New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-13
ANOTHER Letter FROM Mr.. fIINo1t
HIS VIEWS On SLAVERY gyTgySynN
A MANIFESTO FOR THE SOUTH

An
stantly misrepresen,ed both North and Souts la
North am charged with being Pro-Slayeyy rs.
seeking TO extend Slavery over free territory sns
the South SIN accused OF being an Aboitions, r.
am neither and as have inv ariably refused n -;
any pledges other than such might be nfernes -
nv known character and previous official coudss ,
have not answered TO the public any OF the-e cha,
II after al hare dove, and all me sdcrtso,, ~.
made 10 rsdiRtdfE The ConstHriiozdi rigk,s az ,l
Souk. she stR distruas me, then can only say b.f
hope she msy find more just anc more eare,, 80
self escrlfcng than have BEEN and that when ioans
she may show Der gratitude by her confidence An5.,
OF the Noria-f sitter all have done to msin,s,p ~
Constitutional rights and advance Der interest she IA,
trusts ne hope she may ind one more worthy Of h~
eonhd.r &C. and be-tow II accordingly shall hsyeno
regret. for myself IN either case am only snrioqs
tina, the country should be wen governed and thA; A
unfortunate sectional controversy between the Nora
and The South shoud be settled, and frserual feein,
re.tOred. But spprehend that the difficulty b. ,ss,
The extremes each side want President fzvoias
their own peculiar views as AZ ainst their opponeus
canIot consent 20 lie such candidate for either da
/ am Dor the whole Union, North and South. East aad
Wes, and il nv countrymen will not accept me On
,hose conditions / .hAIl not complain.
The inelo@ed article copied into The R,eAmo.i
UAiR from The Bysalo Commercial, speaks my cen
tiuen,s on the Missouri Compromise. |, may or mar
Do, .u, your latitude but have thing for tie
south and another for the North, aud therefore |
send il.
In conclusion, permit me to express my sincere
success a. the candidate of the Union. l remember
your lamented brother WELL and was proud TO call hun
nv friend wish his valuable life could have been
spared to aid us this struggle TO save country.
WILLARD FILLMORE
PSI write in haste, without time to copy
correct.
A the dut,s OF a statesman not precisely thos
of debating club it always tries the patience Of pr
cal mon IN see effort wasted IN dscussions from which
nothing can possibly result. In great an critical co.,
rnctrr, .necisly statesman will study 10 discover
The measures best adapted to meet existing exigeocc
and be will not lend himself 10 the promotion OF any
scheme, whatever its intrinsic excellence may
he for single moment aiter ne 10 satisfied
no has no chance of success Like wis
Musician he will keep himself accurately In.
formed of the progress Of the disease and the coneoa
of the patient, and will not Insist That medicine shall
be administered to-day because II would have pre-
vented the mslady had il been taken ten days ago. II
il his business 10 deal with the disease in its preseni
stage; and if the patient refuse to take the medicine
which is best in itself he must not Therefore suffer
him 10 die while he is wasting time in vain effort to
copauer his obstnacy II he refuse the best medicine
he nust give him the best he can get him to take.
We notice that several conservative journals In the
South have lately advocated the resoisuon OF the Nh
souri, Compromise the most suitable remedy tor the
present unhappy and distracted cJnduon oil the cout
try Could tie South see the error which was commit
ted in its repeal, and voluntarily come Toward Tor ~
restoration il ould at once end all controversy but
this we conceive 10 be morally impossible. Therefore
we cannot forbear to remark that we consider the de-
cusson OF this question at this time Is unwse and IT,
timed The subject which now absorbs public aten.
tion is the approaching Presidential election and We
cannot sec that the restoration of the Missouri Conpro
mise is question which the National Executive will
ever in his official capacity, be called to consider.
The Missouri Compromise line was established BY an
act of Congress; il repealed by an act Of Con
oress and il il is ever restored it requires act Of
Congress to renstae it. II the question OF its reors
ton Is OF any Importance IN the Presidential election
it must be because there is likelihood or at leasts
possibility than Congress will pass an act for that pur
pose which will be submitted to the President for bis
approval Ii it is certain beforehand that no such oct
will ever come before the President, the whole ques
ton frivolous and idle or at FEAST has no pernence
to the Presidential election.
We suppose it will not be controverted that Coo.
gross ever passes act reinstating the Compromise
win be prior to the passage of an act admitting Kansas
into the Union as State. Subsequent to that event
its restoration would amount 10 nothing for the two
fold that Congress has no constitutional power
TO control the domestic institutions Of State; sol
that if it possessed the power its exercise would
be either idle or mposslbie-idle II kansS should
come in Free State-imporsb bic if she should come
in Is Slave State for the same majority which sd
mted her such would prevent the restoration. The
whole question, then, far AZ it has any bearing 90
the Presidential election reduces itself TO this Wheiha
there any possibility that such act can be passed
before Kansas is ripe for admission State II the
negative be demonstrated then all atitio OF The
subject is futile and unwise.
The present Congress, which has rejected bill pro-
posing the restoration of the Missouri compromise hne
will 90 out OF power the fh Of March next; tissue
cessor on the 4h Of March, 1852 and the successor Of
that Congress will its first session three years
from the fret Of next December Long before that
time Kans will either be in the Union knockngd
the doors OF Congress for admission IT, then, an ct
for the restoration Of the Missouri compromise not
parsed by the present the next succeeding Congress
it is certain that it will be passed at all TIE
present Congress will pass such act, for the SCUM
las large democratic majority. The next Congress
will not pass it, for the reason that the democrats
will still have the ascendancy in the Senate. Even ne
mcst sangune Of the Republican journals admit nn,
and no man in that party is extravagant enough to
claim that in the next Congress the Senate VIII DC ~
vorable to their views. The ". \. Ecen'ng Po@
made on estimate day before yesterday, in which, aha
claiming the election in several States which the Repub
cans are likely to lose it only reckoned on twenty
OF the sxty.two members of the Senate for Frem0u.
Buringame in his speech in Boston, two three days
since MADE threat that with republican President and
a republican H0use Of Represe natives, they would
grind the pro-slavery Senate of the next Congress S
between the upper and the neither milestone thus
clearly admitting that they had hopes of the Senste
Wemay consider il demonstrated, therefore, that an
act for restoring the Missouri Compromise viii never
come before the President for his consideration. AZ
come cted with the Presidential election the question
is peifecty idlea absra cton unworthy the
sGeraton of practical statesman. 1t Is unwse TO dis
cuss as an element Of the Presidential canvass;
would be equally unwise ever to agifate II again
CopaIess. Tie Missouri COMPROMISE is like wstd
spd upon the send; itcsn never be gathered up. IL
repeal as great bunder, but it is too late TO
correct IT, Tie attempt to restore IL at the late Session
OF Congess is defensble the ground that it was wed
10 cffr 10 tie Senate an opportunity to reconsider rs
1ction. But the Compromise Is dead, and it wouA Be
rational TO expect the reanim Of any other COPE
Of this Nothing remains but to pronounce its euogy
end bury II ont Of sight.
For more than thirty years the whole country ae9i
sc,d ia il, and II had acquired sacredness ia Puoe
tstIaatiOu hch il was unwsc 10 disturb. IL had see
Tied dangerous controversy, which Il was folly nay,
I wac nsdness TO reopen. Us repeal, as Mr. Fillmore
Justly rtmaked in one II lis speeches, was The rsr