The Cairo daily bulletin., 1872-07-20
THE BULLETIN.
Published every norping, Monday ex'
cepte0s
BAYARD.
THE DELEwARE SENATOR Fol
GREELEY.
A SOUND DOCUMENT BY A BOUR
BON DEMOCRAT.
THE ATTENTION OF ANTI.GREE.
LEY DEMOCRATS CALLED TO 1T.

My DEARSIR: The peremptory orders
of my physicians compel me to obtain
absolute rest and quiet, and for this reason
I leave the country. My passage has been
engaged, and l shall sail for Europe on
Saturday, the 18th instant. Although un-
fitted by my condition Of health, felt 1t
TO be my duty TO go TO Baltimore as dele
gate TO the Convention, and tits in relation
TO the action of that body that wish q
few words with you, and, through you, to
my other party friend, In Delaware, before
I leave / need not say 70 you nor to
them with what astonishment and dis
appointment heard Of the nomination OF
Greeley and Brown at Cincinnati, nor how
steadily and openly have at all times
expressed myself in opposition to the
adoption of that ticket by the Democratic
party at Baltimore. But tho result has been
accomplished however much against our
will and efforts, and 1t is our duty, calmly
and steadily, to confront the fact now
presented to our eyes. II the issue Of the
cam paign were those only Of revenue re-
form, Of civil-service reform-questions
in which pecuniary loss or gain to the
public were involved--l might be willing
to take no part in the Presidential contest,
but allow the demoralizing course pursued
DIV 1Ehut anu uls W w
cont ued four years longer, trusting that
the every extent and fsgitious nature of
the notorious abuses would, in themselves,
so instruct the people that they would re-
cole from placing further trust in such
hands. The natural capacities of the soil
and climates Of our country, together with
the industry and energies Of our people,
render the production of wealth (mere
wealth. almost boundless, and We can al
most afford to bear the results Of financial
bunders, and, SO long as they are confined
to official circles, Of public robberies and
peculation, provided we can in the end
buy our experience through the usual
methods Of loss and suffering. But, severe
and painful though these abuses and their
con sequences may be, they weigh, to me,
lightly, compared TO the destruction o. all
the limitations upon power which our
written Constitution of Government was
designed to create, and which General
Grant, and those W no assist him in admin
istering the Government, including the
Radical majorities in both Houses OF Con-
gress, seem either TO totally disregard or,
as have sometimes thought, to take a
scornful pleasure in trampling under foot.
1t is utterly impossible for me, with the
scenes which l have witnessed in the
Senate of the United States rising before
my eyes, not to feel the gravest apprehen-
sions and alarm t and prospect or
suggestion, of allowing the policy Of Grant
and his Administration toward the South
ern States and their white Inhabitants long
er to continue, if any honorable act Of
mine can tend to avert sogreat calam-
ity. Can any man justly deny that the
condition OF the people in the Rhenish
provinces, torn from France by the armed
hand of Germany, is preferable to-day, in
all that protects person and property, to
that of the white people in many OF the
Southern States, under the governments
which Congress has set up over them
| ,ion, and which Grant has upheld either
by threats OF the bayonet or its actual
presence in those communities He and
| his party have stood by for the last three
| years, aud have seen the South robbed, in
suited, and almost beggared by motled
crew, all of his own political party of un-
principled political adventures from the
| North, and ignorant and vicious negroes
! of the native population, and have utter ed
no word of disapprovali but, on the con-
trary, have, from time to time, lent the
military power of the Government las in
the cases of the troops sent upon application
of Governor Holden, of North Carolina
of Scott, of South Carolina, or his own
brother-in.law, Casey, in New Orleans, to
maintain in power these rapacious and dis
honest rulers, whom the sutterings and dis.
content of their people were threatening
10 eject from Office and power. Now,
whether l approve Mr.. Greeley personally
or no, whether be had or not been the
steady and violent opponent Of the politi-
cal principles and measures which you and
have been upholding all our lives, yet,
if he has become, with or against our
action or wishes, the most likely or practi
cal means Of restoring a better condition
of feeling in the North towarh the South
and restoring security and justice to tina
oppressed region, should feel myself a
an American, without regard to the nam
Of party, but without the sacrifice of an,
conviction in relation to my politica
principles, compelled to assist in placing
him in power.
say nothing now of his qualification
or personal fitness for the place; hav
spoken of them heretofore, and agains
my wishes and judgment the representa-
tives of the party have placed him in tn
candidacy. If there was any prscticshl
means OF electing man better fitted 70
the place, ana one Wnose poiilicai caree
has been in harmony with your views ant
mine, ! need not say to you that l shoul'
strive to see such one chosen; but tn
current of popular opinion in this vas
country takes strange and oftentime
untoward directions and for good or il
sweeps us with it. Sixty days ago, tn
condition of affairs we now witness, woulC
have been deemed incredible, and an.
man would have laughed at, as absur'
and impossible, what we now see in fac
and substance. Events as they now con
front US were shaped in opposition to ou
efforts, and as they are, we are no
responsible for them; but we are responsi
BILE for our mode of dealing with then
now and l hope our State Convention
will promptly and decidedly nominate al
electoral ticke. in opposition to Grant ant
Wilson, and in favor Of the only candi
. dates who, as matters now stand, can b
hopefully expected to defeat them
mean Greeley and Brown, for whom
= expect to vote on the fifth day of Novem
Der next hope to return home by tn
middle of September, with my healt
restored, and enabled to take part In th
political canvass, The subject to whic
this letter relates has given me a gres
deal Of anxiety and distress, which ! kno'
is shared by thousands of true men Of th
| - - In chic State. hnk