LETTER TO A PUBLIC MEETING AT MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 11,
1860.
SENATE CHAMBER, June 11, 1860.
DEAR SIR,--It would give me pleasure to mingle with my
fellow-citizens at Middleborough in pledges of earnest support
to our candidates recently nominated at Chicago, but duties here
will keep me away.
Be assured, however, of the sympathy, which I offer more freely
because I find in the Platform declarations full of glorious
promise. Our victory will be worth having, only as it is a
victory of principle; but such a victory I expect.
Because I believe that our candidates hate the _five-headed_
Barbarism of Slavery, and will set their faces against all its
irrational and unconstitutional pretensions, I am earnest for
their success.
Accept my thanks for the honor of your invitation, and believe
me, dear Sir,
Faithfully yours,