Ex-president Fillmore On The War

BukïaLO, April 14. At the meeting h:ro U-uight to busuún the government, President lfilltnoro Bpoko us t'ollows : Fellow-Ciiizo i - ïjt 'm mry ypaiv sincc I liave ta'c 'i any vut ii :i poltk'nl meeting, and I .uvur i itc-udoJ i- ;r I,.m i another. I hav ..; sincu oe:iseJ fco ba a partisan or i lliicin, ui tlio órdiu'ury aceeptauce of t'i s; teruu, luit ! iiavuuot cqpsod to lovc inv o mntry, to v.i uii-uto its institutions, to tako u just pril; in its p: ospijrity ai.d glory, an I to l temblé with iiuxiuty wlieu Í see all t hut u ] air. oi ih uil holl doar in iiumiiient peril. It is for this reasori that I Iwve, at your re([ucst, consentcd to i roeide at tb is meeting oouipoBod, as n is, o.' ihe ui tizona ot Buftjlo, it'iout diaiinction ot' party, wlio have uüscmblüd l.ero to expresa tkeir sentinun's i u ilio alurmiug átate of the country. To be tlioaht wortliy of su: h an liOLOr at such t time from thosa with whom my l.fo bas büun speilt calis for my gratcful ackiiowlLJgiiicM'.s, and tlieroforo I return you my cordial tbanks tbr tlii mark uf yoar eoutiuuod coulidenco and estcem. But, my fellófr-eirizens, tliis is do ti-no for any man toslirink from tlio respoosibility wbich evcuta have cast upon liiw. We liiivo reacbed a crisis in the atlairs of tUIa country whe:i uo man, however luiüiblu liis rank or liniited his uiiiuenco, has a riglit to staud neutral. Civil war has lieeu iaaugurated and we must fight it out. The government calis for aid, and we must give it. Üur institutioiis arj in danger, and we must delend them. It is no time liow ïo imjuire by whoso fault or folly tliis stato of tliings boa been produced. The ship of State is in the breakers, aud the inut tericg thur.ders aud darkened sky indicate the coming storm, aud, if the ship sink, we must go down with her. We have a eomuion lot, and must meet a common fa te. Let every man, therefore, staud to his post, and, likc tlie ltoman seutiuel at the gatcs of I'ompoii, Let poaterity, when the s oria is over, iind our skeletou and armor ou the spot wbere duty required us to stand. You know, my 'riends, that my love of country embraces the whola Union. Iu all that relates to the administratiou of t'ie governmoüt, I kuow uo North, no South. Eacli and cvery portiou is alike eutitled to its protectiou, aud I have that eonfideuce in this adininistration to believe that it will rueeive it. I therefore think our southern brethren have made a great mistako in arraying themselves against the government for fear it will be improperly adminiatered,and I hopcd that if peacc could be maiotained for a short time, until they could be conviuced of their error, that they would voluntarily unite with us again, or, if that were impossible, that time might be gained for a natioual conveutiou,which miglit so amend the eonstitution as to cnable us to separate without war; but if they commeueo an aggressive warfare we have no alternativo but to rally around the constituted nuthorities acd defeud the government. Eut no language ean express my admiratioQ of the vt'hole-soulod patriotism displayed by the Union men of the border Citatcs. They stand likc a rock in the midat of tbc ocean, against which the surges of secession beat m yain. Ntt moved b}' terror or seduccd by an unholy ambition, they have formed a rampa rt for the protection of the constitution, Thuir patriotisin is as puro as the uusullied suow, and their loyalty as incorruptible as virtue itsalf If thuy ask furthor guáranteos for any constitutional right whieh they may think endangcred in cousequcpce of their relativa weakujss by secession, I would cheerfully graut it. I feel that they deserve it, aud no mere abstraction should induee me to withhold it ; but I speak only for niysclf. The meeting will speak its own sentiments, aud I wait its further nlcasure. fflicliipn Jtps.