═══════════════════════════════╤═════════╤════════ │ 1st │ 2d │ Ballot. │ Ballot. ───────────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────── M. Fillmore, New York │ 71 │ 179 George Law, New York │ 27 │ 24 Garrett Davis, Kentucky │ 13 │ 10 John McLean, Ohio │ 7 │ 13 R. F. Stockton, New Jersey │ 8 │ ―― Sam. Houston, Texas │ 6 │ 3 John Bell, Tennessee │ 5 │ ―― Kenneth Raynor, North Carolina │ 2 │ 14 Erastus Brooks, New York │ 2 │ ―― Lewis D. Campbell, Ohio │ 1 │ ―― John M. Clayton, Delaware │ 1 │ ―― ═══════════════════════════════╧═════════╧════════ After the 2d ballot, Mr. Fillmore was unanimously declared the nominee, and on the 1st ballot Andrew Jackson Donelson, of Tennessee, who was the adopted son of General Jackson, was nominated for Vice-President, receiving 181 votes to 8 for Governor Gardner, of Massachusetts, 8 for Percy Walker, of Alabama, and 8 for Kenneth Raynor, of North Carolina. The following platform was then unanimously adopted: 1. An humble acknowledgment of the Supreme Being, for his protecting care vouchsafed to our fathers in their successful Revolutionary struggle, and hitherto manifested to us, their descendants, in the preservation of their liberties, the independence and the union of these States. 2. The perpetuation of the Federal Union and Constitution, as the palladium of our civil and religious liberties and the only sure bulwark of American independence. 3. Americans must rule America; and to this end native-born citizens should be selected for all State, Federal and municipal offices of Government employment, in preference to all others. Nevertheless, 4. Persons born of American parents residing temporarily abroad should be entitled to all the rights of native-born citizens. 5. No person should be selected for political station (whether of native or foreign birth) who recognizes any allegiance or obligation of any description to any foreign prince, potentate, or power, or who refuses to recognize the Federal and State Constitutions (each within its sphere) as paramount to all other laws as rules of political action. 6. The unqualified recognition and maintenance of the reserved rights of the several States, and the cultivation of harmony and fraternal good-will between the citizens of the several States, and, to this end, non-interference by Congress with questions appertaining solely to the individual States, and non-intervention by each State with the affairs of any other State.