[The President (Hon. J. W. DAVIS) was not present, having been obliged to retire from the chair, in consequence of illness and hoarseness, on the last half day of the session.] On motion of Mr. THOMPSON, of Mississippi, the convention adjourned sine die. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE. The following gentlemen were announced as members of the Democratic National Committee: Maine-Hastings Strickland. North Carolina-Warren Winslow. Mississippi-S. R. Adams. Missouri-Ferdinand Kennett. Arkansas-N. B. Burrow. Michigan-T. T. Brodhead. N. B.-On the forty-seventh ballot Ohio gave one vote for Lynn Boyd, and on the fortyeighth ballot two votes for Boyd. On the forty-eighth ballot Tennessee gave one vote for J. R. Ingersoll, of Connecticut. 8 13 27 6 13 26 7 13 7 13 34 26 8 13 26 8 13 26 9 13 3 1 CORRESPONDENCE. Letter to General Pierce. CONCORD, June 17, 1852. SIR: A National Convention of the democratic republican party, which met in Baltimore the first Tuesday in June, unanimously nominated you as a candidate for the high trust of President of the United States. We have been delegated to acquaint you with the nomination, and earnestly to request that you will accept it. Persuaded, as we are, that this office should not be pursued by an unchastened ambition, it can never be refused by a dutiful patriotism. The circumstances under which you will be presented for the canvass of your countrymen are propitious to the interests which the constitution entrusts to our federal Union, and must be auspicious to your own fame. You come before the people without the impulse of personal wishes, and free from all selfish expectations. You are identified with none of the distractions which have recently disturbed our country, whilst you are known to be faithful to the constitution-to all its guarantees and compromises. You will be free to exert your tried abilities, within the path of duty, in protecting that repose we happily enjoy, and in giving efficacy and control to those cardinal principles that have already illustrated the party which has selected you as its leader-principles that regard the security and prosperity of the whole country, and the paramount power of its laws, as indissolubly associated with the perpetuity of our civil and religious liberties. The convention did not pretermit the duty of reiterating those principles, and you will find them prominently set forth in the resolutions it adopted. To these we respectfully invite your attention. It is firmly believed that to your talents and patriotism the security of our holy Union, with its expanded and expanding interests, may be wisely trusted, and that, amid all the perils which may assail the constitution, you will have the heart to love and the arm to defend it. With congratulations to you and the country upon this demonstration of its exalted regard, and the patriot hopes that cluster over it, we have the honor to be, with all respect, your fellow-citizens, Hon. FRANKLIN PIERCE, of New Hampshire. J. S. BARBOUR, J. THOMPSON, PIERRE SOULE. |