Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-09-06
Connec ticut.
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WAfERnERY, July 30. 1856.

WAfEnnHRY, July 80, 1856.
There is in this little city of ours quite a
little handful of protested admirers of the
character of Willard Fillmore; and they are
digging after the remains Of that political
fossil as industriously as if they supposed
they would get down to it in season fer the
election. But is buried very itdeep, and the
laborors are very few; wherefore we greatly
fear that interesting occasion will have
passed together with the inaugural ccremo-
MES, before they will get their idol exhu-
med.
They Show, however, commemorate spunk
and on Tuesday evening last, got up quite a
pretty gathering, counting the whole audi
ence, two-thirds Of which, propably, consis-
ted of Democrats and Republicans, who at
tended to ''see what they could hear."-
Hon. James Brooks, Of the ". Y Express,
was imported for the occasion, and make a
speech. lie was astonishcd to find so large
an audience before him, which encouraged
him somewhat, though he should have felt
his duty to speak, notwithstanding his ply
sical exhaustion, even if the audience had
been quite SO large. He couldn't go the
Republcan ticket because it had no organi-
cation III fifteen States of the Union as
much as to say, your ticket don't suit the
Niger drivers, therefore it don't suit me !;
and yet lie labored bard to prove that Col
Fremont vas really u pfo-slaycry man, while
Willard Fillmore Il an auti-elayery man.-
He could not 81, port tllat tickct with FIRE.
mont's name 1T The head Of it On account Of
seetionality, yet he afowed his willingness
to have united with chat party in the support
O Judge Mclean. 8 Some other proper
man, although Judge Mclean or some
other proper mah7 mist have occupied OK
actly the same position that Col. Fremont
now DOES
He iFisl Lard to give Mr.. Fillmore all
the glory Of lie acquisition of California as a
free State. as having been accomplished du-
ring his administration, totally ignoring
Col. Fremont's agency in making it Free
State. lie apo'ogized for Mr. Fillmore's
signing the Fugitive Slave Bill, saying that
though obliged to sign it as constitutional
enactment he did not personally approve of
the details Of the bill He himself did not
approve of all its features, and did vote for
it. Neither did he vote against it, which
fac he forgot to mention.
But it is utterly useless to follow the
thread of such DISCOURSE It was through
out a tissue ofiust absurdities and inconsis-
tencics, hashing over some Of the stale and
exploded falsehoods, with which the readers
Of the Ecpress have been rcgaled for the
last five weeks, in regard to Fremont's Gath
olicism, and possessing no qualifications fer
the Office He lueged out a huge volume
in support Of his assertion that all Of Ere
monts votes in the senate touching the
Slavery question we're on the pro-slayery
side; but the book, wiser than its owner,
said nothing. The nature Of those votes
ought to be well enough understood by this
time, to need no ftisther explanation, aud
if understood, will satisfy any sensible man
that Col. Fremont did not in any instance
vote in favor of slayerx OF against the aboli-
ton of Slavery III the District Of Columbia
as alleged 4 X.