Year: 1860

On the l4th Of August, lS47, says the S


F. Nation, a meeting was held at Lexington


Kentucky, for the purpose of seectnga can


didate to defeat the Democracy. John c.


Breeknridge took an active part in that


meeting, and was chosen one of a Committed


to draft resolutions The following are the


resolutions which he and others of that Com


mittee presented, and which were subse


quenty adopted by the meeting:


Resolped, That is desirable that the next
President of the United States be man OF
ability, integrity and modera ion and at the
same time acceptable to the great body of the
people of the Union


ResoIred, That this meeting deplores and
disapproyes of the excess of party feeling and
violence which have separated the people of
the United States, and that they believe tn t
the true interest of the country will he pro-
noted by elevating to the Presidency a man
who shall feel himself to be the President of
the whole people and not of party; "who
will not be the candidate of any party, nor
lend himself to parry schemes"


Resolved That Cen Zachary Taylor pos
sesses these qualifications in an elniLent de-
gree, and in the opinion of this meeting will
if elected, discharge the duties pertaining to
the Executive Department of the Govern
ment with honesty, sagaeity and trmuess,
and contribute all the weight of his great
name to the wise settlement of the new and
momentous questions which are about to
come before the country; therefore,


RcSoLred That this meeting, assembled
without distinction of parties, do nominate
General Zachary Taylor to be the next Pres
ident of the United States, and recommend
similar nominations by his friends throughout
the State of Kentucky.


ReSoEved, That this meeting recommend a
mass meeting Of the friends of Gen. Taylor,
without distinction of party to assemble at
the Court House in lexington next court
day, Sept 13,) and that committee of i've
be appointed to prepare and report an ad-
dress to said meeting setting forth the pro-
priety and Importance of electing him 10 the
Presidency.


This meetiag then adjourned to meet on the
18th of the next month. The committee ap
pointed to prepare an address consisted of
John c. Breckinridge, Geo. B. Kinkead
Henry johnson, Sam'l d. Mccullough, E. X.
Sayre, F. X. Hunt. At the adjourned meet
ing, this committee presented the following.
which we copy from the close of the address:


Fellow CITIZENS s:-Politieians, designing
and selfish men, who hope to ride on the
storm they raise and corrupt Press which
derives its support from the bad passions it
awakens against your neighbors, will urge
you to abandon man in whose elevation
they will sink into insignifcance. They will
tell you he can't be a patriot who goes for
the whole country and not for part. They
will denounoe the man who prefers the good
Of the country to their good tells them
plainly that he will have nothing to do with
them, and that he will consent to be the can
didate for the Presidency only at the call Of
the people 1t is noble stand that the old
veteran hero has taken before the world
Not on the frontiers of the West-not in the
swamps of Florida mot in the gorges of
Mexico no, never did he present himself so
sublime a man as when Ainging from him the
puny and miserable demagogues who hasten
ed to hang about his skirts. He proclaimed
that he would keep himself free from the do
minion of factions and parties, and be the
President Of the nation or else not he Presi-
dent at all. We are on the verge Of a contest
with factious politicians on one side and the
people on the other.


Fellow citizens, we call upon you to break
the bands which have Lound you, which
have made you forget the country for your
party, and the good of the nation for the
success of your leaders. Call to mind that
you are brehern, with common country
and common destiny. That destiny is at
your bidding. Rally to your place beneath
the standard of the only man in the Union
who has dared to declare himself indepen-
dent of politicians and factions, and refuses
the highest office in the world except at
your hands.