Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-12-20
MARCHING OUT.

4 MARCHING OUT.
!, A Letter from Gen. Jones, Of Du.
buque. to senator Harlan..IIe take.
Leave OF the ID lnbcrniic Party.
DuBUouE, Ia, Dec. 10, '72.
My DEAR FR1END:-I received
on the 5th inst. yours of the 9th
ult., relative to the postotficc at Alta
Vista, and thank you for you,
prompt attention to that matter OF
business, as sincerely do for the
hundreds of acts of civility and
kindness which l have received al
your hands ever since was intro.
duccd to you, on the fairgrounds
at Fairfield, in the fall, and but a
few weeks before you took youl
seat in the Senate and became my
colleague, when you honorcd me by
the presentation Of your credentials
as Senator elect. From the moment
of our first acquaintance none other
but the kindest relations have sub.
sisted between us, and l have so
many evidences and proofs, positiye,
Of your regard for me rs to Justify
me in addressing you rs my
"triend," whilst I know you enter
tain equally strong assurances OF
like feelings on my part toward
yourself.
Your predictions as to the defeat
of Mr.. Greeley and the recollection OF
Gen. Grant have, indeed. been fully
realized, and if ever l have felt a
remorse of conscience for failing to
do my duty and to obey the dictates
of my heart and head, too, it was
when ! cast that vote for Horace
Greeley and in opposition to Gen.
Grant. But, dear old colleague,
had worked in the traces so long
and had been SO often and so sig
nally honorcd by the Democratic
party as to have found it wholly i'm
practicable to resist the inportuni-
ties Of the many near and dear
personal friends who orally and by
letter implored me not to desert the
old party ties, as | on almost every
suitable occasion said | would do,
after the action Of the Baltimore
Convention.
Ireioiccd when the news reached
here, in the nomination of Mr.. Gree
ley, at Cincinnati, because l believ-
ed that he would more certainly and
thoroughly pivide the Republican
party than would the nomination of
any other Republican, not excepting
Justice Davis of the Supreme Court,
and, therefore, that the nomination
OF any old-linc Democrat, Of tried
principles, at Baltimore, would re.
suit in the complete triumph Of the
party to which | had all my life been
earnestly and sincerely attached
My disappointment and chagrin at
the action of the convention called
Democratic at Baltimore, was great
and humiliating, but l must confess
that | was partially prepared Tor the
result from the moment saw low
our State and county Democratic (?)
conventions were composed and
managed, and how such sterling,
long tried, faithful and wise Demo
Gratis rs ex-Gov. Stephen Hemp
stead, Hon. Alex. ID. Anderson,
Hon. L. S. Wilson, Hon. Il. NJ.
Monroe, John Deery, Esq, Prof. J.
J. E. Norman, Gen. w. W. Smith,
Gen. Warner Lewis, and many 9TH
ers of us ruled out of our county
convention, and denied q hearing
even here, and at Des Moincs, be-
cause we were for adhcring strictly
to Democratic measures and men,
and because, forsooth, we were OPP
posed to the Endorsement of Horace
Greeley, or any other so called lib
erol Republican, whose liberality
was the consequence of his failure
to get office for himself or his
friends at the hands Of Gen. Grant,
as though the President had an Of
flee or fat contract for every man
who had voted for him, or fought
under him at the south. l had had
great deal of patronage to dis
pense, in my time, as surveyor gen
eral and senator, and knew very
well how utterly impossible it was
to give pap to every man who had
voted for me, and how ungrateiul
many were who had been favored
by me, and therefore | know how
to make allowance for President
Grant, and for You and others who
have official positions and patron-
age to dispense.
But l and my associates who were
adhering strictly to the established
usages Of our party, and for the out
and out nominations of long and
wcll-tried Democrats of the Jcffer-
son, Jackson, Polk, Pierce and Blu
chanan schools, were not only ag-
nored by the men who now rulc us
with iron rods, some of whom came
here but few years since from
York State, Canada, &c, with the
reputation Of know nothing and
free. soilism clinging to their skirts,
UUC VIC WcIc IlIHOSG hlChCu uuU vi
our county and State conventions,
and denied the liberty of the presses
which our money. patronage and
energies had built up, and into the
possession and control of which
they worked themselves by stealth
and against the expressed wishes,
in one instance, of the patrons and
builders up of the paper, in a large
meeting of the Democrats in the Of
fee itself.
If such tyranny and anti'Demo-
cratic usages were practiced in this
county alone, they might per-
haps be borne in silence, but when
the evil affects tho party throughout
the State and the Union, /, at least,
for one, can stand it no longer, and
will march out, and into the ranks
of our opponents, who arc true to
themselves, at least, il not to the
whole country, which has spoken in
thunder tones, not to be misundcr-
stood, if there be truth in the pro-
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