Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1857-05-15
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EX-GOVERNOR FooTE.


We perceive, from an address of the
ex-governor to the members of the Amer
lean party in California, that he has en-
tirely withdrawn from that organization.
He will support the administration of
Mr.. Buchanan, heartily and cordially.
He pays to the President, and to the
members o. his cabinet, the warm and
generous compliment. which their talents
and patriotic antecedcnts so justly de-
mand. His address will be read with
interest, and is as follows:
TO the Members of the american Party
az California;.
FELLow-cITIzENs | have received
within the last week or two several let
tiers from prominent and influential in
dividuals among you, asking my opinion
touching the expediency of continuing
the organization of the American party
in California for future political purposes;
and | have also received by the last
mail from the Atlantic States q formal
communication from the highest official
source known to the American party of
the Union, as national organization,
suggesting the propriety of immediate
steps being taken in this State for the
sending of delegates to the national
American convention, expected to as
semble few months hence in the city
of Louisville. Under such circumstan-
ces, trust it will not appear unseemly,
or be looked upon as an attempt
to dictate to others, if l make in
this form declaration of such views as
| conscientiously entertain upon this in
teresting subject. claim, of course,
no special influence or control over the
opinions or action of others, but desire
simply that there should be no mistake
in any quarter in reference to my own
particular attitude at moment so i'm
portant in the country's history as the
present, and especially that there should
be no misunderstanding on this point
among those with whom it has been my
honor to cooperate for several years
past, and from whom l should most re-
luctantly separate at this time.
The American party in California, as
| have always understood, was originally
set on foot by some of the most honest
and patriotic men | have ever known,
mainly fer the purpose of securing a
faithful execution of the compromise
measures of 1850, of suppressing the
agitation of the question of domestic
slavery, and preserving the UEion itself
from the dangers which seemed to men
ace it from the prevalence of feelings of
fierce sectional hostility in two opposite
quarters Of the confederacy. However
il may have been elsewhere, the Ameri-
can party in this State has been at all
times wholly untainted either with the
heresy of abolition or that of secession.
Universal religious liberation" has
been with us cardinal principle; and in
regard to the naturalization laws, we
have contented ourselves as party with |
insisting upon " judicious revision
thereof. Resolutions on these subjects,
and an avowal, in unequivocal language, |
of an earnest desire for the establishment |
of a railway from the Pacific ocean to
the Mississippi river, comprised almost
our whole distinctive party creed. We
Fillmore and Donelson in the
late presidential campaign, because UNI
der all existing circumstances we thought
that the great objects which we had at
heart wonld be more certainly attained
through their instrumentality. The
presidential contest is now with the his
tory of the past. Mr.. Pierce's admins
tration is at an end, and new and
bright era is visibly dawning upon u.s.
Mr.. Buchanan has been formally inaug-
nrated, and his cabinet officers have been
Amounted. His Inaugural Address has
been promulgated among his countrymen
md all fair-minded and rpprejudiccd
nUn mayt acknowledge 1t to DC Il fu7n'y7
lignifed, and patriotic document. ]
,annot but regard il as equal in merit TO
my production of the kind which has
emanated from the federal
since the days Of Washington.
Whilst there is nothing in it which
rave not been gratifed to read, there is
It the same time nothing that any rea-
onable man could have desired it 10
contain which is not to be found in some
,art Of that document, and expressed,
90, in language most luminous and for
,ible. 1t breathes throughout spirit
If genuine nationality and enlightened
and he dcnounces section
llism in manner 10 leave no doubt Of
lis inHexible determination TO maintain
he Union inviolate against all its enc
MES, wheresoever located. lie pledges
himself to do all in his power TO suppress
he dread question which has for so long
. period disturbed the peace, and put
he republic itself in jeopardy. He as
erts the old and approved doctrines of
he national democratic party Of the
Union, upheld by its members in the
lays OF Jefferson, of Jackson, and Of
Polk and he proclaims boldly and I'M
tho great principle Of nom
Intervention, as first promulgated by
jen. Cass in his Nicholson letter, and
imbodied in the democratic
platform Of 1913, and in the compromise
measure Of 1850, in the support Of which
| Clay, Webster, Cas-, and. "a Dick
nson established claims to the eternal
gratitude Of their countrymen. The new
President eyinces an afectionate and
,ruly statesmanlike eolicitude for tho
welfare and advancement Of our own ia
,orcd portion Of the continent, which
ihould call forth a grateful response from
very city, hamlet, and countrywide in
California.