Year: 1862

longing for their trade. is TO die through
fear of death; to renounce the old inter-
course entirely aud forever because to-day
il is interrupted.


Our fellow citizens of foreign birth have
demonstrated the powers of freedom to
blend them with US in one nationality aud
brotherhood. and they have shown by their
conduct in the general distress. how they
have faith that they are received into the
bosom of the nation. and form part of one
great. real. living people. Shall we send
word to those of thcm who are in camp
that there is no American peopIe-that the
Union is sham? Our city rightly declar-
ed its sympa by with the gallant Corcoran,
when he returned from his long captivity.
What gave the chief luster to his services
and his sorrows except this, that he had
fought and suffered for a country and a
people? And shall we now mar the honor
awarded him by deciding that the Union
is to he given up. that the American peo-
pie has ceased to be-that the flag which
he upbore is To be robbed of half its bright
ness? Testimonials OF regard have inst
been sent to the veteran Sigel. Is New
York to tarnish them by record at the
polls that the fellow feeling with the pat
rio,ism which carried him across the hills
Of Missouri and Arkansas and placed him
as an advance guard in Virginia. is flag
ging AMI dying away2


The party at the South which has made
this rebellion is not and never was dem
ocratic party; it was AMI is the most EN-.
bittered hater of democracy; IL rests on the
most narrow and tie most selfish Of Olga, ch-
ies. whicA by tie uery necessity Of rs nature
seeks to erii,,guish tie democratic principles,
to crush the Union and tie pover Of the peo-
pie To sympathize with them is to SYM
pathizc with oligarchy in its proudest and
most corrupt FORM They laughed among
themselves at the very thought of being
called democrats. To call or to have call
democrats. to have invited them among US
to teach who should and who should not
be held to be members of the democratic
party, would be q superb and unqualified
Jest, il it had not been followed by deadly
consequences.


Complaints are made against the admin
istration; there never has nor never will be
an administration that does not require to be
watched. But the people have cho sen
their president, and we who preferred an
other public servant must now consent TO
give vigor-to the man who is now Presi-
dent under the constitution. To harp up
on what is past and irremediable, wonld;
be Il eless; the graver question affecting
peronal liberty must be settled in such g
way as to leave no dangerous precedent
Meantime, we cannot suffer the country to
go to pieces, because the president has
committed errors. Let. then. the voice OF
this district and this city be distinctly heard
in .faUor of an immediate, rigorous prose
eutios Of the rcar.


For one. will not give vote for any
man whose election would give encourage
ment to the rebellion to hold out. | for
one will not consent to send our SONS and
brothers to the battlefield and then betray
them at the polls.


To represent such a district as the 9Th
in such city as New York. is as high a
trust as can devolye on any man. The
district should be rightly represented; a
multiplication OF candidates will leave the
result very much to chance. l must.
therefore ask your leave to decline youI
nomination; and having done this, l can
without reproach en:reat that there may
be such opportunity offered for deliberations
as will lead to union Of all those who
feel deeply for their country 10 this hour o
her tribulation.


Very sincerely yours.


GEORGE BANCROFT.
To John T. Hogeboom and others. of tn.


Nominating Committees of the People,
| Union Associations.