Washington Telegraph

ATTACKS UPON MR. FILLMORE.—Some of the southern opposition journals are republishing a letter of Mr. Fillmore, written in 1838, as if that could afford a better index of his conduct than this recent action and declarations. That letter even when published before the election, and without the powerful testimony of the acts of the President, failed to convince the people of the South that Mr. Fillmore was unworthy to be trusted with power. This exploded bomb-shell will hardly have any effect now, when the Administration of Mr. Fillmore is before the country, and has not only imparted confidence to the men of both sections and parties, but extorted strong expressions of admiration from the most distinguished leaders of the Democracy for his manly and national course. Could a southern President have done more than Mr. Fillmore has done? Did James K. Polk do more? Why do not these Democratic prints quote from Mr. Fillmore's annual message, his declaration that he considers the Compromise a "final settlement," and his exhortations to his countrymen to stand by and support it? Even had Mr. Fillmore ever occupied such objectionable ground as they represent, his acts have proved him a true patriot and a just and firm American President. It is not every Democratic politician who can explain the past by such testimony as that which Mr. Fillmore has given, in his faithful adherence to the Constitution, and in supporting it at the point of self sacrifice. Why do not the Democracy object to Mr. Buchanan on the score of his ancient Freesoilism upon the Missouri question, or his old Federalism? Why do they regard Geo. W. Thompson as now fit to represent Virginia in Congress after that celebrated oration? If they give to these gentlemen the benefit of the lights of time and experience, should they not also extend their charity to the President, who never in his life occupied such an anti-American position as Mr. Buchanan, nor held such anti-slavery radicalism as Mr. Thompson, and who has proved by his Administration that he is true at once to the South and to the whole country.

Richmond Republican.