The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-28
LOUISVILLE.
Hancock Endorses Seymour and
Blair.

T.oU1syILLE, July 27.-The follow
ing important Correspondence will be
published in the Louisville Courier
/ tomorrow morning:
ST. LOUIS, July Is. 1868.
lHdjog General Hancock:
DEAR SIR-I deem it proper to
direct your attention to the statements
made By the Radical press to the ef-
with the results of the National Dem
ocratic Convention The object of
these statements is TO create an
acquiesce in the judgment of
the convention, and that your
friends do not, and in consequence
Seymour aud Blair will not have their
cordial support. [ wish you to
know, General, that | have taken
the liberty to pronounce these state
ments false, and to assure those who
have spoken with me on the subject,
that nothing could cause you more
regret than to find your friends, or
any of them less earnest In support
ing the ticket which has been nomi-
mated, than they would have been
had your own name stood in the
place of Mr.. Seymour's.
am, sir, very sincerely, your
friend. [Signed,l S. I. GLOVER.
NEWPORT, r. l., July II, 1868.
TO s. 4. GloUer, Esq, st. Louis:
MY DEAR SIR: l am greatly obliged
for your favor of the 18th inst. Those
who suppose that [ do not acquiesce
in the work of the National
Democratic Convention. or that | do
not sincerely desire the election of
its nominees, know very little of my
character. Believing, as | really do,
that the preservation of the Constitu-
tior Government eminently de-
pends on the success of the
Democratic party in the coming
election, were [ to hesitate in its cam
did support, | feel [ should not only
falsify my own record, but commit a
crime against my country. | never
aspired to the Presidency. On ac-
count of myself. | never sought its
doubtful hODors and certain labors and
responsibilities merely for the posi-
ton. My own wish was to promote, If
| could, the good of the country, and
10 rebuke the spirit of revolution
which had invaded every sacred pre-
cinet of liberty. When, therefore,
you pronounced the statements In
question false. you did exactly right.
: Principles and not men" is the
motto for the rugged crisis in which
we are now struggling Had [ been
made the Presidential nominee, |
should have considered it tribute
not to me but to the principles which
L had proclaimed and practlced; but
shall | cease to revere those princi-
pies because. by the will Of mutual
political friends. another has been ap-
pointed to put them into execution?
Neverl neverl
These, sir, are my sentiments,
whatever interested parties may say
to the contrary, and / desire that all
may know and understand them. L
shall ever hold in -gratifed remem-
brance, the faithful friends, who, hall
ing from every section o! the Union,
preferred me, by their votes and other
expressions of confidence, both in
and out of the Convention, and |
shall do them all the justice to be-
lieye that they were governed by
patriotic motives; that they did not
propose simply to aggrandize my per-
sonal fortunes, but to save their
country through me, and that they
will not now suffer anything like per
sonal preferences or jealousies to
stand between them and their mani
fest duty.
/ have the honor to BE, dear sir,
very respectfully, yours,
WINFIELD IS. HANCOCK.