Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-21
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MONDAY. APRIL 81, 1855.
e;..5idaIe. aud their AnacccdenI..

Candidates aud their Antecedents.
The letter of Andrew Jackson Donelson, &C.
cepting the nomination for the Vice Presidency
BY the late Philadelphia Convention. is published
iu the Richmond Wing. 1t is dated Tulip Grove
near Nashville, Tenn, March so, 1856. Having
got out of patience waiting for response to be
Published at the same time from his fugitive
slave coadjutor upon the ticket, the Major has
launched forth his missile, 'solitary and alone,"
for criticizing world to pick at. And what
singular document it is for an american" to
put forth, as the embodiment of what once
the National American partys Not one word is
in it in defence of or even in reference to those
pretended great American principles which had
been so much preached as the corner stone Of
their organization. The only issue presented in
it consists, in the general charge against the
present administration, Of "seattering the seeds
of sectional strife and social anarchy" The
greatest political evil he sees, is the prevalence
to some extent, of the dangerous element of Stree
soil'' among the Democratic party of the North
His grand charge against his old political associ~
ates is, that secession, notification, ABoLI-
TIoN, and all other isms have found shelter
under the flag of democracy" The evils Of
being overrnn by emissaries of the "Romish
Church." enter not in the least into his prophetic
forebodings.
To show the antecedents of Major Donelson on
the American question, we quote the following
from an editorial of his in the Washington Union
of May 81, 1851. Is there any evidence of his
having modified them?
1--WE (Andrew Jackson Donelson,1 are glad
to see thts emigration from the Old World. 1t
brings to as the physical force zoe need to fell
the forest and build our improvements. We
haze get, and ,csU hare for many long years,
scope, and range enough for their Industry and
enterprise. But it was not our intention to
discuss this branch of the subject at the pres
ent time. The native party is now PROSTATE,
and it will be time enough to commence the
discussion when another attempt is made BY
THE FEDERALIsTs TO REVIVE THE PRINCIPLES
OF TAE ALIEN LAWS"
In perfect accordance with the position of this
bogus American candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency, IS that of lMiIard Fillmore himself, as
defined in letter written by him, dated June II,
lS4S in which he said, in reply to letter from
committee of Native Americans of Boston, ask
ing for his views:
"A wing convention, without solicitation
on my part, has generously taken me on trust,
and if there be any other sect or party that
has sufficient confidence in my patriotism and
integrity, to give me their support on the same
conditions, shall be grateful for the favor;
but must say to all, that my past conduct is
the only pledge can giue for my future course
/ must lie at liberty, when called upon to act,
to do what think is right"
To be consistent herewith, should Mr.. Fill
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ton, he must ask likewise to accept it s'upon
trust without any "pledge but his past conduct"
as to his "future course That ''past conduct"
of course, would now consist mainly, of his sig
nature to the Fugitive Slave Bill, and his truck
ling subserviency to slavery generally. He has
no decided antcedents on any other issue.
Considering what were the loud NATIVE" pro-
fessions of the American party, South, previous to
the Philadelphia Convention, and that that body
was completely under Southern control and man
agement, the result of its action, in nominating
sneh candidates, cannot be considered in any
other light than as a reputation of all the before
protested distinctive principles of the American
party and as tantamount to a dissolution of the
party itself. The entire responsibility for what
course the seceders from the Philadelphia
body may take under the circumstances, must of
course rest with those who dissolved the party
by palming off upon the country, as American
candidates, those renegade politicians and embod-
iments Of the slave power, Fillmore and Dene-
son, who were put up without one single qualif-
cation except that they pledged to be true
to the slave interest. The Southern Americans
having combined in the way they have by max
ing the slavery question the paramount issue, no
other course is left for their Northern brethren
but to accept of that proposition in good faith,
meet them on their own ground, make that
same question the paramount issue, and unite on
that basis with all the other friends of freedom
throughout the North, waving whatever opin-
ions they may hold upon the American issue un-
til the other is settled. The next news we hear
from the South,ma be that the Pierce and Fill
more forces have formally united on candidates,
as they have done for some time on platforms
Let us at the North manifest the same wisdom
in our plan of action.