NEW HAVEN, June 15, 1850.
GENTLEMEN—I
acknowledge with great pleasure the invitation which you have done me the honor
to extend to me, to be present at the public dinner to be given by the
Democrats of New York, at Tammany Hall, on Monday, the 17th inst., to their
distinguished Senator, the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson.
It would be out of
place, even for those who have had the best opportunity of knowing intimately
and appreciating most fully the extent and value of his services, to speak of
them in terms of merited commendation, because they have been performed in the
face of the whole country, on its most conspicuous theatre.
At the present
crisis, full of difficulty and danger—the very crisis which the Father of his
Country foresaw and foretold, and, in his farewell address to his countrymen,
warned us to beware of—it is a source of the highest gratification to observe
the strong "evidences of popular approval" manifested towards those
who comprehend the interests of the whole country, and stand firm and faithful
amidst all the clamors of faction.
I regret that my
duties here will necessarily prevent me from being present on the occasion, and
I beg you will accept the time-honored sentiment which I annex.
I am, gentlemen,
With the highest respect,
The Union of the
States—Not formed or upheld by force, but by concession and compromise, and a
just regard to the interests of the whole country and every part of it.
To GEORGE DOUGLAS,
SCHUYLER LIVINGSTON, Esqs., and others, Committee, &c.
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