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 the request to preside at meeting of por- ton oi my fellow citizens,- than whom no men possess stronger claims to my respect, my confidence, and my esteem.
 But let no one for moment suppose that, III thus yielding to the proprieties Of my po- sltion, am in the slightest degree influenced by fuke-warmness, much less hostility to the | success of the nominations 10 which 1t is the purpose of those you represent to respond. Tar, very far, is that from being the state of my feelings l have known Messrs. Polk md Dallas long and intimately. have had frequent opportunities for personal observa- ton of their conduct in the discharge of high and responsible public duties. The latter has, by my appointment, represented the country abroad with credit and usefulness They are both gentlemen possessed of high character, ol unfuestioned and unquestonable patriot ism and integrity, able to discharge the duties of the stations for which they have been re spectiVely nominated with advantage to. the country and honor to themselves. Concur ring with them in the main in the political principles by which their public lives have been hitherto distinguished, l am sincerely desirous for their success. am by no means unapprised of the occurrences remotely con- neeted with these nominations which have caused pain and modification in the breasts ofmany sincere friends throughout the Union, who have honored me by their continued and disinterestcd friendship.
 But am very sure that can also rely oil their past fidelity and honor for ready con- ,,c. cal creed, that no personal or private feelings should ever induce us to withhold our sup port from nominations, the success of which would be conducive to the permanent inte- rests of the country. Those, therefore. who think as 1 do, that its future welfare is, in a great degree, dependent upon the success of those great principles in the administration of the federal Government, which we have hitherto espoused, and in the respect 10 which the two great parties of the country have, for years, been divided, cannot, l am sure, fail to merge all minor considerations, in sincere and undisguised efforts to promote the suc- cess of the candidates of the demoratic party
 Having now said all that the occasion calls for in regard to the general objects of the meeting, 1 must be indulged in few parting words to the lon-hearted democracy of the city and county of New | York. Never be- fore has a public man been honored by the support of truer, firmer, or more disinterested friends than they have been to me. In pros perity have scarcely known where to find them; in diversity they have been with me always. Through evil and through good report, have found the masses of the New Y York democracy the same unobnusive, but unshrinking friends The happiest, by far the happiest, day in my whole political career, was that on which, on my return from Wash ington, they met me on the Battery, in the midst of storm of wind and rain, which would have kept fair weather friends at home, and extended to me, a private citizen like themselves, their hard hands, and opened their honest hearts in welcome as cordial as man ever received from man. They need no as~ surances to satisfy them that | shall be for ever thankful for their unsurpassed devotion to my welfare-they know that can never cease to cherish with grateful reeolleetions the honored relation of representative and constituent, which has existed between us for so long period, in such varied forms, and which is now forever closed.
 have the honor, gentlemen, to be very
 Respectfully your friend and ob't serv't,
 NJ. VAN BgREN. To Ganesvoort Melville, Richard B. Con-
 molly. Wm. A. Walker, and Wm. MeMur-
 ray, Esqrs., ComaQHce.