The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-26


SlR A national convention of the Democrat
ic Republican party, which met in Baltimore
the first Tuesday in June, unanimously nomi-
mated you a. q candidate for the high trust Of
President of the United States.
We have been delegated to acquaint you with
the nomination, and earnestly to request that
you will accept it. Persuaded, as we are that
this Office shsuld not be pursued by an I'M
chastened ambition, it can never be refused by
dutiful patriotism.
The circumstances under which you VIII be
presented for the canvass OF your countrymen
are propitious to the interests when Inc Con
stitution entrusts to our federal Union, and
must be suspicious to your own fame.
You come before the people without the inn
pulse of personal wishes, and free from all self
ish expectations. Yon are identified with none
of the distractions which have recently dis
turbed our country, whilst you are known to be
faithful to the Constitution-to all its guaran.
tees and compromises. You will be free to
duty, in protecting that repose we happily en-
Joy, and in giving efficacy and control TO those
ardinal principles that have already illustrated
the party which has selected you AZ its leader
principles that regard the security and prosper
ity of the whole country, and the paramount
power of it's laws "a ndissolubly associated
with the perpetuity of our civil and religious
liberties
The convention did not pretermit the duty Of
reiterating those principles, and you will find
them prominently set forth in the resolutions it
adopted. To these We respectfully invite your
attention.
1t is firmly believed that to your talents and
patriotism the security of our holy Unon with
its expanded and expanding interests, may be
wisely trusted, and that amid all the perils which
may assail the Constitution you will have the
heart to love and the arm TO defend it.
With congratulations to you and the country
upon this demonstration of its exalted regard,
and the patriot hopes that cluster over it, we
have the honor to BIO, with all respect, your
fellow. cit,zens, j. s. BARBOUR,
J. THOMPSON,
ALPHEUS FELCH,
PIERRE SOULE.
To Hon. FRANKLIN PIERCE, New Hampshire.
CoNcoRD, On. H) June II, 1852. 4
GENTLEMEN: have the honor to acknowledge
your personal kindness in presenting to me this
day your letter officially informing me Of my
nomination, by the Democratic National con-
venton, as candidate for the Presidency Of the
Oultcu CbuGCS.
The surprise with which received the intelli-
gence Of the nomination was not unminged
with painful solcitude, and yet it is proper for
me to say that the manner in which it was con.
ferred was peculiarly gratifying. The deega.
ton from New Hampshire, with all the glow OF
State pride and all the warmth of personal re-
gard, would not have submitted my name to the
convention, nor would they have cast vote for
me, under circumstances other than those which
occurred.
shall always cherish with pride and gratitude
the recollection of the fact that the voice which
| first pronounced for me and pronounced
alone-came from the mother of States-a pride
and gratitude rising far above any consequences
that can betide me personally
| May not regard it as a fact pointing to the
overthrow of sectional jealousies, and looking
to the perennial life and vigor of a Union
cemented by the blood of those who have passed
to their reward-a Union wonderful in its form.
alton, boundless in its hopes, amazing in its
destiny accept the nomination, relying upon
an abiding devotion to the interests, the honor,
and the glory of our whole country, but, beyond
| and above all, upon Power superior to all tu,
man might--a Power which, from the first gun
of the revolution, in every crisis through which
we have passed, in every hour of our acknowl
| 6UgeU peril, WutI LIE VAIN ClUuu6 IiuVo oHut
down around us, has interposed, as if to battle
human wisdom, outmarch human forecast, and
| bring out of darkness the rainbow of promise.
Weak myself, faith and hope repose there in
security. | accept the nomination upon the
platform adopted by the convention, not because
this is expected of me "a a candidate, but be-
cause the principles it embraces commend the
appreciation of my judgment; and with them |
believe can safely say there has been no word
nor act of my life in conflict.
| have only to tender my grateful acknowl-
| edgments to you, gentlemen to the convention
of which you were members, and to the people
! of our common country.
| | am, with high respect, your most obedient
servant, FRANK. PIERCE.
To Hon. S. BARBOUR, J. THOMPSON, ALPHEUs
| FELcH, PIERRE SoULE.
| WASHINGTON, June 81, 1862.
| SIR: The Democratic Republican party, which
met in convention at Baltimore the first Of June
nominated you az it's candidate in the ensuing
| election for the elevated office of Vice President
of the United States. The duty of commune
eating it to you has been assigned us, and we
| respectfully ask you to accept it.
The length of your public life, and the virtue
and ability which have characterized it, make
you known to the whole country, and give both
the Union and the States the acceptable assur-
ance that to you may be well confded all the
responsibilities of this high trust, whether they
be immediate or contingent. The foreign and
intestine trials through which our country has
passed while you were in its service have proved
that in every difficulty you were wise, temperate
and firm. Your abors have eminently tended
to guard the rights of the States and to protect
the integrity of the Union. The resolutions
adopted by the convention set forth the cardinal
principles of the republican school Of politics.