Washington telegraph., 1856-07-09

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in the patriot and statesman. But he
was not without his revilers- The vandal
hordes, whose lawless schemes he had
overthrown-the reckless gamblers, who
played human life as their stake against
power and place and public plunder
from the depth of their moral infamy,
looking up to him upon his proud emf
nence, hurled, with futile rage and ma
lignant fury, the weapons of their des-
perate hate, tipped with the gall of the
venom in which they sweltered. But
they never had strength enough in the
bow" ssTheir arrows fell short of the
mark" Their curses have recoiled upon
themselves. Nor did Millard Fillmore
fail to achieve the need SO justly due his
lofty worth. Elevated to Office in spite of
the most desperate opposition on the part
of the Southern wing of the Democracy
to the ticket upon which he was elected /;
denounced from the time of his nomina-
ton to the day of his election as an 4Abo-
Iitionist, as an enemy to the rights of
of the South, as the radical opponent of
the peculiar views of the South, as a
dangerous disorganizer, as the representa-
tive of party inimical to all the interests
and privileges of this section of the
Union, his defamers looked at the record
which he, during his Administration,
spread before the country, at first with
wonder, and at length with admiration
and appreciation, the expression of which,
from those of them willing to do justice
to an opponent, could not be repressed
and when, at the close of the term of his
Presidential career, his claims to the
gratitude and confidence and endorsement
of the party whom he had so ably served,
were overslaughed, and the great chief OF
hundred battles was presented as the
candidate of the Wing party for Presi-
dent, the men who now are arrayed against
Mr.. Fillmore exhausted the powers of eu.
logy in ascribing to him all the attributes
of the Statesman and the Patriot. He
went out of Office the recognized embodi-
ment of the National President-the re-
cognized friend of the Constitutional
rights of all sections; he retired to pri-
vate life with no shadow of stain upon
his escutcheon,- was In all things
without reproach- Let who dare deny
this, the denial is proof of willful malice
OF evidence of shameful ignorance. Thus
was Millard Fillmore when he yielded uI
the office of President.
| A national mana man in whose in.eg o.
rity nation placed implicit confidence
The love and respect of mighty people
followed him to his home A people re
membercd him gratefully as the guardian
and conservator of their rights. A new
administration came into power Peac,
and security we're the heralds of the advent
of the powers that be- The blast of the
trumpet of the demon of civil war, is heart
to- day throughout the length aud breadtt
of the land. To-day-from the North tt
the South. from the East to the West. tn,
elements of discord are at work What ha
brought about this condition of things p
If we had time and space, to elaborate tb,
matters which answer this question, We coult
prove by DEMOCRATIC testimonies
timony which cannot be impeached tina
to the vascillating course of the presen
Administration, is to be attributed the evi
which now afflicts this people. And W,
shall take convenient occasion to produc,
testimony of this nature. For it is true
that the country was at peace when Fillmor,
delivered up the insignia of the Office O
President; it is true, that civil war nov
RACES within its borders it is true. that tb,
slavery question had received Its quietus fo
the time by Mr. Fillmore's manly course
It is true, that the agitators, North and South
stood rebuked in the presence of his un
finching devotion to the right; it is true
that the men of the Democratic party, VIII
by their detection from sound principles
had given birth to Freesoilism, were taker
from the merited obscurity to which MIR
Fillmore's course had consigned them, ant
placed by the present Administration in tn,
high places of the land. in the places from
which by the aid Of the emoluments anc
influences attaching thereto, they could SOW
broadcast the seeds of their pernicious here
sizes, their destructive and agrarian doctrines
We have high Democratic authority for this
Do you call for the proof? And these year
of the present Administration have beer
marked by constant, unceasing agitation
1t has been heard on the floors of the hall
of Congress. 1t has been echoed in th,
gatheringsof the people-re-echoed in ever,
public place; and the present Administra
tion is answerable for it all. Can this b,
denied? Pending this excitement and the
never-to be-forgotten period of time through
which it has extended. the American part,
came into being. Announcing as its cardi
nal principles devotion to. aud determi
nation to stand by the Union at all hazards
a reverence for and obedience to all consti
tutional requirements, purpose openly
declared to give the preservation of the
interests and the shaping of the destinies o.
the American republic into the hands of tn,
American people-the natural inheritor
of right which at this day an Overwhelming
majority of the American people hold sacred
the growth of this party startled its friend,