Daily American organ., 1856-08-19
Letter from Andrew ]. Donelson.

@tt Letter from Andrew j. DOnels0n.
The following letter contains the acceptance by
Major Donelson of the nomination for Vice Presi.
dent, rendered him by the Order of United Ameri-
cans of New York:
/ #oEw TULIP GROVE, NEAR NASHVILLE
Il August A, 1866.
i SIR: I havelh the honor to receive your let
ter of the 26th nltimo, enclosing to me one from
the Committee of Convention of the several
Chapters OF the Order of United Americans Of New
York, informing me of my nomination by that body
to the Office of Vice President of the United States.
For this mark Of high confidence and respect
beg you to accept and convey to the Convention
this expression of my sincere thanks. .N
Should the sentiments which have prompted this
action be in accord with those of the people when
deciding the grave questions involved in the ap-
preaching election, they will place me in a posi-
tion of great responsibility that cannot but
contemplate with feelings Of difidence and distrust
arising from a consciousness that my best exer-
tions may fail to meet the expectations of the
country. In such crisis as tho present, however,
it would be want of patriotism to shrink from the
position which has been assigned to me by those
who are colaborers in the effort to bring back uur
government to the sphere prescribed for it by its
founders. a
We are in the midst Of dangers produced by am
abandonment of the old landmarks set up by the
early Statesmen of the Republic, and we have no
hope of escaping from these dangers but in a
return to first principles-d -dscardng all those in
fuences which have produced geographical parties
and reconstructing those which teach US that our
civil and religious liberties are inseparably con-
nected with the preservation of our Constitution
and Union. & st
was brought up, sir, in what has been termed
the jackson school of politics: and it was there
that learned to look above parties when they
ceased to make the good of their country their
paramount object. The leading acts of General
Jackson's life, those which endeared him so much
to the public, prescribed by no party tactics
or mere party platforms. His defence of New
Orleans his proclamation in 1882, and other prom
inent acts of his administration, were of this char
acter. He felt when adopting those measures that
he was consulting the good of his country, and he
appealed for support to the calm and sober judg-
ment of the people, not as divided by party lines,
but as brothers united by the same common inter
ests and animated by the same motives to pre-
serve their free institutions from whatever dan
gers might threaten them from foreign or domestic
causes. .a a E #ztgHg s4s g- st,v-t,s y
1t is in this sense that understood your pat
rotc Convention now comes forward to repress the
spirit of sectionasm and save the country, not a
party from the dangers which are brought upon
1t by departure from the maxims left us by
Washington and his compatriots.
Whatever may have been your opinions on
questions of minor character in the ordinary adj
ministration of the Government, you feel that a
crisis like that which united jackson, Clay, and
Webster, in 1882, exists, and that law-abding and
good citizens, without reference to former party
differences, should rally together in defence of their
common country against the ultraisms of the day.
You feel that there is nothing in the term, Wing
or Democrat, correctly understood, to prevent
either from acting with us as Americans, when
there is undisguised effort to destroy the bonds
of this sacred union, by forming political geograph-
ical lines and by permitting false conception Of
The real purposes of party to produce excesses
which are impairing the force of the laws, under
mining the public virtue and weakening those
guards against foreign influence which are so
essential to our real independence as an American
people. 4AA a
Entertaining such views, sir, need not assure
you, how highly value the honor you have con-
ferred upon me by associating my name with the
tried patriot and statesman, Millard Fillmore, IN
an attempt to give them effect in the administra-
tion Of the Federal Government.
/ am, very respectfully,
Your obedent servant,
A. J. DoNELsoN.
SIMEON BALDWIN, Esq, Chairman OF the Commit
tee of the Order of United Americans of the
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