Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-10-02

! n democrat Oh the cr1SIS.
General John A. Dix, American
Consul to France, an old acquaint.
aDce and friend of Governor Seymour,
has written the following letter to q
friend in New York City. IL was
not inten ded for publication, but the
gentleman to whom 1t was addressed
has given his consent to give it to the
public: q "s%aE. u.
PARIS, September4, 1868
MY DEAR SIR: Tt was my hope thai
my distance from home would have
saved me from all participation of the
political excitement prevailing there
but notice a statement in one of the
newspapers that lam heart and hand
with Mr.. Seymour.
/ am not aware of anything In the
present or the past, which could right.
fully.subject me to such an imputa.
ton.
/ have been acquainted with Mr..
Seymour more than quarter of a GEN.
fury. He is an amiable gentleman,
of unexceptionable private character
and respectable talents; but you
know as well as / that he has not q
sing lie qualification for the successful
execution of the high official trust to
which he has been nominated, and
is especially deficient i'm firmness of
purpose which in critical emergen-
cies is the only safeguard against pub
lie disorder and calamity. He has
been twice ut different times, Govern.
or Of the State of New York, and he
has i'm neither case had the talent or
the tact to keep the Democratic party
of the State together more than two
years.
L should regard his election, at this
ljuncture, when steadiness of purpose,
decision, and self.control are so much
needed, as one of the greatest calam
tiles that could befall the country
Moreover he has beer put in nomina.
ton by a convention which has open.
ly declared the purpose of those il
represents to pay the greater part Of
the public debt contracted to preserve
the Union, in deprecated paper
Such measure would, I'm my judg,
ment, be palpable violation of the
public faith. pledged under sircum.
stances which should have been lind.
ing on oil honorable men. Seymour
has made public speeches to show
that it is our duty TO pay the debt in
specie. In accepting his nomination
to the Presidency he adopts the dec.
laration that it ought TO be paid in
paper. I,know OF nothing so humil-
iating in American politics as this
tergiversation. 1t Was, perhaps not
unfit that Mr.. Seymour, after presi-
ding over the Chicag 70 convention i'm
1854, which declared the war q fail
ure, should preside over the conven-
ton of 1868, in which proposition
to discredit the debt contracted to car.
ry on thu war was received with tire.
mendous cheering, and that he should
be the chosen instrument to exc
cute this act of national turpitude.
L do not believe that the wishes or
opinions of the great body of the
Democratic party are fairly expressed
in the proceeding. They have moth
ing i'm common with the statesman
like view of the policy and the high
sense of national honor which guided
the party when Martin Van Buren,.
William l.. Yancy, Silas Wright,
Lewis Cass, and Stephen A. Douglas
were among its most conspicous mem
bers.
independently of all these consid-
erations, l should be greatly surprised
If the people of the United States
were to elect as their Chief Magis-
trate a man who was making, at the
Academy of Music, on the 4th of
July in 1868, speech deficient in all
the characteristics of an elevated love
of country.at The very hour when Gen
eral Grant was Carrying tho victorious
arms of the Union into Vicksburg and
when thousands of our fallen coun-
trymen were pouring out their blood
on the plains .sof Gettysburg, in the
defence of their homes and the Gov
eminent which Mr.. Seymour was
doing all in his power to embarrass
and discredit.
am quite willing you should show
this letter to any friends who may
take an interest i'm my opinion i'm re-
gard to the coming election, and /
am particularly DESTROYS of removing
the impression, if it exists, that am
i'm favor Of Mr.. Seymour, or the repu-
diation of the public debt.
am, sir, very truly yours,
..- JOHN A. Dix.
THE GRECIAN BEND IN KANSAS
The local editor of the Lawrence
Tribune has used his ears when Inc
should not, and then used his pen
when lie should not. We publish his
story simply TO show how naughty
Kansas editors are:
Three beautiful young ladies gave
| this deponent cause yesterday for a
horrible apprehension that was enough
to turn ones hair white. 1t was i'm
this wise: We were sitting on u store
box, on the side walk, waiting for
something to turn up, and idly spec
ulating on the habits. thoughts, char
-acters, &c, of passers by, when these
three nymphs came sailing along un-
der full head ofsteam, and engaged
in the artless prattie that young la
dies always indulge in when they
meet together. Just as they passed,
these words floated out i'm silvery
tones on the "circumambient air."
20! E., have you got the Grecian
Bend yet |" mo" said E.. "I
have been practicing over a week,
and don't believe ever will learn
it. Ma says look as If L was in ter
lille misery, and was about to have
Al That was enough, and we
stubornly refused 10 hear any m ore.
We may possibly keep the grass-hop-
pers out of the country, but if the
young ladies take notion to bring