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HANCOCK.
Iuterestiur Correspou depce-Ihe Will
Support seymour and Blair.

Iuterestina Correspon depee-Me Will
support seymour and Blair.
LOUISVILLE, July 27.-The following
important correspondence will be pub
lished in tho Louisville Courier to-mor-
row morning:
ST. LOUIS, July -, 1863.
MAJOR GENERAL HANcoCK-Dear
Sir deem it proper to direct your at
tention to statements made by the Rad
ical press TO the effect that you are
greatly dissatisfied with the results OF
the National Democratic Convention
The object of these state
ments is TO create an impress
sion that yen do not 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 those statements false, ana
to assure those who have spoken with
me on the subject, that nothing could
cause YOU more regret than to lind yOnr
friends, or any of them, less earnest III
summarizing the ticket which has been
nominated than they would have been
had your own name stood In the place OF
Mr.. Seymour's.
| am, sir, very sincerely, your friend,
GSiqned.l s. I. GLOVER.
REPLY OF GENERAL HANCOCK.
NEWPORT, r. l., July II, 1863.
To S. T. GIorcr, Esq, 81. Louis, Mo-:
My DEAR SIR Il am greatly obliged
for your favor of the 18th inst. Those
W ho 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,
rs l really do, that the preservation OF
constitutional government emlnently
depends on the success Of the
Democratic party in the coming
election, mere / 10 hesitate in its
cordial support feel should not
only talSJy my orn record, out commit
crime against my country. l mover as
pired to the Presidency on account OF
myself; l never sought its doubtful
hOnOrs and certain labors and response
bilities merely for the position. My
own wish was to promote, if could,
the good of the country, and to rebuke
the spirit of revolution which had in
vaded every sacred precinct of liberty.
When, therefore, you pronounced the
statements in question false, you did
exactly right. principles, not men"
is the motto for tho rugged crisis
in which we are now struggling.
Had | been made the PIesiden-
tial nominee, | should have
considered 1t n tribute, not to me, but
to the principles which | had proclaimed
and practiced; but shall | cease to revere
those principles, because, by mutual po-
litical friends, another has been appoint
ed to put them into execution! Never,
never! There, sir, are my sentiments,
whatever interested parties may say to
the contrary, and | desire that all may
know and understand them. | shall
ever hold in grateful remembrance the
faithful friends who, hailing from
every section of the Union, preferred
me by tho votes and other expires
sions of confidence, both in
and out of the Convention, and shall
do them all tho justice to believe that
they were governed by patriotic mo-
tivcs; that they did not propose simply
to agsrandize my personal fortunes, but
to save their country through me, and
that they will not suffer anything like
personal preference or jealousies to
stand between them and their manifest
duty.
have tho honor to be, dear sir, very
respectfully yours,
[Signcd,1 WINFIELD S. HANCOCK.