Washington sentinel., 1856-07-26


his equal and imperturbable attachment to
each and every section, his intrepidity IN ad-
herring to his convictions and patient fidelity
in arriving at them, his yeneration for the
Constitution as the object which his love and
duty both constrain him to defend" One,
they say, Of whom the world has had witness
that he once discharged its high duties to the
extingushment of sectional jealouSies, the res
toration of the reign of good feeling and the
maintenance Of the honor Of the Government.
And yet, the one, whom their own party, when
in the zenith Of their power, in their own Ma
tional Convention, while he was still in office
absolutely rejected as unworthy or unavailable,
and set him aside for another who for some
reason was deemed better, but to whom the
people administered the soundest thrashing
that ever fell to the lot Of any politician to
receive.
The resolutions too, which this great Con-
yention adopted, are worthy of passing
notice.
"Resolcgd, That having no agency in the
nomination of candidates for the Presidency,
and declining now TO make any nomination Of
their oacn, the Wings of Virginia are left free
to select among the candidates already before
the public; but in making their selection they
consult alone their principles and their duty,
and by no means merge themselves in that
party whose candidate they may adopt But
they will, on all occasions, maintain and pre-
serve their ime-honored and distinctive prin-
ciples, as known to the country and attested by
their history"
They decline to make any nomination of
their own" and leave the Wings of Virginia
free to select among candidates already be-
fore the public" Under these circumstances
of course, they could not name any candidate
A nomination is simply to present to the con
sideration of the people the name of some per-
son and to recommend that name. In
nomination speech, the nominor simply pre-
sents the name of his favorite and generally
earnestly invokes the active and jealous sup
port of the appointing power in favor of the
nominee.
Well what do they do? They make no
nomination, and yet in their seventh resolution
they proclaim:
That convinced that in Milard Fillmore
the qualities and endowments are combined
which, in the foregoing preamble are held in
dispensable in a Chief Magistrate at the pre-
sent alarming crisis, and believing that these
resolutions express his opinions, and that their
principles will control his administration if
elected to the Presidency, the members of this
Convention do not hesitate to recommend him
to the choice of the nation"
Is this nomination, or is it not7 Millard
Fillmore is the man named, and nobody else,
and they do not hesitate to recommend him to
the choice of the nation, but "they decline now
to make any nomination Of their own," and
of course they don't. The Wings "are left
free to select among the candidates already be-
fore the public" but if they select any other
than Fillmore, they are no longer Wings, for
Fillmore is the embodiment of the principles
expressed in their resolutions and if elected
will be controlled by them.
But not content to recommend him as
Whig embodying their opinions and principles
they disclaim any connection with any other
party. Though he may have been named by
another party, they are not influenced by that
consideration, but they name him on their own,
hook and ask for him an active and jealous
support. Here them in the same resolution
continu endo:
"And while they disclaim all intention to
adopt the principles of another party, earnestly
invoke their brethren throughout the State, to
surrender whatever exceptions they may take
to the quarter whence his nomination proceed
ed, and to yield to him the active and jealous
support to which he is entitled from the model
he has given Of truly national administra
tion."
These two resolutions speak for themselves
In their second resolution they pronounce
. the new party absurdly styling itself Repub-
licans as wholly committed to sectional issue,
and engaged in crusade against ACKNOWLEDGED
rights and the Union Of the
States" and they say lit is needless to say
more Of its candidate than that his pretensions
are unworthy of being scrutinized and unfit to
be considered in national contest" In these
sentiments we fully and heartily concur, and
we yield them full credit for their utterance
though we think by the course they pursue,
they are adding to the chances Of giving eff.
cacy TO this crusade against acknowledged
constitutional rights and the Union OF the
States.
We find space will not allow us to follow,
seriotim each resolution adopted by the con.
vention, but we must place some Of them in
juxtaposition, 10 show how beautifully consis-
tent these gentlemen are in their own resolu-
tions and platforms. They say that it was not
to have been expected that Mr.. Pierces Admin
istraton would have encouraged the agitation
Of the slavery question by giving its counte-
nance and patronage to the agitators, and
by disturbing for mere party ends compromises
that bad long preserved the peace and har.
mony of the country" Now, do not these gen.
tlemen know that these compromises had not
stopped the agitation Of the slavery question
DO they not know that it continued to be the
fruitful theme for discussion in and ont nc