The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1852-02-24

whom i u41 INC eiettesteN ~ 4NtAN'
county. siats-
aAccording 70 ouE best recollection Of
what occurred on that oceasion. you pso-
pounds5 two questions te Col. DAVIS ~ a
Democrat, which were ~ iollows: Are
You wiling to 20 INTO he Ralumore Con
renfion with the Democratic party, should
they. ~ usual. hold such convention and
should lhat contention re-eHact the Balti-
more Democratic platform ofisi4 and lsie,
no more and no less. and nominate for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency Lewis
Cas-, Levi Woodbury., II. S. Foote, Dick
inson, Dallas, Buchanan, o any other repu-
table Democratic statesman, he or they sub
scribing to that platform, will you vote for
the nominees Of said convention Col.
Davis was setting to your left, in front Of the
platform he turned bis head aud asked il
you would have his answer then, TO which
you replied in the affirmative. Col. Davis
rose and said In answer TO the first ques-
ton OF the gentleman. | answer NO--a mem
Der Of Congress has no business President
making in a convention. Ia answer to the
second question Of the gentleman, J answer
N0--l1l vote for no man whom my heart
and conscience don't approve and took his
seat amidst the rapturous applause of his
party friends"
Though this does not quite agree wal
my recollection Of what occurred, and the
style does not strike me as my own, or tina
Of my opponent on that occasion, the reptile.
are substantially such as might have beer
made. After an interval Of eight months
| rely more upon a knowledge of what m!
opinions were, than upon the remembrance
of the language used. | was then, and an
/, now, opposed to the selection of members G
Congress as delegates to the convention I
nominate candidates for the Presidency an
and Vice Presidency. v y y
5 ] was not willing then, and am NJ
now, to bind myself to vote for whom
soever the Baltimore Convention mIgl
nominate, without respect to his pa,
acts or present views. approve {
I the great principles laid down in tn
. resolutions of SO, 40, "A and 40; bu
{ are there not men who would subscrib
without reading them, if that act wa
, made the condition on which the
should be nominated for the Presider
r cy or Vice Presidency?
In 1914, ! had the honor { o be place
on the electoral ticket of this State
if Mr.. Van Buren, had been the nomi
nee OF the Baltimore convention G
that year, | should have declined {
serve. Subsequent events have no
made me, as a Southern man, less te
n%acious of our rights, less watchfu
OF our interests, or less cautious in tn
sesaction of those whom we ought
trust. Mutual confidence and com
mon objects cause the Democracy t
meet in the National Convention, an,
justify the expectation of joint actor
in the canvass. 1t was not only un
true hut absurd to represent me a
, having announced that | would no
I, support the nominees of the Baltimor
, Convention, when by that body only
; hope those would be nominated VIII
: would be acceptable to me.
have indeavored to show that III
0 statement of the gentlemen of Noxube
J, did not support the accusation, and up
$ on that point, will here add that
have received a letter from Macol
a Noxubee county, dated Jan. 9th, 1873
in which twelve gentlemen. two A.,
them signers ofthe statement to whic
g Gov. Foote invites special attention
come forward 10 contradict the repor
that had said in a speech at III,
place that | would not support I'll
i, nominees of the Baltimore Conventiol
= That was the Islander, which becau.
OF the miscellaneous purpose mauife,
:, ted by it., noticed in my speech b
fore the convention.