Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-02
A Voice from BIadensburg,


large and enthusiastic meeting of the friends
OF Fillmore and Donelson was held in the !. Spa
Grove" near Bladensburg, Prince Georges county,
Maryland, on Thursday the oath instant The
voters OF the county attended in large numbers
and crowds of citizens from the District of Colum.
bla and the neighboring counties.
The following gentlemen were selected as officers
of the meeting
Prcsident--Dr. Joseph j. Duvall.
Vice observation-disclosures Cross. Sr. Thomas
Granger, w. w. Hall, Samuel O. Crawford, Robert
Wright.
Secretary-George w. Duvall of Dennis.
On taking the chair DR.. Duvall addressed the
meeting in forcible and impressive manner
Able and eloquent speeches were delivered by
the Hon. Mr.. Broome, of Pennsylvania, the Hon
Mr.. Foster, of Georgia, s. c. Chiffon, ESQ. of Vir-
ginia, and F. S. Evans, Esq, of Washington city.
Thomas Granger, ESQ.,, offered the following
resolutions, which were adopted unanimously:
l. Resot0ed, That we commend Millard Fill.
more to the suffrages of the American people,
not as the candidate of section, nor of a party
but as the candidate of the nation, knowing no
North, no South no East, no West, but only
his country, his whole country, and nothing but
his country y who, fresh from visit to the king
doms of the Old World, beheId there no skies
more bright, no lands more beautiful than his
own and who comes from the courts of kings, and
the palaces of emperors, with his patriotism un-
diminished, his republican simplicity undimmed
and with heart unawed by regal pomp and impe-
rial splendor.
2. That, as citizens of the South we hail the
nomination of Millard Fillmore for the Presidency
as sure guarantee that, if elected the rights of
the South will be protected that, he whose ad-
ministration theimmortal Clay endorsed as g true,
faithful, honest, and conscientiousn and who cx-
torted even from his political foes the encomium
OF the model President" and the " second Wash
ngton, will guard the interests not of one section
Of the Union only, but of all, and viii watch with
jealous care, that suicidal hand shall be raised
against the glorious inheritance won by the blood
and toll OF our ancestors, and committed to the
care and custody of their children.
3. That, in Andrew jackson Doneson, upon
whose head, unwilling to bow the knee to Baal
phals OF wrath have been poured by partisan
press and by unscrupulous politicians, we recog-
Else patriot and statesman, worthy to fill the
second highest place in the gift of the people,
thy to wear the mantle of his ustrious friend and
protector, and worthy to inherit the sword be-
queathed to him by that friend as memento OF
the high regard, Affection and esteem which he
bore to him as a highminded, honest and honor
able man."
4. That, whilst we shall ever contend that
" Americans must rule America" we war against
no mans religion, against no mans birthplace,
and we invite all owing no allegiance to foreign
power, WHetneT w mig OF DemOcrat Whatever lan0
gave them birth, or in what manner soever they
worship their God, to rally under the flag of Fill
more and Donelson, and around the ark of the
constitution, to prevent its laundering in the dark
and turbid waters that surround it.
The following letter, received from Charles B.
Calvert, ESQ.,, was read and ordered to be pub
lished
RIvERsDALE, July %, 1856.
GENTLEsEN: Your favor of the 18th only reach
ed me yesterday. II would have given me great
pleasure to have united with you in doing honor
TO the only conservative candidate before the peo
pie Tor President of the United States. Believing,
however, from the published call for the meeting
that it must be considered by the public as solely
a meeting of those friends of Mr.. Fillmore, who
belong to the American party, | am forced TO de-
cline the high honor you propose to confer upon
me of presiding thereat. / sincerely believe, from
the declarations of Fillmore in his late speeches,
that II elected he viii be the same Fillmore WHO
administered the Government with so much ability
and honest independence, on q late occasion, and
that he is the only candidate who merits the sup.
port of the old Clay Wing party, as he has shown
the manly independence not to be tied down to any
party platform, but to lay down one for himself,
which, in my opinion, Is broad enough to hold the
conservative men of all former parties. With
these views, shall give him my hearty support,
not as the candidate Of the American party bnt as
the tried friend of "the Union for the sake of the
Union" have to acknowledge most gratefully
the kind expressions in your note towards me in