Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-08-14
Hon, A. J. Donelson.

Office Of Vice President of the United States
was confirmed, has addressed to DR.. H. V.
M. Miller, the President of that Conven-
ton, the following patriotic letter, which
we copy from the Rome (Ga.) Courier of
the 18th instant:
TULIP GRovE, July l7,h, 1866.
Sin: Your letter Of the 18th instant, in
forming me of my nomination by the Amer
lean party Of Georgia as their candidate for
the Vice Presidency of the United States
has been received, and with it, the decara-
ton Of principles adopted on the same &C.
casion.
For this mark Of respect and honor, beg
leave to present my grateful acknowledge
ments. In accepting this nomination, am
but adhering TO the obligation assumed,
when yielded TO the wisher of the Nation
al American party which placed me pre-
viously in nomination for the same Office
The principles avowed by the two Conven-
tons are substantially the same. They are
the principles taught TO us by the Fathers
Of the Revolution, and, if faithfully main
tanned, will make our Constitution and Un-
ION invulnerable to the assaults of all foes,
whether coming to us from q foreign land
or springing up in eur midst as factionists
and traitors.
The people Of Georgia have doubtless
some recollection Of the support which I
gave to the Compromise Measures of 1850
as a final settlement of the slavery question.
! A strong effort, both in the North and the
South, was made to compel Congress to re-
trace its steps, and the cry was that acqui-
escence in those measures was an infamous
surrender of State-rights. In that crisis
believed that tie old doctrines Of Democracy
might be relied upon to arrest the dangers
resulting from the irritations which marked
the discussions Of the day, but the inhuen-
ces which controlled President Pierce salts
fed me that this party had lost its vitality
as national one, and that no course was
left for the disciples Of Washington, Jeffer-
son, and Jackson, but to seek in new or
gsnization the aid of the people in revIving
the maxims of the pure days Of the Repub-
lie, and looping off the excrescences which
had been fastened upon our system by fac
tions and sectional controversy.
Before the election of President Pierce,
prominent men in the South, as well as the
North, blamed me for insisting thatthe Dem
ocratic party was the safest organization for
securing the reforms necessary TO tranquil
ize the public mind, yet these same men
now traduce and calumnate me for not act
ing with them when they are VIGOROUSLY in
alliance with these who oppose these re-
forms. They desire me, as an old Jackson
Democrat, to quit the party when there was
a hope Of its being brought back to its orig
inal doctrines, but when the preof became
conclusive that the power Of this party had
passed into the hands of the free-soiler and
nullifer, they assail me with the bitterest
epithets.
When | endeavored TO show that the
Democratic party was more sound than the
Wing on the sectional issues, there was
reason to hope that the disciples of the
Nashville Southern Convention and the Buff
falo platform would not gain possession of
the Federal Government. Now it will
scarcely be denied by any candid man that
the politicians who have given dangerous
direction to the heresies Of these two schools
are not only acting with the modern Democ-
racy, but are really shaping its policy and
dispensing its patronage.
Then, too, it was constant reproach 10
me, as being unfaithful to the cause of State
rights and the cause Of the South, that did
not denounce in terms of unmeasured abuse
such men as Mr.. Van Buren, and Mr.. Ben
ton. Now the fact stares us in the face
that this modern Democracy has made a
nomination for the Presidency which calls
forth voice Of applause and appreciation
from Mr.. Van Buren, and Mr.. Benton as
loud as was ever heard in favor Of Jefferson
or Jackson, and this too when it was but
yesterday that we were threatened by this
Democracy with dissolution of the Union
on account of the dangers to which we were
said to be exposed by the doctrines of the
Buffalo platform.
1t belongs TO the people TO soy what ought
10 be the judgement on such inconsistency,
and whether we should still place power
in the hands Of those who have made the
Democratic party a compound of the iSmS
which have arrayed one section of the Union
against another. As members Of the Amer
lean party, and as good citizens, we can on
ly do our duty, refusing to concur in meas
ures that are fatal to the public peace, and
contributing by all the legal means in our
power to the restoration of those old-fash-
toned doctrines which made us so long a
happy and prosperous people. Under the
influence OF such doctrines we shall hear
no more of squatter sovereignty or mob tri-
bunals, but may hope TO see Congress per-
forming again its constitutional daty as the
guardian of the rights of the South as well
as the North in the settlement Of our public
lands, and in the admission Of the inhabi-
tants of the Territories to the sovereign
rights of States, with or without slavery, as
they may determine for themselves when
forming State Constitution.
But il is not perhaps proper for me to en-
ter into discussion Of the causes which
have constituted us, without reference TO our
antecedents as Wings or Democrats, new
party. ] refer to them only in connection
with the patriotic declaration Of principles
made by the Convention at Macon, in order
that you may see how complete is my con-
currence with them, and how great is my
appreciation of the honor you have conferred