Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-01-03

We had overlooked the fact-a very gratifying
and suggestive factthat the recent letter of Mr..
FILLMORE to the New York Union Meeting. was not
read by the eomrittee on that occasion. The New
York Courier and Enquirer, one Of the meanest of
the Black Republican orgarEs says; "The letter Of
Mr. FILLMORE was omitted to be read because it
would have been q terrible bombsheI, the explosion
Of which in advance, would have endangered the
unity Of the proceedings There is no other expla-
nation Of this matter, and we think the committee
saw the effect that letter would have produced at
the meeting"
Upon this the Cincinnati Gazette another Black
Republican organ, remarks: eve thought as much.
This accounts for the silence Of the Express and
journal Of Commerce upon tie merits of that admit
rable letter. We hope our South American corem-
pOraries vl note the fact, that Mr. FnLuoRE's let
ter was not read at the late Union Meeting in New
York.
We hope also, ''that our South American cotem-
pnraries win note the fact that Mr.. FuLNorE's let
ter was not read' before a Union Meeting at the
North, and that they wiz ask themselves the reason
why. If because, as stated by the Courier and En-
qllTer, lit would have been a terrible bombshen"
in that Union Meeting. what is to be thought Of Mr.
FILLMORE in future, by those gentlemen at the South
who have been so deluaed with the belief that he
was the man Of all others to preserve the Union.
And what does Mr. FILLMORE contemplate Why
should he take advantage Of an invitation to attend
Union meeting, 10 stealthily throw into its midst
.'bombshel = delighting the Black Republican enc
mics Of that Union meeting, ami which, in Ghe Ian!
guage of one of their most astute organs would
have endangered the unity Of the proceedings"
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sures have so alarmed the Black Republicans that
they contemplate abandoning the idea Of pressing,
for the present the election of their great chief Mr.
SEWARD, and are proposing, better suited to the
emergency, TO take up some less obnoxious indiydu
al,sHch for instance, as the Missouri Aboliuonist
Mr. Bates They have also calleda Aatonql Repub-
hcan Convention" to meet at Chicago IL June next
10 nominate candidates for Presidsnt and Vice Pres
ident at which are invited to be present the " Re
publican Electors of the several States, the mem
bers Of the Peoples party in Pennsylvania, and of
the Opposition party Of New Jersey. and Of al 9TH
eS l-h0 hitting to cooperate rih them il The sup
port of Tie candidates Which shall there be nominated
and who are opposed TO the policy of the present
Administration 10 the extension of slavery into the
terri tories and to the new and dangerous political
doctrine announced by the Supreme Court in the
bred Scott decison,) that the Constitution of Its
own force carries slavery into all the territories Of
the United States OF these facts NI'. FILLMORE
was Of course cognizant at the writing Of his let
ter And may it not be that that letter was written
to suit the facts An, there's the question that
gives us nauseI Is man once candidate for the
Presidency. always a candidate? Are the lessons
which experience teach. once learned by the eau
tious politician. forever carefully observed after
wards These are questions which, answered af-
rmltivcly, and taken in connection with the pres
ent state of affairs. may relieve our wonder that
Mr. FILLMORE should have deliberately written
letter TO the friends of the Union and the enemies
Of Black Republicanism, in New York of such
character that 1t was ~ommitted TO be read by
them. because It would have been a terrible bomb
shell, the explosion Of which in advance, would
have endangered the unity Of the proceedings"
The election of 1856 demonstrated to Mr.. Fill
MORE that he can never be made President by the
vote of the Southern States and that in the North
there is really but party in hostility to the De-
mocracy. He farther remembers that all the sucs
cesses Of his life were achieved while in the lead Of
that party which turned against him only when
he consented to daily with the South under the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of &c conservatism They need
candidate now with some preteDsiOns to this con
serYatism." They have no time TO quarrel among
themselves over past foies but are willing 10 take
into the fold all d" who are willing to cooperate
with them in the support of-the candidates that
shall be nominated by them" If Mr.. FILLMORE is
willing to return once more to their ranks with such
Northern and Southern followers as he can take
with him. why might he not answer them a better
purpose than Mr.. BATES: Would not the FILLMORE
vote of 1856 united with the Black Republican vote
given Fremont. carry every State at the North
Why then under the peculiar circumstances of the
case. might not a bargain be struck between them
that would make him most choice leader Of the
antislavery crusade in the next Presidential strug
gle2 Stranger things have happened. 1t was
stranger circumstance when a large portion Of the
Southern people consented in 1913 to support NIL
LARD FILLMORE. the Erie aboitonist in conjunction
with Gen. TAYLOR. the southern Shareholder 1t
was stranger still when. in 1856. the same NHIAED
FILLMORE consented TO run for the Presidency with
ANDREW J. DoNEIsoN behind him. the then recent
editor of the Democratic organ at Washington. the
most violent assailant Of his administration while
President and the most thorough and uncompro-
missing castrator and cxposcr Of his lifetime aboIi-
tionism.
But. whatever Mr.. FuINoREs object may have
been in writing this letter he has given most concu
sive evdcncgBf his unsoundness as a national man;
and the high esteem in which he has been held here
tofore by respectable portion Of die Southern peo-
ple Is but another evidence of the weakness of
mems judgments and the obtusencss of their per
centons under the influences of rocklossness party
prejudice.