The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-04-05
ANDREW j. DONELSON.

ms gentleman Is INC hnOW-NOtnlng
candidate for the Vice Presidency. lie
was once the partner Of Gen. Robert Arm
strong, in the Washington Union, and for
q short time edited that paper OF this
fact the Commonwealth thus speaks:
"When Mr.. Ritchie-the great Nestor
of the Democratic party-retired from the
editorship of the Washington Union, the
party selected Mr.. Donelson as his success
or. He discharged the duties Of the posi-
ton we'll and efficiently, and to the salts
faction of his party, until the secession and
free-soil appointments Of President Pierce
made it impossible for him to render the
administration hearty support. He then
retired to private life. When the Ameri-
can party arose, he recognized in it the
means of rescuing his country from the dam
gers of foreignism and sectional broils which
threatened it, and he at once gave his heart
and soul to the good cause. He has al
ready done frequent and great service in
behalf Of its noble principles, and well de-
serves its honors."
Major Donelson, instead Of leaving the
Union Office for the reason assigned by the
Commonwealth, and at the time indicated,
left because the Democratic party COMPEL
ed him to leave, and that. too, long before
the obnoxious appointments were made.
In other words, he did not have the conf
denee Of the party, and the party gave him
to understand that his room was more
agreeable than his company. The man
who has been thus unceremoniously kicked
out of the Democratic ranks will make a
good enough candidate for the Know-Noth-
ings
So odious was Donelson to the Demo
cratic party, even as early as the summer
of 1852, before the election Of Gen. Pierce,
that the Democrats in Congress would not
elect him printer Of the House, although
he was then editor of the metropolitan pa
per, and the party had a large majority OF
the members. They refused to permit his
name to be associated with his lamentcd
partner Gen. Armstrong, and give the
Office to the latter. The editor of this pa
per nominated Gen. Armstrong to the
House, and happens to know well what
were the relations Of Donelson at that
time to the party. Gen. Armstrong was
elected printer on the 9th day of August,
i oDI, sDlllc tlIHc DclDIc bllc elcGllOH Vi bPl.
Pierce. A short time after this very une.
quivocal indication of the feeling of the
party towards Maj. Donclsoh, he sold his
interest in the Washington Union to Gen
Armstrong and retired to private life a
sonred and dissatisfied man.
Upon the Inauguration of Gen. Pierce
Maj Donelson was among the most impor
tunate of the applicants for foreign appoint
ment, but was refused by the President
He then laborcd 10 secure one for his son
in-law, Mr.. Wilcox of Mississippi, and il
was not until he had failed in both efforts
that he openly denounced the administra
ton and turned traitor to the principles o.
his party.
1t is not only grossly untrue, but there is
something supremely ridiculous in the idea
that Maj. Donelson left the Democratic
ranks because of the dissatisfaction Will
some Of the Northern appointments of Gen
Pierce, especially when he occupies the
attitude of candidate nominated by
party, nine-tenths Of whom are openly a
war with the rights and institutions of tn,
South. One cause of his disgraceful repu
diation by the Democratic party in 1852
was his known sympathies with the North
ern sentiment on the subject of slavery
Ever since his famous Nashville speech h,
has been regarded as unsound by Southern
Democrats. But, he will make very goot
know.Nothing. You are welcome to him