New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-04-07

let alone To contradict them is to give them
consequence the most conclusive refutatlon
serves to difiuse and perpetuate them. Ines
evil minded will suspect that where there is so
much smoke, there must be some IRE ; ana the
French proverb that Whose excuses accuses"
is not without pcrtinence. But TINS Charter
business has been made the occasion ana the
pretext for so much cOincident ana prODapiy
preconcerted Misrepresentation that l mean 10
deal with it thoroughly, if only to justify me
in disregarding detraction from like sources III
future.
II is known that / was appointed, at q
meeting which | did not attend, and IN which
I had no part, no voice whatever, one OF
Committee to proceed to Albany on Monday
last and urge the objections of many intelli-
gent and worthy citizens to the Tweed Char
ter. Neglectng my own business and break
ing three outside engagements-two OF them
to speak at public meetings on Monday evening
i went to Albany as requested, and, IN COM
mon with others, did what | could in pursu-
ance of my instructions-first at a hearing be-
fore the Senate Committee on Cities; next. at
a private meeting of the Republican Senators,
held after the evening session OF their Dody.
We did not succeed-for the reason, among
others. Gas 1 infer from facts now
of wide notoriety), that an under
standing had previously been had
between the Republican and other Senators
that the Tweed Charter should pass, as also
most stringent law to prevent Illegal voting
and Miscounting of Votes in our City-the
fate of each of these measures being depend
ent on that of the other. Il was, of course, no
party to this understandings never acquiesced
in i'll was simply unable to break or beat it.
| think those Republican Senators who were
parties to or were governed by it made mis-
take | think they might have acted differently
if they had kept clear of all cOmmlttals or
understandings till Monday-but they must
Judge and act for themselves. Time may prove
that they were right and l wrong. And am
sure every one of them will say that did my
best while at Albany, from first to last, to
procure the notifications of the Tweed Charter
recommended by the gentlemen who assembled
on Saturday evening at the Union League Cluo.
Yet a correspondent of The Sun says:
In order to head off Mr. Greeley and prevent him from
making very bitter speech against the Charter, the Re
pubicans had recourse to little strategy Immediately
his arrival yesterday afternoon, some forty Repubi'
cans him In the reception room OF the DeaYan and
by one, as they approached him 10 snake hahds'
said:
"'Mr Greeley, want you for Governor OF the state
1t generally understood in party that you arc to be
nominated II you oppose this Charter as you propose
to do you will destroy all chances OF your nomination
We beg you therefore to modify speech before
the Committee this afternoon TO leave them IN doubt
in regard to your position the subject
This speech entirely upset Mr. Greeleys cool and I'M
ambitious BRAIN He concluded to change 'front.' and leave
his friends Morrisseyaand lTden to fight their own bat
ties He was unwilling TO sacrifice his chances Tor tho
Goyernorshpno not for the defeat OF thousand Char
ters 1t was the goal of his ambition. Horace assum
ing most modest posture and steadfasy gazing at the
figures OF the carpet replied TO each and all that he was
here Chairman OF Committee OF the Union League
Club with instructions to oppose the Charter unless their
proposed amendments were adopted but he thought
that the friends OF the Charter would be satisfied with the
remarks which he would make before the Committee"
These statements are either truths or false
hoods. / brand them all, so far "a they affect
myself, as willful fasehoods. challenge the
"forty" to come to the front, zone by one"
or all together, and give their testimony. /
cannot say positively that no one ever said
ANYTHING in Albany about my being q
candidate for Governor; but l am sure
that no one mentioned the subject in
my hearing; and | do know that no FORTY"
no thirty, no twenty, no ten. will even pre-
tend that they ever spoke of it so that l could
hear them. l do not believe that there is even
one man on earth who will say that he ever
insuted me by any such proposition rs that
above set forth. And, if any one has said, or
shall say, that l said or limited to him that
the friends of the Tweed Charter would be
satisfied with my speech before the Committee,
that man is a liar.
The SUMS libeler proceeds:
"After the Committee adjourned. Mr. Greeley
quested the Republican to meet him o'clock
evening. They did so. In the course Of the
yersation, Senator Chapman said:
"Mr. Greeley from the tenor OF the speech you made
today in doubt TO your opinion OF the Charter
Suppose cannot succeed in securing the amendments
you desire and they voted down. what shall do
the question Of the passage of the Charter it
from the Assembly,
"'I should rote for IL as U.s. replied Mr. Greeley"
i brand this also as a falsehood, and call
upon every Republican Senator, as well as
Messrs. Joseph b. Varnum, William Laimbeer,
and Samuel j. Classy (my associates) to bear
witness that my answer to Senator Chapmans
question was in these exact words:
III they vote down your amendments, let those who
vote them down pass their Charter"
There is more such stuff as | have quoted
above, wherein the public can take little in
terest; but most of it is utterly false. l will
only notice the assertion that l said to Judge
Hilton that
Somehow or other, I always get sold John Russell
Young sold me; and since theu have been sold many
times"
AS this is said to have been addressed to
Judge Henry Hilton, | call him to witness
that | never uttered word of it, and that
John Russell Young was never named be-
tween us.
Il grudge the space required by this expose
as much as any one can but. if it shall be
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