Star Of The Kanawha Valley

Miscellaneous.

Let Southern Men Read

FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE

We have taken the trouble to hunt

up from well authenticated public

records the facts which are found

below. We challenge Know Nothing

newspapers to disavow and successfully refute them. Here they

stand—let Southern men read:

IT IS A FACT. That Millard Fillmore

is an Abolitionist of the same

shade as Giddings, Truman Smith,

Seward, Slade, &c.

IT IS A FACT. That Millard Fillmore,

the Know Nothing Candidate

for President commenced his political

career as an anti-Mason, and in

opposition to all secret societies.

IT IS A FACT. That he favored

the reception, reading and consideration

by Congress of abolition petitions

on the subject of slavery and

the slave trade.

IT IS A FACT, That he declared

himself opposed to the annexation of

Texas into the Union, so long as

Slavery exists therein.

IT IS A FACT, That he favored

the exercise by Congress of all its constitutional

power to abolish the internal

slave trade between the States.

IT IS A FACT, That he favored

immediate legislation for the abolition

of slavery in the District of Columbia.

IT IS A FACT, That he entertained

doubts as to the constitutionality of

the Fugitive Slave Law, and did not

sign it until advised to do so by his

Attorney General.

IT IS A FACT, That he is opposed

to the exercise of the Veto-Power,

and that he is nowhere pledged to

veto a bill for the repeal of the Fugitive

Slave Law, or for the abolition of

the slave trade between the States, or

of slavery in the District of Columbia.

IT IS A FACT. that he was nominated

by a Convention, a majority of

whose members were notorious Abolitionists,

and that he has accepted

and endorsed a platform which denounces

the repeal of the odious Missouri

restriction, as reckless and unwise.

IT IS A FACT. That he nowhere

approved the Kansas act, and that he

is nowhere pledged against its repeal.

IT IS A FACT. That he declared

himself in favor of abolishing slavery

in the District of Columbia and in

the Territories.

IT IS A FACT. That while a

member of Congress he voted with

the abolitionists, against the Atherton

resolutions, which declared "That

Congress has no right to do that indirectly

which it cannot do directly;

and that the agitation of slavery in

the District of Columbia, or the Territories,

as a means, and with the

view of disturbing or overthrowing

that institution in the several States,

is against the true spirit and meaning

of the Constitution, and infringement

of the rights of the States affected,

and a breach of the public faith upon

which they entered into the Confederacy.

IT IS A FACT. That he voted with

John Q. Adams, in all his efforts to

abolish the 21st rule which forbade the

reference of abolition petitions.

IT IS A FACT, That he voted in

favor of a proposition of John Q.

Adams, to establish diplomatic relations

with the negro government of

Hayti.

IT IS A FACT, That he voted

against a proposition to forbid the

enlisting of negroes in the Navy, and

prohibiting them from giving testimony

upon court-martials against

white men.

IT IS A FACT. That when President

he selected the subordinate officers

of the Government, principally

from the Free soil ranks.

It is A Fact, That he would never

have signed the Fugitive Slave Law,

had not Henry Clay, Daniel Webster,

and other great conservative leaders

of his party forced him to do it by

their urgent importunities.

It is A Fact, That while President

of the United States, he signed the

Washington Territorial Bill, one

clause of which allows foreigners to

vote in that Territory, after an actual

residence of two years with certain

other limitations and restrictions,

and in opposition to which Millard

Fillmore was nominated and is now

running the Presidential race.

It Is A Fact. That Millard Fillmore

has been traveling in Europe for the

last eighteen months during all of

which time he has been the feasted

and toasted guest of a people, who if

they were to seek his country as a

home, would have their liberties under

the disabilities of the law, disgrace

and odium of political inequality

which he seeks to establish in our

fundamental organization.

It Is Also A Fact, That we have

the pleasure of presenting another

and better, and sounder and safer record

to the Southern mind.

It Is A Fact. That JAMES BUCHANAN

did not endorse the Missouri

restriction as one of a Committee at

public meeting in Lancaster,

and that he never saw said resolutions

until they were in print.

IT Is A Fact, That he voted for Mr.

Calhoun's resolutions declaring that

any intermeddling with the domestic

institutions of the States, under any

pretext whatever, moral, or political

or religious, was subversive of the

principles of the Constitution and

tended to destroy the Union.

It is A Fact, That he believed the

powers delegated to Congress should

be exercised not only not to destroy

and weaken the domestic institutions

of the States, but it was a duty so to

use the powers as to strengthen and

uphold those domestic institutions.

It is A Fact, That he believed negro

slavery is recognized in the Constitution,

and that all attacks upon it

are manifest violations of the constitutional

compact, and, also violative

of the most solemn obligation, moral

and religious.

IT is A Fact, That he believed the

abolition of slavery in the District of

Columbia would be a violation of the

faith implied in the cession of Maryland

and Virginia, give just cause of

alarm to the slaveholding States, and

tend to endanger the Union.

It is A Fact. That he was in favor

of the fugitive slave law.

IT Is A Fact, That he approved of

the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska

bill and the repeal of the Missouri

restriction, and would maintain them

against any storm which might be

raised to subvert them.

It is A Fact, That he recognized

no higher law than the Constitution

of the United States, and believed in

the equality of States.

It is A Fact, That Mr. Buchanan

while in Congress, voted against a

transmission of insurrectionary documents

in the mails.

It is A Fact, That he voted for the

admission of Arkansas in the Union,

which is a slave State.

It is A Fact, That he sustained the

annexation of Texas which also added

another slave State to the Union.

and, in fact upon all subjects connected

with the subject of slavery consistently

maintained a national conservative

position.

IT Is A Fact, That no Northern

man who has been as long in public

service, and who has filled almost every

important position that in any way

relates to or influences our national

affairs can show half as clear a record

to commend him to southern

supporters as James Buchanan, of

Pennsylvania.