The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-08
Letter from President Johnson.
THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IN 1850,

THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IN 1850
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says the following
letter from President johnson to Hon. George
W. Jones, formerly member of Congress from
Tennessee, has been captured at the SOUTH
WASHINGTON CITY, March 80, ls6O.-You,
no doubt, have seen Davis and Browns resOlu.
tons in reference to the power OF Congress over
the subject OF slavery IN the Territories and the
passage oil a slave code etc. Davis is trying to
cut under Brown, but, in fact, it is the same
thing. For my own part, can see no good that
is to come out vi them at this zine, except diyi-
sion and distraction OF the Democratic party.
"As to laying down tenets Tor the Democratic
party, in the shape OF ab5ti act principles or the
mere passage OF resolutions by the Senate,
think 1T Is not part OF its official duty. Ii the
Senate assumes the prerogative OF putting the
slavery plan6 into the Dem Jcratic platform
which il to be adopted at Charleston, l do not
see any good reason why 1t should not make
whole, and hand 1t over TO the Convention In
a complete and perfect form, and save the Con-
vention the trouble oil performing the work; and
then go one step tnrher, and nominate the can
dIdate of the party, and make the people take
the nomination without regard to his being
ceptable or not. confess that l am sick and
tired OF proceedings o this kind.
''lhe whole Senate, both sides, think, are
aspirants Tor Ine Presidency at this time, and
how many outside the Senate the Lord only
knows And IN the means employed to be Presi-
dent the n,erest and will of the people seem to
be the last thing thought OF or consulted.
douglas and friends are making desperate
effort, and he will go into the convention
stronger than any one man. Some here, who
assume to be pos ed no in matters of this kind,
say that he cannot be nominated, and ii nomi
nate6 cannot oe elected, and that he Will when
he ascertalns this fact, become magnanimous
from necessity, and withdraw from the contest,
and dictate the nomination, and leaving himself
q living candidate with some chance of success
in 1864; that he would prefer a course of that
kind TO success before the convention in the
spring and defeat before the people in Novem-
Der. II Douglas cannot be nominated, the
nomination will fall upon some Southern
man, and tnat Southern man will be
the man who can come nearest to carrying
TO his friends IN convention. The man, not the
strongest man in the South, but the man who
can carry the South, and is acceptable to the
Northwestern and Northern democracy, is the
man in the South who will get the nomination, If
it falls upon Southern man. My opinion Is now
that if the Convention incorporate some ne "
planks into the platform, and the friends of Mr..
Douglas find he cannot be nominated thev will
withdraw, and make an independent nomina-
ton, and run him upon their own hook
Jefferson DAVIS, OF Mississippi, Is burning up
with ambition, and is nearer consumed by an
internal heat than any man ] ever saw, except
John Slidell, of Louisiana. What JEFF. will do il
he is not nominated, God only knows. Old
Buck seems for the candidates by turns-some
times for one and then for another, and so on.
/ think he is always for the weakest man. until
he comes to run up, and then he Is for The next
weakest hoping that they will be strong enough
to defeat nomination. and then it will devolve
on the convention to nominate him, yet he dis
believes it all the time. | am your friend,
ANDREW JOHNSON"