White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-07

1no IOilOWlng letter mas Oeen addressed
BY Mr. Seward to the gentlemen Of the
Central Republican COMMITTEES, who in
vitsd him to sttend meeting for the rat
ifcatiOu Of the proceedings Of the National
Convention
AuBURH, May 81, 1850.
GESrLEMEH: / will not affect to Goa
ceal the sensibility with which / have re-
ceived the letters in which you and 50
many other respected friends have tender,
ed to me expression of renewal and en-.
during confidence. These letters will re-
main with me as assurances in future years
that although was not unwilling to
await even for another age the vindicstion
of my political principles. yet they did
nevertheless receive the generous support
of many good, wise and patriotic men oil
my own time.
Such are the assurances, however, made
under the circumstances now existing. de-
rive their priceless value largely from the
fact that they steal upon me through the
channels of private correspondence, and
altogether unknown to the world. You
will at once perceive that such expressions
would become painful to me. and justly
offensive to the country. If ] should be
allowed to partake in any public or con-
ventional form Of manifestation. For
this reason, If it were respectful and con-
sistent for your own public purposes, /
would have delayed my reply to yon an
til l could have had an opportunity Of
making it verbally next week on my way
to Washington. after completing the ar
rangements for the repairs upon my dwell
ling. rendered necessary by a recent fire.
The same reason determines me also
to decline your kind invitation to attend
the meeting in which you propose some
demonstrations of respect to myself
While so justly considering the nomina-
tions which have just been made by the
National Convention at Chicago. At
the same time it is your right to have
frank and candid expression Of my own
opinions and sentiments on that impor-
tant subject.
Ny friends know very well that while
they have always generously made my
promotion to public trusts their own ex-
elusive care, mine has only been to exc
cute them faithfully, so as to be able at
the close of their assigned terms to re-
sign them into the hands of the people
without forfeiture of the public conf
dence.
The presentation Of my name to the
Chicago Convention was thus their act
not mine. The disappointment, there
fore, theirs, not mine. II may have
found them unprepared. On the other
hand. have no sentiment either Of disap-
pointment or discomfort for who. in any
possible case, could presumption claim
that great national party ought to choose
him for its candidate for the first Office in
the gift of the American people? find
in the resolutions of the Convention a
platform as satisfactory to me rs if it had
been framed with my own hands; and
in the candidates adopted by it, eminent
and able Republicans. with whom have
heartily co-operated in maintaining the
principles embodied in that excellent
creed.
l cheerfully give them . sincere and
earnest support. l trust, moreover, that
those with whom have labored so long
that common service in a noble cause has
created between them and myself relations
Of personal friendship unsurpassed in the
of political men, will indulge
10 a confident belief that no sense of dis.
will be allowed by them to
hinder or delay. or in any way embarrasS
the progress of that cause 10 the cohsum
nation which is demanded by a patriot
&c regard to the safety and welfare of the
country and the best interest OF mankind.
(Signed) WIN. H. SEWARD.