New-York tribune., 1872-09-12
PEOPLE VHOM GEN. DIX CANNOT SUP
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If Gen. Dix is not more careful he will soon
be without friend in the world or news
paper TO his back. He told us in his letter Of
occeptapce that he could not support Mr.
Greeley because in the darkest hour OF the
countIy's peril, when traitorous combina-
" ton had been formed to overthrow the Gov
"ernment, he openly cOunseled the cowardly
policy of nOn-resistance, and an acquleScence
" in the dissolution of the Union whenever
" tbe Cotton States should make up their
minds TO CO." Mr. Greeley never did any
thing of the kind, as we have many times
shown; but if Gen. Dix really cannot support
those who did, he is in a very bad way.
In the first place. he cannot support the
candidate for COngressman-at-Large on his
own ticket, Mr.. Lyman Treman. Fer in the
darkest hour of his cOuntrys peril, in 1861,
Mr. Tremain said in speech at Albany ::
" Traitorous though it may be, | stand here to
"opposc the policy of war with the South,
"now, hereafter, and for ever. If after all
"negotiations we find we have reached
that point We of the North can no longer
say to our brethren of the South, nor the
South to the North, in the language of Ruth
" to Naomi, whittier thou gOest will go, and
where thou lodgest | will lodge-thy people
"'s shall be my people, and thy God my God;'
if, | repeat, we have reached that point in
" our history, even then | would say, Spare
I" the blood of my brethren; let as part an
'peqce ; peaceably diSsolue this c0ntederdcyj'
/" and no part of the responsibility shall rest
"on us.n We have not yet seen letter from
Gen. Dix denouncng and repudIating Mr..
t1,nfo col. liar
is writing one.
Then Gen. Dix cannot support or counte-
nance in any way that prominent organ of
the Administration, HaTper's Weekly. For in
the darkest hour of our cOuntry's peril Har-
pers Weekly was painfully trying TO balance
itself between the fear Of Northern patriotism
and an unwillingness to injure trade, and was
not only apparently willing to acquiesce in
the dissolution of the Union, but was carl
caturing Abraham Lincoln as a drunkard riot
ing over the death of the Constitution, and
expressing, both with pen and pencil, pref
erence for the Southern side. The case of
Harper'S Weekly is hopeless. Gen. Dix has
not yet publicly renounced it, but of course
he is going to do so.
Finally, Gen. Dix cannot support Gen. Dix.
For in so late an hour of his country's peril
as 1864, Gen. Dix declared in an address at
Cooper Institute:
81" the Southern States after calm deliberation and
after carefully considering all the consequences, had
decided with the consent OF the others, and with full
recognition OF their responsibility to the UDion to with
peaceably from it, there are many Of us rho wod
hare preferred separation 10 eioil war."
He believes that nobody who talked in that
way is a fit person to be voted for. What is
he to dof If the General would take advice
from true friend, we might suggest to him
that in the darkest hour of our country's peril
THE TRIBUNE was vigorously insisting upon
No Compromise with Traitors, and sharp
prosecution of the war. We might remind
him also that Mr.. Greeley was decided sup
porter of the Government against that
"traitorous combination" formed to overthrow
it. What better can he do than to read THE
TRIBUNE and vote for Mr.. Greeley