Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
LETTER FROM GEN. DIX.
He Declares for Grant-.Hfs Reasons for
Opposing GrecIey.
WEsrHAMProN, N. Y, July II, 1872.


WEsrHAMPToN, N. Y, July II, 1872.
DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 18th inst,
asking my aid to procure a speaker for
Greeley meeting at Hancock, was sent to me
while was in New England, and I have
been unable until now to acknowledge its
reception. do no understand on what
ground you considered yourself authorised
to address such request 70 me. If you had
been familiar with the course of my public
life, and equally SO with Mr.. Greeley's, you
could not have supposed me capable of ad-
vocating his election to the Office of Presi-
dent of the United States without imprting
to me an utter abandonment of all princi-
Pile. l am opposed to Mr.. Greeley:
l. Because l believe him to be as "unsta-
BILE as water" perpetually houndering Ito
carry out the Scriptural fgure) amid the
surges of opinion, and deficient in all the
requisites essential to a firm, steady, and
consistent administration of the Govern
| ment.
2. Because he has usually been found
among the most extreme ultraists on the
great questions of political and social duty,
which have been brought under public dis
| cussion during the last quarter of a cen
fury.
| g. Because he has been the advocate land
| in this instance persistently) OF that most
unjust and unequal commercial system,
|
shipping interests and heaping up enormous
accumulations of wealth in the hands of the
protected classes to the oppression and i'm
poverishment of all others.
4. Because he is associated, in relations
more or less intimate, with some of the chief
plunderers of the City of New York, justly
| warranting the apprehension that through
his completely or his facile disposition, the
same system of fraud and corruption which
| fha MT Of
this city may be carried to more infamous
extremes in the administration of the Fed
eral Government; and,
5. Because in the darkest hour of the
country's peril, when traitorous comblna-
tien had been formed TO overthrow the
Government, he openly counseled the cow
ardly policy of non-resistance, and an &C
quescence in the dissolution of the Union
whenever the Cotton States should make
up their minds to go.
The coalition, which has been formed to
promote his election, is one of the most ex-
traordinary in the history of parties, in re-
spect both to the Giscordant elements it en-
braces and the surrender of principles it in
wolves. The Cincinnati Convention, called
to bring before the people important meas
ures of Reform, nominated him, greatly tc
the surprise of tie whole country, knowing
him, in regard to one OF those measures, tc
him, too, against the wishes and judgment
of the chief promoters of the movement
who accepted him either with an avowed Of
an ill-concealed disgust, which would bt
| far more creditable to their feelings if the
act of acceptance were not utterly irrecon
cilable with their principles. The Demo
ocratic Convention at Baltimore Endorsed
and commended him to the support of thei
party-not as the exponent OF any princi
pies they have prolessed or any measure
they have advocated, but as a known ant
| bitter opponent of both-the i an who, per
: | haps, of all others, has been the most ma
lignant assailant of the Democracy, I'm
\ peaching its integrity, traducing its motives
and vilifying its character. The adoption
,7f such a man as their candidate for tn
c. l1ief Magistracy of the Union is the mos
COZ ,spicuous abandonment of political prin
cip. les known to party contests. 1t remain
to b, . seen whether the great body of tn
| Dem, ocratic voters, and the true friends G
! Refor m, can be made parties to this unscru
pulous coalition between political leaders.
That Gen. Grant has committed mistake
| his mos It sincere friends admit. But if hi
| errors b. ld been four-fold more numerous, b
would, n my opinion, be a much safe
Chief Mac istrate tnan Mr.. Greeley. He has
in that ca, 9acity, done much for which b
deserves thu, thanks of the country. Abov
all, he has K tept it at peace, NOTWITHSTANDING
the efforts of ,tsensation journals and popular
ity-seekIng nc liticians to provoke hostilitie
with Spain or, the question of Cuba, an
with Great Bri, rain ON the Alabama Claim
and the fisher les. If, regardless of thes
titles To the ANN oval of his eliow-citizen
and of his invalu able services during tn
late civil war, they should set him aside fc
Mr.. Greeley if The n latter, a mere errati
politician. untried in any important publ
frnst. shonl3 he eIavot, Nd to the Chief Magii
tracy of the Tnion~o Union which woul
not now exist If his %, ,nsels had been 70
lowed-and the man wboh of all others, hs
done the most 10 nraserv,t . it should be di
carded for a successor so illE qualified and s
unscrunulonslv Nominated \ and sustaine'
| the example would be most eplofaDle IN
influence on all high motiv,Ss 10 ponclc
action, and justify the most painful ior !,
your, Jon A. DIX.
A. B. Cornell, Esq, Hancock, N I.