The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-17
From the Tallahassee Floridisn, August 3.
HON. WILLIAM Ii. BROCKENBROUGH

We lay before the public the following letter from
| this gentleman with very great pleasure. Our OPP
ponents will by IL that their sympathy for him
at his rejection, as they term it, by the convention
was uncalled for He feels no disappointment,
complains of no personal wrong, but rather reoices
that he has been relieved from duty Instead Of
the grumbing, from which our opponents doubtless
expected no little amusement, and much distraction
IN the democratic ranks by Mr.. B., il will be seen
that he yields ready and cheerful scquiescence TO
the selection made by the convention, and exhorts
all good democrats 10 forget SIT and labor at this
important crisis for the good Of the principles
advocate. Let all ponder this subject and show To
he world that principles, not men, Is rule Of ac-
uon.
1t will be seen, too, that he was sincere when he
expressed the hope and earnestly desired that the
claims and fitness of every member of the demo
cratic party should be weighed, canvassed, and
passed upon before his own name was brought be-
fore that body. Ii is true that we should have en-
tered upon the canvass with zeal which would have
known abatement until the battle had been fought
and the victory won-as sureit would have been
won-under the lead Of the talented Brockenbrough
our first choice; but as the party saw proper, and
thought II best 10 select gentleman fresh from the
people to be sandard-bearer in the coming cam
pagn, we, as every democrat who loves asd cher
shes the principles Of Jefferson and Jackson should
| do, not only cheerfully acquesce, but will labor
with all the power and ability we possess to secure
| the success of the nominee OF the convention. We
will add that this magnanmity on the part Of Mr..
b., though II Is more than we expected from our
| intimate knowledge OF the man, will raise him high
and still higher, in the affections Of the party His
talents generous devotion TO principle and the COM
pete refuta,ion Of the wholesale ISLANDERS attempted
| TO be heaped upon him, will mark him as a 1T re-
cpent Of the highest honors in the power Of the de-
| mocracy Of the State to bestow. He will yet wear
them. We knoto that the genuine democracy Of
Florida will rejoice and feel complimented to see
him occupy some high station in the judicial civil,
or diplomatic departments Of the government He
would adorn the most elevated position.
WAsHINeToN, July 25th, 1886.
| To the editor Of the Fiorididn.
| DEAR SIR; ! have just seen in your paper the
nomination Of that whole-souled democrat, William
A. KAN, Of Franklin, az our candidate for the
House in 10Th Congress. ! congratulate you and
the democracy the happy result, and the unanm-
| ity with which it was effected. He is man upon
whom we all can fearessly and safely rally. Ii is
the more gratifying to me as it does full Justice to
| the west, and is handsome return for the fine
vote of Franklin at the last election.
| have not been, as yet, further advised of the
detail of the proceedings of the convention than by
the short summary of your paper. l take il Tor
granted all was harmony in the end by the unan-
nous vote for Kain. If, by possibility, any feelings
among the friends of Mr.. Yonge and Judge Bron-
| son, or even those persevering friends who sus-
| tanned me, which has not been already handsomely
healed in the final vote, | recommend as an infalli-
BILE cure whenever the feeling comes on to think Of
the wings trIumphing at our defeat and seek relief
by canvassing for Kahn They will all have too
much good sense to leopard the great cause to ad-
vance which is the object Of all our proceedings,
from their disappointment respectively with regard
to any man; and will not, from, any trivial dis.
appointment at small defeat, act so as to insure
great and fatal overthrow to the party itself. Had
the people of the Union 80 acted affer the last Rat
| more convention, we should not have been blessed
| with the honest and wholesome, and vigorous ad-
| minisraton of Mr. Polk. We have a yieilant
enemy at the bottom of all trouble, and the way to
disappoint that enemy is to vote for Kahn. Let us
| be unanimous. The wings well know our strength
when united. All efforts to divide US, when traced
up, will be found to proceed from them though
sometimes made by wolves in sleeps clothing.
We still trembling with intense anxiety about
| our fate the tariff question in the Senate-our
| hopes predomlnant--we fear only accidents
| Mr.. Haywood, Of North Carolina, resigned to-day;
but we yet deem ourselves safe, without another
| casually.
Yours, truly, &c,
VIM. III. BROCKENBROUGH.
p. s. Our land BILL which has been saved in the
House by such close voting is not worth much as
it stands, and will pass the Senate but saves
for time, and enables the Senate to offer us an
| other amendment, which we may pass our House,
or the matter will drop for the present between the
two houses, only to revive again with renewed
| yigor; for this great measure OF practical sound
sense, sound policy and strict justice cannot fail
when understood properly; and it is making it's way
every year.
| Yours, w. H. B.
IA correspondent in Florida assures US that Mr.
Kain, the republican nominee, twill beat Mr.. Ca
bell, the wing candidate, about 600 majority. He
| in a man of the people and oentleman of ste,l;no