Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-30


dressed to DR.. II. y.M. Miller, the President of
that Convention, the following patriotic letter,
which We copy from the Rome (Ga.) Courier of the
26tE instant:
TULIP GROVE, July 18th, 1855.
SIR Your letter of the 18th instant, informing
me Of my nomination by the American party of
Georgia their candidate for the Vice Presidency
of the United States, has been received and with
it, the declaration Of principles adopted on the
same occasion.
For this mark of respect and honor, beg leave
to present my grateful acknowledgements. In ac-
cepting this nomination, am but adhering to the
obligation assumed, when yielded TO the wishes
of the National American party which placed me
previously in nomination for the same Office. The
principles avowed by the two Conventions are sub
stantally the same. They are the principles taught
to us by the Fathers of the Reyoll tion, and, if
faithfully maintained, will make our Constitution
and Union invulnerable to the assaults of all foes,
whether coming to US from foreign land or spring.
ing up in our midst as factionists and traitors.
The people of Georgia have doubtless some re-
collection of the support which gave to the Com
promise Measures Of 1850 as final settlement Of
the slavery question. strong effort both in the
North and the South, was made to compel Con-
gross to retrace its steps, and the cry was that ac
quesce2ce in those measures was an infamous sur
render of State-rghts. In that crisis / believed
that the old doctrines of Democracy might be re-
lied upon to arrest the dangers resulting from the
irrtatons which marked the discussions of the day
but the influences which controlled President
Pierce satisfied that this party had lost its vi
tally as a national one, and that no course was
left for the disciples of Washington, jefferson, and
Jackson, but to seek in new organization the aid
of the people in reviving the maxims of the pure
days of the Republic, and looping off the excres-
cences which had been fastened upon our system
by factious and sectional controversy.
Before the election of President Pierce, prom
nent men in the South, as well as the North
blamed me for insisting that the Democratic party
was the safest organization for securing the re-
forms necessary to tranquilze the public mind yet
these same men now traduce and calumnate me
for not acting with them when they are notorious
ly in alliance with those who oppose these reforms.
They desired me, as an old jackson Democrat to
quit the party when there was a hope of its being
brought back to its original doctrines, but when
the proof became conclusive that the power of this
party had passed int the hands Of the free soiler
and nuier, they assail me with the bitterest cpl,
thets.
When / endeavored to show that the Demo
cratic party was more sound than the Wing on
the sectional issues, there to hope that
the disciples of the Nashville Southern Convention
and the Buffalo 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 a dangerous direction to the here
sizes OF these two schools not only acting with
the modern Democracy, but are really shaping its
policy and dispensing its patronage.
Then, too, it was constant reproach to 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
Brren and Mr. Benton. Now the fact stares us in
the face that this modern Democracy has made a
Ipnp ZION fnr H.
voice of applause and appreciation from Mr.. Van
Buren, and Mr.. Benton as loud as was ever heard
in favor of Jefferson 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 plat
form.
1t belongs to the people to say what ought to be
the judgment on such inconsistency, and whether
we should still place power in the hands of those
who have made the Democratic party compound
of the isns which have arrayed one section of the
Union against another. As members of the Amer
lean party, and as good citizens, we can only
do our duty, refusing to concur in measures that
fatal to the public peace, and contributing by
all the legal means in our power to the restoration
of those old -fashioned doctrines which made us so
long happy and prosperous people. Under the
influence of such doctrines we shall hear no more
of squatter sovereignty or mob tribunals, but may
hope to see Congress performing again its consti-
tutienal duty as the guardian of the rights of the
South as well the North in the settlement of our
public lands, and in the admission of the inhabit-
ants of the Territories to the sovereign rights Of
States with or without slavery, they may deter
mine for themselves when forming State const-
tuition.
But it is not perhaps proper for me to enter 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 appreci-
alton of the honor you have conferred upon me
by an association of my name with that of Mr..
Fillmore in the noble effort to check the excuses
of party spirit, and effect reformation as import
ant as that of 1898 and 1900. once did great
injustice to this eminent patriot and statesman by
holding him responsible for what | considered an
attempt to merge the Wing party of the North
into a sectional opposition to the rights of the
South out when I saw him rise superior to such
local prejudices, and prefer the interests of the
whole country to that Of the section in which
he happened to be born, / made all amends
in my power to offer, and declared publicly, long
before | knew Of the existence of the American
party, that he ought to be called again by the
united voice of the people to the chair of the Chief
Magistracy.
am very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. ]. D0NELSON.
DIR. ii. V. M. MILLER, President of the Conven-
ton.