The North Carolinian

Mr Fillmore.---Is he an Abolitionist?

Not one of Mr Fillmore's friends will deny that up to middle life, up to the time he was elected Vice President, he was in theory and practice, in act and profession, a consistent and thorough-going abolitionist.

Has he ever recanted? Certainly not. If he has changed his opinions, ought he to be ashamed or afraid to profess the change? But, say his friends, he was conservative and national whilst acting as President. So would Seward be--nay, far more national and conservative than he, because he has more abilities and more nerve. So were Cromwell and both the Bonapartes.

The wildest radicals out of power become the most ultra conservatives in power. But Fillmore was a timid radical, and a timid, hesitating, vacillating conservative. Whatever his opinions now, his election would be the triumph of his old abolition opinions, because those opinions have never been retracted or recanted. His opinions are not called for, because the venal managers of the party who sustain him are indifferent, careless, and reckless about all save public spoils and public plunder. If he recants his abolition doctrines, and maintains the doctrine of State equality, he inevitably loses every northern State. If he openly and professedly adheres to those doctrines, he will scarcely carry a county, much less a State, in the South. The tricky managers and wire-workers at the South would, it is true, still stick to him if they thought the North could elect him: but the deluded, deceived, and betrayed masses would quit him with loathing and contempt. His nomination is a fraud, perpetrated by secret, oath-bound conspirators--we mean the few wire-workers, not the mass of the know-nothing party.--Richmond Enquirer.