Congress, has been incontrovertibly established by
the history of that Church for ages, the avowals of Mr.
Brownson, the rebuke of Mr. Chandler by the Dublin Tablet, and
other overwhelming proofs.

"In concluding this letter, it would, perhaps, be proper to
dwell upon the claims of Messrs. Fillmore and Donelson to the
support of the American people of all parties; but their
characters are so well known, and I have already so extended my
remarks, that I deem it unnecessary to observe any thing more
than that Mr. Fillmore, by the faithful discharge of his duty,
won the most cordial approbation of his political enemies as
well as political friends, and had the confidence of the whole
country when he retired from office, and has done nothing since
to destroy it; while Maj. Donelson, as our Minister to Texas,
to Prussia, and to Denmark, sustained the dignity of our
country and acquitted himself with honor--denounced the
unhallowed proceedings of the Southern Convention--struggled
manfully, as the Democratic editor of the Washington Union, in
behalf of the Compromise, and never withdrew from it until May,
1852, when, so far as I understand his course from his public
acts, being unwilling to 'blow hot and cold' on the slavery
question, and to aid the Democratic party in wearing a Northern
and a Southern face, he indignantly retired from it, and
subsequently attached himself to the American party in the hope
that it could carry on his most cherished object--the
preservation of the Union.

"The object of selecting an old-line Whig and an old-line
Democrat, was to nail to the counter the charge that the
American party is the Whig party in disguise, and to induce, if
possible, conservative men of both the old parties to unite and
rescue the country from Democratic misrule.

"Hundreds, thousands of Democrats in Tennessee, acting upon
their own impulses and without concert with their leaders,
attached themselves to the American party, but under the abuse
of the leaders withdrew from it. Although, personally, I have
no claims upon the Democracy, and have been always opposed to
that party, yet I would respectfully observe that first
impressions are often the best, and if such Democrats will take
the trouble faithfully and honestly to examine t