Speech of Mr. Norvell, of Michigan, of the Bill of Mr. Crittenden to Prevent the Interference of Certian Federal Officers in Elections (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...annoanensg to me my nomination for the Presidency, by a targe meeting of the Democratic citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, held at thai city on the 26ih ultimo, and ovt.r which you were the presiding officer. Thk deliberate expression of friendly feeling existing towards me by a large and respect-able portion of the citizens of your distinguished State has been received by me with emotions of profound gratitude, and, though it be a poor jet urn for such a high and unmet ited honor, I beg them to accept my heartfelt thanks. Concluding that this nomination, like alt others which I have had the honor of receiving from assemblages of my fellow-citizens in various parts of the Union, has been generously offered me without pledges or conditions, it is thankfally accepted; and I beg you to assure my friends m whose behalf you are acting, that should it be my Sot to ill the office for which I have been nominated, it shaU be my unceasing effort, in the discharge of its responsible duties, to give satisfaction to my countrymen. With assurances of my high esteem, 1 have the honot? tobe your obedient servant, Z. TAYLOK, To W. li. PitrNGLH, Esq. Comment upon these letters is unnecessary We have in one of them the most positive dec larations, and in the other the acceptance of a nomination utterly inconsistent with his position as a party candidate of the Whigs. As if to remove all chance for misunderstanding what he intended in saying he would not be a " party candidate," General Taylor has defined i his meamng in his second letter to Captain Allii son, dated East Pascagoula, September 4, 1848. 1 find the extract in the speech of the honorable Senator from Connecticut, and present it precisely as it is there: I have said I am not a...