Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-05-13
From the Pennsylvania Of May 0.
Nomination OF MIR. Buchanan.

Nomination OF MIR. Buchansn.
| In the performance of duty imposed by the
Democratic State Convention ofthe 9TH of March,
under the following resolution
| Resolceti, That COMMITTEES of five be ap-
| pointed TO inform the Hon. JAMES Buchanan
that he is the unanimous choice of this Con
| yenuon for the next Presidency,
| The following gentleman, viz George w.
Brewer, Of Franklin county, Joel B. Banner,
of Adams county, j. NJ. Porter, Of Northampton
county, ]. A. Gibson, of Allegheny county,
| George II. Berrill, Of Philadelphia, members
OF that Committee, assembled at Lancaster on
May Sth at 10 o'clock. AT IL o'clock they
proceeded to Wheatland, Mr. Buchanan's res
idence accompanied by a number Of friends.
Mr.. b. received the party with much cordially
and warmth, many of whom he had not seen
since his return from Europe. After short
| time spent in conversation, Mr. G. W. Brewer
chairman of the committee, addressed Mr.
Buchanan as follows:
Mr.. BUCHANAN: The Democratic State Con-
vention assembled at Harrisburg on the 4th of
March last, appointed committee, of which
| have the honor to be the chairman, to an
nounce to you formally, that you continue to
| be, as you have been for years, the first last
and only choice of Pennsylvania for the Office
of the Presidency of the United States. We
! perform this duty with pride and pleasure, be-
cause IN doing so, we speak the voice Of
convention unanimous, and utter the heartfelt
| sentiment OF people undivided
The day OF opposition to you has passed
ny md tha L
left without a rival in the popular heart. The
people of your native State, alive to the tender
| and natural associations Of birth and home,
| but yet more impressed by the signal services
aud devotion of whole life of distinguished
ability and national patriotism, would, with
one voice, summon you again from the coveted
| repose OF this charmed retirement to the guar
dlanship OF common country, and the yindi-
cation of an endangered Constitution.
Your fellow-citizens of the loyal and an
cient Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, realiz-
ing with intense interest the Importance and
grandeur OF the approaching conaict-impor-
tant because it will involve tho happiness and
prosperity OF great Republic grand, be-
cause 1t will bear beforeits conquering banners
the ark of civil and religious libery-and not
unmindful of the obligations of that duty
which they owe to the nation and to the world,
to maintain these great issues, and to vindicate
their sublime truths, have selected you from a
long list of worthy and distinguished names,
| to lead the Democratic column into victorious
battle, and achieve for the country and man
kind the glorious triumph of Democratic prn-
ciples. Intolerance and sectionalism are now
seeking to violate the compromises Of the Con-
| stitntion, and TO dismember the sovereign
States OF this mighty coniederacy But the
integrity of the American Union, beautiful
and bound together by the electric chain of
Democratic truth, expanding along the path
way OF empire into power and greatness, every
new link adjoining and Strengthening the COM
pact, and every new star cheering and bright
ening the sky of human freedom, "must and
shall be preserved" until in the accomplish
ment OF Its grand mission, the curse Of every
form OF bgotry and despotsm shall have been
swept from the earth, and the dark habita-
tons OF war and tyranny been turned into the
lovely scenes OF peace and prosperity. Your
life of eminent service and of tried devotion
to the cardinal doctrines of the party, is the
best and safest pledge for your continued at
tachment to the Union and fidelity to the Con-
sutution Yours is no doubtful lineage--no
uncertain record-no undistnguished history.
Your purity and talents have dgnifed and
illustrated every walk of life, and every station
OF power-your 6rmness and craftsmanship
have defended and maintained the national
honor and national supremacy at home and
abroad
The approaching crisis demands the most
enlarged experience, and the most accomplished
statesmanship-th highest integrity and the
purest patriotism. All the qualifications for
the office OF the Presidency, demanded by the
sovereign and independent States of the Union.
the Democracy find united in you.
And we complete our duty, by presenting TO
you copy Of the proceedings, and the resolu-
tons adopted by the Convention, with the firm
CONVICTION that you will recognise in them the
principles which you have always maintained
and defended, and which have secured to the
country the blessings of liberty, religious and
political.
MIR. Buchannn's Reply.
GENTLEMEN: thank you, with all my heart.
for the kind terms in which, under a resolution
of the late Democratic State Convention. Won
have informed me that am their unanimous
choice for the next Presidency"
when the proceedings of your Convention
reached me in foreign land they excited emo
tons of gratitude which might ia vain attempt
to express. This was not because the Demo
cracy of my much loved State had, by their
own spontaneous movement, placed me in nomi.
nation for the Presdency--an honor which /
have not sought-but because this nomination
constituted OF itself the highest evidence that,
after long course of public services, my public
conduct has been approved by those TO whom
am indebted, under Providence, for all the Of.
fees and honors ] have ever enjoyed In sue
cess and in defeat--in sunshine and in storm
they have ever been the same kind friends to
me, and value their continued confidence and
good opinion far above the highest official
honors Of my country.
The duties OF the President, whomsoever he
may be, have been clearly and ably indicated
by the admirable resolutions Of the Convention
which you have just presented to me, and all
OF which, without reference to those merely
personal to myself | heartily adopt Indeed,
they met my cordial appreciation from the mo-
ment when ! first perused them on the other