Year: 1862

longing for their trade, is to die through
fear of death; to renounce the old inter
course. entirely and forever, because to-
day it is Interrupted.


Our fellow-citizens of foreign birth
have demonstrated the power of freedom
TO blend them with us in one nationality
and brotherhood, and they have shown
by their conduct in the general distress,
how they have faith that they are receiv-
ed into the bosom of a nation, and form
a part of one great, real, living people.
Shall we send word to those of them who
are in camp that there is no American
people-that the Union is sham? Our
city rightly declared its sympathy with
the gallant Corcoran, when he returned
from his long captivity What gave the
) chief. luster to his services and his sor-
rows except this, that he had fought and
suffered for country and a people? And
shall we now mar the honors awarded
him by deciding that the Union is to be
given up-that the American people has
ceased to be-that the flag which he up
bore is to be robbed of half its bright
ness2 Testimonials of regard have Just
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York to tarnish them by record at the
polls that the fellow feeling with the pat
riotism which carried him across the hills
of Missouri and Arkansas, and placed
him as an advance guard in Virginia, is
tagging and dying away?


The party at the South which has made
this rebellion is not and never was dem
oeratic party; it was and is the most
embittered hater of Democracy; it rests
on the most narrow and most selfish of
oligarchies, which by the very necessity
of its nature seeks to extingnish the
Democratic principles, to crush the I'm
ion and the power of the people. To
sympathize with them is. to sympathize
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
called Sliden and Benjamin and their
like, Democrats, to have invited them
among US to teach who shonld and who
should not be held to be members of the
Democratic party, would be superb and
unqualified jest, if it had not been fol-
lowed by deadly consequences. g..


Complaints are made against the Ad-
ministration. There never was and
never will be an Administration that does
not require to be watched. But the peo-
pie have chosen their President; and we
who preferred another public servant
must now consent to give vigor to the
man who is the President under the
Constitution. To harpupon what is past
and gone and irremediable would be use
less; the graver question affecting per-
sonal liberty must be settled in such a
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 dis
tinctly heard in favor of an immediate
and vigorous prosecution of the war.


For one, would not give vote for
any man whose election would be an en-
couragement to the rebellion to hold out.
!, for one, will not consent to send our
sons and brothers to the battle field and
then betray them at the polls.


To represent such a district as the
Eighth, in such city as New York, is
as high trust az can devolve on any
man. The district should be rightly re-
presented; a multiplication of candidates
will leave the result very much to
chance. l must therefore ask your leave
to decline your nomination; and having
done this, | can, without reproach, en-
treat that there may be such opportunity
offered for deliberation as will lead to a
union of all those whose who feel deeply
for their country in this hour of her
-tribulation. Very sincerely yours,


GEORGE BANCROFT.
To JOHN I. HoGEBooM and others, OF
the Nominating Committee of the Peo-
pies Union Associations.