The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-08
Seward on the Republican Nomination,
ORGANS OF THE DEFEATED,


The following letter was addressed by
Gov. SEWARD to the Central Republican
Committee of New York city, who had in
vited him to attend meeting for the ratif-
cation of the nominations recently made by
the Chicago Convention:
.. ...t H.. !. AUBURN, May 81, 1860.
GENTLEMEN IL will not affect to conceal
the sensibility with which have read the
letters in which you and so many other re-
spected friends have rendered to me expires,
sions of renewed and enduring confidence.
These letters will remain with me as assur.
ances in future years, that although was
not unwilling to wait even for another age
the vindication of my political principles,
yet that they did nevertheless receive the
generous support of many good, wise and
patriotic men of my own time. Such assur-
ances, however, made under the circumstan.
ces now existing, derive their priceless value
largely from the fact that they steal upon
me thr rough the channels of private cores
pondence 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 take them in any public or
conventional form of manifestation. For
this reason if it were respectful and consist
ent for your own public purposes, would
have delayed my reply to you until could
have had an opportunity OF makingi it ver-
bally, next week, on my way to Washington,
after completing the arrangements for the
repairs upon my dwelling house here, rem
dered necessary by 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 nominations which have Just been made
by the National Republican Convention at
Chicago. At the same time it is your right
to have frank and candid expression of
my own opinion and sentiments on that
important subject. My friends know
very we'll that while they have always
generously made my promotion to public
trusts their own exclusive care, mine has
only been to execute them faithfully, so as
to be able at the close of their assigned
terms to resign them into the hands of the
people without forfeiture of the public con-
fidence. The presentation of my name to
the Chicago Convention was thus their act,
not mine. The disappointment, therefore,
is theirs, not mine. 1t may have found them
unprepared. On the other hand have no
sentiment either of disappointment or of
discomfort for, who, in any possible case
could, without presumption, claim that a
great national party ought to choose him
for it's candidate for the first Office in the
gift of the American people?
find in the resolutions of the Conven-
tion platform as satisfactory to me as if
it had been framed with my own hands,
and in the candidates adopted by it, eminent
and able Republicans with whom I have
cordially co-operated in maintaining the
principles embodied in that excellent creed.
l cheerfully give them a sincere and earnest
support. trust, moreover, that those with
whom I have labored so long that common
service in noble cause has created between
them and myself relations of personal friend
ship unsurpassed in the experience of polit>
ical men, will indulge me in confident
belief that no sense of disappointment will
be allowed by them to hinder or delay, or in
any way embarrass, the progress Of that
cause to the consummation which is de.
manded by patriotic regard to the safety
and welfare of the country and the best in
terests of mankind. ..-. [,'-.+.....
o.. WIN. H. SEWARD.
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