The Portland daily press., 1872-09-30
namocratic objection to Greeley.

INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN
THOMAS b. CARROLL AND CHARLES o'coNoR.
Mr.. Thomas B. Carroll, leading Democrat
of New York, and Mayor of Troy, has written
letter to Mr.. Charles oConor, urging the ne
cessity of allowing the use of his name in Che
present canvass. In the course of his letter he
says:
On the strength of your avowals and posi-
ton you ought not to have been disappointed at
your nomination by the DIRECTORS Of Cincinnati
and Baltimore, especially when you take into
account the fact that the assemblage that nom-
mated you outnumbered, to say the least, that
which nominated Mr. Greeley. The Baltimore
Convention was the least of a representative
body that ever pretended to represent great
party in delegated capacity. 1t threatens to
bring conventions as well as the party into con-
tempt
Abiding to Mr.. O'Conors declaration that
he could not be candidate for office Mr., Car
roll says:
This declaration, unless its reconsideration
may be induced, must be deemed conclusive in
the premises. But, suppose the evident failure
of the Greeley movement should continue to
develope itself, might not the contingency oc-
cur of a declination by Greeley and the substi-
tuition of another name that would not only
rally the Democratic masses, but enlist the dis
affected Republicans? In such an event the
fifty days you speak of, or even the thirty
DAYS that will follow the October elections,
would be adequate for the formation of such a
ticket as should have been made at Baltimore,
to say nothing of Cincinnati. For it must now
be apparent that Hendricks, Groesbeck, Buck
aew, or either yourself, Seymour, Church, or
Tilden, of our own State, would unite the De-
mocracy with fair prospect of success; that
is, if the "Lberal" disaffection amounts to any
thing.
Since the results of the war; if the Demo-
Gratis were anxious for success and had not
the sagacity to get it under Grant, they might
have had it without going any further than
they have gone, neither accepting the equivO-
cal platitudes or adopting the nondescript can
ddates of Cincinnati. If they were so anxious
to be liberal they might have found more libe-
raj associates in going originally for Gen. Grant
or in adhering to Mcclellan, or by taking up
some other popular Union military chieftain.
The letter concludes:
'sFinally, my dear sir, make bold to say
that SO far as General Grant is concerned, re-
gardless of local results, do not believe it will
prove any easier to beat him than it was Gen
eral jackson. Our friends made a mistake in
not making him their candidate. To do it would
have required much less concession than is be-
ing made in an opposite direction. He stands now
where he stood in his battle for the Union. The
masses as well as the wealth of the nation are
supporting him. True he has some against him
who were for him then, but he has also many
for him now who were not for him then. 1t
does not require a seer to forecast the hOrO-
scope 50 far as to prognosticate that unless
Horace Greeley gets out of the way General
Grant will be reelected more easily than was
| either of his predecessors
Your friend and obedient servant,
THOMAS B. CARROLL"
To this letter Mr.. Carroll received the follow
ing reply:
"NEw YORK, September 25, 1872.
"My dear Sir:-I am only one among our
great forty millions. My consent or approval
is not necessary to any public act of many, a
| few or one.
Of course your courtesy in asking whether
your proposed use of my name would involve
anything personally disagreeable to me de-
mands my thanks, yet it would seem to have
been needless You must yourself have seen
that whether or not concurred in your views,
there was in them nothing that, as a man of
ordinary common sense, l cou'd regard as per-
sonally offensive.
1t may not be amiss to say that differed
with you as to the position of General Grant in
popular esteem prior to the Baltimore Conven-
| ton, and believed that sagac GUS nomination
at Baltimore might have led to his defeat. In
justice to the wire-pullers, ought to say that 1
thought little and did nothing in reference to
the Presidential nomination prior to the Balti-
more affair. Yours Sc,
CHAs OCoNoR
Mr.. Carroll %