Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-10-27

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sHrpmkr Housr, CHICAGO, Oct ao
To he Editor OF tie Nep York kepsi
In the World Of the sothI observed an article
copied from the Albany Argus reisiing 70 Judge
Advocate Holt's "Gfeat Copperhesd Con-
spiracy,'' and which contains the following,
"Mr. vallandlRham was In q miserable
minority in the Chicago Convention. He sought
and was beaten two 10 one. He led the oppo-
sltion to Mcclellan, and after his letter OF nc.
ceptance threw up his engagements to speak"
Now, I have refrained In every speech, ex-
cept the frst-and have made many In sup
port Of the Democratic candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice Presldent-from any allusion TO
the private history OF the Chicago Convention,
and did not propose 10 refer 10 Il further I'LL
after the election. But I do not choose 10 suffer
the foregoing to pass unnoticed even now. IL
would be difficult 10 compress more misrepre-
sentation, In small way, W thin the same
compass.
/, Mr.. Vallandigham was mot tin a miserable
minority at the Chicago Convention" |" and no
one knows It better than the man Cassidy,
who wrote, and Marble, who endorses the
statement. The latter hand over 10 ex- Mayor
Opdyke for judgment.
9. Mr.. vallandIgham was not "beaten two
to one'' for the chairmsnship Of the Committee
on hGbDlullOnbs tub uftluCtb Oh Oub-
sidy, Tilden, and other New York politicians,
Mr.. Guthrie, Of Kentucky, received twelve
votes to his eight for that post but Mr.. Guth-
rie was himself afterwards emphatically repu-
dated by the Convention when presented by
:" the ring" as their candidate for the Vice
Presidency. Mr.. Vallandingham wrote the
second, the material resolution Of the Chicago
platform, and carried 1t through the sub-com-
mittee and the general committee, In spite OF
the most desperate, persistent opposition on
tho part Of Cassidy and his friends, Mr.. Cassi-
dy himself, In an adjoining room, laboring to
defeat II. But the various substitutes never at
any time received more than three votes.
8. Mr.. Vallandlgham did not lead the op-
position to Mcclellan" but confined bis efforts
almost exclusively to the question OF platform.
He did, indeed, vote against General Mcclellan
on the first, but for him on the revised ballot,
and moved that the nomination be made unani-
nous; whereupon Cassidy threw up his hat
and shouted, and he and all his fellows pro-
claimed vallandlgham very proper man.
4. As to engagements TO speak In support OF
the Democratic candidates, Mr.. Vsllandighsm
has fulfilled as many as any Democratic speaker
In any State, and Is now here, in Illinois, on
the same errand; and, without immodesty, he
may say that he has accomplished quite as
much OF good for the cause as Cassidy and his
Argus. The people lack confidence" In Cas-
sidy.
s. The secret Of this and similar assaults on
the part of certain class OF New York pollti-
clans is that they cannot "use" Mr.. Vallandlg-
ham. OF one thing further lot them be as
sured-neithsr can hey kill hin.
0. As to the charge OF conspiracy" set forth
in Judge Advocate Holt's pamphlet, and the
eleven specifications summed up by Mr.. Horace
greely, have only to say that so far as l am
concerned, they are absolute falsehoods and
fabrications from beginning to end They are
false In the aggregate and false In detail. More
than that, they are as preposterous and ridicul-
ous as they are without foundation; and all this
Mr.. Judge Advocate Holt, MARY Ann. Pitman,
and Mr.. Horace Greedy very well know.
G. l.. VAILANDIaHAM.