Daily American organ., 1856-04-15


Wx. j. EAMEs, Of Massachusetts,,
EPHRAIN MARSH Of New Jersey.
TULIP Grove NEAR NASHVILLE,
March 30th, 1856.
GENTLEMEN: ! did not receive until yesterday
your official note of the 26th of February last M.
forming me Of my nomination to the office Of Vice
President by the American party, and asking my
acceptance of the same.
For the fattering terms in which you have COM
municated this proceeding beg leave to offer
you my sincere thanks. accept the position as
signed me by the American party with Just sense,
trust, of the responsibility belonging to It. at
tended the convention with no expectation that
such an honor awaited me, and If my own feelings
and wishes could have been consulted, Il would
have fallen upon some other member of the Amc
rican party, in whose ranks are 80 many distin-
guished individuals, better known to the country
and better prepared by experience for the high
duties Of the station should the voice of the peo-
pie 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 be neither
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 parties,
Democratic and Wing, have ceased to exert their
former healthful influence in the management Of
the public interest," and that without the nterven-
ton Of reforms which they can never effect, the
beloved Constitution and Union, bequeathed to us
by our forefathers, viii not long be preserved
For the most of the evils with which We are
threatened at the present period, the admnistra-
ton Of President Pierce is evidently responsible
but instead Of finding his party engaged in the
prosecution OF measures 70 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 Presidency,
he acknowledged in his inaugural address the obi
cation of the Executive to restrain the patronage
Of the Federal Government, so that it should not
be brought into conflict with the freedom of elec-
tions. But modern Democracy stands in direct
anagonism to this obligation. There il 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 created by
patriotic and national sentiments, upon measures
Of general interest to the whole country we never
heard that measure could be declared Democrat
ic In one place, and not Democratic in another, by
leading men protesting to belong to this party
Yet we see this enormity exhibited daily by the
party press in the pay Of the present Executive.
The necessary result Of such corruption, If not
successfully opposed, must be to destroy all polti-
cal morality, and to continue power In unfaithfnI
and incompetent hands by the mere influence of
the money derived from the taxes which are paid
by the people for far dferentpurposes. 1t isunde-
niable that the antagonsm now prevailing between
the North and the South, is mainly attributable to
the political artifce which has enabled men hold
ing directly opposite opinions on the power Of
Congress over the institution of slavery in the
Territories, but yet protesting to belong to the
same Democratic party. The Nebraska * ansas act
Il lu lad hv nf a
law which will prevent the extension of slavery to
the Territories, and by another portion, law
which will enable the South to carry slavery to the
Territories. BY the same falacy, secession, nulli-
6cation, abolition, and all other ims have found
shelter under the flag of Democracy, explained
as II 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 for
eign influence and Of keeping separate the Church
and State; and of the advantage to be derived
from frequent recurrence to the earlier advice of
our Fathers which inculcated q reverence for the
compacts of the constitution, and the abstinence
from whatever tended to form geographical parties
or array one section of the Union against another.
Now, however the whole power of the Federal
Government is brought to bear against any indi-
vidual who has the independence to declare his
attachment to these old-fashioned sentiments
Whole casses of men stand prescribed and ostra-
cised for ne other offence than that of joining
association which seeks only to correct the ex-
cesses Of party spirit, and to restore the govern
ment to the purity il possessed when We received
it from the hands of those sages who founded and
reformed it.
Looking, gentlemen, upon the American party
as destined to eradicate the evils to which have
thus briefly adverted, / am proud to be called one
of it's members and only regret that in select
ing its flag gbearers, the choice for the Vice PIes-
dent had not fallen upon one who could bring to
the cause higher guarantees for its success than
can be drawn from the humble services have
heretofore rendered my country.
Thanking ycu again for the kind manner in which
you have expressed your personal qualification at
the nominations, subscribe myself,
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. j. DONELSON.
To Messrs. Alex. III. I'll. Stuart of Virginia; An
drew Stewart of Pennsylvania; Erastus Brooks,
of New York; Il. B. Bartlett, of Kentucky;
William j. Esmes, of Massachusetts,; Ephraim
Marsh, of New Jersey.
DEATH or MAJOR HARSEY.-Major Robert b.
Harney, a brother of Gen. Harvey, United States
army. died at his residence in Elkton, Tennessee,
on the 9Th ultimo, of paralytc attack. He had
in early life family love for the din and strife of
those wars that make ambition virtue, being an
officer in the regiment Of regulars which gained
brilliant victory under Gen. jackson at the bloody
battle Of the Horse Shoe, where the great chief,
1 ID aoIa s,pado or,,ahinU defaat.