atriotic statesman:

"The Administration has placed itself high in the great work of
_pacifying the country_, and they received the meed of
approbation from political friends and political foes. _I
partake of the same sentiment._ I do them justice. But I am a
Democrat, and, God willing, I mean to die one. This is a Whig
administration, but there is no reason I should not do them
justice; and I do it with pleasure, in this great matter of
_the salvation of this country_--if I may say so. I have done
so; shall continue to do so, whatever sneers their papers may
contain; for I do it not for their sake, but _for the sake of
their country_."

The _Democratic Review_--the highest Democratic authority in the United
States--for December, 1855, commenting upon the Compromise Measures of
1850, thus spoke of Mr. Fillmore, in a moment of candor, long before Mr.
Fillmore was nominated by the American party for the Presidency:

"Momentous events were transpiring. The agitation of the
question of slavery was paramount in the public mind. In this
crisis, it was well that so reliable a man as Mr. Fillmore was
found in the Presidential chair. The safety and perpetuity of
the Union were threatened. Already had fanaticism raised its
hydra-head. Schemes and 'isms' leaped from a thousand
ambuscades. The enemies of the Union started forth on every
side--Abolitionism here; secessionism there; acquisition and
filibusterism elsewhere. These were the formidable elements of
misrule with which the Executive had to cope. How well he met,
and how entirely he for the time overcame these enemies of the
peace of the republic, we leave the historian to relate; but
our retrospect would be incomplete and disingenuous, did we not
accord the meed of praise justly due to high moral excellence
and intellectual and administrative honesty and talent, as
developed in the administration of Mr. Fillmore."

Since the foregoing was prepared for the press, Mr. Fillmore's letter of
acceptance has come to hand, greatly to the annoyance of the Democratic
and anti-American fuglemen and politicians. We congratulate the country
upon the patriotic, national, and _truly American_ spirit which pervades
this chaste and well-written document. It is just what we expected from
_one of the very first men in the Nation_. His reference to his past