Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-06-01
LETTER FROM SENATOR SEWARD
HE ENDORSES TIE NOMINATIONS.

NE cNDOhsES The NOHlNATlOsSs
The following letter from WM II. SEWARD,
to the Republican Central Committee of New
York, which we find in the N. Y CONNER
cial Advertiser of yesterday, will be read
with interest. 1t shows the nobleness of
the man; will RAISE HIM higher than ever in
the esteem of his friends and justifes the
confluence which all who know him have re-
posed in his patriotism and his fealty to the
principles of the great party of which he is
prominent leader; and will give union and
vigor to all who wish and work for their
spread.
AUBURN, May q.
" Gentlemen-I will not affect to conceal the
sensblity with which I have received the letters
in which you and many other respected friends
have rendered to me expressions of renewed and
enduring confidence. These letters will remain
with me as assurances in future years that, al
though | was not unwilling to wait even for
another age the yindicaton of my political princ-
pies, yet that they did nevertheless receive tie
generous support Of many good, wise and patriotic
citizens Of my own timo.
Such assurances, however made under the cir
cumstances now existing, derive their priceless
value largely from the fact, that they steal upol
me through the channels of private correspondence
and altogether unknown TO the world. You viii
at once perceive that sucn expressions would be-
come painful to me, and Justly offensive to the
community, If they should be allowed TO take y
public or conventional form of manifestation
For this reason, if IL were respectful AMI consist
ent with your own public purposes, would have
delayed my reply to you, until I could have had
an opportunity Of making it verbally next week,
on my way to " Washington, after completing the
arrangements for the repairs upon my dwelling
here, ren ierei necessary uy 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 ju-tly considering the nomina-
tions which have been made by the recent Nation
al Convention at Chicago.
"At the same time it is your right 20 have
frank and candid exposition Of my own opinions
and sentiments on that important subject
"lly friends know very well that while they
have always generously made my promotion to
public trusts their own exclusive care, mine has
only been to execute them IA thfuily, as to be
able at the close Of their assigned terms, to resign
them into the hands of the people without forfeit
of the public confidence. The presentation
of my name to the Chicago Convention was thus
their act, not mine. 1t may have found them uH
prepared.
''On the other hand, [ have no sentiment either
of disappointment or discomfort, for wEo, in any
possible case, could without presumption claim
that a great national party ought to choose m
for its candidate for the first Office in the gift Of
the American people [ find in the resolutions
Of the Convention, a platform rs satisfactory to
me- as if il had been framed with my own hands.
and in the candidates adopted by them, eminent
and able publicans, with whom have cordially
co-operated in maintaining the principles embod-
led in that excellent creed | cheerfully give
them a sincere and earnest support trust
moreover, that those with whom | have laborcd
so lon that common service in a noble cause has
created between them and myself relations OF per-
sOna friendship, unsurpassed in the experience OF
political men, viii indulge in confident be-
lief that no sense Of disappointment will be al
lowed by them to hinder, or delay, or IN any way
embarras. the progress Of that cause to the con-
summation which is demanded by patriotic re
gard to the safety and welfare Of the country and
the best interests Of mankind.
90 l am very sincerely and respectfully.
your friend and obedient servant,
CIVILIAN II. SEWARD.
"Messrs Charles c. Mott William 4. Bull, \. J.
Williamson, c ;. Spencer, and F. W. Shepard,
for the Republican Central Committee