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 dinner to be given to celebrate the seventieth birthday of the on March 2d next.

I appreciate highly the honor of being offered an opportunity to participate in such an occasion, and I regret deeply that I find myself unable to be present. It would give me great pleasure to be one of the large gathering which will assemble to testify their respect for the honored guest, and to express their recognition of the noble service he has rendered to his adopted country. He has not only filled and adorned high offices in the nation, but he by his grand character, lofty aims and advanced views upon questions of public morality, gained the position of one of the foremost citizens of the republic. His influence is always leading as up to a higher plane, and, through the force of his genius, and of the weight of his character, is all powerful for good. A worthy companion and successor of the lamented, he ever holds the people up to a high ideal.

I rejoice to see that a recognition of his worth is to be given him by a body of men whose approval is a badge of nobility.

(Signed,).&emsp;

, February 11, 1899.&emsp; , Secretary, New-York, N. Y.

circular of the 6th inst., informing me of the intention of
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