"BOSTON, _Nov. 19, 1860_.
"DEAR SIR,--I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of, and to thank
you for, your letter on the Union. I agree with you heartily in your
views: they are sound, wise, and patriotic; but what avails it to
proclaim them? Anybody who preaches moderation and forbearance--who
endeavors to calm the tempest of excited feeling--is called 'a skulking
neutral,' or, at best, an obsolete old fogy, whose proper place is in
Noah's ark. We must learn wisdom by the smart of folly, and it looks
very much as if the teaching was begun. I look upon Mr. Seward as the
most mischievous man now in the public service; and for his incendiary
course he has not the apology of a fervid temperament and rash blood.
His words are the more dangerous, because so deliberately uttered. But
I rejoice that you have written the letter, and that so many patriotic
and judicious men have been willing to speak and write as you have
done. Always anticipating the election of Lincoln, I have been in the
habit of saying to our friends that the value and importance of the
Union party would not be fully apparent until after that event. I think
I was a true prophet. If the country is to be safely navigated through
the shoals which are around and ahead, it will be by the agency and
instrumentality of the Union party.
"Yrs. truly,
"G. S. HILLARD."
"_Samuel J. Tilden, Esq._"
THE PROMISED REPLY OF THE "EVENING POST" TO THE LETTER OF SAMUEL J.
TILDEN
(_Continued and Concluded._)
"The people of the United States voted yesterday upon the questions
at issue between the Republicans and their adversaries, as represented
by Lincoln and Hamlin, candidates of the former, and by Douglas and
Johnson, Breckinridge and Lane, and Bell and Everett, representing the
latter, with the following result:"