BINGHAMTON, January 24, 1857.
MY DEAR SIR—My best
acknowledgments are tendered you for numerous favors conveyed with a generous
partiality and friendly devotion. I can only assure you of a high, profound,
and sincere appreciation.
I have full
confidence in Mr. Buchanan's wisdom, and feel sure he will give us a judicious
administration; what will be his "personnel," I have no means of
knowing. He is urged, from both interested and factious sources, to go by this
State, because of our divisions. It may be wise to pass the State or may not
be; but no such question as divisions should control him.
We have some
factious men, though since the main body went off, less than one would suppose
for the encouragement they have received: but so far as our rank and file are
concerned, whether upon men or measures, we have less division than has
Virginia, New Hampshire, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, or Pennsylvania.
Repeating my thanks
for your kind courtesy—I am,
SOURCE: John R.
Dickinson, Editor, Speeches, Correspondence, Etc., of the Late Daniel
S. Dickinson of New York, Vol. 2, p. 500
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