Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-05

AAo lOlOMlus ietteE was HrSG puOllSneQ IN the
New York Evening Post of Saturday. It is
well worth reading:
WRsTHAMPToN, July o.
Dear Sir: Your letter of the 18th inst, ask
ing my and to procure speaker for a Greeley
meeting at Hancock, was sent to me while I
was in New England, and have been unable
until now to acknowledge its reception. | do
not understand on what ground you considered
yourself authorized to address such a request to
me. If you had been familiar with the course
of my public life, and equally so with Mr..
Greeley's, you could not have supposed me ca
paple of advocating his election to the office of
president of the United States without imputing
to me the utter abandonment of all political
principle.
am opposed to Mr.. Greeley:
/. Because ! believe him to be as punishable
as water" perpetually houndering Ito carry out
the Scriptural fgure) amid the surges of opn.
ion, and deficient in all the requisites essential
10 firm, steady, and consistent administration
of the government.
2. Because he has usually been found among
the most extreme ultraiSts on the great ques-
tons of political and social duty which have
been brought under public discussion during the
last quarter of century.
B. Because he has been the advocate land In
this instance persistenty) of that most unjust
and unequal commercial system which is de-
stroying our mercantile and shipping interests
wealth in the hands of the protected classes, TO
the oppression and impoverishment of all
others.
4. Because he is associated, in relations
more or less intimate, with some of the chief
plunderers of the city of New York, iustlv
warranting the apprehension that through his
completely or his facile disposition the same
system Of fraud and corruption which has
disgraced the municipal government of this
city may be carried TO more infamous ex-
tremes in the administration of the federal
government; and
5. Because in the darkest hour of tbe conn
try's peril, when traitorous combination had
been formed TO overthrow the government. he
openly counselled the cowardly policy of nom
resistance, andlan acquiescence in the dissolu-
ton of the Union, whenever the cotton states
should make up their minds TO 90
The coalition which has been formed to pro-
mote his election is one Of the most extraordi-
nary in the history of parties, in respect both to
the dscordant elements 10 embraces and the
surrender OF principles it involves.
The Cincinnati convention, called to bring be-
fore the people important measures OF reform.
nominated him, greatly TO the surprise of the
whole country, knowing him, In regard to one
OF those measures, TO be an implacabc Oppo-
nentj nominated him, too, against the wishes
and Judgment of the chief promoters of the
movement, who accepted him, either with an
avowed or an ill-concealed disgust, which would
act OF acceptance were not utterly irreconcila.
BILE with their principles.
The democratic convention ut Baltimore in
dorsed and commended him to the support of
thelr party--not as the exponent of any princi-
Piles they have proiessed but as n known and
bitter opponent Of both-the man who. of ali
Others, has been the most malignant of the de-
mocracy, impeaching its integrity, traducnp lis
motives and yillifying its character.
The adoption Of such man as their cand
1aN.. Eos .1.s oil q
the most conspicuous abandonment of politi.
cal principles known 10 party contests. IL re.
mains to be seen whether the great body of the
democratic voters, and the true friends of re-
form, can be made parties to this INSCRIPTIONS
coalition between political leaders.
That Gen. Grant has committed mistakes, his
most since friends admit. But il his errors had
been four-iold more numerous he would. 10 my
opinion, DO much better chief magistrate than
Mr., Greeley, He has, in that capacity, done