New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-10-27

meeting in Quincy. In the course Of his eloquent re-
marks Quincy addressed ase 10 tbn rI' WaId do
Ill 90 heed He said substance, that the deeds OF lne
81. Regiment WIPE" lSe Know movement was the
causc and effect and that any irlshman VINO NVes
OH Regiment conferred on rishnen IN MASSACHUSETTS,
Nothing could be more true me gallant conduct oI fH
Irish in Of the lebeiQn receives the most cor
credit from the Americans. SheTid.n ana Meagher anu
Corcoran. and Quincy are as Algnly ~oIe Is 1ly NJ
can leaders OF Hhe heroic service aHu te llsn -,
and file will their place OF honor in the memories OF
Tho war Their conduct did ia great measure destroy
the lingering prejudice III AMERICAN ,,
renew AZ if Irshuen themselves ia ciyll life as y
d9 Td ~ T 70 All aon II Is when We Irish adopted
citizens fleeing from tyranny In their own country en-
deayOring TO perpeTae wrong IN TINS ana 10 ala anu
comfort those enemies that they so bravey fought IN the
field which creates any III feeling or dstrust to their peu
dice If they Will reflect that IN ordertJ preserve what
they fought for and to attain the results OF victory ~ Is
necessary TO give their support to the great parry
and progress against those who work for the oppression
and degradation OF me aS0ep OF enss Srocraey no
Of citizens in America VIII receive msher lcSpo''
than tho Irish
GEN O. b. WILCOX REPUDlATES SEYMOUR
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
SIR: ] observe that i'll the columns OF me
Ne York World my name published among the list OF
Democratic Generals
II this means that once belonged 10 the Democratic
party the inference correct But considering tIht
have not co0peratcd with tho party but aX weeks I'm
ls6G out OF seven years. rather think The World had bet
ter haul in my name. Douglas was my preference IN
1860 but tho Charleston and Baltimore COhNeh-
tions broke off the Douglas or Union Wing OF
the party, and since that atrocous act
the copper remnant OF the North have had no more OF
nv evmpathy than the anti Union element Of the South
The cOmradeshp of Union soldiers in tho heiu WITHOUT
respect to party has proved and fervent alliance.
Some of us were temporarily divided from the mass OIL
our comrndes by the Philadelphia Convention movement
I'm 1866 This was rcgardcdas measure OF wise geneosy
sanctioned too 10y the estabhshcd pihocs " to tho
stitution believe that Grant for the tlnc suNed iuo
impulse with the rest Ot us But the iaIhrc OF .t III
practicable schomc did not throw US JGross inU ~
common reconciliation having failed the truce was ter
natad aud both parties returned 10 ueIf respective va"
Here there WAS misapprchension the part o. the
politicians and disappointment because i1ost" to
soldiers Sherman Thomas Dix, Schocd, and OterS re-
fused to be led back into the old party camp whereas inc
soul and ph Of the Democracy, throughout tue country
nd already left the old nks and shucks Of once vital
| organization 10 the worms. ,,o
| The rejection II the Fourteenth Amendment Dy INC
states of the South together with the bitterness OF tue
Southern press ana people, under the tuoh OF oihcI
clements crystalzcd around Grant rs our leader lls
nomination the 1eprcshe sequence OF events tt
sought safe conservative, yet loyal solution on the
| other hand. q usurpng Democratic Convention must
needs kill of Hancock Hendricks, ana Ewing TO Nlhul,
our most polished blades stubbOrnly adhered 10 tnc
Phnisncs and dare say he Is sorry for IT. especially
| the eyes OF n socaIlcd Democratic Convention -
never fprgycn the war Democrats from 1855 to 1868.
they spoke them fair and sought them TO bridge over
their necessities Bat in the late seymour ana bar
ventiOn IL seems az II they have dohauty thrown the
overheard as tub 10 the Southern whale just as unequY
ocaiy AS the Charleston Convention threw Douglas and
tho Union overheard. They auda'iOusy adopted pht
FORM aud by their nomination sanctioned insane utter
anccs such as no lover of his countrys integrity could
| ever support. unless blinded by party zeal -,
| For my part / dcprccato cxtromes, ana LOT tho
sake Of peace have been, aud for carrying ont
the Recous tIucton laws generous baeiH' ana conn
IDENTITY regard the settlement OF public opinion Noith
aud South, upon generous and faithful man an as
Grant the sign Of approaching ana hnal peace
| Hopefully looking for a new aud br ghtor dawn.
| remain yours, truly.
b WILCOX, Brevet Maor-Gen
JDyrLbUrg "a. Oct. a. 1868