JNO. w. LATHAM, !


VIM NORFLEET. Com
NATHL. H. STREET,
To Henry 8. Clark, Esq. -.
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Newbern, N. c., APrit 18Th IS45.


GENTLEMEN: acknowledge the recpt of your
Letter informing that the proceedings of the Con-
vehtion which was held in Washington on the 18th
instant resulted in my nomination as the Democrat
lc Candidate to represent the 9th Congressional
District, in the next Congress of the United States
You do me the kindness 10 express a hope that
will accept the trust thus placed in fay hands BY
the democratic party, and that would communicate
foyou my acceptance of the same, in order that il
may be made public. -


The honor thus conferred ueon me by the kind
ness and Partially of my democratic friends would
under any circumstances have made deep and
lasting impression upon my heat. But when 1
call TO mind the peculiar circumstances under
which 1t was bestowed-when- ] advert TO the fact
that every county in the district was represented in
the convention-ihat over one hundred delegates
were in attendance-that nearly all of them were
farmers who at this busy season of the YEAR left
their homes and their farms, in order to lend their
aid in efforts To secure the harmony and success
OF our party-when above all remember the zeal
in the cause, which seemed to, aetuate every bo-
som, my nomination has excited sensations
which am unable 10 describe, and which l. Gers
tainly never can foFget.4tW ere u ci more averse
than am TO engage in the strife and contenfoh of
political lite.s 4 could not reject a nomination
conferred upon me, Under ciicpmstanees Dwell
calculated 10 animate and encourage. i theTTe.
fore accept tie nomination, and IN return for