Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-08-20
GEN. DIX FOR GRANT.
His Reasons for Opposing Greeley.

wEsrHAMProS, July q, 1872
| DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 18th
INST, asking my sid to procure O
speaker Tor Greeley meeting at
Hancock, was sent to me while |
was in New England, and / have
been unable until nov to acknowl.
edge its reception. do not under
stand on what ground you consider
yourself authorized to address such
request to me. lfyou had been
familiar with the course of nv pub
TIC ilfe,and equally so with Mr.. Gree.
leys, you could not have. supposed
me capable of advocating his elect.
ion to the office of President of tho
United States without imIuting TO
me an. utter abandonment of all POI
liticaI principle. am opposed to
Mr.. Greeley
4. Because Ibelieve him to be as "unsta-
| bic as water" perpetually aoundering( TO car
| ry out the Scriptural igure) amid the surges
| OF opinion, and deficient in all the requisites
| essential TO a firm, steady, and consistent adj
minstration of the Government
2. Because he has usually been found
| among the most extreme nltraists on the great
| questions of political and social duty. which
| have been brought under public discussion du-
ring The last quarter Of century.
g.. Because he has been the advocate Cand
| In this instance persistently), Of that most I'M
just and unequal commercial system, which
IS destroying our mercantile and shipping in
| terests and heaping up enormous accumula-
| tons of wealth in the hands of the protected
classes, TO the oppression and impovershment
of all others. e
q, Because he is associated,in relations more
or less intimate, with some OF he chief plum
| derers of the city of New Yolk, Justly war
rantlng the apprehension thlt through his com
pllcity or his iacile disposition, the same sys-
tenn of fraud and corruption which has dis
graced the municipal government of this city
may be carried TO more infamous extremes in
the administration ofthe Federal c oyernnient;
and,
3. Because in the darkest hour of the
country's peril, when traitorous combination
had been formed TO overthrow the Govern
ment, he openly counseled The cowardly poll
cy OF non-reslstance, and an aquiescence in
the dissolution of the Union whenever the cot,
ton States should make up their minds to go.
AN UNscRUPULoUs COALITION.
The coalition, which has Just been
formed to promote his election, is
one of the most extraordinary in the
history of parties, in respect both TO
discordant elements it embraces and
the surrender Of principles it involves.
The Cincinnati Convention called to
bring before the people important
measures OF reform, nominated him,
greatly TO the surprise of the whole
country, knowing him, ia regard to
one of those measures, to be an i'm
placabIe opponent--nominated him,
too. against the wishes and iudg-
ment of the ohiei promoters OF the
movement, who accorted him either
with an avowed or an ill-concealed
disgust, which would be far more
creditable TO their feelings if the act
of acceptance were not utterly ire
eonelable with their principles.
The Democratic Convention at Bal
timore Endorsed and commended him
10 the support Of their party-not
As the exponent of any principle
they have professed, or any measures
they have advocated, but as known
and bitter opponent of both-the
man who, perhaps, of all others, has
been the most malignant assailant of
the Democracy, impeachiug its in
tegrity, traducing its motives, and
vilifying its character The adopts
ion of such a man as their candidate
for the Chief Magistracy of the
Union is tho most conspicuous aban-
donment OF political principles known
seen whether the great body of the
Democratic voters, and the true
friends of Reform, can be made par
ties of this interruptions coalition be-
tween political leaders.
GRANT SAFER THAN GREELEY.
That Gen. Grant has committed
mistakes his most sincere friends ad
nit 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, in that capacity, done much for
which he deserves the thanks of the
country. Above all, he kept it at
peace, Notwithstanding the efforts of
sensation journals and popularity
seeking politicians TO provoke hostil-
tiles with Spain on the question of
Cuba, and with Great Britain on the
Alabama Claims and the fisheries.
II regardless Of these titles to the APP
prevail of bis fellow-citizens, and OF
his iavaluable services during the
late civil war, they should set him
aside for Mr.. Greeley; if the latter, a
mere erratic politician, untried in
any important trust, shonid be eleva.
ted to the Chief Magistracy of the
Union--a Union which would not
now exist if his cCunsels had been
followed and If the man who, of all
others, has done the most to preserve
it should be discarded for successor
80 i'll qualified md so INSCRIPTIONS
ly nominated and sustained, the ex~
ample would be most deplorable in
it's influence on all high motives to
political action, and justly the most
painful forebodings as TO the future.
| am respectfully yours,
john A. DIX.
A. B. Cornwell, Esq, Hancock, NY,