New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-19

a. L. LINZ
BALLsToN Sra, Oct. ], 1872
Hos LIss The Wig congressonal co9zsn,i0n
unanimously nominated You The Candidate to rep esen
, said Ds 10 ne G o e
TO Inform You OF your nomination, and Eeeue'' you az
cep,ance Of The same.
S0'F I flss's9s iSseo'6trH, Chairman.
scHssEc7ApY, Oct 4, 1912
DEAR Sir: ! have this day received your let
TER. as Chairman of the Wing Congressional Son-
vention for the 10th District, informing me OF my
nomination a. n candidate for Congress, and re-
questing my acceptance.
cannot do Justice to my own feelings, without
embracing the occasion to convey to the respecta-
BILE Convention, whose organ you are, and the in
teligent and patriotic people they represent my
heartfelt acknowledgements for this expression
of confidence and favor. And when l remember,
that on The part of the people Of the Counties OF
Saratoga and Schenectady, this is a renewal Of
Kindness 10 which the people of Fulton and
Hamilton, (among whom am comparatively
stranger,) have mos. generously contributed,
can find no language with which to express the
debt Of gratitude which shall ever owe them
You, Sir, whose confidence and kindness it has
long been my happiness to enjoy will do me the
Justice to say, that the nomination which is so
unanimously rendered, was not only unsought, but
until within few days, unexpected by me. In
large District, yielding to no other in the number
OF its men OF distinguished talent, and ardent and
patriotic attachment to the cause we espouse,
had reason to hope that some other than myself
would have been selected This renders the dis
tinction you profer doublv valuable, and claims
my acceptance.
Short and humble as has been my public ca
reer, my political opinions are too well knewn to
Ihao c:r,1o n
tended for in 1910, and which so sgnalized that
glorious conflict, have lost none Of their value
with me. The delays and defeats they have un-
dereone, have never, for one moment discouraged
or disheauened, but on the contrary, the very
,rcachery they have suffered, has fortified the eff
forts Of friends and exposed and disarmed the OPP
position of enemies. AS adversely comes to
good man to chasten, and purify, and strengthen,
so the protracted discussions which these meas
ures hnve elected, and the severe trials through
which they have been doomed to pass at the
hands of open enemies and per6dious friends,
have proved and tested their value, have more
and commended them to the confidence of
the country, and will soon insure their final and
lasting success.
Industrious and faithful as has been the major
ity in the present Congress, and much as it has
accomplished in reducing the expenditures and
reforming the abuses of government, it need not
and ought not to be disguised, that most Of the
great questions which have agitated the country
for several years past remain unsettled; all the
issues, with few exceptions, successfully deter
mined in 1910, have been either wholly postponed
or imperecty executed, and are again presented
10 the people for re-tria With the history and
causes of the defeat Of these measures the people
we'll acquainted. The protracted sufierings
which they are still enduring, as the fruits Of de-
ranged currency, an unsettled system Of revenue,
and the want of the protection and bencfcence of
government, will long keep the subject uppermost
in their mind s-the ruin and distress now visited
upon every occupation in life, and the utter pros
traton of every interest in the country, point to
causes easily discoverable by men of ordinary in
telligence. They will be found in the unfortu-
nate coincidence of the measures of the party
having at and the same time the numerical
strength IN the State, and the power for every
practical civil purpose, lodged in the treacherous
bosom of John Tyler, in the General Govern
ment. 1t was, ] repeat it, an unfortunate coinci-
dence for the people, that the majority at Albany
and the minority at Washington, should have been
able alike 10 postpone and undo, and by its affirm
alive action ut one place, and its negative at the
other, TO have accomplished ends alike disastrous
10 the eoantry. The administration of John Ty
Ter has shed blight and mdew every where, bu,
has rained hai-stones upon the great State of
New-York, and visited a greater degree of suffer
ing upon her people, than upon any other. II
was matron Queen of England who said, that
the greatness of Prince consisted in the riches
ot his subjects, Not SO have said tho powers that
exist IN the person of Mr.. Tyler at Washington
and the rax-laycrs at Albany. Their greatness
at amy consists the poverty and distress of the
people.
1t Is IN View OF the present state Of the coun
try, and the great measures which can alone le-
store IT To prosperity, that the coming election be-
comes equa! in Importance with any which has
preceded it.
The great question of the Currency still re-
mains unsettled. We exhibit the strange spec,a-
Gle OF a large and extensive commercial country
IN which the great extremes meet in trade as they
do IN all the sympathies of common ancestry
common interests and hopes yet having no me
dtnfn Of exchange, no national circulating me
dtn,a All the efforts OF the present Congress, 10
this end, have proved abortive. In the ful6lment
OF our pledges 10 The people, we have passed TWO
bills, either of which would have restored sound
ana uniform currency, with many of its attendant
benefits yet this indispensable measure is with
held How little is TO be expected for this meas
ure, during the present administration, need not
toreteii Having no ptedilection for Bank of
the United States except so far as an institution
properly bearing such title, is Indispensable, my
weii.setued convictions, that prosperity can never
aolde with US, without the interference of the Gov
esninent in the regulation of the currency and ex-
I''anses, VIII force upon me the duty to lend my
ee eoof's IN aid OF any measure, whatever be
- 1T' "nch Will accomplish so desirable an
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were many OF its provisions ~