The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-21

REMARKS OF THE nov. A. 0. P. NICHOLSON.

aid the following sketch Of portion OF the speech OF
Judge Nicholson delivered at that place few days be-
fore the late election IN Tennessee We may permitted 10
can attention n tie absence Of Judge Echolson 10 this
able and scochug yet calm and conclusive review Of the
complaints Of Andrew Jackson Donelson against President
Pierce and his administration We regret that the whole
OF this mastery speech Of Judge Nicholson not reported
The democracy or Maury have rendered him public din
ner in token his hercuean efforts in the late campaign
which he has accepted II will come OF the 23d at the
town Of Columbia.
Mr. Nicholson spoke in substance as follows
Gle regretted that he to address large and inte
gent audience under the embarrassing disadv antagcs
which surrounded him Amidst the excitement in which
they had been precpad by the extraordinary speech Of
Major Doneson and at 50 late hour in the day he could
expect or his remarks the calm and dspasson
attention which he would be grahed TO have. He hoped
however, that he would be enabled to obtain brief hearing
OF his few Of the points involved in the pend
ing contest.
Gle had taken notes of the speech Of Maj Doneson but
upon running them he found that he expended bis hour
and hall abusing President Pierce, Col JEFF Davis Gen
Cushing and the Washington Union, inerspersed with con-
slant illusions the cabinet appointments foreign missions
the spos Of Office the wicked nuer aud aboonists and
no small Of self glorhcaton bat with scarcely any
illusions the doctrines becs OF the new political or
ganzaon Of which he has become leader. Mr.. Nicholson
said he sincerely regretted that bis old friend could not dis
tcse subjects without working hnsef into such tow
erng passion There something slrkingly significant
the that the ef Pierce, Of Davis OF Cush
ing, Of the Washington Union seemed to to
his mind without throwing him into something like spasm
Of passion and calling forth most energetic denuneiaton
and ytuperaons With all the charity of his nature, said
Mr. Nicholson he could resist the suspicion that all this
exhibition OF bitterness and passion had other foundation
than hatred for the Wild hunt after Office IL il be true
that Of the uncs of the heart the lips speak, may
find in this adage key to the earnest and feeling pestency
With which the subjects OF cabinet appointments, foreign
MISSIONS and the spois of Office have been kept before
your minds during Major Donesons whole speech. 1t
may be that, General jackson had honored him as
his private secretary Mr. Tyler minister Texas and
Mr.. Polk minister to European courts
the idea occurred to him that Mr. Pierce would do well TO
him into his cabinet This a conjecture original
with Mr. Nicholson and based upon the evidence fur
nshed by Major Doneson Speech for he had heard
the idea preached by any other person 1t may be that
Gen. jackson had given Of his swords, the idea
him that President Pierce might do well tender him the
post Secretary Of War Sr Nicholson said he would
the suggestion that Major Doneson desired such po-
son, that he would have accepted it, The Philadelphia
PLATFORM which he has earnestly eulogized orbds the
pcion that any of the dnterestcd patriots engaged its
could have been engaged in the wild hunt
after Office Besides having signnly honored
by Jackson Tyler and Polk, would be unreasonable
suppose that Major Doneson ambition his love osros
fully satisfied Still President Pierce might have
his devotion to the democratic party By rendering him
the place of Secretary Of War, Gem Jackson and Col
Polk had proven their fidelity the democracy By rendering
him other high positions But Mr. Pierce selected COL Da-
WIS., and from that day to this for other,
Major Boneson has been in continued passion denounc
ing President Piorcen the beret terms for appointing null
fers and reeoiers when any body knows that his policy
has appoint who understood to stand upon
tho Baltimore platform which Major Done!son helped to make
| in 1861.
"mr Nicholson said that if the of Major Donelson
had occurred Mr. Pierce in competition with that OF
Col Davis for the War Department he might say that he
not surprised that the claims OF Col Davis prefer
red. If Col Davis's uraism southern questions was
somewhat Objectionable Mr. Pierce knew tat he stood with
democracy OF the nation the Baltimore plat
FORM acauiescng the Compromise of 1885, and pledged to
carry its principles. Major Doneson could only claim
that he only acquesced in but had originally approved Of
the Compromise o650 and would therefore cary its ptu-
ciple bOth honorable men, they alike trust
worthy this subject But Col. Davis had received
sword from Gen. Jaehsonwhereas Major Doneon had
nouncod to-day that he had been thus honored General
Jacks sword thrown in might have turned the scale but
for another fact. When the Mexican Col. Da-
Wis volunteered and procured Tor himself sword and
for it and himself immortal honor at Buena Vista. Major
Donesons is nowhere found the roll OF the brave
who fought and conquered in Mexico. Gen. Jackson
sword allowed by him to in its scabbard whilst he
enjoying the comforts, the honors and the emounents
of first class foreign mission to Europe Mr.. Nicholson
said seemed him that Mr.. Pierce might be under
such circumstances for pretering Col Davis although the
of his devotion to southern rights he had formerly
cupied ultra grounds
Mr.. N. said that he might be wrong in the sugges-
ton that Major Doneson had INDUCED cabinet vis
ions and that the diSappoiu of that aspiration
Uttered him against tho Administrations he had given his
for the suggestion and Others might Judge of its paus-
biy. But to his disappointment in regard the APP
pointment Of his sonnaw to rstclass foreign mission
he could speak with confidence. Major Doneson had pub
shed lately his letter President Pierce in which
the claims Of his son-inaw for irsc class mission
estly FORTH Mr. Perceor that doubt
less satisfactory to himself however unsatisfactory Major
Donelsouaed appreciate those claims, and have
the atherinaw, to-day pouring out his slanderous wrath
upon the administration
But, said Mr.. NJ he is not satisfied with democracy,
President Pierce and his cabinet, but his less
bitter upon himself the editor of the Washing ton Union He
had referred to the fact that the Washington Union was
under his Major Donelsons) control at time it
be that his failure to retain position to which he
attach great consequence has contributed to the perpetual
rage with which he seems for tho last years have
been afflicted
Mr.. Nicholson said that the intimate relations which had
heretofore existed between Major Donescn and several demo-
cratic Administrations to have suggested him the
necessity for explanation Of this present hostility the
democratic party His explanation the that every
apostate from his party is to give. His party
changed and gone astray while he stands almost solitary
monument OF pure, uncontamnaed and reliable Jackson
democrat Think of it for everywhere old
democratic banner flying to the breeze and the men
who always stood by and sustained it, headed by President
Pierce and his administration, flying with their
toned zeal and enthusiasm to its supports but Major
has apoatized and gone off after strange gods and
turns to the hosts of his old political associates and tells
them that they have all become corrupso corrupt that
is IN thpr and