The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-24
.NERAL wADsWoRrH's REPLY.

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President of the Convention.
GENERAL WADsWORTH's REPLY.
WAsHISGToE, Oct. 2, 1862.
Hon HENRY J. RAYMOND President, &C.:
DEAR SRI have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter of
Sept. 20, informing me that the Conven-
ton held at Syracuse on the Oath of that
month, composed Of men resolved to
maintain the integrity of the Union, ir-
respective Of their previous party asso-
| Citations, had done me the honor of plac-
| ing my name before the electors of the
State of New York for the office of Gov
ernor
respectfully accept the nomination.
/ cordially agree with the Convention
in the sentiments expressed in their res
olutions, and, if elected, shall zealously
labor to carry out their wishes as therein
defined.
might, perhaps, with propriety stop
here, but as the duties of my present po-
sition will not allow me oreturn to New
York for some time, and possibly not un-
Ill alter the election has been held, ask
your indulgence while express briefly
my views as to the questions involved in
the canvass.
I think | cannot be mistaken in assum-
ing that the election will turn upon the
nece sity of sustaining our national gov
ernment in its effort to uphold itself, and
maintain its territorial integrity, and es-
specially upon the proclamation of the
President, issued to that end, and refer
red to in the fourth resolution of the Con-
vention.
! entirely approve Of that prociama-
ton, and commend it to the support of
the electors of New York for the follow
ing reasons
l. IL is an effectual aid to the speedy
and complete suppression Of this rebel
lion.
Six or eight millions of whites, having
had time to organize their government
and arm their troops, fed and supported
by the labor of four millions of slaves
present the most formidable rebellion re-
corded in history.
Strike from the rebellion the support
which it derives from the unrequited toi
of these slaves, and its foundation will
be undermined.
2 2 It is the most humane method o.
putting down the rebellion, the history o
I which has clearly proved that the fear
6 Of slave Instructions and massacres ar,
n entirely unfounded While the slave
e earnestly desire freedom, they hav,
u shown no disposition TO injure their mas
G ters. they will cease TO work for then
. without wages; but they will form
. throughout the Southern States, the m0s
u peaceful and docile peasautry on the fac
of the earth.
The slave owners once compelled L
: work for their own support, the war mus
J, cease, and its appalling carnage come +
o an end.
3. The emancipation once effected, thr
, Northern States would be for ever re
= lieved. as il is right that they should be
= from the fears Of a great influx Of Afri
y can laborers disturbing the relations o
= those Northern industrial classes VIII
= have so freely given their lives TO the sup
port Of the government.
i, This done, and the whole African pop
y ulation will drift TO the South, where
, will find q congenial climate and vas
z tracts of land never yet cultivated.
= / forbear to enter into the discussion O
q the great increase Of trade to the North
ern States and the whole cOmmercia
!. world which would result from the want
of four millions OF free aud paid laborer
!. over the same number held as heretolOr
,e in slavery.
forbear also TO enter into the ques
H. tion of the ultimate vast increase in Oh
n production of the great Southern staple
- This is not time TO consider question
4. Of profit. Il will be long remembered,
J. the great honor Of the merchants, bank
n ers. and manufacturers of the Mort
,s that giving the lie 10 the calumnies
is ve-breediug aristOcrats, who charg
them with being degraded and controllC
In by the petty profits Of traffic, they ha'
.r met the numerous sacrifices of this gre
struggle with scheerluluess and prOmp