Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-05-08
TuLip GROVE, near Nashville,
March 80, 1856.

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GEsrLEMEN:-I did not receive until
yesterday your official note Of the 26th Of
February last, informing me Of my nomina-
ton to the office of Vice President by the
American party, and asking my acceptance
Of the same.
For the hattering terms in which you
have communicated this proceeding. I beg
leave to offer you my sincere thanks. ac-
cept the position assigned me by the Ameri-
can party with Just sense trust, of the
responsibility belonging to it. l attended
the convention with no expectation that such
an honor awaited me, and il my own feelings
and wishes could have been consulted, it
would have fallen upon some other member
Of the American party, in whose ranks are
so many distinguished individuals better
known to the country and better prepared
by experience for the high duties of the sta
ton, should the voice Of the people be in
accord with that Of which you are the organ
on this occasion. But acting upon the max
i'm left US by the great men of the earlier
days of our Republic, that public Office
should neither be sought nor declined,
yield to the judgment of those who have
thought that my name might be OF service
in advancing the important objects which
constitute the American party.
Our leading idea is that the two old par
ties, Democrat and Wing, have ceased to
exert their former healthiul influence in the
management Of the public interest, and that,
without the Intervention of the reforms
which they can never effect, the beloved
constitution and Union, bequeathed TO us by
our foreiathers will not long be preserved.
For the most of the evils with which we
ore threatened at the present period, the ad-
ministraton of President Pierce is evident
irresponsible; but of instead of finding his
party engaged in the prosecution Of meas
ures to avert the dangers he has brought
upon the land we see it more active than
ever in scattering the seeds Of sectional strife
and social anarchy.
When Gen. Jackson came into the Presi-
dency, he acknowledged in his inaugural
address, the obligation of the Executive TO
restrain the patronage Of the Federal Gov
ernment so that it should not be brought
into conflict with the freedom Of elections.
But modern Democracy stands in direct an
tagonism to this obligation. There is
scarcely an election precinct in the United
States which has not Witnessed the most
shameful interference with elections by the
agents of the Federal Government, acting
in the name of Democracy.
In former times, when parties were Gre
sted by patriotic and national sentiments,
upon measures Of general interest to the
whole country, we never heard that meas
ure could be declared Democratic in one
place, and not Democratic in another, by
laal,Do, IN ha1nI,c, 70 THE
ty. Yet we see this enormity exhibited
daily by the party press in the pay of the
present Executive.
The necessary results of such corruption,
if not successfully opposed, must be to de-
stroy all political morality, and to continue
power in uniaithful and incompetent hands,
by the mere influence of the money derived
from the taxes which are paid by the peo-
pie for far different purposes. II is unde-
uiable that the antagonism now prevailing
between the North and the South, is main
ly attributable TO the political artifce which
has enabled men holding directly opposite
opinions on the power of Congress over the
institution Of slavery in the territories, but
yet protesting to belong to the same Demo-
cratic party. The Nebraska-Kansas act is
constantly called by one portion of Demo-
Gratis law which will prevent the extern
sion of slavery 10 the territories, and by an
other portion law which will enable the
South to carry slavery to the territories
BY the same fallaoy, secession, notification,
abolition and all other isms have found a
shelter under the flag Of Democracy ex-
planned as it is by modern interpreters.
In former times, also, our best patriots,
without distinction Of party, spoke of the
necessity of guarding the ballot-box from the
dangers of foreign influence, and of keep
ing separate the church and State; and of
the advantage to be derived from frequent
recurrence to the earlier advice of our faith
ers which inculcated reverence for the
compacts Of the constitution. and the absti-
nence from Whatever tended TO form geo.
graphical parties or array one section Of the
Union against another. Now, however, the
whole power of the Federal Government is
brought 10 bear against any individual who
has the Independence TO declare his attach