Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-06-19
si4ILARp .FlLLMoRE's LETTER OF Ac-
W cAsANcR

\5, ,PAns MAY 81, 1856.
Genaemen1 hayetLeh honor to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letter, informing
me that the National Convention of the
American party, which has just closed its
session at Philadelphia, had unanimously
presented my name for the. Presidency Of
the United States, and associated with il
that of Andrew jackson Donelson for the
Vice Presidency. This unexpected COM
munication met me at Venice, on my return
from Italy, and the duplicate, mailed thir-
teen days later, was received on my arrival
in this city last evening.
This must account for my apparent neg
lect III giving more prompt reply.
You will pardon me for saying that, when
my administration closed in 1858, I consid-
cred my political life as public man at an
end, and thenceforth I was only anxious to
discharge my duty as private citizen
Hence have taken no active part in poll
tics, but l have by no means been an indif-
ferent spectator Of passing events nor have |
hesitated to express my opinion on all poll
tical subjects when asked, nor to give my
vote and private influence for those men and
measures thought best calculated to pro-
mote the prosperity and glory of our common
country. Beyond this, have deemed it i'm
proper for me to interfere.
BY this unsolicited and unexpected NOM
ination has been imposed upon me new
duty, from which cannot shrink and
therefore approving, as [ do, the general
objects of the party which has honored me
with its confidence, cheerfully accept its
prospects of success or defeat. It is suffi-
cient for me to know that by so doing I
yield to the wishes of large portion of my
fellow-citizens in every part of the Union,
whe, like myself, are sincerely anxious to
see the administration of our government
restored to that original simplicity and pu-
rity which marked the first years of it's ex-
istcnce, and, if possible, to quiet that alarm
ing sectional agitation which, while it de-
lights the monarchists Of Europe, causes
every true friend of our own country to
mourn.
Having the experience Of past services in
the administration of the Government, | may
be permitted to refer to that as the exponent
of the future, and to say, should the choice
Of the Convention be sanctioned by the peo-
pie. shall, with the same scrupulous re-
gard for the rights of every section of the
Union which then influenced my conduct,
endeavor to perform every duty confded by
the constitution and laws to the Executive.
As the proceedings Of the Convention
have marked new era in the history of the
country, by bringing new political organ
ization into the approaching Presidential
canvass, | take the occasion to reaffirm my
full confidence in the patriotic purposes of
that organization, which / regard as SPRING
ing out of a public necessity forced upon
the country to a large extent by unfortunate
sectional di1 RRisari~,..=-- -
1t alone, in M 0Rinion, of all the politi-
cal agencies now existing, is possessed of
the power to silence this violent and dis
astrous agitation, and to restore harmony
by its own example of moderation and for
bearance. It has claim, therefore, in my
Judgment, upon every earnest friend of the
integrity of the Union.
So estimating this party, both in it's pres
cnt position and future destiny, I freely a.
dept its great leading principles, as announc-
ed in the recent declaration of the National
Council in Philadelphia, a copy of which
you were so kind as to enclose me, holding
them to be just and liberal to every true in
terest of the country, and wisely adapted to
the establishment and support of an enlight-
ened, safe and effective American policy, in
full record with the ideas and the hope of
the fathers of our Republic.
I expect shortly to sail for America, and
with the blessings of Divine Providence
hope soon to tread my native soil. My oppor-
tunity of comparing my own country and the
condition of the people with those of Europe,
has only served to increase my admiration
and love of our blessed land of liberty, and I
shall return to it without even desire to
cross the Atlantic again.
beg of you, gentlemen, to accept my
thanks for the very fattering manner in
which you have been pleased to communi-
cate the result of that enlightened and pa
triotic body of men who composed the late
Convention, and to be assured that I am,
with profound respect and esteem, your
friend and fellow citizen,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
Messrs. Alexander II. H. Stuart, Andrew
Stewart, Erastus Brooks, E. B. Bartlett,
VIM. J. Eames and Ephraim Marsh,
Committee.
WHAT IS A TURNER ?-In the recent trial
of the German Turner's for riot, in Cincin-
natl some discussion arose as to the charac-
ter of the German Turner'S Society, when
Judge Stale, one of the counsel, said: