The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-20

RICHMOND, Va, May IL, 1872.
In view Of the cennict Of political opinion in the
State both on the subject OF nominating a demo-
cratic ticket at Baltimore the 9th Of July and the
more prevailing sentiment OF the people in favor OF
the Cincinnati nominees, Mr.. Raleigh I. Daniel,
chairman OF the State Executive Democratic Com
mittee, some time since issued call for meeting
OF that committee to-day. Agreeable to the call n
fun meeting was held to-day at the Exchange
HOTEL at which, after brief consultation the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted
GALL FOR THE CONSERVATIVES CONVENTION.
Whereas, This committee being of opinion that a
held
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% virginia s opinion esI policy
Ss Rs e S ss
vded BY plan Of conservative organization. ~
After consultation among the members Of the
the most prominent democrats and conservatives
IN the State. and every section was represented.
An Informal canvass to ascertain the strength Of
the Greeley and Brown ticket among the people
showed the State to be Overwhelmingly In their
favor and against the nomination OF q democratic
ticket. 1t now remains to be seen what action the
Convention called on the 9th proximo will take.
The Guerrilla Chief Mosby ON Greelcy's
Nomination..
RICHMOND Va, May 10, 1872.
Colonel John 8. Mosby, the Confederate guerilla
Chief about whose position relation the Presi-
dency there has been great deal of cavil in the
Virginia press since his interview with General
Grant, writes the following very clear and decisive
explanation to gentleman in this city,
WARRENTON, Va, May Is, 1872
MY DEAR SIR have received your favor inquir-
ing my position In the Presidential contest. or
course II democrat is nominated shall support
his election with all my heart but II it Is reduced to
q question OF choice between General Grant and
Greeley shall support the former. My own views
of the policy, after the failure of the Cincinnati
Convention to nominate man acceptable to demo-
Gratis, that the South should hold itself aloof
from the contest and not commit itself to either
until the Philadelphia Convention had nominated
Its candidates. and declared platform Of princi-
pies; tor II the whole South were committed In adj
motives could he or his party have to try to con-
ciliate u.s.. Now why should the South array itself
on the side Of Greeley, her unrepentent, lifelong
for the oppression have endured from the federal
government; but will the partisans Of Greeley point
to one act that was 0di0us to us that he has not
justified and approvedY
HOLDING HORACE RESPONSIBLE.
Nay, more; the tyranncal acts of Congressional
ment OF hostility to the South for which Horace
Greeley more than any other man is responsible.
General Grant has been the instrument OF executing
under the pressure OF public opinion, created by
than the wha h
to the Southern people by the nominee OF the Gin
votes. Amnesty, which simply means the relief OF
few thousand men from the disabilities imposed
mo- oVr @ Il eoare e 'ae
vote Of Congress to effect it. If the Southern vote
is to be bartered for such patry consideration as
wv ~. a Fsoa ns yITnogF AnsFon ss
ny man donGt that the Rarty IN yer
electoral vote OF Virginia alone II so, how Is there
less Of dishonor I'm coalition with Greeley on such
fhan wi
give you now all you ask. The only difference can
see is, that In the one case you bargain with set
pledges will be redeemed about soon as the Con-
federate debt and therefore they will be prouse in
expect to receive the small pttance required. Tell
me one single reason why Southern man should
HONEST HATRED THE WORST.
They say that Greeley is honest; then so much the
worse If he is honestly opposed to all I hold dear.
They say he has abused carpet.baggers, which, by
the by are only the natural product OF institutions
that he planted among us; but as he Is indebted to
this class, who assumed at Cincinnati to represent
4 elected, will not go. back on his friends;
They say, too, that he is ,d the friend md
impeachment OF Johnson for pardoning rebels. On
his recent electioneering tour through the South,
solitude and called 1t peace" his heart was for q
moment touched with a sentiment Of pity for the
ern Votes and he a" was tempted to saw few Kind
words for which he was swift to make atonement
when on his return to New York he related to a
gaping crowd of his admirers the
FABULOUS STORIES OF KU KLUx HORRORS,
and applauded the rigOr OF the administration in
suspending the habeas corpus In South Carolina
and enforcing the Ku Klux laws. The men who as
old Isaiah tells u.s. cooked their breakfast with
end OF o stick OF wood, and made an image Of the
other which they w0rshpped, were not more I'M
reasoning idolators than those who are now pros
trating themselves before Horace Greeley. In
both the virtues Of the Idol exist only in the
Imagination OF the worshppers. don't choose to
bow at such a shrine and am not led captive by
such entertainments. II we are compelled to go
through the ceremony Of choosing master, to me
there Is less OF humiliation In accepting the soldier
to whom Lee surrendered his sword, than the fana-
tic whose trcacheries have been "the Had Of our
w0esn am very truly yours, JOHN I. MOSBY.
To Captain A. g. BABCOCK Richmond