course as a guaranty for the future is well-timed. _Sectional_
legislation he is opposed to; and sectional agitation he will use his
influence to suppress. We ask every man into whose hands this work shall
fall, to read this admirable letter for himself: it is worthy of the man
and the times; nay, it is the letter of a patriot and a statesman--

"Who for his country feels alone,
And loves her weal, beyond his own."

[COPY.]

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26th, 1856.

_To the Hon. Millard Fillmore_:

SIR:--The National Convention of the American party, which has
just closed its session in this city, has unanimously chosen
you as the candidate for the Presidency of the United States in
the election to be held in November next. It has associated
with you Andrew Jackson Donelson, Esq., of Tennessee, as the
candidate for the Vice-Presidency.

The Convention has charged the undersigned with the agreeable
duty of communicating these proceedings to you, and of asking
your acceptance of a nomination which will receive not only the
cordial support of the great national party in whose name it is
made, but the approbation also of large numbers of other
enlightened friends of the Constitution and the Union, who will
rejoice in the opportunity to testify their grateful
appreciation of your faithful service in the past, and their
confidence in your experience and integrity for the guidance of
the future.

The undersigned take advantage of this occasion to tender to
you the expression of their own gratification in the
proceedings of the Convention, and to assure you of the high
consideration with which they are yours, &c.

ALEXANDER H. H. STUART,
ANDREW STEWART,
ERASTUS BROOKS,
E. B. BARTLETT,
WM. J. EAMES,
EPHRAIM MARSH.

_Committee, &c._

PARIS, May 21st, 1856.

GENTLEMEN:--I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter informing me that the National Convention of the
American party, which had just closed its session at
Philadelphia, had unanimously presented my