WAsaINeToN, Jan. 5. lS43.
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NAsdINGTON, Jan. 8, lS43.


GsnHsmen-I have received your letter,
requesting permission to.present my name
10 the People, as Candidate for the Office
Of President Of the United States. subject to
The future wise deliberate action of the Wing
National Convention of l844'


Il would be disingenous to withhold an
expression of the grateful feelings awakened
by letter containing such request. SO ve-
ry numerously sIgned, and coming from
among those who have known me through
life No Que can be insens.ble 10 the dis
tinclion Of being regarded, by any respecla
bic number of mis- fellow-citiZens, AS among
those from whom a choice for President
mi ght be made, with honor and safety to the
country


The Office Of the President is an office.
the importance Of which cannot De 100 high
ly estimated He who fills it, necessarily
exercises a great influence. not only on all
the domestic interests of the country, on lis
foreign relations. and the support of its hon
or and character among the nations OF the
earth, but on that, which is of the very high
est import to the happiness of the people, the
maintainance of the Constitution itself, and
the prosperous continuance of the govern
IDGOt uuuGI IL


~Our systems are peculiar; and while ca
pable, as experience has shown, OF produ-
cling the most favorable results. under wise
and cautious administration, they are never
lheless exposed to peculiar dangers. We
have SIX and twenty states, each possessing
within itself powers of government, limited
only bv the Constitution otthe United States !;
and we have general government, 10 which
are confided nigh trusts, to be exercised
for the benefit os the people of all the States.


Ii is obvious, that this division of powers,
itself the result of a novel and most delicate
political operation. can be preserved only by
the exercise of wisdom aud pure patriotism


The Constitution OF the United States
stands on the basis of the peoples choice.
IL must remain on that basis. so long as il
remains at ALL The veneration and love-
which are entertained for it, will be increas-
ed. bv every instance of wise. prudent, i'm
partial and parental administration. Oar
other hand, they will be diminished by eve
ry admin stralion, which shall cherish To-
cal divisions. devote itself TO local interests
seek to bend the influence of the Govern
nent to personal partizan purposes. or which
shall forget that all patriotism is false and
spurious, which does not look with equal
eve to the interests Of the whole country and
ali us parts, present and 10 come.