, 1864-10-18

the able and patriotic Gen. Di1, who In re-
rent letter tn the C1ton meeting at Philadel-
phia Accompanies come very just temarka.
shnEinp that Mcclellan ts not entitled to the
eupport Of any true democrat, Nth some ex-
p1apntions which seem to rs inadequate on
thelr face as to the cause Of our national djl-
aculsles. HesaIs:
"Does any one doubt as to the cause OF our nj.
floral calEmittrtt believe 1t to be founu In thn
manaeenent OF the leaders OF both the principal
Poltica, partiee during The last century. In 1910
ne ne rreat a men Of The Nh!e party-"eoser, Clay
atiuty and long experience IN civil lite, were
tarses aside, ard General Harrison. man Of ve.y
moderate no capacity. vac selected As Its candidate
sor re Presidency Tne principle OF availability,
as Il vas te1med y "a sdoptt ~ the rae Of eeleo-
t.op, fnd the question Of t,tness became obsolete,
Ihe cot cern vas 70 know, not who was best qual-
lied to administer the Government bat who. from
lit comparative obscurty wonld be lesst likely to
provoke an emb!ttertd -opp1sn1oG. Ttfs was the
htrtnn1ng Of q fsstem OF GENERALIZATION, which
the county,"
Now We respectfully ask Gen. Dix what
bis elephant rests on. What caused change
Of policy in 1910 ?-what caused both parties
to discard their great men and take up their
little men-thus securing such succession
ofPresldents az Polk, Tyler, Fillmore. Pierce,
aud Buchanan, with kindred mean intellects
In the eubordilAte departments Of the Gov
ernnent-the lower the meaner? We an
swer. Slavery.
In 1910 the effect of the enormous advance
during the preceding fifteen years In the
culture Of cotton, and with 1t the three-fold
rise In the price Of slaves, owing to the set.
uirg up Of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
and Iouisfana, wholly changed the feelin Is
and views Of the 8outh on the subject of
slavery. From States in which tn. abolition
Of elAvery, as worthless inrumbrance, was
being agitated by the shareholders, as in
North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky, du.
ring the years 1926 to 1885, they becaue
3ercely opposed to all discussion OF the quea-
ton. Those who, wheo slaves stood at $3.50,
In 1880, voted for sbolishing slavery, lynch
ed the Sunday school teacher who, in 1910.
with slaves at s., 200, taught colored' child
to read Ills test .ment. The press and pulpit
Of the South were converted or gu ppressed,
aid outrages Of every kind vera perpetrated
Oh citizens, whether Of slave or free States,
who opposed slavery. As this was in def.
arce Of the constitutional rights Of white
mtn, it aroused an opposition party at the
North, and in the ear 1910, for the frat time,
that party expressed itself politically by
platform and candidates. The really great
men Of the country. Webster, Clay, and the
like, haye always BEEN more or less anti
slavery. From the formation OF tnas party,
in 1870, no candidate could secure the vote
Of eth party without expressing deyo.
ton to elayery, which no great man has ever
yet expressed or ever will.
Thus, In 1874, slavery demsnded the an
nexation Of Texas. Van Buren,, not being
willing to pledge himself to it, slavery, by
the two-th,rd rule, adopted expressly to ena-
ble minority to rule the msjority, played
cft cass against Van Buren in the Baltimore
Convention, and thus secured the nomlna
tion Of Polk, pledged to war on Mexico.
While Polk stood on rro.slAvery platform,
Clsy rsn against him, on his record, part Of
which YVES that he would "sooner sever his
right arm than vote slavery into free terrific
r." Slavery Nominated Polk over Van Bu-
ren and CASE, and elected him over Clay.
In 1913, Zachary Taylor, fighting slave
holder, aud billiard Fillmore, q privately
pledged aoughface Of the worst kind, were
nominated BY slavery over Webster and Clay,
and elected by slavery and Taylor's military