Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-28
PUBLIC LEDGER.
Mrr1ARn PILLMoRE AGAIN

Hon. Garrett Davis made speech in
Louisville on Wednesday night and
closed as follows:
There is no hope for the Democratic
party, or the country, until Grant and
the Radicals be overthrowni therefore
the paramount qualification OF his com
petitor should be strength enough to beat
him: and If, in addition to that, he has
every quality of a great, virtuons, and
patriot statesman, does not the highest
and purest patriotism require every true
man TO support his nomination. There
is such a man. He stands gloriously re-
yealed to the people of this nation in a
long public life, and in one of the ablest,
broadcast, most patriotic, and purest ad-
ministrations Of the Government that
has ever blessed our country, in the per
son of Willard Fillmore.
Let the Democratic party maintain
firmly and proudly its grand and time
honored organization and repeat dis
tinetly its immortal principles to the
country and the world; but let it take
Willard Fillmore upon the trust and con
6dence of his past life, and present him
to the whole people Of the United States
for the Presidency, without note or com
ment as TO him. Let it call Camillus
from his retirement TO save Romel
That name again. That old sound we
have loved so much in the past breaking
in upon the stormy atmosphere of our
politics. Is it not glorious2 Does it not
soothe like the tones Of the flute upon
the still waters and make us feel as we
did in other days, when the Government,
no matter into what political hands it
fell. was administered honestly, fairly
and JUSTIFY Then, the States moved on
in harmony with themselves and with
the general government Then, the PEG
Die did not require the interposition OF
bayonets to induce them to love the
Government. Then, there we're no rob
berries under the forms Of law, nor car
pet-baggers, nor Grants, nor Bullocks,
nor Claytons. That wild beast, Butler,
then did not dare to show his true col
ors, and stand forth in his real charse-
ter. We fear so great blessing as the
election Of Willard Fillmore to the Pres
idency is not in store for US. II would
be too great. 1t would roll back the
current of deprayed progress
and bury the swindlers and poiiti-
cal mountebanks forever. 1t would
give peace to the country. 1t would
give confidence 70 everything and
everybody. A new era, bright as the
morning, would break over the country,
bringing joy and gladness with It. A
general hand-shaking would commence
and spread and sweep like a very cyclone
of felicitation. The Democrats will
never nominate Fillmore. The National
Convention will do no such sensible
thing. It will put forward man good
in every respect, but with all the chances
of defeat against him. AS Presi-
dental candidate Fillmore would be
iuyulnerable. All the old prejudice
against him is buried in the gulf Of war,
and he would stand before the country
with clean garments and a spotless
record. Heis thoroughly with the Dem
ocrats in all their measures. lie looks
with horror, no doubt, upon the conduct
Of the person who is his successor, and
more yividly than ordinary men does he
perceive the strides which the Govern
ment has made 10 Capitalization. There
is not one issue upon which Fillmore
and the Democrats differed, that is not
out of the way. OF course, the old
Wings would rally to his standard. All
good men Of all parties would support
him, aud he could be elected. But no;
we fear there is no such good in reserve
for the country.