New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-07
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Naw YoRk, July /, 1872
New Orleans strikes the keynote fol
Grants flank movement on Greeley. The
Picayane Of Sunday we were informed By
telegraph, would 'have long editorial
urging the nomipation of William Cullen
| Bryant for President at the Baltimore con
vention.s New York is neither surprised
/ nor alarmed at this announcement Some
/ persons who did rot fully understand the
dodge thought it was strange that the
! PicayHne should strike hands with print
| like the New York Ecening Post in per
sonal warfare against Mr.. Greeley. If the
| New York Tribune had never exposed the
official misconduct of Mr.. Henderson, the
/ publisher Of the Post and partner of Mr.
Bryant, when the former was navy agent
of New York, the Post would now be one
of Dir. Greeley's warmest supporters. 1t is
but just that these facts should be stated
and understood.
We are kindly informed, by the telegram
referred to, that the ''long EDITORIAL in the
Iicayltne will say that ''by all who have de-
plored, with Carl Schurz, Ex-Governor Cox,
David A. Wells, Colonel Green, Manton
Marble, Horace White, John Forsyth and
d. Gratz Brown himself the great opportu-
nifty that was lost at Cincinnati, and who
have been anxious to rectify the singular
and grotesque unfitness of Horace Greeley's
nomination, the designation of William C.
Bryant in the place Of Mr.. Greeley on the
national reform ticket for the Presidency
would be hailed with enthusiastic joy,p etc.
But for the fact that it has been whis-
pered about here for some days that this
counter movement Of Grants was to crop
out at different points, taking different
shapes, for the purpose of creating confusion
at Baltimore and producing, if possible,
bolt and Bourbon nomination to secure
Grants election by the House, 1 should be.
inclined to believe that the Picaylsne article
was never intended to see daylight outside
Of Louisiana, but that it was prepared ex-
clusively for home consumption, and that
the writer presumed when he wrote it that
nobody would ever see it who had any
knowledge whatever of the Cincinnati con-
vention, the Fifth Avenue conference, or
the Grant-B0lten meeting, the last of which
had the supreme impudence to nominate
Groesbeck and Olmstead. The use to which
the writer appropriates the names of most
Of the gentlemen quoted above exhibits his
total ignorance of the relations of those
gentlemen, both toward the Liberal move
lnent and Mr.. Greeley. Five of the eight
gentlemen named, Schurz, Cox, White, For
syth and Brown, have given in their adhe.
sion to Mr.. Greeley. Two others, Wills and
Marble, occupy questionable positions. Mr..
Wells, it appears, went to Cincinnati,
not to abide by the will of
majority of that convention, but
to strike hands with a ring Of Free Trad
ers," so-called, really combination organ
lied in the interest of capital against labor,
and presented the name OF Charles Francis
Adams as their candidate So sanguine was
Mr.. Wells of securing the control of the con-
vention, that he developed to Davis and
Greeley men the fact that the cabinet for Mr.
Adams had been arranged and that he would
be Secretary of the Treasury, if he desired it,
and A. b and G could have what they
wanted If they would gracefully wheel into
inc for Mr.. Adams. That sort of barter
Ind bribery talk about the Cincinnati con-
gentiOn gave Mr.. Adams much of the |
strength which he received in that body. |
The moment Mr.. Wells saw that Mr. Adams |
was defeated he showed bad faith and
oIned with a set of blackguards, who |
had participated in the deliberations of the
and who, when fairly outvoted, |
md Mr. GTeeley's name was announced as |
he choice of large majority of the dele |
rates, Kissed and employed Oaths and in
ulting and unbecOming language toward /
lin. Most of those engaged in such de- |
DOnstrati0ns sat on, or stood near the plat
Orm. | know the names of many of them.
'ome were mere boys from New York, who
we're sent into the convention by the
ring. When they Kissed
Greeley they received the approving smile
f such men as David Dudley Field and
Judge Stoughton and others who sat near
hem. Most of the persons who en-
uage referred to were Ohio men,
rho had engineered the Free Trade
nd capitalist machinery at Cincinnati by
which they expected to control the conven-
ion. Hon. Leonard SWEET, of Illinois, lead
az the Davis men, Hon. Waldo HuUchings,
t New York, leading the Greeley men, and
eYeral prominent gentlemen leading the
brown men, consulted together and decided
D summon Mr.. Brown from his home in
Iissouri to Cincinnati. He soon put in an
ppearance. At midnight, before the nomi-
alton, the " Free Trade trick was APP
aren't, and it was determined, at the open
lg of the convention next morning, to ex-
lode the plot. The programme, as agreed |
pom; was carried out faithfully, when Gov
rnor Brown, after the first ballot. with
rev from the contest himself and re-
uested his friends to vote for Horace
treeley. This act of B. Gratz Brown
,as net an opportunity lost by
i'm at Cincinnati, as the Ptcaytpe
ritter asserts, but it was glorious oppor-
unity improved, and never to this day has \
Governor Brown depl0red" the nomina-
ion or characterized as singular, gro
esque and unfit" or expressed an anxi-
ty to rectify" it. On the contrary, Cover.
or Brown, as much as any one man, is re-
ponslble for the nomination of Horace
freeley at Cincinnati. He did it. The
eeord of the convention is proof of the
ssertIon. That being the case, why does
he EicQytt1le. place the name of b. Gratz
'rown III the list Of those who have been
isatfected with Mr.. Greeley's nomination ?
t is simply dishonest to do so The people
hould not be deceived.
1t was quite as absurd in the Picagltne
writer to mention the name of Manton
larble, of the New York World Mr.. Mar
lie did not participate in the Cincinnati
convention was never a Republican, but
ieyotes himself to money making with his
ournal, and cares not straw about poll
les, but is fond of playing with parties and
Dying with politicians. He strikes hands
WITH Mr.. Fish because it is business mat
ef, his relation with Mr. Sidney Webster !
, ,,l3 ln-law of Secretary Fish, being inbmate
7, s1o 4 Probable. Marble employs his World
No. ueLllla uses his rife Politics Is of no