The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-29 00:00:00

GENERAL 2IPCLELLAN'S LETTER.

The following was General M'Clellan's letter to
the great mass meeting assembled in his honour at
New York on Monday night, the sth inst

" New York, Oat. 3, 1868.

"Douglas Taylor, Esq., chairman, &c.: My dear
have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt
of your invitation to preside over the Democratic
meeting of Monday next. I have long since de-
termined to abstain from further participation in
political life, and therefore find myself compelled to
decline the honour you proffer me. I should, how-
ever, be glad to attend. the meeting as a private
citizen did not engagements of a domestic nature,
rendered imperative by my long absence from the
city, upon the day in question, prevent. I gladly
avail myself of this opportunity to express my con-
tinued hearty sympathy with the Democratic cause,
and my ardent wishes for the success of those consti-
tutional principles for which the recent war was
undertaken by the North. Separated as I thus am
from the distinguished soldier who has been chosen
as the leader of our opponents, I know you will
agree with mein the highest respect for the services
he has rendered our country. But it is my convic-
tion that the measures of the party which has placed
him in nomination are but continuations of the
strife, and can never restore peace or constitutional
supremacy, and thereby complete the work he and
other brave soldiers so ably commenced. The war
was only the first epoch in the history of the
struggle in which we had been so long engaged. The
work of the soldier, I trust, is forever ended, and it
remains for the people to fulfil the great object for
which they or their sons and brothers were called
to the field—a restored union of States and hearts,
an invigorated Constitution, to be firmly and faith-
fully supported, the maintenance of national credit
inviolate, the re-establishment of national and State
rights in all their integrity, and thus true harmony
and a lasting peace. These are the objects for which
every citizen should now strive, and believing these
to rest in the success of the Democratic cause, by
the election of the eminent statesmen selected to re-
present the party, it is my intention to sustain that
cause as a private citizen. With the request that
you convey to the gentlemen of the committee and
my other friends, for whom you act my sincere
thanks for the compliment they have paid me, I am,
most truly, yours, _ _

GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN.

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that the importation of hay from the United States
is no longer interdicted, at least as regards Ireland.
This is the text :—" That from and after the 19th
inst, the Order in Council of the 15th of September
last, relative to hay which is shipped at or imported
from any port of the United States of. America, and
which is brought to or arrives at any port or place
in the United Kingdom, shall cease to apply to Ire-
land."
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