Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-05-31
LETTER FROM GOV. SEWARD.
The Chicago Nominations Heartily En-.
dorscd.


The following letter was addressed by
Gov. SEWARD to the Central Republican
Committee OF New York city, who had in
yited him to attend a meeting for the rati-
6cation of the nominations made by the
Chicago Convention:
AUBURN, May 81, 1860.
: GESTLEnES-Iw Will not affect to conceal
.he sensibility with which have read the
letters in which you and so many other
respected friends, have rendered to me ex-
pressions of renewed and enduring conf
dence
These letters will remain with me as as
surance in future years, that although
was not unwilling to wait even for anoth-
|er age the vindication of my political prin-
ciples, yet that they did nevertheless re-
ceivc the generous support Of many good,
wise and patriotic men Of my own time.
Such assurances. however. made under the
circumstances now existing, derive 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 be-
come 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 anu consistent for your own
public purposes. would have delayed nv
reply to you until could have had an OPP
portunity (, Of making it verbally, next
week. on my way to Washington. after
completing the arrangements for the re-
pairs upon my dwellinghouse here, render
ed 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 consid-
cring 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 well that while they
have always generously made my promo
tion to public trust their own exclusive care,
mine has only been to execute them faith
fully. so as to be able at the close of their
assigned terms to resign them into the
hands of the people without forfeiture oil
the public confidence. The presentation
of my name to the Chicago Convention
was their act. not mine. The disappoint-
mcnt. therefore, is theirs. not mine 1t may
have found them unprepared. On the
other hand i have no sentiments either oil
disappointment or of discomfort; for who,
in any possible case could, without pre-
sumption, claim that great national
party ought to choose him for its candi
date for the first office IN the gift of the
American people!
/ find in the resolutions OF the Conven.
ton a platform as satisfactory to me as il
it had been framed with my own hands,
and in the candidates adopted by it, emf
nent and able Republicans with whom i
have cordially co-operated in maintaining
the principles embodied in that excellent
creed. l cheerfully give them sincere
and earnest support. 1 trust, moreover.
that those with whom l have laborcd so
long that common service in noble cause
has created between them and myself re.
lations Of personal friendship unsurpassed
in the experience Of political men. will in
dulgc me in a confident belief that no
sense Of disappointment will be allowed by
them to hinder or delay, or in any way
cmbarass, the progress Of that cause the
consummatinn which is demanded by pa
triotic regard to the safety and welfare Of
the country and the best interests Of man.
kind. WV. II. SEWARD.