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GRAND RATIFICATION MEETING OF THE
AMERICAN PARTY.

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Tribune.
At meeting of the American Party held in
front of the Orleans Hotel, on Saturday evening
last to ratify the nominations of Nillard Fillmore
and Andrew Jackson Donelson for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency of the United States,
The Hon. w. H. Taylor, of Ell Dorado, was cho-
sen President; DR.. Langdon, of San Joaquin, Vice
President; and Dr. Joseph Powell Secretary.
The Hon II. 5. Foote in obedience to general
call, appeared upon the stand and delivered of
the most able and eloquent political discourses to
which we have ever listened In the course of
which he gave an account of the various important
stations which Mr.. Fillmore has occupied at diff
ferent periods of his history, and contrased his ex
alted worth and patriotism with the vascillation
and lmbecility OF the present SO called Democratic
Administration.
He next spoke of the history of Andrew Jackson
Donelson, and gave most eloquent and truthful
narrative of his intimate relations to- and political
tuition under Gen. Jackson, from youth to man.
hood; the various important and responsible posi-
tiOns he had occupied, with distinguished honor to
the country and himself
At the conclusion of his remarks the following
resolutions were offered and unanimously adopted ::
ResolCed, That, in the deliberate Judgment of this
meeting the National Convention of the American
Party, which recently held its session in Phiadel-
phia, in nominating Millard Fillmore of the State
of New York. and Andrew Jackson Donelson of
Presidency of the Republic has evnced an enlight-
ened and patriotic regard to the vital interests and
true honor of the American people, which entities
the members of that body to the hearty and lasting
gratitude of all who sincerely love their country
and desire its permanent repose and happiness.
Resolved That in the nominated candidate of the
American Party for the Presidency, we recognize a
man of solid and vigorous intellect; a statesman of
enlarged and comprehensive vews-free from all
sectional bias and exempt from all sectional prhiu-
dices of an infexble uprightness of SOUL which
not even political hostility has ever yet dared to
call In question; OF calm serenity of temper,
which no difficulties can discompose, and no dan
gers disturb; whose character in domestic and So
cial life, is without blemish temperate. discreet
and selfpossessed at all times and under all cir
cumstances; steady, industrious and energetic in
the performance Of all the duties of life, yet kindly
In his disposition generous in his sympathes, and
of bland affability of manners, which makes it
next to impossible to him and to hold social
commune with him without loving him above ALL
we recognize, and all America recognizes, in Mil
lard Fillmore, that august Executive Chief who
when sectional factonists of the North and of the
South had combined, in the fearful crisis of 1850
to bring the Republic itself to the brink of ruin
and when no hope remained of rescuing the insti-
tutions of our fathers from threatened destruction
by the adoption in Congress of that noble plan
of pacfcation and settlement known as the Com
promise measures, brought all the influence of his
character and station into efficient exercise with
view to the furtherance of those vital measures,
and who, when they finally became part of the su-
preme law of the land, faithfully and fearessy en-
ployed all the power vested in him in imparting to
them that efficiency so indispensable to the preven
ten OF sectional conflict and to the restoration of
peace and fraternal concord.
RESOLVED, That we entertain for the distinguished
nominee of the American party for the Vice Presi-
dency of the Union that exalted respect and cher
| iSh for him those faeliprs of kindness on6 conf-
dence, which his own pure and blameless life and
valuable public services fully Justify. We bear in
mind that his youth and early manhood were
trained to usefulness and true honor by the lustr
GUS Warrior and Statesman whose venerable name
he bears that he was the confidential friend and
adviser of the illustrious jackson for more than
twenty years, and maintained relations of conf
dence and amity with him that no other human
being in the world besides could boast that to his
skilltul diplomacy the nation mainly owes the ac-
QUESTION of Texas; that to his judgment and ener-
gy were entrusted by the Administration of Mr..
Polk the adjustment of the most delicate and diff
cult questions which have ever arisen in our inter-
course with the Powers of Central GERMANY and
that he conducted himself in the performance of
the important duties thus devolvng on him. as fully
to maintain the dignity of this great Nation, and
! sgnally to enhance the splendor of his own fame
We remember also. that this is the same individual
who in the Nashville Convention of 1850 heroical-
ly rebuked the fell spirit of disunion and treason
which so ominously famed forth in that body; that
afterwards, at the earnest solicitation of every pro-
minent Democratic statesman in the National Con-
gress. he consented to take charge of Union news
paper in Washington, and, rs the senior editor of
that journal, he so conducted himself as to win the
approval, and command the profound respect of
every patriotic Democrat in the Nation
| Resolved, That to this ticket, and to the great
national principles inseparaby associated Herewith
we pledge our own hearty support and that of the
American Party in California
Resolved, That the American Party is the true
Union party of the country that as such, it knows
mo north no south, no east, west" that it
stands, and will continue to stand, firmly and faith
fully by the Constitution and all its sacred guaran
tees that it recognizes the compromise enactments
of 1850 as 'fnal settlement in principle and sub
stance, of all the distracting questions embraced
therein" and it stands pledged to take care that
this settlement shall neither be directly opposed
with success, insidiously undermined, or treated
with cold Indifference, either by ourselves or by
those connected with us politically, either now or
hereafter; that in regard to all these questions so
happily adjusted six years since we are resolved to
prove ourselves in all respects the friends Of peace
and the promoters of concord that we will neither
participate in the public agitation of these ques
tions ourselves or encourage the agitation of them
on the part of Others either in the halls of Con-
gress, in legislative bodies elsewhere, in popular
assemblages that we regard all who do thus agi-
tate encourage agita tion, in connection with all
or any of the questions thus wisely and happily