The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-01
NO. 17o.
Letter from NJ. EaIIandIgham.
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10 the Editor n TIC N7e York Noes
In the Word Of the 10Th, / observe
an article, copied from the Albany
..iglsa, relating 70 Judge Advocate Hollis
"Great Copperhead Conspiracy, and
/ which contains the following:
/ "MF Nallaudigham was IN q miserable
/ minority in the Chicago Convention
4 lie sought 10 be Chairman Of The Com
mittae on Resolutions, and WAS beaten
two to one. He led the opposition TO
/ Mcclellan, and after his letter OF &C
ceptanee threw up his engagements to
speak"
/ Now, I have refrainedin every speech,
I except the iirst-and | have made ma
ny in support of the Democratic can
didates for President and Vice Presi-
I dent-from atly sllusion to the private
history Of the Chicago Convention, and
| did not propose 10 refer 10 il further
/ till after the election But | do not
choose TO suffer the foregoing 10 pass
unnoticed even now. Ii would be diff
fcult TO compress more misrepresents-
ton, in a small way, within the same
compass
l. Mr.. Vallandigham was not ain
miserable minority at the Chicago Con-
yention, and no one knows it better
than the man Cassidy, who wrote, and
Marble, who indorses the statement
The latter l hand over to Elk Mayor
Opdyke for judgment
? Mr. Vallandigham was not beaten
two to one" for the chairmanship Of the
Committee on Resolutions Through
the artifce of Cassidy, Tilden and 9TH
er New York politicians, Mr. Guthrie,
of Kentucky, received twelve votes 10
his eight for that post, but Mr.. Guthrie
was himself afterward emphatically re-
pudiated by the convention when pre-
scented by ethe ring as their candidate
for the Vice-Presideney. Mr.. Nallan-
digham wrote the second, the material
resolution of the Chicago Platform, and
carried it through the Sub Con mittee
and the General Committee, in pits of
the most desperate, persistent tpposi-
ton on the part of Cassidy aLu ms
friends. Mr.. Cassidy himself, in an
adjoining room, laboring 10 defeat it.
But the various substitutes never az any
time received more than three votes
, Mr. Y. did net "iedd the opposition
to Mcclellan" but confined his efforts
almost exclusively 10 the question Of
platform. lie did, indeed vote against
Gen. Mcclellan on the first, but for him
on the revised ballot, that moved that
the nomination be made unanimous;
WhereupOn Cassidy threw up his hat
and shouted, and he and al his fellows
proclaimed Vallandigham very proper
man.
4 As TO engagements To speak in sup
port Of the Democratic candidates, Mr.
Y. has fulfilled as many as any Demo
cratic speaker in any state, and Is now
here, in Illinois, on the same erFand
and, without immodesty, he may say
that he has accomplished quite as much
of good for the cause as Cassidy and his
Arglis. The people lack confidence
in Cassidy
s. The secret Of this and similar AZ
saults on the part Of Certain class OF
New York politicians is that they can
not "use" Mr. Vallandigham. OF one
thing further let them be assured
neither ran they k.H him.
g As to the charge of conspiracy
set forth in Judge Advocate Hollis pam
phlet, and the eleven specifications
summed up by Mr. Horace Greeley, 1
have only 70 say that so far as | am
they are absolute fsslehoods
aud fabrioations from beginning to end
They are false in the aggregate and false
in detail More than that, they are "a
and ridiculous as they are
without foundation and all this Mr.
Judge Advocate Holt, Mary Ann Pit
man and Horace Greeley very we'll
know. G. l. VALLANDiCHAW