Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-28
BUCHANAN AND BRECKENRIDGE
CLUB.


AT a special meeting of the Buchanan Dem
ocratic Club of the District of Columbia, held
on Wednesday evening, June 25th, the follow
ing named gentlemen, upon the nomination o.
the committee appointed for that purpose
were unanimously chosen to compose the Elk
ecutive Committee
CHARLES S. WALLACH, Chairman.
WILLIAM B. MAGRUDER,
WALTER LENoX,
BEVERLEY TUCKER,
j. d. B. DE Bow,
JouN SHAW,
FRANCIS MoHUN
Mr.. WALLAcH, the Chairman elect, upon
the announcement of the Committee, rose and
expressed his sense of the honor conferred
upon him, as follows:
Mr.. President: 1t would be impossible for
me, sir, were | so disposed, to even attempt to
conceal my qualification at being called to pre-.
side over the Executive Committee Of this As
ISOLATION, approaching, as do, the high honor
of being placed in the front rank in this con-
test, and stimulated, as / have been, and pre-
sumo we have all been, by having already be-
held the so glorious and morally effective sight
of the old Hero of Michigan burying in OBJ
livion the past, and hand in hand with that
. Little Giant Of the West" who has furnished
us the thunder for our cannon, leaping upon
the outward battlements, the first to fight this
great battle of the Constitution, and to rally
to the support of the noble son of Pennsylva-
MIA, whom the collective wisdom of the Demo-
cratic party, in convention assembled, have
dos al tn HI, he. ha, IL Al 1
fought and won-of that standard on which is
inscribed the principles of Democracy-prin-
ciples, sir, deduced from a strict and correct
construction of the Constitution, that bulwark
OF the liberties and the rights of the whole
country, and that glorious beacon light to the
voyageurs Of other lands and less favored ma
tons seeking the safe harbor of Repu blican
Liberty.
JAMES BUCHANAN, sir, is leader worthy to
be followed leader, whose every act of a
long life, is sure prestige of victory, and
whose very name inspires confidence in a
whole nation, that the helm of the ship Of
State" will be so guided as to insure peace
and harmony, prosperity and glory, to our
country.
Let US, then, sir, enter upon our duties in
this campaign with determined hearts and
willing hands; let us leave no stone unturned,
no honorable means untried, to elevate to the
CHAR of State" this our STANDARD. bearer"
whose whole life has been devoted to our cause,
and the cause of our country; and who has
attained unto himself the love and honor not
only OF his own but OF other nations. And,
when the battle shall have been fought and
the victory won, we will receive the glorious
reward of beholding once more trampled under
foot, and forever crushed out Of existence
"the hydra-headed isms" Of the day and the
immutable principles of the Constitution--the
cornerstone Of the "Temple of Human Lib
erty"--still more indellibly imprinted upon the
pages Of the "Book Of Time.'
Accept, sir, and gentlemen of this Associa-
ton, my thanks for this evidence of your con.
6dence, and my assurance that my duty shall
be done
On motion, it was
Resolced, Tha he Editors Of the Sentinel,
Union, InteIljgencer, Star, National, and
News be respectfully requested to publish the
above proceedings.