Richmond Daily Times

LOUISIANA.

The Whig Convention for the purpose of nominating a candidate to represent the Fourth District in Congress was held at Alexandria (Rapides Parish) on the 28th ultimo. Two candidates were proposed—John Moore, of St. Martin, and John Ray, of Ouachita. The president of the convention (Oliver D. Stillman, of Ouachita) read a letter from Mr. Ray, withdrawing his name as a candidate. John Moore, of St. Martin, was then nominated by acclamation. The convention unanimously adopted the following preamble and resolutions:

Whereas, the late war with Mexico, which shed so much lustre on our arms, and resulted in such immense acquisitions of territory, left our national councils embarrassed with several questions of a delicate and dangerous character, calling for the utmost sagacity, foresight and forbearance on the part of our statesmen in Congress, and in the adjustment of which they have displayed, in the Senate chamber, a degree of wisdom and patriotism commensurate with the skill and valor of our great chieftains and brave soldiers in the field; and whereas, by the adoption by the last Congress, after a protracted and angry discussion, which had aroused the apprehensions of the friends of the Union for its safety, of the series of measures known as the "Compromise," the clouds which had darkened our political horizon have been happily dispersed and harmony restored in our distracted councils; therefore—

1. Be it Resolved, That we do heartily approve the legislation above referred to, and give all honour and praise to the enlightened and patriotic Senators and Representatives of whatever party or locality, who having originated and carried through these measures of conciliation and compromise, have, in our judgment, deserved well of their country.

2. That we are opposed to and will discountenance disunion and secession in any and every shape, whether from the North or South; and that we regard the preservation of the Union of the States as a sacred and permanent duty, which we owe to ourselves and to our posterity, to whom, God helping us, we will transmit unimpaired the noble heritage bequeathed us by the fathers of the Constitution.

3. That we have the fullest confidence in the patriotism, firmness, and ability of Millard Fillmore, the President of the United States, in whom we have for our Chief Magistrate, not "a northern man with southern principles," but a northern man with national principles, who in the administration of his high office will know no North, no South, no East, no West: but whose comprehensive patriotism is large enough to embrace his whole country.

4. That we ardently desire to see established and prosecuted by the General Government a judicious system of internal improvement, which we deem especially important for the northwest, whose great natural resources require imperatively, for their proper and speedy development, the establishment of such a system; and that we desire also the institution of specific duties, or an ad valorem assessment upon the home valuation for the present mode of assessing duties upon the values in the foreign markets.