Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-17
THE WING CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF
MARYLAND


All of our readers in this city and the surround
ing country who have had the advantage of per-
sonal acquaintance with the Hon. RICHARD |.
BOWIE as we'll as those from all parts Of the Union
who have been associated with him in Congress,
will deem it fortunate that the Wing Party OF
Maryland have selected that gentleman as their
candidate for Governor of the State. His gentle
manly bearing his experience in public affairs, the
seadfastness Of his political faith, and, above all,
the entire soundness of his principles as evidenced
in his public career and confirmed by his letter of
acceptance; thereto subjoined strongly recommend
him to the cordial and united support of the People
of Maryland for the high station in connexion with
which his name has been placed before them. The
compliment bestowed on the political character Of
Mr. BOWIE in the second paragraph of the letter of
the President of the late State Convention inform
ing him of his nomination is both felictous and just
BALTIMORE SErTEmBER 8, 1853
To Hon. RICHARD /. BOWIE
DEAR SIR: As the presiding officer and organ of the
Wing Convention assembled in Baltimore the lst ul
tmo it becomes my duty to announce to you your una
nimous selection by that body the Wing candidate for
the Gubernatoria chair of Maryland That Convention,
you aware called at the suggestion Of our
Wing friends in the Legislature decide upon the best
action for the great Wing party in the State at the pre-
crisis. When it assembled there but senti
ment among its members-that full Wing ticket should
be presented the people of Maryland and in the end
equally unanimous feeling that you should be placed at
its head
The cordial, jealous, and harmonious feeling Of that
Convention showed clearly that the spirit Of that great
party which has yet since its organization lost but
single Presidential in Maryland that of 1852,
was yet cold extinct and that it required but lit
tie to reumne the fires of 1885, 1910, 1884, and IS4S
in this State In the full conviction that Wing of
Maryland possessed Of that genuine fire and spirit
manifested in your whole political course and that
of hers also possessed mere power or willingness
them by his energy and eoquence, that
body recently assembled has confded you the banner
of that party, and with the worthy associates assigned
you, bids you and them onward and trusts trium-
plant race in the approaching contest.
need not say have great pleasure personally in COM
municating this intelligence to you.
With feelings of high regard I am, dear sir, your
friend and obedient servant,
SAM. HAMBLET0N,
President Of late Why Convention Of Maryland
ROCKVILLE SEPTEMBER 10, 1868.
To Col. SAMUEL HAMILTON,
President of the Wing STATE Convention.
DEAR SIN: Yours of the Sd instant announcing to me
that had been nominated by the late Wing Convention,
assembled in Baltimore, the Guberna0ial candidate Of
party at the coming election, only received this
morning. This nomination fills with profound
of unworthness Of the distinction unexpectedly
ferred.
Had ii pleased the Convention to select either of the
eminent citizens presented them in preference to my
SELF should with much confidence and equal cord
atty have devoted all my energies to his election Yet
however disrustfu of myself disobey the voice
of the Wing party calling to occupy this responsible
position in their behalf Their principles my prin
cipes and whether triumphant defeated, where they
lead will follow.
The vast interests of the United States still demand the
protecting and wachfu vigilance of the party whose
cardinal doctrines the prominent articles of the Fede
raj Constitution reduced legislation by the
who framed them.
confined and recent constructions cannot embrace
the exigonces Of nauon rests upon oceans and
has the tropics for its boundaries Cvusree
its harbors and cities their fortife An exposed
seaboard must be secured against sudden invasion by
great maritime Powers The Pacific States and Terri
tories the FL Dorado of the Union by the .com
mon effort common blood, and common Of the
States" be linked by hooks of steel" to the val
ley of the Mississippi and the Atlantic border The pub
lie faith plighted in treaties otherwise, be pre-
served. The Compromise must be maintained. What
political party consistently execute these great OBJ
legations that Of which the immortal Clay and Webster
were disciples and exponentsg
The people, however they change their servants, will
change their work These national tasks, the open
ing Of rivers the fertilization of cities and harbors the
construction Of great military and commercial highways
the of the pghted faith Of the States each
other and Of the United States to all nations in amity
with them, the appointed MEANS under Providence
of national greatness yet unknown and these Il is the
glory Of the Wing party to have inaugurated adopted
and under its auspices if not in its name they should be
consummated. In the limited sphere of public duty
which have recently left my best e1ertions
y devoted the Of these ends convinced
that in their contamination the greatest happiness Of the
greatest number would be effected.
AS corolares Of these principles, in State affairs ad
the rigid observance Of the public faith in all its
pledges the development to their utmost extent Of the
intellectual and moral Of the people, well
their mineral mechanical and agricultural the exercise
Of preventive rather than vndctve penal legislation
the gradual and progressive adaptation Of our laws the
changes in the normal condition Of the people and in
every thing to reconcile law with liberty and liberty
with law.
Thanking you for the very kind and complimentary
sentiments conveyed in your letter, have the honor to
be- with great respect your friend and obedient servant
RICHARD l. BOWIE.
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