Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-17
Gen. .Wadesworth s acceptance
of the Nomination for GOV
ernOI. of NJ. Y.

SIR Il have the honor to inform you
that you were nominated for the othce
of Governor of the State Of New York,
by Convention composed of men re-
solved to maintain the integrity of the
Union, without regard to their past
party relations, and held at Syracuse on
the 9th of the present month.
! inclose the series of resolutions
adopted by the Convention as an indlca
ton of it's sentiments and purposes.
~ Your nomination was made with
very remarkable degree of unity and en-
,husiasm, and on behalf of the Conven
tion 1 beg leave respectfully to request
your acceptance of it. | am, very re-
epectfully, your obedient servant,
HENRY J. RAYMOND,
a President of the Convention,
ls GEN. wApswoRTu' REPLY.
WASHINGTON, October 2, 1862.
Hon. HENRY J. RAYMOND, Presi-
dent, &c.-Dear Sir: | have the pleas
ure to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of September 90, informing me
that the Convention held at Syracuse on
the 24th of this month, composed of
men resolved to maintain the integrity
of the Union, irrespective of their pre-
vious party associations, had done me
the.honor of placing my name before
the electors of the State of New York
for the Office Of Governor.
respectfully accept the nomination.
= Icordially agree with the Convention
in the sentiments expressed in their res
olutions. and, if elected, I shall Jealous
ly labor to carry out their wishes as
therein defined.
might, perhaps, with propriety, stop
here, but as the duties of my present
position will not allow me to return tc
New York for some time, and possibly
not until after the election has beer
held, 1 ask your indulgence while ex
press briefyemy views as to the ques
tione involved in the canvass.
| think INcannot be mistaken in as
sumine that the election will turn upoi
the necessity oe sustaining our Nationa
Government in its efforts to upholt
itself, and maintain its territorial integ
rity, and especially upon the proclama
ton of the President, issued to tha
end, and referred to in the fourth reso
luton of the Convention.
entirely approve of that proclama
ton, and commend it to the support G
the electors of New York, for the fol
loxing reasons:
l. 1t is an efectual aid to the speed
and complete suppression OF the re
bellion. WIZ
- Six or eight millions Of whites, havin
had time to organize their goyernmen
and arm their troops, fed and supporte
by the labor of four millions of slave
nresent the most formidable rebellio
recorded in history.
Strike from this rebellion the SUI
port which it derives from the unrequ
ted toll of these slaves, and its found
tion will be undermined.
9. 1t is the most humane method
putting down the rebellion, the histo
of which has clearly proved that tt
fears of slave instructions and mass
cres are entirely unfounded. Whi
the slaves earnestly desire freedom, tn
have shown no disposition to inju the
masters. They will cease to work +
them without wages, but they will for
throughout the Southern States, t
most peaceful and docile peasantry
the face of the earth.
The slave owners once compelled
labor for their own support, the "
must cease, and its appalling carna
come to an end.
3. The emancipation once etfect'
the Northern States would be fore
relieved, as it is right that they sho,
be, from the fears of great influx
African laborers, disturbing the re
ton of those northern industrial ella
es who have SO freely given their Ii
TO the support of the Government.
This done, and the whole African p
ulation will drift to the South, where
will find congenial climate and
tracts of land never yet cultivated.
I forbear to enter into the discuss
of the great increase of trade to
Northera States, and the whole comm
cial world, which would result from
wants of four millions Of free and P
laborers over the same number held,
heretofore, in slavery.
/ forbear, also, to enter into the
question of the ultimate vast increas
the production of the great South
staples. This is not time to copsi