The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-01-10
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N. WILLARD FILLMoRE.

| Ssou.oA uiatl, was NOT unlike Chief
Justice O'Neall, Of South Carolina.
in his appearAace. There was a
striking ressMb bfauce, too. between
him a1H Col TLoIuss q rkostipeon.
of Abbeville, Sont6 Carolina: I'm
ttsir Hess,ahd features gDMrilSg
our POLITICAL txditement. 7 had tie
Honor of receiving several pri.
yate Observation-Disclosures from
] President Fillmore, In 1852 i
was presented to him by Govern.
or Orr, at one of llis reception par.
ties. He enquired if ], was the
editor OF the Southern lDatyiot,
and expressed himself very much
gratihed to see me. The dense
stream of human beings behind,
carried me on, and Iahad no furtf.
er conversation with him that
evening. The next day / receis ed
an invitation to dine with him.
There was a large party Of gentle.
men present, and amongst them
Mr.. Thackery,, of England. :" I
went under the auspices of Col.
Folk, brother of exp esident
Polk, who was then a member of
Congress from Tennessee. l call.
ed agaihttbe ne1t1dayCa and had a
long chat with President Fillmore.
He told me that Immediately after
the death of General Taylor, he as i,
sembled the cabinet, and request
ed them to- coLhnue in ,,heir re
speectiye offices for the present
lhis they promptly refused to do
uniess they were assured that they
would be permanently retained in
the cabinet. Mr.. Fillmore refused
to give any such assurance, and
accepted their designations. He
said he was very much embarrass.
ed by tits movement, but requestA
ed the chief clerks in the several
departments to take charge OF the
offices till he could organize his
cabinet. ..
In speaking Of, the negro riot in
Boston, and the resistance there to
the capture of runaway slaves, he
said he began to think he should
have to shed little blood in that
cradle of liberty, as Boston had
been termed, and that he was pre-.
pared to do so. In talking over
the political excitement in South
Carolina, and the threats we had
made ofseoeding, lie said his pur-
pose was, if' wo had attempted such
a movement in 1850, TO stop the
mails, and thereby cut us off from
all communication with the outer
world, and remove the Custom
House from Charleston to some
vessel in the harbor where the dn.
ties confd be collected. In this
way, said he, II intended to force
you back into the Union, or let
You stay out till you got tired of
it," Thought his plans were well
conceived, and would have been
successful without shedding n drop
of blood. I was greatly impressed
with his good sense, wisdom and
patriotism. Thought he possessed
a most practicalmind. He certain.
ly made a most admirable Presi-
dent, and administered the gov
ernment with great Justice and i'm
partially. He told me in the
same conversation, that he had a
long conversation the day before,
with General Pierce, who was to
be inaugurated the fourth of
March as his successor in the
Presidential chair. He said the
President elect had communica.
ted very freely to him his views
and policy, and that he was much
pleased with themSt 6- 8 Vh
After President Fillmore went out
of office, he made a 3tonr through
the Southern States, and I had the
pleasure of meeting him in Colum-
bia. In speaking pfitlle parties in
South Carolina, ! told him, in the
presence of a large number of seces-
siqnists and co-pporationists, that
the Union party, though very
small in the State, had great ca.
pacityy for they had swallowed up
both the other parties, which were
very large. He Eenjoyed the idea
very mpch. In the election be-
tween Buchanan and Fremont,
President Fillmore declared that
the election of a Sectional candi!
date, like Fremont, as President of
the United States, would be cause
for the Southern States withdraw
ing from the Union. But on the
electionof Lincoln, be abandoned
this doctrine and sustained the
war; OFF [gr.y yGI
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