The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-11-02
PRIVATE HIsTORv OF THE CHI.
CAGO CONVENTION.
vaiIanAigham Less eut some Of tn q
Secrets.


To the Editor OF the N. Y. News:
SIR:--Iu the World 'oi the 10th, | OBJ
serve an article copied from the Albany
Argus, regarding the Judge Advocate
Hollis "Great Copperhead Conspiracy"
and which contains the following
fMr. Vallsndighsm was in a miserable
minority in the Chicago C0nveution. He
sought to bs Chairman OF the Committee
on Resolutions, and wa. beaten two to one.
He led the opposition to Mcclellan, and
after his letter Of acceptance threw up his
| engagements to speak"
Nov have retrainei IN every speech.
except the iirst-snd have made many
In support OF the Democratic candidates
for President and Vice President-frum
any alluson to the private history If the
Chicago Convention, ard did not propose
to refer to it further I'LL after election
| But do not choose 10 suiier the forego-
| ing TO pass unnoticeu even now II would
be difficult TO compress more misrepre-
sentsticns. in small way, within the
same compass.
/. Mr.. Vallandigham was not Gin q
miserable minority at The Chicago Con-
vention,' and no one knows i. better than
Mr.. Cassidy, who wrote, and Marble, who
endorses the statement. The latter
hand over to ex Msyor Opdyke for juds-
ment.
2. Mr V. was not "beaten two to one"
for the Chairman of the Cummittee on
Resolutions. Through the arti6ces of
Cassidy. Tilden and other New York poll
ticians, Mr.. Gnthrie, of Kentucky, re-
ceived twelve votes to bis eight for that
post, but Mr. q. was himself afterwards
emphaticsly repudiatcd by the Convention
when presented By "the ring" as their
candidate for the Vice Presidency Mr..
v. wrote the second, the material resoIu
tion OF the Chicago Platform, and carrie
it through the Sub Committee and the
General Committee. in spite of the most
desperate and persistent opposition on
the part of Cassidy aud his friends, Mr..
G.. himself in the adjoining room labor
ing to defeat it, but the various substi.
tutes never at any time receiving more
than three votes.
3. Mr.. V. did not "lead the opposition
10 Mcclellan" but confined bis efforts Al
most exclusively to the question Of plat
form. He did, indeed, vote against Gen
Mcclellan on the first, but for him on the
revised ballot, and moved that the nomi
nation be made unanimous whereupor
Cassidy threw up his hat aud shouted
and he and all his fellows proclaimed Val
landigham very proper man.
4. As to engagements to speak in sup
port of the Democratic candidate, Mr.. V
has fulfilled as many as any Democrat,
speaker in any State. and is now here il
Illinois on the same errand; and. with
out immodesty, be may say be has accom-
plished quite as mucn Of good for the
.. cause rs Cassidy and his Argus. Tn,
people lack Confidence in Cassidy.
5. The secret of this and similar as
} saults on the part Of certain class Of New
York politicians is, that they cannot ''use'
Mr. Vallandigham. Of one thing furthe
let them be assured-neither can they xii
him.
6. As to the charge Of icons spiracy'
set forth in Judge Advocate HoIt's pam
!. phlet, and the eleven specifications sum
: med up BY Mr.. Horace Greeley, hav
only to say that. 80 far as am concerned
; they are absolute falsehoods and fabrica
tion, from beginning to end. They ar
false in the aggregate and false in detail
More than that, they are as prepos,srou
: and ridiculous as they are without four
dstion and all this Mr.. Judge Advocat
Holt. Mary Ann Pitman and Mr.. Horac
!. Greeley very we'll known.
! G. L. VALLAnDIaHAM.