The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-17

expose him to the modification Of iueyitable d.
feat II this your motives must say you exceed
ingiy complimentary 70 him. But we nominate man
with the hope and belcf that cleo; him the
Presidency the United States Then sirs il he is nomi
mated. and you want to elect him. you elect him
without the friends of Webster 81 Scott (ries Of no.
no,) Never! Wen sunposc they nominate Gen scott
and do you desire that he should be nominated for thr
poor compliment of defeat That would be equally unjust
and unkind; and you who Gen. SCOTS friends
hope to elect him without the friends of Fillmore and
Webster (Cries of we must unite ~ If they nominate
Webster. they nominate him with the honest desire to
secure his election. Can you elect him without the
friends Of Fillmore and Scott, no, MOI Never Then,
gentlemen you yourselves, being the Judges have
settled this great question You yourselves being tho
judges. have by your eolemn voice tonight decided
that you can elect no body unless you are harme-
NOUS and united in your Efforts. Them srs, go with
your preferences Use all honorable TO advance
the claim OF your favorite Nobody complains Of that
but in doing that strike no fatal blow at tho who
opposed TO you Use every honest effort
nomination Of your fsvore and doing that conciate
those who differ with YOU and whenever it round
that your fayorie IL nominated tlSn say to your wh
brethrcn-" Now it is all overhere il only chance
CoMe on as band of brothers and raise long last
eternal shout for tho nomination Of the wing party"
said to you that am in favor Of the nomination of the
wing party. have reservation to make, and yet
do not know that it ought to be made because it sup
poses or presupposes the possibility of an occurrence
which hope IL impossible. i would support man for
tho Presidency. let his nomination be what 1t may,
who not a sound national conservative. devoted
to the constitution Of my country. Give me such a
man rs that and though he may be my personal enemy
though might refuse to extend to him the cord!aes
and vote for him, because with such "A wing that
though he might hate me- my heart would feel confident
that the country would DO happier more prosperous and
more secure In her rights than II would be under the
msrule Of democrat. l have word two to
say about myself and beg pardon for speaking Of
so unworthy Of public regard and consideration.
throw myself your kindness charity and orbearance
Why sir, could not come to New York to see my
friends without subjecting myself tn the mputaon of
being out on secret, dark mysterious crusade.
for the purpose Of building up the fortunes of par
tioular man to some particular place power l
out my motives being suspected And what is the
tvcs! Why sometimes they say "Oh, Jones is Fill
more man; he Is sure to be Fillmore mani; and some
times they say +" he is Webster man" and some
times Scott man. Now l will tell you what sort
OF a man am | am wing man, and no mans man.
am for the nominee Of the whig party with the simple
reservation have made, and know that the wing
party never will be lost to honor duty and
sense, as TO nominate any other sort OF man Eut
am charged with another motive just foreign from
the fact They say he is playing game, And for what,
TO get himself put upon somebody ticket for the Vice
sonaily most Of you and therefore you may receive
what have to say with doubt and misgiving BE it so
cannot help it. But so far from my desiring any such
position as that on any mans ticket spoken of have
never sought 1t. l never will seek it. l have never
coveted It. and do not now covet it. And more than
that, will so mans ticket unless am solemnly
confident that it is my duty to my party and country
And whenever you hear 1t said that sought to
be Vice President if you have any confidence in what
l say. you will brand it q mistake or falsehood
Why! Is 1t not high enough to meet my ambition, Yes
too high; but, high or low, have position quito
Whether
higher or lower, would rather, for myself be Senator
in the Congress of the United States than Vice President
OF the United States. And no man livng-and what
am saying now to be published to the world-no
living heard express even desire to 90 on the
ticket with Scott, Fillmore Webster anybody else
And no man liypg-aud hope my friends win write Il
down dstncty-has ever heard me saw So or has ever
write solitary word to any living being to pro-
cure any such place desire to say thus much gentle
men bccause every act Of my le-cvcry public act-has
been perverted and ascbed to sord seshncss and the
ambitious motive Of attempting to advance my pre-
snn oSer 70 o una. II ever accept o. that or
under my conviction Of the duty which owe to my
myself to my friends and to my country My has
been short but say this much-.hat sought
any Office in my life unless 1t at the suggestion and
ut the wish OF the party with which act for which
live and for which am ready to die. In every conflict
have been CALLED by the wishes of the whg party wits
which act Why, sirs, have enough to ali the
bton Of one so humble myself And looking back on
foundry astonhed at the wonderful the boundless kind
ness and generosity Of the people with whom live in
having made me what am Certainly it was no merit
of mine either personal otherwise Then il was their
kindness and their generous Partially which have given
enough to satisfy the longing Of what ambition
| have. that / have enjoyed at all times. since
had political existence-at every hour Of my
history-the confidence Of those with whom live and
that is enough for Having addressed you the time
prescribed to myself to close this address
with this earrcs-ths sincere this one heart
felt request-hat in our hours Of excitement and per-
sonal interest, and devotion to fricnds-ardent
strong deep boundless as it may be-et forget
let US not forget pray tonight that members
Of the great famiy-hat have identity of in
teres-tha our feelings position and destincs
are inevitably the same. Then, sirs when this great
principle is essential to peace happiness pros
perty which in danger let remember that we are
all alike interested in the maintenance Of that principle
In the advancement of that principle lies the prosperity
of this country 1t has overshadowed us as glorious
bright sun dispensing benefits and blessings through the
to be thus united band Of brothers In yndicating
the great principles OF party Let not forget pray
and beeech youet not forget that we have but one
fcutry-put one couutry-and that that country is to
be in its integrity, its glory and its honor or
it is to be lost to us and to children and to our chill
drens children Their srs while you live in one section
of this Union Of ours and reside in anoher-while the
SHOWS Of winter may linger longer on your mountains
tina, on mine and while the genial Of spring the
bright and glorious carol Of birds and the fragrance of
the beautiful flowers greet me earlier-oh. forget
not we have but one country. (Applause) Forget
not srs, you value this inheritance of public liberty
that has been bcqueahed to you by your ilustrious
Forget not that when the hour Of rcnding shall
come, who shall be able to stop it, Tell me not of
Southern republic, or of Northern republic wilder
fancy never entered the dstempered brain u lunac
When the work Of separation begins who stop it
hen the mad spirit OF faction shall reign who shall say
to 1t, thus far shalt thou go and farther,n When
The hour comes when the great chain shall be broken,
when the hour comes that the gament which binds Vi
oFethere ligament of the heart and Of the affections
and soul and devotion TO borty-when it is broken it
goes into ten thousand fragments. What picture is
that What sad and melancholy picture Scarce
yenty years have rolled away since fathers achieved
that independence which brought up from few fee
BILE colonies to thirtyone mighty StateSfrom three mil
lion to twenty-five million Of inhabitants; which has
brought this mighty this glorious this empire this i'm
peral city from contemplate village to the mightest
city almost the globe. Why. sirs looking on this
bright glorious land Of ours and seeing what it has
achieved for how is it possible in the name Of our
sountry for any heart 10 cherish for single moment
feeling which even approxmetes TO Of devotion
to this glorious Tn that purchased by the blood
and toll Of our ancestors Why sir when the separa-
ton where am to 60 and where are YOU to go
M In In oltn a.
of NewSork and come with passports TO meet foreigners
The picture Is enough to shake every American heart
And sirs more than that. On the consccraed sell hap
tz in the blood and hopes and Of the revolu
ton who shall come TO partition Who shall AMI
tell me that longer have any part in those glorious
inheri'ances OF Concord, Monmouth Lexington aud a
thousand hallowed spots in this sacred land OF
Who shall come and proclaim to and mine, that
the soil which is saturated with the blood Of the
martyrs Of liberty is passed away and that we can no
longer worhp on that holy ground! (ipplause) Then
pray you as you value that inheritance cherish
for single hour these sectional feelings which only
serve to widen and separate and in the end bring
no good to us or to those that after AZ poo
pie united free, must be prosperous and happy-d
vided ruin anarchy b!oodsheJ civil with ali is hor
rors must confront From such result may Heaven
protect and defend us Aye. srs, will invoke the