Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1864-11-03
FROM TaE nov, C. L, vALLAH-
DEGNAa9
SHERaAs dousg, !
Cme&Go, Oct. ., 1864.

SaERxAS HousB,
CaIc4Go, Oct. ., 1864.
To the EJitors Of the N. 4. Rstrs:
Ia The World Of TIE 20th, obssTvs an
article, copied from The Albany Argue,
relating 10 the Judge Advocate holts
"Great Copperhehd Conspiracy" and
which contains tha following
ssMr. VallandIgham was in q miserable
minority 10 the Chicago Convention. He
soughG to be Chairman Of she Commi1sss
on Resolutions, and was beaten two 30
Una He led the opposition 10 Mcclellan,
aud after bis letter Of acceptance threw
up his engageuer Is Epeak.o
Now have refrained IN every speech,
except the irst--and hare made many
in support of the Democratic esdidAtes
for President and Vice Presidents from
any allasion to she private history Of the
Chicago Constitution, and did not prax
pose TO refer to il further till after The
election. Bus do not choose to suffer
the foregoing to pass unnosicsd even nov.
Il would be diEheait to compress more
m:sreprentati3n, in small way, within
the same compass.
]. Mr. TaiiandiSham was NOT "in a
miserable minority at the Chicago Cou-
yention," and no oae knows it better
than the man Cassidy, who wrote, aud
Marble, who indorsea the statement.
The latter hand over to ex Mayor OPP
dyke fer judgement.
2. Mr. v. was aot "beaken two to ons'
for nc chairmsnship of the Committee
GA Resi-. nsions. Through the articles Of
Cassidy. Tiltsan and other Ncw York pol
iticiaus. Mr. tsu'hTie Of kentucky re-
ceiyea twelvs votes 10 his eight for thai
cost, bat Mr.. q. was himself afterward
smphatically repudiated ~ tho Conven'
tion when presented by "snS rag o.
their candidate for the Vice Pfesls. easy
Dir. ". wrote the second, the masssfa.
resolution OF the Chicago Platform, and
carried it through the Sab COMMITTEES
and The General Committee, in spite oi
The most desperate and persistent oprosi'
! lion ou the part OF Cassidy and his friends
Mr.. @. himself, in an adjoining room. la.
boring to defeat il. But The various
Substitutes never At any time receives
more than three votss.
| 3. Mr.. V. did mol tslsad the epposi
sien to MsClelian, ]" bat confined bis sf
forts al.nnst exclusively to the question o
platforra. lie did, indeed, vets agains1
General Mcclellan On the Rrst, bus fol
him on the revised ballot, and noYed tha
1.-The nomination be mada unanimous
whercupon Cassidy threw up bis bat au(
shouted, and be and all his fellows rro
claimed Yallandighan very props
man.
4. As TO engagements 10 speak 10 sup
fport OF the Democratic candidates, Mr.
/ Y. has fuiiiilei as laany az any ~DerBc
Eesatie speaker ia any State, and is noS
here in Illinois On The same eYraad |; 50
Without immodesty, he maY say thai
mas accomplished quite az much OF goo
for the cause as Cassidy and his Argus
The people lack saconGdeneen In Cassidy
5. Iha secret Of this and similar "a
aaalts on thepait of eprtnia class nj Nc
York politicians IL that they eannot atusa
AIr. Vnllaudighasn. Uf ons thirg fur
thar ies them BIO assured neishsr ca
tghsy kiil him.
6. As to the charge Of ksconsLiracy
set forth in Judge Advocate bolts pan
J phles, and she eleven specifications sun
Eiucd up By Mr.. Horace Greeley ! haI
! only to say thai 10 far as Lam coarsrne,
] thar are absaIase falsahopds ard fair
cations from beginning % end. Thay q
; false IN the aggregate and false in dosai
. Mare than thgs, they sss - pysposssro'
and ridiculous ~ they are withoas foaI
! dalton and all this Sir. Judge Advoca
Holt, Mary Ann Pitman and Dir. lara
J Greeley very veil know.
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