Year: 1860

The Chicago Nomination Heartily Endorsed


The following letter was addressed by
| Gov. Seward to the Central Republican
Committee of New York City, who had in.
vted him to attend a meeting for the ratii.
cation of the nominations recently made by
the Chicago Convention --.


! AUBURN, May 81, 186o.-GESrLEHEN-
| will not affect to conceal the sensibility
with which | have read the letters in which
you and so many other respected friends
have rendered to me expressions of renewed
and enduring confidence.
These letters will remain with me as as
surancss in future years. that although
was not unwilling to wait even for another
age the vindication of nv ltic,l principles
yet that they did nevertheless receive the
generous support of many good, wise aud
patriotic men of my own time. Such assu-
RANGES, however, made under the circum-
stances now existing, derive their priceless
value largely from the fact that they steal
upon me through the channels of private cor
respondence AMI altogether unknown to the
world. You will at once perceiv, that such
expressions would BECOME painful to me and
Justly offensive to the country, if | should be
allowed to take them in any public or con
yentional form of manifestation For this
reason if it were respectful and consistent
for your own public purposes, | would have
delayed my reply to you until could have
hal an opportunity of making it verbally,
next week, on my way to Washington, after
completing the arrangements for the repairs
upon my dwelling house here, rendered nec-
es Sary by recent fire. The same reason
de'ermnes me, also, to decline your kind
invitation to attend the meetings in which
you propose some demonstrations Of respect
to myself, while so justly considering the
nominations which have just been made by
the National Republican Conven ion at Chi
cag,. Attha sane time it is your right to
bave frank AMI candid expression Of nv
own opinion anl sentiments on tint impor-
tant subject. My friends know very well
that while they have always generously
made my prom ton to public trusts their
own exclusive cure. mine has only been to
execute them faithfully, so as to be able at
the close of their assigned terms to resign
them into the hands of the people without
forfeiture Of the public confidence. The
presentation of my name to the Chicago
Conyentoin was their act, not mine The
disappointment, therefore, is theirs, not
mine 1t may have found them unprepared
On the other have no sentiment either of
disappointment or discomfort; for who, in
any possible case could, without presumption
claim that great national party ought to
choose him for its candidate for the first
Office in the gift of the American people?


find in the resolutions ofthe Convention
platform as satisfactory to me al if it had
been framed with my own hands; and in the
candidates adopted by it, eIanent and able
Republicans with whom have cordially CO.
operated in maintaining the principles en-
bodied in that excellent creed. | cheerfullv
give them sincere and earnest support. |
trust, moreover, that those With whom have
labored so long that common service in a no.
BILE cause has created between them and
myself relations of personal frien lship unSur-
passed in the experience of political men,
will indulge me in confident belief that no
sense of disappointment will be allowed by
them to hinder or delay, or in any way en-
barrass, the progress of that cause to the
conSummation which is demanded by pa
triotic regard to the safety and welfare Of the
country and the best interests of mankind


VIM H. SEWARD.