New-York tribune., 1872-09-16

! ANOTHER TORD TO GEN JOHN Il. DIX.
Gen. John A. Dix wrote a public letter to a
| private correspondent to explain why he could
not support Mr.. Greeley and one of the rea-
sons he assigned was the following:
Because in the darkest hour of the c0untrys peril
when tratorous combination had been formed TO over
! uIow tie Government, he openly counseed the cow
ardlv policy Of uoresstgnee. and an acqueseenee in
e dissolution Of the Union whenever the Cotton States
| should make up their minds to co."
We have shown that Gen. Dix himself
publicly avowed, on the eve of the war,
the very same sentiments with which he now
reproaches Mr.. Greeley, and that so late as
1854 he publicly acknowledged having held
them. The Generals defenders are exasper-
atipgly thick-headed when anybody speaks of
this affair." and some roaring idiot in the
Office of The EUeniRg Post persists in accusing
us every evening Of constructive forgery"
because, in quoting this Acknowledgement,
we do not also quote Gen. Dix's statement
that he subsequently changed his mind,-a
statement which has nothing whatever to do
with the matter under consideration, Perhaps
it is not worth while to try TO drive ideas into
skulls which Providence has left deficient in
brains but we shall try once more, and we
are curious to know whether The EUening
Post can understand the following:
On the 10Th of December 1SG0-that is to
say, after the Southern Representatives in
Congress had published their manifesto advis-
ing the formation of Southern Confederacy,
and Just two days before the assembling of
the Secession Convention in South Carolina
meeting of extreme Southern sympathizers
was held at the Office of Richard Lathers, in
Pine-st., New York, for the purpose of making
an address to the Southern people. That
address was pronounced by Gen. John A. Dix,
who was also chairman of committee which
reported certain accompanying resolutions.
"The cOwardly policy of nOn-resistance" to
the violence of o traitOrOus combination could
not have been more unreservedly counseled
than in this extraordinary address. Gen. Dix
begged the seceders to pause. He promised
the assistance of his party to get for them all
they wanted,-a rigorous enforcement of the
Fugitive Slave Law, q repeal of the Personal
Liberty bills, Slavery in the Territories, and
the admission of new Slave States. lie prom
ised to and them in resisting any attempt by
the incoming Administration to violate their
constitutional rights" and he added with
significant emphasis, We desire it to be dis
tinctly understood that we speak with full
knowledge of the import of our words, and
"that zee pledge ourselves 10 such resistance by
all the means which may be necessary TO make
at efectire." If that meant anything at all,
it meant armed resistance! But hear the con-
clusion of Gen. Dix's address:
"when the painful truth shall forced itself on the
conviction that our common brotherhood can be no
longer maintained IN the mutual confidence in which its
whole value condsts-in a word, when reconciliation
shall become hopeless, and 1t shall he manifest (which
may God f0rbdD that future paths must lie wide
apart lot us do al that becomes reasonable men " beak