The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-10-06
Gen. Alvin p. Hovey on the Presidential
Contest.

Contest.
STIRRING APPEAL IN BEHALF OF GRANT.
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Hon. 0. P. Morton, U. S. Senator:
NIX DEAR FRISNp: Many years have
passed Since We first became acquainted.
and although it has been our fortune to
differ widely ffom each other at times on
the questions of the hour, yet 1 have
never had cause to doubt either the sin
cerity of your motives or of your ac-
tionss Yop will pardon me for, saying
that Fhate4seen you tried too severely
to ever doubt the purity of your heart,
and that your Judgment has always com
manded my highest respect.
dgaDJG beEsUiHE faith ecouing cep.
test for the Presidency, and would, if
possible, throw my0mite into the scale;
where the interest Of the country and
justice demand. -Th
will not analyze the present political
qsesdpps Of our country but frankly
confess that do not understand the log
ic OF the reconstruction bills, negro suf-
frage, and the late impeachment of Pres
ident johnson. Possibly, had I been
upon the field, I might either fully ap-
prove or condemn them; but approv-
ing or condemning, cannot give my al
legiance to the sbutternuts' of the North
Our dead, that they instigated to be
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plaMs and mouGfs ofgtheT South, and
/ cannot and will not trust their leaders
again.
Nor can I vote with the Seymours,
Wade Hamptons, Alexander Stephens,
Vallandighams, Bowels, Milligans, Pen
dletons and Company, whose policy
would have humbled the pride, of every
soldier that fought for the integrity Of
our Governme ent, and would have left
our country in dismembered fragments
I have just heard by the last mail of
the Democratic nominations, and have
read the platforms and =proceedinsso of
both conventions with care, and must
frankly say that cannot, with my whole
heart, give my undivided sanction to
either. When a party announces noble
principles, il may be questioned wheth
er they have the force or ability to carry
them into effect; but when they openly
advocate the wrong, for demogogical
purposes, that party may be justly fear
ed onrits assumption of power.
OF the two platforms the Republican
is far less Objectionable to me than that
of the Democracy. But the day has
long since gone by when platforms ex-
ercised n1uch inflaence on the minds of
the intelligent, thinking masses of the
States. Since their Inauguration in the
days of Jackson, there has not been one
that has been honestly carried out They
are like that which an ancient philoso.
pher said or tie laws OF Greece, mere
cobwebs, to catch small insects, whilst
the hornets and big bugs crept through
them at pleasure Would to God our
people could thoroughly understand this,
k6G theyr EsoblefV VI en- knowgv the
great Chief Justice lately bent himself
SO plantly to the passions of party.
The Democratic Convention began
with falsehood, and ended in the an
keaacinssnt Of principIas wlfich. will
lead to fraud and reputation. Seymour
.Aeid be would not, and could not honor
ably, accept the nomination and yet he
did. What is thisp Do his friends now
admit that he has dishonorably accept.
ed or has he, like Caesar, descended to
falsshood TO obtain the crown2 The
Democratic platform breathes tone an
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