TO THE DEMOCRATS OF PENNSYLVANIA
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lO LIE DEMOCRAIo 5 OF PENNSYLVANIA A

 FELLow-cITIzENs After long and se- rlous reflection, have resolved to withdraw my name from the list of Presidential candi dates to be presented before the democratic national convention. This resolution Ina. been dictated by an anxious desire to drive discord from the ranks of the party, and se- cure the ascendency of democratic principles both in the State and throughout the Union In arriving at this conclusion, have consult ed no human being. It is entirely my owr spontaneous act, and proceeds from the clear est and strongest conviction of duty.

 Whilst thus taking my leave, as your can didate for the presidential office, am anima- ted by'a sense of profound gratitude for the unanimity and enthusiasm with which you have urged my elevation to the highest office on earth. This feeling shall remain engra- ven on my heart until time for me shall be no longer.

 When, in January last, the democratic members of our State Legislature, in their let ter addressed to me, ''presented my name to the Union as Pennsylvania's favorite candid ate for the Presidency" l made some obser- vations in my answer, to which desire to recall your attention then stated, that if the democracy of Pennsylvania ssshould re- solve to offer my name to the national con- vention as a candidate for the Presidency, with that degree of unanimity which could alone give moral force to their recommends tion, felt that l ought not to counteract their wishes.o This, am proud to believe, they would do with unexampled unanimity :; at pnpro;uI,,ad ub< b,. .ol, served the current of political events since that period, must be convinced that even the great moral influence of Pennsylvania with her sister States would be exerted in vain to secure my nomination. Under such circum- stances, ought l, for any personal considera- tions, to suffer the great State which has be- slowed so many honors upon me to ask, the first time in her history, for a presidential candidate of her own, with certain convic- tion, on my part, that the request would not be granted Should be the means of plac- ing her democracy in false position, which yet their high sense of honor and the noble perseverance of their character might forbid them to abandon , To ask these questions, my heart tells me is to answer them in the negative. Every feeling of gratitude and of duty dictates that should leave them to de- eide, in the national convention, among the candidates whose prospects are more promi- sing.

 But still higher obligation rests upon me- In my letter, to which have already refer- red, l declare that s.the principles and the, success of the democratic party so immeasu- rably transcend in importance the elevation of any individual, that they ought not to be jeoparded, in the slightest degree, by perso-