Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-07-07

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RANT foliage Of vine which drapes the
window, are so full of quiet happiness,
that neither of them would willingly exs
change them for those they were former
Fly in the habit of spending amid the bril-
Liant CIRCLES Of fashionable life.
MI, Floyd, whose health and mind are
still as vigorous as when he commenced
Life without dollar, although his sister
Persis thinks her annuity amply sufficient
for the comfortable maintenance of them
both, has nowa fair pretence for engaging
in business, He is, he says, altogether
happier than when he had invested his
money in bank stock, or had nothing to
do, for like Charles Lamb, he found no
work worse than over work,
4 Acceptance of the Dem ocratic NOIni-
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We have received for publication the
4 following correspondence, from the COM
mittee delegated by the National Demo
cratic Convention to communicate its no.
limitations for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency to the distinguished gentle
men upon whom they were conferred /;
and we have great pleasure in now lay
ing before the democracy of the country
the patriotic and eloquent letters in which
its chosen leaders signify their acceptance
OF the elevated positions to which they
have been called. .l
Refraining at this time from any ex-
tended comments upon these letters, we
would yet call attention to the explicit
and emphatic terms in which they APP
prove and adopt the declaration of demo-
cratic principles and policy as set forth by
the conventions
CoNCoRD, June II, 1859.
SIR:-A National Convention of the
Democratic Republican party, which met
in Baltimore the first Tuesday in June,
unanimously nominated you as candi-
date 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 aeceptit. Per-
.suaded, as we are, that this office should
not be pursued by an unchastened am
bition, it can never be refused by duti-
full patriotism,
The circumstances under which you
will be presented for the canvass Of your
countrymen are propitious to the interests
which the constitution entrusts to our
federal Union, and must be suspicious to
your own fame.
You como before the people without
the impulse of personal wishes, and free
from all selfish expectations, You are
identified with none of the distractions
which have recently disturbed our coun-
try. whilst you are known to be faithful
to the constitutional all its guarantees
and compromises. You will be free to
exert your tried abilities, within the path
of duty, in protecting that repose we
happily enjoy, and in giving efficacy and
control to those cardinal principles that
have already illustrated the party which
has selected you as its leader-principle
that regard the security and prosperity of
the whole country, and the paramount
powers of its laws, as indissolubly asso-
ciated with the perpetuity of our civil and
religious liberties.
The convention did not pertermit the du-
ty ofreiterating 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
Union, 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 be,
with all respect, your fellow citizens.
j. S. BARBOUR,
j. THOMPSON,
ALPHEUS FELCII,. |
PIERRE SOULE.
To Hon. FRANKLIN PIERCE, of New Hamp-
shire.