The Georgetown news., 1856-03-27
Ratification.

pOlClcal dumlforS OF the American DdIlOIlal
candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, assembled in
front of the Orleans Hotel, Sacramento, on
Saturday evening, to ratify said nomina-
tions. The Union says the entire space in
front of that spacious edifce, as also the
long balconies of the building, and those ad-
Joining, were crowded with citizens. among
whom were observable many ladies.
DR.. Taylor, Of El Dorodo, was elected
PRESIDENT DR.. Langdon, of San Joaquin,
Vice President, and DR.. Joseph Powell,
Secretary.
Hon. II. S. Foote being loudly called for
responded at length in an able and eloquent
strain, eiciting repeatedly marked express
ions of approval. We regret that the pres
sure on our columns prevents the insertion
of his remarks.
Senator Hawks next addressed the audi
ence in strains of impassioned eloquence.-
His eulogies of Fillmore and Donelson were
glowing, patriotic and truthful, and found q
hearty response in the hearts of the immense
concourse.
The meeting was further addressed by
Messrs. McCallum, of I'll Dorado; Brunton,
of Tuo!umne; Secretary David Douglass, j.
w. Coffroth, and Senator Cosby.
During the meeting the following resolu-
tions were presented and adopted unani-
mousy:
Resolved, That, in the deliberate judg-
ment of this meeting, the National Conven-
tion of the American party, which recently
held its session in Philadelphia, in nominal
ting Millard Fillmore, of the State of New
York, and Andrew Jackson Donclson, Of
the State of Tennessee, to the Presidency
and Vice Presidency of the Republic, has
evinced an enlightened and patriotic regard
to the vital interests and true honor of the
American people, which entities the mem
bers of that body to the hearty and lasting
gratitude of all who sincerely love their
country and desireits permanent repose and
happiness.
Resolved, That in the nominated candi-
date of the American party for the Presi-
dency, we recognize man Of solid and Wig
orous intellect; statesman of enlarged and
comprehensive vieWs-free from all section
al bias, and exempt from all sectional pre-
judices; Of an infexble uprightncss Of soul,
which not even political hostility has ever
yet dared to call in question; of calm Sc
renity of temper, which no difficulties can
discompose, and no dangers disturb; whose
character, in domestic and social life, is
without blemish; temperate, discreet and
selfpOssesSed at all times and under all cir
cumstances; steady, Industrious and ener-
getic in the performance of all the duties of
life, yet kindly in his disposition, generous
in his sympathies, and of bland affability
Of manners, which makes it next to impOs-
sible to see him and to hold social commune
with him without loving him; above alive
recognize, and all America recognizes. in
Millard Fillmore, that august Executive
Chief, who, when sectional factionists Of
the North and of the South had combined,
in the fearful crisis of 1850, to BRING the
Republic itself to the brink of ruin, and
when no nope remained of rescuing the in
stltutlons OF our fathers from threatened de-
struction, save by the adoption in Congress
of that noble plan of pacifcation and set
tlement known asthe Compromise measures.
brought all the influence of his character
and station into efficient exercise with q
view to the furtherance of those vital meas
ures, and who, when they finally became part
of the supreme law Of the land, faithfully
and tearlessly employed all the power vested
in him in imparting to them that efficiency
so indispensable to the prev, ntion of sec
tional conflict and to the restoration OF
peace and fraternal concord.
Resolved, That we entertain for the dis
tinguished nominee of the American party
for the Vice Presidency of the Union that
exalted respect, and cherish for him those
feelings of kindness and confidence, which
his own pure and blameless life and valua-
ble public services fully justify. We bear
in mind that his youth and early manhood
were trained to usefulness and true honor bv
the lllustrious Warrior and Statesman
whose venerable name he bears; that he was
the confidential friend and adviser Of the IL
lustrlouS jackson for more than twenty
years, and maintained relations of conf
dence and amity with him that no other
human being in the world besides could
boast; that to his skillful diplomacy the
nation mainly owes the acquisition OF Tex
as; that to his judgment and energy were
entrusted by the administration of Mr. Polk
the adjustment of the most delicate and
difficult questions which have ever arisen in
our intercourse with the Powers of Central
Germany, and that he so conducted himself
in the performance of the important duties
thus devolving on him, as fully to maintain
the dignity of this great Nation, and sig
nally to enhance the splendor of his own
fame. We remember, also, that this is the
same individual who, in the Nashville Con
vention of 1850, heroically rebuked Che fell
spirit of disunion and treason. which 50
ominously famed forth in that BODY: that
afterwards, at the earnest solicitation of ev-
cry prominent Democratic statesman in the
Natlonal Congress, he consented to take
charge of the Union newspaper in Wash
lngton, and, as the senior editor of that
journal, he so conducted himself as to win