99 LETTER OF A. G. CURTIN, GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, ) HARRISBURG, PA., July 15th 1862. J GENTLEMEN : My duties here will prevent me from being present at your meeting in NewYork to-morrow, at which I should have been glad, if circumstances had permitted me, to assist. Pennsylvania has shown by her conduct how heartily she sympathizes with her sister loyal States. Our people regard this rebellion as a vile treason, devoid of all excuse or palliation, the hideous offspring of the malignity and spite which bad men in inferior and semi-barbarous societies entertain against communities which have surpassed them in all the elements of comfort, welfare and civilization. I think the popular mind is fixed in the belief, that the one great present need is a due appreciation by our Government of the fact, that we are at war, and that it is its duty to use all the means for success which are recognized by the established laws of war, and especially to use freely for military purposes every man on the"! soil of the rebellious States who is willing to serve us. It is silly to waste our resources in the mere parade of war ; we can arrive at no good result if that course be longer pursued. Repeating the expression of my regret at being unable to assist at your patriotic assemblage, I am, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, A. G. CURTIN. LETTER OF PRESTON KING, SENATOR FROM NEW-YORK. WASHINGTON, July llth, 1862. Messrs. James White, Geo. Opdyke, and others : GENTLEMEN, Your invitation to me to address a mass meeting of all parties who are in favor of supporting the Government, in the prosecution of the war and suppressing the rebellion, to be held in the city of New-York, on Tuesday, the 15th instant, is received. My whole heart is in the cause your meeting is called to promote, and I wish I could be there, but public engagements here, that I cannot put aside, prevent my attendance. I thank you for the invitation. Very respectfully, PRESTON KING. LETTER OF LOT M. MORRILL, SENATOR FROM MAINE. SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, July \th 1862. GENTLEMEN : Bv your favor of the llth instant, I am informed that, " at a Convention of Commitees severally appointed by the Common Council of this city ; by the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New-York ; by the Union Defence Committee and by bodies of loyal citizens of this city, it was resolved to hold, on Tuesday the 15th instant, a mass meeting of all parties who are in Favor of supportin- the Government in the prosecution of the war, and suppressing the rebellion and to express, without reference to any party question whatever, their undiminished confidence in the justice of the cause, and their inflexible determi-' nation to sustain it, and to that end to proffer to the government the.r aid to the extent of all their resources;" and am invited to be present "to address the meeting upon its objects, and in the spirit in which it is convened.
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