The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-02-04
From the Nashville Union d American.


the Black Republican organs, says: "The
letter of Mr.. Fillmore was omitted to be
read because it would have been terrible
bombshell, the explosion Of which in advance
would have endangered the unity of the
proceedings. There is no other explanation
of this matter, and we think the committee
saw the effect that letter would have proGuc-
ed 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 Com
merce, upon the merits of that admirable
letter. We hope our South American co
temporaries will note the fact, that Mr.. Fill
more's letter was not read at the late Union
Meeting ia New York"
We hope, also, "that our South American
contemporaries will note the fact, that Mr..
Fillmore's letter was not read" before "a
Union Meeting at the North, and that they
will ask themselves the reason why. If be-
cause, as stated by the Courier and Enquir
er, "it would have been terrible bomb
shelP' in that Union Meeting, what is to be
thought of Mr.. Fillmore in future, by those
gentlemen at the South who have been SC
/, deluded 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 tt
attend Union Meeting, to stealthiy throw
into its midst "bombshell," delightine
the Black Republican enemies of that Unior
meeting, and which, in the language Of one
of their most astutc organs, 'Ewould have en-
dangered the unity of the proceedings"
1t is said that the recent Harper's Ferry
exposures have so alarmed the Black Repub
licans that they contemplate abandoning tn,
idea of pressing, for the present, the elec
ton of their great chief, Mr.. Seward, anC
are proposing as better suited to the emer
i gency, to take up some less obnoxious indi
vdual, such, for instance, as the Missouri
s. Abolitionist, Mr. Bates They have ais
called "Ndtional Republican Convention,
to meet at Chicago in June next to nominat
to caud dates for President and Vice President
at which are invited to be present the "Rc
publican Electors Of the several States. tn
members of the Peoples party in Penusyl
vania, and of the Opposition party of Ne
Jersey, and Of all others acto are acilltng
e' cooperate loih Mem IN the support Of ii
'' candidates achich shall there be nominated
and who are opposed to the policy of tn
present Administration, to the extension {
slavery into the territories, and to the ne'
and dangerous political doctrine (aunouuce
by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott dc
cision, that the Constitution, of its ow
g force, carries slavery into all the territoriC
IS, of the United States" Of these facts NJ
Fillmore was, of course, cognizant at tn
le writing of his letter And may it not |
n, that that letter was written to suit the facts
ed All, there's tie question that gives US pause
I'll Is man once candidate for the Presider
at cy, always a candidate? Are the lessor
be which experience teaches, ouce learned by IL
-e, cautious politician, forever carefully obser,
a. ed afterwards These are questions whic
answered affirmatively, and taken in conne
IS ton with the present state of affairs, ma
rs relieve our wonder that Mr.. Fillmore shou
ID have deliberately written letter to IL
r. friends of the Union and the enemies
On Black Republicanism, in New York, Of SUE
10 character that it was "omitted to be res
on by them because it would have been teri
he bic bombshell the explosion of which
Nv advance, would have endangered the uni
u of the proceedings y
ne The election of 1856 demonstrated to NJ
Fillmore that he can never be made Pres
ny dent by the vote of the Southern States, al
p that in the North there is really but Of
TIC party in hostility to the Democracy |
on farther remembers that all the successes
TO his life were achieved while in the lead
us that party, which turned against him on
ne when he consented to daily with the Sou
M under the mock pretensions of ''conserN
ICE tism." They need candidate now wi
&C. some preteusions to this Conservatism. J"
re They have no time to quarrel among thel
mt selves over past follies, but are willing
ng take into the fold all "who are willing
er" cooperate with them in the support of t
IL candidates that shall be nominated by then
ar, If5Mr. Fillmore is willing to return OIL
ct, more to their ranks with such Northern a
10 Southern followers as he can take with hi
why mlSub uo uoJ dusNtIl bu6lH Il DttleT Y
mt pose than Mr.. Bates? Would not the b
Iav more vote of 1856, united with the Biz
rd Republican vote given Fremont, carry e
md ry State at the North Why then, unC
wn the peculiar circumstances of the case, mig
of not bargain be struck between them Il
I'M. would make him most choice leader of {
ed anti slavery crusade in the next President
he struggle? Stranger things have happen
not 1t was a stranger Circumstance when la
en-. portion of the Southern people consented
NO 1S48 to support Millard Fillmore, the /
ers abolitionist, in conjunction with Gen. Il
ino lor, the Southern slave holder 1t was str
ger still when, in 1856, the same MILL
Fillmore consented to run for the Presid
l. cy with Andrew j. Donelson behind h
big the then recent editor of the Democratic
ley gan at Washington, the most violent ass
hel ant of his administration while Preside
Ow- and the most thorough and uncompromis
par, castigator and exposer of his lifetime alb
few tionsm.
ave But, whatever Mr., Fillmore's object |
,e a have been in writing this letter, be