INVITATION TO ACCEPT
A COMPLIMENTARY PUBLIC DINNER.
TO THE HON. DANIEL
S. DICKINSON.
DEAR SIR—The
undersigned, your Democratic Republican fellow-citizens of the city and county
of New York and neighboring counties, sincerely desire to express in person our
high appreciation of your services in the councils of the confederacy. For that
purpose, we beg you to name an early day when your high duties will permit you
to meet us at a public dinner, when we may have the opportunity of giving full
utterance to the sentiments of respect and confidence with which your
distinguished political services to our common country have inspired us.
From the
commencement of our national existence, the intelligent observer has discovered
but one element in our circumstances or condition, from which to apprehend
incurable discord among our citizens, or serious peril to the duration of the
Republic. So to regulate the action of government in respect to that element as
to preserve harmony and to avert the consequent peril, has been the constant
effort of the American sage and patriot. For the success of such efforts the
prayers of the wise and virtuous in every clime have been enlisted; for it has
not escaped notice how deeply our fate as a nation involves the fortunes of
mankind. That the great experiment commenced here, and hitherto triumphantly
carried forward, may not be checked in its career, must be desired by the
philanthropist, wherever found. But to accomplish this purpose enjoins upon the
patriotic statesman the exercise of the same prudence, forbearance and
generosity which characterized the course of the original framers of the
constitution; and it has fallen to your lot and ours, during the deeply—interesting
period of your term as representative of this State in the Senate of the Union,
to witness the necessity of the constant exercise of a spirit of forbearance to
preserve our Union from the severest trial of its strength.
In the trying crisis
through which our country, and, we may add, the cause of the world's freedom
and of republicanism, is now passing, the State of New York is most fortunate
in being represented in the Senate of the Union by one whose patriotism soars
above the level of time-serving purposes, and whose eminent talents and moral
worth command respect, both in the State he represents and in the Councils of
the Nation
NEW YORK, May 20,
1850.
With sentiments of
great respect, yours, &c.,
Charles O’Conor,
George Douglass, Leroy M. Wiley, Francis B. Cutting, Royal Phelps, Schuyler
Livingston, Felix Ingoldsby, James Lee, Joel Wolfe, Edward K. Collins, Henry
Shaw, Benjamin Poulteney, Francis W. Edmonds, William M’Murray, Wm. C. H.
Waddell, Campbell P. White, Robert H. Winslow, Joseph Kernochan, John J. Cisco,
Wm. A. Gasquet, Charles A. Clinton, Reuben Withers, Wm. E. Lawrence, John H.
Lee, James T. Brady, John Addison Thomas, Edward Sandford, Nathl. Jarvis, D. C.
Eaton, Edward C. West, James C. Stoneall, Joseph A. Drivver, John Ewen,
Florence M’Carthy, John H. Brower, Francis Secor, George P. Morris, James B.
Murray, Anthony L. Robertson, Thomas W. Clarke, Wm. A. Walker, B. S. Hart,
Michael Burke, Philo T. Ruggles, Richard Compton, Fernando Wood, Thomas
C. Fields, John M’Mennomy, Hugh Kelley, Daniel Dodge, Edward Strahan, Daniel B.
Taylor, Thomas Jeremiah, John A. Stemmler, Thomas Harrison, George Montgomery,
Henry Hilton, W. C. Freeman, Edmund J. Porter, James R. Whiting, Henry W.
Dolsen, Andrew H. Mickle, John M. Bradhurst, Robert H. Morris, Myndert Van
Shaick, Cornelius W. Lawrence, John D. Van Buren, Theodore Sedgwick, Jacob
Aims, Thomas Seffern, George Law, John H. L. M’Cracken, John M’Keon, Gideon
Ostrander, Robert J. Dillon, Wm S. Wetmore, Emanuel B. Hart, Wm A. Mead, Daniel
E. Sickles, Henry G. Stebbins, Tarrant Putnam, Henry Erben, Augustus
Schell, A. B. Davis, R. T. Woodward, Wm. B. Maclay, Elijah F. Burdy, Robert
Kelley, William Beach Lawrence, John W. Mersereatt, Lorenzo B. Shepard, Garrit
H. Striker Jr., Thoe. Romeyn, J. Sherman Brownell, Cyrus Lawton, J. Romeyn
Brodhead, Alex F. Vache, Elijah Ward, Solomon Townsend, Thos. S. Henry, Freeman
Campbell, Chessenden Ellis, Edward R. Carpentier, John Foote, Nathaniel S.
Jarvis, U. D. French, Nathaniel Pearce, Benjamin H. Field, Henry M. Western, W.
Beach Lawrence Jr., Frederick R. Lee, David R. Floyd Jones, James S. Libby,
Joseph W. Bouck, Franklin S Kinney, Henry Storms, Andrew Clark, John Collins
Jr., John S. Gilbert Philip Reynolds, Gideon J. Tucker, Richard Schell.
QUEENS COUNTY.
William Horace Brown,
John W. Lawrence.
RICHMOND COUNTY.
John Yates Cebra, D.
Denyse, James E. Cooley, Jesse O. Dissosway, Israel O. Dissosway, Richard D.
Littell, Lovel Purdy, Joshua Mesereau.
KINGS COUNTY.
John A. Lott, Nathl.
F. Waring, Henry C. Murphy, Tunis G. Bergen, John Vanderbilt, Thomas I. Gerald,
L. B. Hawkhurst, E. C. Litchfield, Samuel Smith, Thomas G. Talmadge, E. A.
Lambert, R. V. W. Thorne, Samuel Sloan, James M. Seabury, Abraham Verplanck,
Edmund Driggs, Philip Hamilton Gabriel W. Cuit, H. C. Boswell, John I. Runsie,
Daniel H. Feeks, Daniel Eagan, Abm. I. Berry, Daniel Reilly, George Thompson,
Cornelius S. Bogardus, John Rice, Joseph Wilson, John B. Bergen, Daniel Van
Vorhes.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
Aaron Ward, Abm.
Hyatt, John M. Stevens, Charles A. Purdy, John T. Yoe, A. K. Hoffman, Jesse
Lynn, George B. Butler, Benjamin Brandreth, Benj. M. Brown, S. Marshall, Samuel
F. Reynolds, John T. Hoffman, J. M. Scribner, John B. Haskin, Robert H. Ludlow.
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