New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-20

ton tonight and force him to speak to it
| Don't let him wander off into the school-boy's
you're another" His friends have raised
these points his friends have declared these
views disabling; his leader, John A. Dix, says
that O man holding these views cannot DO
| supported without an abandonment OF all
political principle. lie holds them. His leader
holds them Let us take them at their word;
and leave them, undistUrbed by official cares,
TO the digestion Of their SuccotaSh. Here it
| is:
WHY GRANT CANNOT DE- DEFENDED.
| 7reaaia on Graat Murphy IA ADrtI. 1872.
"The present Administration has done some thngs
which have not met MY approval, and which have
weakened It in the eyes Of the Republican party.
For instance, I think that Gen. Grant should not
have made a distinction between two wings OF tho
party in the distribution Of patronage He was elected
by the whole party and it was bad policy to make moro
OF one wing than OF the other. Then, again, DO not
think that he has done he light have done IN endeav
orng to harmonic conflicting interests. He should NOT
in my opinion, have made waT With one to gatiiy to
other and thus make a braa a that might become
| dangerous. L do not think tat his appointments 81
such man IA Tom Murphy TO the Coectorship OF new
York was a very nice exhibition or statesnanshp' ous
after he was appointed and tine investigation relative 70
fine revealed the rotenness existing IN tho
management Of ITS affairs, he certainly ought 10 haVo
| removed bin at once, and That without giving
! him such a public Endorsement as he did ai%r
he was finally removed. Had be simply removed
| him at once, the people would have taken II
| for granted that the President was anxious 70
heed the popular WILL which that the Cut0m-house
should be placed in now bands and under better control
But Won see what benefit in the peoples minds the Pres
dcu got by removing Marphy-he lost by the letter Ok
| Endorsement he gave Murphy afterward"
| Tr-7a.a 70 Ms HeighJors, IL he BIHier Of iS7l-7a
..Grant Is Incompetent and wholly unit for the Pres
dency As civilian ne is "a stupendous failure and no
should not be renominatcd The only fear about tho
Cincinnati movement is that possibly may not prove
| success"
GEN DIx's DEFINITION OF CANDIDATE WHO CANNOT
BE SUPPORTED.
From Gen Dhs cy1iasi H0Taas Gg d1td July r. 1871
"If you had been familiar with the course OF my
public life, equally with Ir Greeeys, You could
not have supposed capable OF advocating his election
to the office OF President the United States without
n,putng TO me an utter abandonment OF al political
| principle. am opposed 10 ir Greeley
5 Because in the darkest our OF the countrys peril.
when traltorous combination had been formed 70 over
throw the Government, he openly counseed tho cow
ardly policy OF nonresstance. and an acqueseence in
the dissolution Of the Union Whenever the Cotton Stated
| should make up their minds TO 60"
| WHY CANDIDATE DIX CANNOT BE SUPPORTED.
| from Cen DIS Speech, De 49, 1860.
"When the painful truth shall have forced itself tho
| conviction that our common brotherhood cen bo no
LONGER maintained in the mutual confidence IL which its
|
shall become hopeless, and It shall DO NANTES, (Which
| may God forbid that future paths must lie wGo
apart let us al that becomes reasonable break
the force Of great calamity by departing III peace
Let Us rememEsr that We have publ; Obligations ut
home and abroad, which, for orr good name, must
be dshonoroG.nA. have great Interests vt,hn and
wlthout-on TIE ocean, In cities and towns ia oar
widely extended internal Improvements in our fields
and at our resides-hich must be incOnsierately
and wantouly sacrificed. If, undertaking. tie great
boon OK rity can no longer consent to en-
Joy 70 in common, let divide what possess tho
one hand and what owe the other, and save the
Repubuc-the nobcst the world has see-lrom the hor-
rors Of civil and the degradation OF financial dis
! credit"
| Iron Gel Dlts Speech "a cooper Institute n 1904
"If the Southern states, after calm 6elitcration, and
after carefully considering ali the consequences. had
decided with the consent OF the others aud with fun
recognition OF their responsibility to the Union, 70 with
draw peacefully from it, there are many OF US who
would have preferred separation to civil war;
| WHY CANDIDATE TRElIAIS CANNOT BE SUPPORTED.
| From lir TTeHIig's Spasl q: .fibony, Fs5 J. 1884,
II wish to say that. trlitorous though it he,
stand here to oppose the policy Of war with tho South
now hereafter, and forever! That IS against oar
brethren war against your c0untrymen, war against
those united with you by all the ties Of consan@iiniiY
| by all The memories and traditions Of the pasi, by
everything that tend to strengthen and cement and
bind the people of the North to the South. That IS the
war you are goaded 10 initiate under cry calculated TO
influence the weak and ignorant, oi NO backing down;
the Constitution be preserved and the laws must
| be enforced
"For one. gentlemen aesire TO say That - the cities
OF our beloved country 10 De sacoC OIs AOutisA-
ing towns and villages 20 be laid waste By cruel
desoat.ng civil warf the feet OF soldiers g. he per
mitted to tread upon the smiling fertile fields ani Pln-
tations OF the land the soil OF this glorious R'pF5bc
ia 20 be crmsoned with the blood OF those united 20 us
by al tho ties that bind togc,hclt the sweet n.ics
Of peace and the busy hum OF industry must Give ~y 10
the coarse sounds OF war; TO tic goans o. tla wounded
and dying and the Wailing and lamentations or widows
and orphans made such by the crvc havoc o. bloody
war would have responsibility Tor TINS stIse of
! things resting my shoulders.
al say we have not only no responsibility a this. bns
rive notice now that that war viii De- wS,l b. spi.c OF
our opposition, and against onr crteayor'.
| eft is enou o that now I an prepared - take ina
responsibility Of saying reao,grd % resist "a here.
ana 10 resist 10 everywhere And 4! taaJ DO treason
mako The most OF it,"
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We have already alluded 10 letter pUrporting to
! f.-t "a. . If M,