Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-02-28
FILLMORE FOR PREsIDENT-DONEL
SON FOR VICE PRESIDENT = THE
KNOw-NOTHING CONVENTION.

The telegraph has already spread far and
wide the news of the nomination by the Know
nothing National Convention of Mr.. Fillmore
for President, and Major Andrew jackson
Donelson for Vice President No two men,
perhaps, ever presented a more complete an
the country on the same ticket as candidates
for the two highest Offices in the gift of the
people. One has been the very embodiment OF
Federal Whiggery, the other the most clamo-
rous Of Democrats. The first when asked, in
1885, by an Anti-slavery Society
"Whether he was in favor of the right of
petition opposed u the annexation OF Texas
in favor OF the abolition OF the internal slave
trade and of the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia"
Thus replied:
II am much engaged, and have no time to
enter into an argument or to explain at length
my reasons for my opinion. shall, therefore
content myself for the present, by answering
all your interrogatories in the affirmative, and
leave for some future occasion more extended
discussion of the subject"
the bearer of his name, and the owner of a
hundred slaves! Surely no contrast could be
more striking! Yet the potent magic of Know
nothingism has blotted out all antagonism
and healed all asperities. These two old and
bitter political enemies now stand before the
country as twin brothers. When it is borne
in mind that when Mr.. Fillmore was President
Major Doneson was the editor OF the Wash
ington onion, and the writer Of the strongest
philipics against him, the miracle Of the IN
looked for union between them is hot the les:
astounding But the ways and the wonders 0
Know -nothingism are past finding out.
We presume the calculation of the nominal
ing convention is, that the scattered forces 0
old whiggery will be rallied and the South
where Mr. Fillmore has been supposed to bt
popular, will be conciliated, by the nomination
of that gentleman, and that the nomination o.
the adopted son and namesake of General
Andrew Jackson will gain over many of the
admirers of the old hero Indeed, we incline
10 the opinion that but for the accident of hi:
name, Major Donelson would never have been
honored with the nomination he has received
That we'll known Hedge Parson, Brownlow, 0
Tennessee who prays and fights by turns, in
timated as much in the convention. Ate
complimenting the Major in his own Peculia
classic phraseology, by describing him as "a
large, patriotic, greasy Tennesseean. he said i;
1T had been understood and arranged tina
Major Donelson would be put on the ticket
with Andrew jackson IN big letters, and Don
elson invisible, and then the old line Demo
craft, would think that old Hickory had come
TO life again"
Not having room for the entire proceedings
Of the convention, we content ourselves with
suboining the following account of the voting
ryI For President.
The vote for President was then proceeded
with. the name of each member being called
each State being entitled 10 its vote in thu
Electoral College, the absentees to be voted 10
proportionably by the votes cast; no State no
represented to be entitled to vote, with the fol
lowing result: