At a meeting of the citizens of Hamilton County, Tennessee, at the Court House in Dallas,
on the 24th day of February 1835, for the purpose of expressing their sentiments on the
subject of the next Presidential election; and of indicating their preference for some one
of the gentlemen who are candidates for that distinguished office; and also expressive of
their approval of and confidence in the measures of the present administration.
Samuel Igon Esq was appointed Chairman, and Benjamin B. Cannon was appointed
Secretary.
The meeting was called to order by the Chairman, and addressed by T. Nixon
Van Dyke Esq. at some length, in his usual style of fevered feeling and strain of nervous
eloquence.
A Committee of eleven were appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the
meeting
who submitted the following resolutions, which were
read and adopted without a
dissenting voice.
"The noblest motive is the Public good."
Resolved, therefore, that we, the citizens of the county of Hamilton in the State of
Tennessee, with a view to acquire the perpetuity of our free institutions, and the peace
and happiness of ourselves, and posterity; advance the prosperity of our beloved country;
and to promote and sustain the regular and successful action of the Government of our
choice and pride, do recommend the Hon. Hugh L. White of Tennessee, to the people
of the United States for President, as the best guarantee for the advancement
of their best
interests and highest
political happiness, in preference to any of the candidates before
the people.
Resolved, That the course pursued by Hugh L. White at all times, and in all stations of
private and public trust, has met our entire approbation, that both in the relations private
life, and in the high and responsible stations, he has at various times occupied, he has
always sustained himself by the force or his intellectual powers and moral worth, superior
to the emergency; with a character so pure as to hear the fiery furnace of public scrutiny,
unscathed and unspotted, that although often weighed, he has never been found wanting.
Resolved, That we most earnestly, and zealously, but respectfully, invite the co-operation
of every good and honest man in the United States葉he sturdy, manly farmer葉he
useful, ap nned artisan葉he gay and enterprising merchant葉he light-hearted and merry
sailor, and last though not least, the members of professionals of all orders, with their
scientific kin謡e invite you all to go with us to the polls, "the people's majesty" and there
let us give our suffrage to the people's candidate, Hugh T. White.
Resolved, what we disapprove of, and will at all times discountenance. any man for
President of these United States, who would by word or action, rather than bulk his
ambition, tear this Republic limb from to limb洋ake her a broker's office容stablish a
system of monopoly whereby to raise a consolidated aristocracy, for the gain of the few,
and the oppression of the many.
Resolved, That the leading measures of the present administration, heretofore, have
met with our entire approbation葉hat from his Roman virtue, and republican patriotism,
the friends and advocates of civil liberty, have a right to participate that our present
venerable and illustrious Chief Magistrate whilst he presides at the helm the vessel of
state, will direct her course upon the principles of the Declaration of rights, and the
Federal Constitution; and that our most sincere gratitude, is, in a special manner, due
the great fountain of all good for the signal interposition of his providence in the
preservation of the President, in the late diabolical attempt made on his life.
Nashville Banner & Nashville Whig
- March 16, 1835