New-York tribune., 1868-08-12
POLITICAL.

Gen. JOHN CoCHRANE, President Republican STATE Cohre-
ton.
DEAR SIR: have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your favor of the 4th instant informing
me ofmy nomination, by the Republican state Congen-
ton held at Syracuse the Sth ns the candidate OF
the great and patriotic party which represents for the
office of OF the State Of NewYork
feel highly honored in having been selected for posi-
tion OF such responsibility by Convention so distn-
gushed for the intelligence and ability OF its members;
and in accepting the nomination. embrace the oppor-
tuny Of saying that If the choice Of the Convention shall
be ratified by the people, shall endeavor to the extent
of my ability to discharge the duties OF the Office for
the best interests OF the State, and in manner
which shall not be dscredable TO the party which
hasonOred me with this distinguished mark OF its con-
ddence The contest upon which are just entering
necessarily takes its shape from the National issues
which are now pending. On account OF the absorbing
interests the people the Presidential election, mat
ters Of State policy will receive comparatively little
attention This is unfortunate from the fact that during
the past few years, in which have all been so much
engossed in National affairs there has grown up IN our
State a system OF fraud and corruption which is truly
rghtful Not only has the State been robbed Dut her
magnificent public works have been greatly injured;
indeed their usefulness almost destroyed, and 1t Is I'M
possible to estimate the damage which has been inflicted
upon the interior commercial interests Of the
State, by our ruinOus and inefficient Canal policy.
The most vigorous are required
reform this dsgraceful state Of afairsand although
fully appreciate the great importance Of the political
questions involved in the coming election greatly re-
gret that the undivided attention Of the people cannot
be devoted TO the improvement OF these domestic affairs
So far as our national affairs concerned the signs OF
the times are auspicous As gathering forces
We are encouraged by the splendid triumph OF Repub-
can statesmanshp in the complete and successful recon
strucon and restoration Of the Rebel states upon just
and therefore enduring basis. The party which, by the
vaor of its arms and its wisdom In council has saved the
Government from destruction, and which, in spite OF
recreant Executive has done much toward the pach
cation Of the country must under the leadership Of the
great Captain who has been beaten, and the kind
ness of Providence which has always sustained H. be
successful remain dear Sir. your obedent servant.
ithaca, July ls, 1868 A. b. CORNELL.
THE SIXTEEN REASONS.
tTo THB EDITOR OF THE TRIBUNEI
SIR: Having noticed that the Democratic
press charging the authorship Of the Sixteen Rea
sons" against the nomination Of Gen Grant TO Speaker
Coax deem it but justice 70 him and the party which
be so ably represents to say that personally ac-
auainted with the author Of said Reasons" and affirm
that Mr. COax knows nothing whatever Of the origin OF
the circular OF the party who wrote them. They were
written IN Macon City, No. about the time Gen. Grant
accepted the War Onice from apostate President
Johnson and printed in Chicago. In letter from the
author Of said Reasons dated July 25, 1868, he says
while deeply rcgrcttng that compelled to vote
for a man for President at this important stage our
counrys history without political record and having
never openly identified himself with the Republican
party would do augh to dim the user Of the hon
ored name OF Schuyler Colfax."
StlJgeS, Mich, Aug. c, 1863.
GO TO WORK,
TO THE EDITOR or THE TRIBUNE.
SIR am filled with apprehensions that our
men will fail to make energetic canvass in favor Of the
Republican nominees, fattcring themselves that the
ticket Is strong enough carry the party through ri
unphantly do not like TO this false Of secur
ity pervading ranks-I too much OF 1t while in
service. / believe in making a certainty of every
fight and initiating the example Of Sheridan at Five
Forks Who when told by Warren that he could carry
the position with one Division, ordered him to charge
with his whole Corps making the victory complete. If
we have chance TO defeat the Democrats let us make it
an overwhelming one, and work as If all the chances
were against Our need not try 10 Initiate Gen.
Grant although admire his great trait OF remaining
silent they coect that the people must be stirred
up and informed of the necessity Of voting the RepubA
can ticket Gen. Grant afford 10 be silent, but II
everybody initiates example the people will think the
election of Grant and they will not bother them
selves about voting and the election will 80 by default
Please advocate an energetic canvass
Netc- York, Aug. g, 1868.
A DISTINGUISHED MAINE DEMOCRAT REPUDI-
ATES SEYMOUR AND BLAIR.
The Hon. George NJ Weston, of Bangor, was
two years ago the Democratic candidate for Congress in
the Ivth District OF Maine Though opposed to the Re.
construction policy OF Congress- he is not ready to follow
the revolutionary lead OF Frank Blair. Mr. Weston's po
sitlon is admirably defined the following letter ad
dressed by him to a personal friend at the South. Mr.
Weston says:
Nr Blair does overstate the magnitude Of the
sequences involved In his presentation as candidate for
on such an issue as that Indeed it is impossible for any
body to overstate them And any doubt could remain
such man and on the basis Of such declarations it IS re-
moved by the platform which they have adopted in
which the Reconstruction acts are denounced as repO
h0nary, unconstitutional. nH dndl rOld," thereby ex
pressy Justfying ana inviting revolutionary RESISTANCE
htting origin in their Committee on Resolutions in Cen
Wade Hampton OF south Carolina and he has told US how
lr proposed mat every single member Of e commitedHd
said aey ,roaa CGRRY II FoRWARD TO THE End,
What that "cnd" Is requires no prophet TO foretel
New hecatombs OF young men slain IN battle new conla
gratons Of cities, and ruined and finally dsmembered
country. The assumption Of the Democratic platform
shadow fact law 10 rest upon Left as the southern
States were, without any civil governments which could
be recognized as SUCH consistently WIN he result OF he
late war; II plain that unless the work OF reorganlza
tlon was commenced within them by spontaneous popu
lar movements, which were not possible without Danger
ous political commotons, II must have been commenced
by power outside OF then and that power could be
no other than the Government OF the uho. 20 ffsI
dent Lincoln understood IT, SO President johnson under
ganization regulating by executive proclamation who
should and who should be excluded from voting in
and In ratifying rejecting such constitutions
when framed. Congress has done more than
that, and exercised no other power than that, and
certainly II that power existed anywhere IN the Fed
eral Government IL existed in the awmaking branch or
It, Congress may not have exercised this power wisely
but their rightu authority in the premises Is clear and
unduestiOnable and those who denounce their acts
null and UOidp and counsel revolutionary resistance 10
Them either hOughtess persons who know not what
they do, or bold aud bad men, fatally bent mischief
It this second civil into which Mr. Blair and
the Democratic platform seem To entce then that the
Southern states will fnd remedy for tho evils which
they suffer White immigration from Europe and the