, 1864-10-29
PRIVATE HISTORY 0F THE
:. CTfICaa4b CONVENT I4%1N-
Vallaudieham LET'S cut some OF s1o
kecFek3s


SIBERIAN HousE, Chicago, Oct =, ISL.
10 the Editor OF the N, Y. News,
SIR: In the Wrrld Of the Goth, observe
an a1t,cle copied from the Albany Azgus re-
lating TO Jpo0e Advocate Holt's "GreAt Cop
eerhesd d Conspiracy" and which contains the
following: -.
IN The Chicago Convention. He so1eht TO be
Chai.man Of the Committee on Resolutions. and
was beaten tEo to one. he led The oppossioSa 70
up his engagements to SPEAK"
Now have RETAINED in every speech, ex'
ctpt the tirst---Anh have made many in sup
port OF the Democratic candidates fol: Pres
ident abd Vice Piesident-trom sny allusion
to the private history Of the Chicago Con.
further TIL after election. But do not
choose to suffer the foregoing to pass unno.
ticed even now. It would be difficult to
compress more Misrepresentation, In small
Way within the same compass.
erabls minority al. the Chicago Convention,n
a. no uue Knows 1t b: tier than Mr. Cassidy,
who wrote, and Marble, who endorses the
statement. The latter baud over to e1-
May or Opdyks for judgment,
2. Mr. Y. WaB not ''beaten two to onen
for the Chairman Of the Committee on Reso-
lutions. Through the articles Of Cassidy.
Tnden and other New York politicians, Mr..
Guthrie, OF Kentucky, received twelve votes
to lis eight 1or that POST, but hr. G. VAS
himself after wards euphatical1y repudisted'
BY the Convention when presented oY 1.-THE
ring" as their candidate Tor the Vice PresI-
d.ncy. ~ V. wrote the second, the mate
rial resolution of tie Chicago Platform, and
carried 1t through the Sno.Comm1tte and the
General Committee, In spite Of the most des-.
perAte and erststent opposition On the part
Of Caseidy and his t1ienus, Nj. G. himself in
the adjoining room laboring to defeat 1t.
But tbs various substitutes never at any time
receiving more than three votes.
8. Mr. v. did not 'lead the opposition to
Mcclellan" but confined his btforts almost
exclusively to the question ot platform. He
die, indeed, vote against Gen. Mcclellan on
the first, but for hlm on the revised ballot,
md moved that the nomination ba made
upabimous: wnereupo9 Cassidy threw up
his hat and shouted, and he and althis fel-
man.
4 As,to engagements to spelk In support
Of the Democratic candidates, Mr. Y. has
fu1hled as many as any Democratic speaker
in any State, and IL now here in illinois on
the same e1rand; and, without immodeaty,
much Of good for the cause as Cassidy and
bis d.gus. The people lack I" confidence in
CASSIDY.
on: the part Of O certain class Of NeH York
politicians is, that they cannot "uss'' sir.
Vallandlgham. OF ons thing iurther let
them 10 assured-ne.kher can they ki4 him.
8. as to the charge of conspiracy" set
forth IN Jucge Advocate Holt's pamphlet,
and the eleven specifications summed up 5y
Mr. Horace Greeley.I have only to say Tint,
SO far as am concerned, they are absolute
talEehoods and fab1ieations, from beginning
to end. They are false in the aggregate and
false IN detail: More than that, they arc a.
.preposterous and ridiculous as they are with
ont foundation; and all this Mr. Judge Ad-
cate Holt Mary Ann Pitman and MI. Horace
Greeley very well know.
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