The true Democrat., 1856-07-29
NO. 42.

iaws are Vlrtual usurpatlon of power, the con- stitution of the United States having conferred upon Congress no right to establish the rela- ton Of slavery, OR TO SANCTION AND PROTECT THE THE SLAVE TRADE, IN ANY PORTION OF THIS coNFEDERAcY: therefore resolved," etc., etc.
 Oh motion to suspend the rules so as to re- ceive the preamble and resolution, the vote stood yeas 73, nays 1O9; Messrs. Adams. FILL. MORE, Giddings, Slade, etc. voting in the af. frmative,-C0ng. Globe, voL 12, D. 1o6.
 Again; on the 3d January. 1843 Mr Mor- gan presented resolution instructinr the com. mittee on the territories to inquire into the ox- pediency of repeating an act passed by the ter. ritoral Legislature of Florida, entitled "An act to prevent the future migration or emigra- tIon of free negroes and mulattoes into said ter ntory," or to so much thereof as imposed a cap- ltation tax on such of them as may enter said territory and authorizes their sale for ninety years, for the non-payment of said tax.
 Black moved to lay the resolution on the ta- ble, yeas ll3, nays 80. Fillmore voted in the negative.
 On the 23d of February, Briggs, of Massa- chusetts, asked leave to submit the foIlow;n,
 
 resolutions:
 WHEREAS, all laws passed by the Governor aud Legislative Council of Florida are in fuiI force, until dsapproved by Congress, there fore,
 Resol0ed, That the committee on the iudi. eiary be instructed forthwith to report the fol- lowing bill:
 Be 't e''acted Jy the Senate and House of Re- preSentat(CeS fhe Uaitel States in Conqress 0s- Senl6te@ That an act passed by the Governor ana Legislative Council of the territory of Flo- rlda approved by the said Governor on 5th March, 1842, entitled "An act to prevent tbe future migration Of free negroes or mnlattoes to this territory and for other purposes. be, and the same is hereby, disapproved, and shall hencetorth be of no force''
 bH8gs asked suspension of the rules: yeas o6, nays 1O4. Fillmore yea, in favor of Briqgs. -Cong. Globe col. 12, p. 337.
 We will close his Congressional record here It Is as "clea1'' as the most ultra abolitionist could desire, without a single proslayerv vote. "con8Istelt' as that of Giddings or Slade, and "'0|0tted'' by drop of patriotism or conser yatlsm, and yet his claims upon the confidence ot the southern people are paraded with an air of triumph, while Mr. Buchanan is denounced as an abolitionist. It is refreshing, after pe- ruslng such record as thiS to turn to that of Mr. Buchanan. As Gov Letcher said about ms reply to the charges against Mir. Clay, "there Is a great deal of good reading in Buck'so re- cord.
 HIS SUBSEQUENT RECORD.
 But the evidence against Mr. Fillmore does not rest here In September, 1848, the Buff taIo Courier, published in this city where Mir. Fillmore resided, speaks of him as follows.
 We shall call one now to the stand who served with him from his first entrance into CohSress-Henry A. Wise! In letter which that gentleman addressed to F. J. Alfred of Augusta, dated July 29, 1048, and published at the tme we find many important deveIon- mentS. He says: I too, served with Mr Xiii more, much longer than Mir. Stuart did in Congress, and was intimately acquainted with hls speeches and votes in the House of Re- presentatlvej on the subject of slavery. and of Its abolition, Tn allits forms; and do not be- sltate on my own personal knowledge and re- sponslblllty, to pronounce the charge of aboli tonlsm against Mir. Fillmore true. I annpal to the journals of the House, for the whole period of Mir. Filmore's service in Conoress to prove that, If he Is not an aboitionist. John Quincy Adams was not; Giddings was not He voted with them, and against the south. OH every question of slavery or its abolition with out an exception within my knowledge or re- collection. The darkest day 1 ever saw. dur Ing eleven years experience from 1883 to lof4, in the House, was on the 2Oth of Decem per, Io31' which, We have already explained was on the occasion on which Mr. Slade dis cHSSed the question ol slavery in the States
 "MR. FILLMORE IN 1644. In this conneXion, we must not fail to state two circumstances in the life of Mr. Fillmore which, in our eStimation put him in a much less liberal category than that in which he is placed by Mr. Wise. We have the papers to prove that in l844 at mass meeting in the State ot New York, (4,000 persons presently MT. Fillmore made speech from a booth, nearly under banner on which were painted General Jackson and James K. Polk, the latter mounted by negro who bore a small aap bear ing the name of Texas. In his address Mir. Fillmore exhibited the strongest acrimonious hostility against the south, and converted great natIolal questlon(the tariH) into mere section al onc-demed that the southern people could ever become manufacturing people without per1hng theiI p01oey to retain Heir sZ,,es We nave the papers to prove that in 1347, at Ro chester, Ill tha State of New York. Mir. Ell more made speech in Minerva Hall against the 'oggress0hS cf the slaUe po,cer' The greater part os the speech was upon the encroach- ments Of slavery; upon the monopoly which the southern oIiga'chy, nest of 25O GOO slave holders had enjoyed in all the offices of trnst Tn the Union; how many Presidents from the south how few from the north; how he com mented or the same disproportion of judges, foreign ministers, speakers of the House, mem Ders of the cablnet, etc, with ungracious filings at what ne alleged to be southern arrogance and injustice"
 1hlS brings us up to the time of MT. Fill more'S elevation to the Presidency by the death ot Gen. Taylor; and his admirers point us to his signature to the fugitive slave law as con- elusive evidence of his nationality and conser- vatism. We deny that there is anything in that act inconsistent with his previous record We deny that he is entitled to one half the ere. dit due to those northern democratic statesmen who urged its passage, and voted for it on their personal responsibility. We alledge that Cid dings if placed as Fillmore was at the head of the nation, would have signed it as he did After the vetoes by President Tyler, the whig party with Clay and Webster at its head. both in 1844 and 184S, had laid it down as part of their political creed that the President had no right to veto any constitutional measure passed by Congress- MT. Fillmore was elected Vice President on that platform; he had been ele- vated by accident to the place of Gen. Taylor who was thus pledged to that doctrine. To have vetoed such a bill, under such circumstan- ces, when the immediate dissolution of the Union would have ensued, would have been worse than madness He would have been branded by Clay, Webster, and every man in the land, as doubly traitor-a traitor first to his solemn pledges, and next to his country.- Still he did not meet the issue boldly, and on