The Nevada journal., 1856-06-06

REPORTED WITHDRAWAL OF FILLMORE.
A report has been industriotssly put in
circulation to the effect that Miilard Fill
more will not accept the nomination n for
the Presidenc, from the American parry
This may, or may not be true. We do
not pretend to say that it is impossible
for him to refuse the honors which his
fellow citizens designed for his brows, but
we do pretend to say that, in the present
state of political parties all over the
Union, and the urgent ne cessity existing
that man of tried experience and sound
national views should be called to the
helm of government, if Millard Fillmore
declines becoming candidate his modesty
will get the better of his patriotism. 1t
will be an anomaly il. Presidential strug-
giles, and in the present wild hunt after
the Chief Magistracy his example will
form striking contrast to the scrubs ON
the course. A man after the pattern Of
the founders Of the Republic, an associate
of Webster and Clay and relict of the
golden times in which they fourished, vol
unfairly refusing to receive further honors
from his admiring countrymen will be an
act OF extreme modesty we are not vet
prepared to see. We shall not see it
The report comes from the anti fillmore
press, from the fanatic sheets Of every
hue, from the slavery extension sheets that
know and advocate no other cause but the
spread of The peculiar Institution at what
ever cost to the internal peace or perpetu-
lty of the Union, and from the insane
journals of the North that live on agita-
tion and die the death of the ungody
when the sooty questions are set at rest
There is no evidence at all that Millard
Fillmore will not be a candidate for the
Presidency. His silence cannot be con-
strued into a want Of confidence in the
American Party. Nor can it be consid-
cred as an indication that he does not de-
sign accepting the nomination which has
been rendered him during his ABSENCE
When he returns it will be time for him,
after maturely considering the subject, to
declare whether be will, or will not accept
the nomination for the Presidency.
1t is presumed in the absence of any
positive exposition of his designs from his
own pen, that his friends are more to be
relied on for information as to bis future
action than the assertion of his enemies =
1t is well known that Fillmore is on init
mate terms with many Of the eminent
men of the country, and has correspon
ded with some of them, especially men,
bers of the Cabinet, giving his views
frankly and freely on questions of public
policy in such letters. With A. H. H.
Stewart of Virginia, one of his Cabinet
officers he has been on terms of particular
intimacy Stewart has published series
of most eloquent letters in the Richmond
Wh,g from which no other opinion can be
drawn than that the writer is fully con-
vinced of the acceptance by Fillmore of
the nomination rendered him. Stewart
probably has better means of knowing the
designs Of Fillmore than any man living.
The friends of Millard Fillmore still ad-
here to him, his name is not lowered from
the mast head of any paper Of standing
and influence at his home Mt Buffalo, or
elsewhere. IF he designs to withdraw
from the contest to come, surely his
friends ought to know it at least as soon
as his enemies. which if reports are true
is not the case. The story of his with
drawal is sheer fudge.
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