all fra,,k-
ness and candor, to do so nOr."
| will show you that his memory is as
oJtigious as his sudden conversion is
marvellous. This same Henry NJ Fuller,
on the 18th of August, 1919, wrote
letter to b. T.. SdrtOn-a letter from
which the following are extracts:
''You state in your letter that the
FREE-SOILERS will hold a convention
at Hyde Parke on the Both instant.
There is a pretty strong probability that
/ will be in the field for canal commits
sioner, and it would certainly AID MY
PROSPECTS VERY MATERIALLY to re-
ceive NOMINATION FROM YOUR PAR
TY."
He had not then this holy horror of a
"wild hunt after office" denounced by
his brethren in Philadelphia. Oh, no |!
1t would "oe,y materially aidhis pros
poets" to get nomination from a regu-
lar free-soa contention; and, as it would
aid those prospects, he wanted it; and
had good reasons to give why he should
have it. Hear him:
81 am III faoor Of FREE SOIL, free
speech, free labor, and free men; BEING
A WILMOT-PROVISO MAN UP TO
THE HUB, AND UTTERLY OPP
POSED TO THE EXTENSION OF
SLAVERY!!w
He was up to the HUB IN FREE
SOIL when he wanteda free-soil nomi-
nation and have never heard of his
PRIHING OUT until he wanted the
votes of sound national men for the
speakership. He goes on:
4" The matter lciW require prudent
management, and Tkno,o Of no man who
can accomplish it better than yo'uself. n
pould be bad poticyto attempt 1t ~ithout
q certainty Of success. Consult with our
mutual friends, Hackley and johnson,
and write me soon, Yours, truly,
HENRY NJ FULLER"
Thus it appears that on the 18th day
of August, 1919, he was a WILMOT
PROVISO MAN UP TO THE HUB"
and on the 18th day of January, 1886,
he declares tint lie aeyer took any pab-
lie position on the subject Of sIaUery'-
that his "po,itical existence commenced
since that Roodip / will comment nc
further ON this letter
Mr.. Fuller became a candidate for
canal commissioner, and, while a candi-
date, made speeches--among others che
in Allegheny city, reported in the Pitts
burg Gazette, then whig paper, and
then supporting Mr. Fuller. In that
speech, published at at the time, and UNI
contradicted, Mr.. Fuller says:
Let the people Of the South talk as
they please, slorery acas a darh and
danlning stain upon their escutcheoa" =
"Let us say to the proud waves of slav-
cry, as they beat against the barriers of
freedom, "thus far shalt thou go, and
no further" Let us giye our lands free
in every sense of the word, 10 our citizens
and to the poor and oppressed Of othe,
nations" = 4 As lords of free
dom, we had a duty to perform to the
South. Let us do it with proper re-
gard to our friends there, but let us IN
SYST ON THE EARLIEST PRAC-
TICAL ABOLITION OF SLAVE
RY!!
Ay, " THE EARLIEST PRACTI-
| CAL ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
Look at it For d" free-soif'--" oppos-
ed to the extension of slavery"-iu favor
of its - earliest practical aboiuton"-in-
triguing for the nomination of a free
soil convention and in addition to all
this, when the final vote for Speaker
came-the last vote--the vote which
"tried the souls of men"-the vote
which was to determine whether BANKS,
the political abolitionist-t black re-
publican-the northern Know-nothing
the g" Union sliding'-the +" absorp-
ton" Banks-should be elected Speaker
of the American House of Representa-
tives, or that accomplished gentleman
and sound, national, and conservative
man, Governor WIN. AKEN-he, undcl
the flimsy and miserable pretext of hav
ing paired off with man who was pres
ent, being present himself, dodged, anC
did not vote at all
And now, with his record fairly be.
fore you-elected upon the principles
on which / was elected submit it t.
your candor if would not have exposed
myself to the just scorR and contempt o.
every good man Of my district, of anJ
party, if / had voted for Henry ". Fm
Ter? | voted for VIM. A. Richardson,
of Illinois. | linen him. / had served
with him in the last Congress. knew
him to be the very soul Of honor-a mar
whose word was as good as his bond !
a man whose large heart could take al
the Union into its affections; a man who
was all scanned with scars received il
battles for the rights Of the South mar
who had been passed around by the abo-
litionists (within black lines) in what
they call their " roll of infamy" because
of his gallant bearing in those battles
a man who has stood unmoved while mad
fanaticism poured its vials Of wrath upor
his head; a man who breasted the
storm in its widest ragings" after the
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill
the man who bid them a proud and bold
defiance; the statesman who was ouI
champion and leader through all the
great struggle upon that bill the states
man who had counselled his friends in
the North to " stand and brave the fire
without hinching;" the man who, full Of
courage and patriotism, dares TO do what
ever his large heart approves and his
comprehensive mind suggests; and man
too, who is Of the West, westcrn--Dto