Vice President John C. Breckinridge to Daniel S. Dickinson, June 29, 1860

WASHINGTON CITY, June 29, 1860.

MY DEAR SIR — I beg you to accept my cordial thanks for your friendly letter of the 27th inst.  This nomination, as you may perhaps know, was neither sought nor desired by me. I would have much preferred many other gentlemen in both sections of the Union. Your own name, would have been eminently acceptable to my State, whose people have long admired your personal and public character, while I could have supported you all the more cordially, from the pleasant intercourse we had in 1850. But the issue is made, and I must accept the position in which I find myself.

With good wishes and high regard, I am

Yours truly,

JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE.

SOURCE: John R. Dickinson, editor, Speeches, correspondence, etc., of the late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York, Vol. 2, p. 535