The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
LETTER or GE.vERysL JOHN a.
DIX.
HIS REASONS FOR OPPOSING GREELEY.

for a Greeley meeting at Hancock, was
sent to me while | was in New England,
and | have been unable until now to ae'
knowledge its reception.
| do not understand on Shat ground
you consider yourself authorized to ad-
dress such request 20 me. If you had
been familiar With the course of my life,
and equal. so with Mr.. Greeley's, you
could not have supposed NE capable OF
, advocating his election to the oihce OF
! President of the United States without
imputing to me an utter abandonment
of all political principle.
[ am opposed to Mr.. Greeley:
|. Because | believe him to be as
unstable as water" perpetually aoun.
dering (to carry out the Scriptural fig.
ure) amid the surges of opinion, and
deficient in all the requisites essential to
firm, steady, and consistent administra.
ton of the Government.
y. Because he has usually been found
among the most extreme ultraistsion the
great questions of political and social
duty which have been brought under
public discussion during the last quarter
Of century
s. Because he has been the advocate
land in this instance persistently) of that
most unjust and unequal commercial
system, which is destroying our mercan.
tile and shipping interests, and heaping
up enormous accumulations of wealth
in the hands of the protected classes to
the oppression and impoverishment Of
all others.
t. Because he is associated, in rela.
tons more or less intimate, with some
Of the chief piunderers of the city of
New York, Justly warranting the appre-
hension that through his completely or
his facile disposition, the same system of
fraud and corruption which has disgraced
the municipal government of this city
may be carried to more Infamous ex-
tremes in the administration of the
Federal Government; and,
5. Because in the darkest hour Of the
country's peril, when traitorous com
binaton had been formed TO overthrow
the Government, he openly counseled
the cowardly policy OF non.resistance
and an acquiescence i'll the dissolution
of the Union, whenever the cotton States
should make up their minds to 90.
The coalition, which has been formed
to promote his election, is one of the
most extraordinary in the history of
parties, il respect both to the discord.
ant elements it embraces, and the sur
render Of principles it involves.
The Cincinnati Convention, called to
bring before the people important meas
ures o. reform, nominated him. greatly
to the surprise of the whole country,
knowing him, in regard to one Of those
measures, to be al implacable opponent,
dominated him, too, against the wishes
and judgment Of the chief promoters OF
the movement, who accepted him either
with an avowed or an ill.concealed dis
gust, which would be far more creditable
to their feelings if the act of acceptance
were not utterly irreconcilable with their
principles.
The Democratic Convention at Balti-
more Endorsed and commended him to
the support Of their party, not as the
exponent OF any principles they have
professed or any measures they have ad
| yocated, but as a known and bitter OPP
, ponent Of both-the man who, perhaps
: Of all others, has been the most malig
nant assailant of the Democracy, i'm
peaching its integrity, traducing its
: motives, and vilifying its character.
The adoption of such man as their
| candidate for the Chief Magistracy Of
: the Union is the most CONSPICUOUS aban
. donment of political principles known
t to party contests.
r 1t remains to be seen whether tht
3. great body Of the Democratic voters
C and the true friends of reform, can b,
e made parties to this INSCRIPTIONS coali
J ton between political leaders.
l That Gen. Grant has committed mis-
y takes his most sincere friends admit
c But if his errors had been four.fold NOR,
j. numerous, he would, in my opinion, b
c u much safer Chief Magistrate than Nh
5 Greeley. He has, in that capacity, don
n much for which he deserves the thank
i of the country. Above all, he has KEEP
c it at peace, Notwithstanding the effort
c of sensation journals and popularity
l. seeking politicians to provoke hostiltie
C with Spain on the question of Cubs
d and with Great Britain on the Alabam
d claims and the fisheries.
A. If, regardless of these titles to tn
N approval of his citizens, and {
&c his invaluable services during the lat
q. civil war, they should set him aside fc
ID Mr.. Greeley; if the latter, a mere errati
N politician, untried in any important pull
le lie trust, should be elevated to the Chi,
ID Magistracy of the Union,-a Unto
ID which would not now exist if his coul
to sells had been followed and if the ma
VS. who, of all others, has done the most
y, preserve it should be discarded for
to successor so Unqualified and so unscrup,
- lously nominated and sustained, the c,