LETTERS. WE append the following appreciative letters, from the President of the United States and other distinguished invited guests, in reply to official invitations: FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, June 12, 1886. HON. MOODY CURRIER, Governor of New Hampshire : Dear Sir, I regret that pressing official duties will not permit me to be present at the exercises attending the unveiling of the statue of Daniel Webster at Concord, on Thursday next. Every occasion which does honor to this illustrious statesman is of extraordinary interest to all American citizens, since our pride in his career and achievements is not in the least limited by partisan influences or by any sentiment less than national. It would be well if in the capital of every state there stood a statue such as Concord boasts, which should not only perpetuate the memory of a man, but which should also keep alive through coming generations the love and veneration of the American people for true American greatness. Yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. FROM EX-PRESIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. FREMONT, O., May 15, 1886. HON. MOODY CURRIER, Governor of New Hampshire, HON. GILMAN MARSTON, Chairman of Legislative Committee: Gentlemen, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your valued invitation to be present at the dedication of the statue of Daniel Webster, on the 17th of next month. New Hampshire is to be congratulated on her patriotic purpose worthily to honor the memory of her most illustrious son. She has many titles to the regard of her sister states, none better than the fact that she gave to the whole country Daniel Webster. I regret that my engagements do not permit me to accept your invitation. Sincerely, FROM SAMUEL J. TILDEN. R. B. HAYES. GREYSTONE, YONKERS, N. Y., June 16, 1886. HON. MOODY CURRIER, Governor of New Hampshire, HON. GILMAN MARSTON, Chairman of Legislative Committee : Gentlemen, — I have the honor to receive your invitation to participate in the exercises of the day as the guest of the state of New Hampshire, on Thursday, the 17th of June, at the dedication of the statue of Daniel Webster, at the capital. Cordially agreeing with the people of New Hampshire in their admiration of the illustriousorator and statesman to whose memory this homage is to be rendered, and several of whose great speeches it was my good fortune to hear, I regret that the condition of my health will not allow me to be present on so interesting an occasion. S. J. TILDEN. FROM ROBERT C. WINTHROP. BOSTON, June 1, 1886. HIS EXCELLENCY MOODY CURRIER, Governor of New Hampshire, HON. GILMAN MARSTON, Chairman of Legislative Committee: Gentlemen, - Absence from home for a month past must be my apology for not having sooner acknowledged your kind and complimentary invitation of May 11. It would afford me peculiar pleasure and pride to be present, as a guest of New Hampshire, at the reception of the statue of Daniel Webster. It was my good fortune to assist at the unveiling of a similar statue, by the same artist, in the Central Park of New York, in 1876; and more recently I have united with the Marshfield Club in celebrating the centennial anniversary of Webster's birthday. I could add nothing to what I said on those occasions, and should be |