The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
LETTER FROM GEN. DIX.
He Declares for Grant-.His Reasons for /
Oppesing Gree.ey.
wEsrHAMPros, N. Y, July ~, 1872.

Opp0olu8 Ofeeiey.
WEsrHAMPros, N. Y, July "a, 1872.
DEAR Sin: Your letter of the 18th inst,
a'king my aid to procure a speaker for. a
Greeley meeting at Hancock, was sent to me
while ! was in New England, and / have
been unable until now TO acknowledge its
reception. / do no understand on what
ground you considered yourself authorized
to address such a request to 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 adj
vocating his election To the Office of Pres :
dent Of the United States without imputing
TO me an utter abandonment of all princi-
pie. am opposed to Mr.. Greeley:
|. Because | believe him to be as "unsta-
BILE - water" perpetually foundering 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 cen
fury.
8. Because he has been the advocate land
in this instance persistently) of that most
unjust and unequal commercial system,
which is destroying our mercantile and
shipping interests and heapng up enormous
accumulations of wealth in the hands of the
protected classes to the oppression and inn
povershment of all others.
A. 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
aau NJ fro MT n oh
has disgraced the Municipal Government of
this city may be carried to more infamous
extremes in the administration of the Fed
eral Governments and,
5. Because in the darkest hour of the
country's peril, when traitorous combina-
tisn had been formed to overthrow the
Government, he openly counscled the cow
ardly policy of non-resistance, and an ac-
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 discordant elements il 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 TO
the surprise of TIE whole country, knowing
him, in regard to one OF those measures, TO
be an implacable opponent-nomnated
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 disgust, which would be
far more credltable 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 their
party-not as the exponent OF any princi
pies they have protested or any measures
they have advocat ted, but as q known and
bitter opponent OF both-the IL an who, per-
haps, OF all others, has been the most ma
lignant assailant of the Democracy, I'M
peaching its integrity, traaucing its motives,
and vilfying its character The adoption
of such a man as their candidate for the
Chief Magistracy of the Union is the most
Abandonment of political prin-
ciples known to party contests. 1t remains
TO be seen whether the great body OF the
Democratic voters, and the true friends of
Reform, can be made parties TO this unscru- |
pulous coalition between political leaders.
That Gen. Grant has committed mistakes |
his most sincere friends admit. But if his |
errors had been four-fold more numerous, he |
would, in my opinion, be much safer |
Chief Magistrate than Mr.. Greeley. He has, |
n that capacity, done much for which he !
deserves the thanks of the country. Above |
Ill, he has kept it at peace, Notwithstanding |
he efforts of sensation journals and popular
ty-seeklng politicians to provoke hostilIties
With Spain on the question of Cuba, and
With Great Britain on the Alabama Claims
md the fisheries. If, regardless OF these
tiles to the approval of his elbow citizens,
md of his invaluable services during the
ate civil war, they should set him aside for
hr. Greeley; if the latter, mere erratic
untried in any important public
rust, should be elevated to the Chief Magis-
racy of the Unions Union which would
lot now exist if his counsels had been fol-
overland the man who, of all others, has
lone the most TO preserve it should be dis
arded for a successor so i'll qualified and so
nscrupulously nominated and sustained,
he example would be most deplorable IN its
influence on ell high motives to political
cton, and justify the most painful fore
odings as to the future. | am respectfully
our, JOHN A. DIX.
A. b. Cornell, Esq, Hancock, n. Y.