have marked a new era in
the history of the country, by bringing a new political
organization into the approaching Presidential canvass, I take
the occasion to reaffirm my full confidence in the patriotic
purposes of that organization, which I regard as springing out
of a public necessity, forced upon the country, to a large
extent, by unfortunate sectional divisions, and the dangerous
tendency of those divisions towards disunion. It alone, in my
opinion, of all the political agencies now existing, is
possessed of the power to silence this violent and disastrous
agitation, and to restore harmony by its own example of
moderation and forbearance. It has a claim, therefore, in my
judgment, upon every earnest friend of the integrity of the
Union.

So estimating this party, both in its present position and
future destiny, I freely adopt its great leading principles as
announced in the recent declaration of the National Council at
Philadelphia, a copy of which you were so kind as to enclose
me, holding them to be just and liberal to every true interest
of the country, and wisely adapted to the establishment and
support of an enlightened, safe, and effective American policy,
in full accord with the ideas and the hopes of the fathers of
our Republic.

I expect shortly to sail for America; and, with the blessings
of Divine Providence, hope soon to tread my native soil. My
opportunity of comparing my own country and the condition of
its people with those of Europe, has only served to increase my
admiration and love for our own blessed land of liberty, and I
shall return to it without even a desire ever to cross the
Atlantic again.

I beg of you, gentlemen, to accept my thanks for the very
flattering manner in which you have been pleased to communicate
the results of the action of that enlightened and patriotic
body of men who composed the late Convention, and to be assured
that

I am, with profound respect and esteem,

Your friend and fellow-citizen,

MILLARD FILLMORE.

Messrs. Alex. H. H. Stuart, Andrew Stewart, Erastus Brooks, E.
B. Bartlett, Wm. J. Eames, Ephraim Marsh, _Committee_.

WHO IS ANDREW J. DONELSON?

This gentleman being now the nominee of the American party for the
offic