The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-08-29

deniEens, disrsgardea the whispers Of early pre-
judiee. and helped BY ths mighty engine Of Es-
eedfire influence, to quiet the country, and TO
saVs aH portions from injury and dishonor."
1--WE do not approve OF Mr. FillWore's adj
ministration in all its policy, but We are free
to say, that he has made an infinitely better
President for the South than Gen. Taylor did
or would have done. and see believe there is
not Wig South of Mason and Diron's line
rho does not in his heart believe the same thing"
A. o. p. Nicholson, the present editor of the
Washington Union. made speech at Gala.
tin, Tennessee. on the 2sth of July, 1852, as
reported in the Nashville Union of August 2,
1859, from which we make the following ex-
tract:
d. o. p. Niehotson on lfillard Fillmore in 1852
HE next enquired into the influences
which led to Gen. Scots nomination, and
showed them to be freesoi and anti.compro-
mise in their character. He showed that
Fillmore and Webster were sacrificed for
their compromise sentiments, and that Gen.
Scott was nominated because his doubtful po.
sition made him more acceptable to the enc
mics of the compromise. He commented at
length upon Gen. Scott's letter of acceptance,
showing that it contained no express endorse
ment Of the compromise but on the contrary,
palpable bid to its enemies. He read that
portion Of the letter in which Gen. Scott
stated that he will not, in the appointment
of officers, require. as test, exact conformi-
ty to his own opinions. Mr. N. regarded this
as palpable bid held out to the enemies of
the fugitive slave law in the Wing ranks
the men whom Fillmore had prescribed and
turned out of office because their opinions
were not in conformity with his own upon
that law. He thought this was plainly say
ing to the enemies Of the compromise that
they would not be prescribed and turned out
of Office because Of their opinions. II sCas
this prescription that had ruined Fillmore at
the NORTH"
"Mr. Nicholson, at the time he made the
speech from which the foregoing extract is
taken, was one of the Democratic candidates
for elector for the State at large, and he made
the same speech in substance all over the
State. Yes, he traversed the State in 1852,
everywhere alleging that Mr.. Fillmore was
sacrificed at the Baltimore Convention on
account of his compromise sentiments'-th
Mr.. Fillmore had prescribed and turned out
of Office at the North the enemies of the
Fugitive Slave Law'-and that it was this
prescription which had ruined Mr.. Fillmore
at the North"
"Having deliberately made these declara-
tions on every stump in the State in 1852 as
Pierce candidate for elector this same A.
o. P. Nicholson, as the editor of the official
organ of President Pierce, has the baseness
to say in 1856:
'Mr. Fillmore's abolitionism will suit the
North"
"Why, sir, you told the people of Tennes.
see, in 1882 that Mr. Fillmores compromise
sentiments and his turning out of office GER.
tain men because they were the enemies Of
the Fugitive Slave Law had ruined him in
the North. Now, you say Mr.. Fillmore's ab-
oiitionim will suit the Nortb' Can politi-
cal profiigacy go farther than this 7"