New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-25
ORR NEW \ DIRK LETTER.

Coming Man-The Theorists Confer
ence-The Adams Adherents-The Gin
efunati Ticket a Success-EndOrsed at
BaItimOre-EIected by the PeOple-Carl
fchurz Heartily for Greeley and Brown
New York Certain for Greeley-An-
drew JOhnsOn-FOTney Comedies Thir-
fv-sTx Majority for GreeIey-The Gree
Eey Movement Advanclng-New York,
PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio Wheeling into
Ldne-Indignant Grant Men-Grant and
the Democrats in 1S6S-A Nice Little
Story.
Especial Correspondence of the Republican,
NEW YORK, June l9, 1872.
New York-always the great commercial
mart of the nation-now that Congress has
adjourned; has also become the grand pO-
Iitical centre While it is true that the
personnel of the Grant headquarters has
been transferred from Washington to Long
Branch his political headquarters is, never
theIess, in this city, under the control of
Messrs. Arthur and Murphy, collectors of
customs at this port. Formerly this firm
did business under the name Of Murphy g.
Arthur. A reform was demanded, and
Grant made the change! For the accom-
mediation of Grant and the royal family,
collectors Arthur and Tom Murphy, assisted
by that patriotic and enterprising quarter
master of the United States army Rufus
ingalls,. have generously granted the use of
several steam revenue cutters and steam
ers belonging to the military service of the
United States, for the establishment of a
royal steam ferry between this city and
Long Branch. Thus the personnel and pO-
litical headquarters of our gift-taking
Caesar are made easy. But do not pro-
pose to waste much space IN this letter upon
the waning cause Of L. S, Grant By gen
eral consent, his "dropsical nepotism,
swollen to eliphantiasis, which nobody can
defend" has been submitted to DR.. Charles
Sumner, and that eminent dissectOr of petty
autOcrats las satisfactorily disposed of our
presidential mistake. 1 prefer, therefore,
70 leave him in his naked odiousness, as he
left the doctors knife.
Now for the outlook and the coming
man You have heard great deal about
the conference to be held here on the TWEEN
,tieth instant. While it is possible that the
telegraph may explain the matter satisfac-
torily before this letter reaches you by
mail, nevertheless j will venture to state a
few facts about the proposed conference.
1t turns out that there were a few men,
free trade theorists, who attended and par
ticipated in the Cincinnati convention to
accomplish a particular object Of special
interest to themselves and those who were
Immediately interested in sending them
there. They went to Cincinnati to secure
the nomination of Charles Francis Adams,
and as it appears by their subsequent &C
ton they resolved to oppose the nOmina-
ton of any other man. The conduct Of
some of these men, especially the lads who
were sent to Cincinnati, one of whom is
Justly characterized as the infant secre-
tary of the Free Trade League" was most
insulting toward the almost unanimous
choice Of the convention. When Mr. Gree
Iey's name was announced as the nomi-
nee most of these persons Kissed
Their hisses however, were soon buried.
They cursed the name of Greeley aloud.
Among those who behaved most shamefully
were the lads from New York, encouraged
by David Dudley Field, Of New York; Judge
Matthews, of Ohio, who was elected tenn
porary chairman of the convention; Judge
Stallo, of Ohio; Mr. David A. Wells, of Con
necticut Mr.. Atkinson, of Boston, and
other men Of that class. Mr.. SchuTz, the
President Of the convention, Mr.. Bowles, of
the Springfield Massachusetts, Republican,
Mr.. Watterson, OF the Louisville Courier
Journal Mr.. Halstead, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, and Mr.. White, of the Chicago
Tribune, and others, were also for Mr.
Adams, but when the action Of the conven-
ton, by its great majority, decided against
them they gracefully manifested good faith
and acquiesced. But the other gentlemen
referred to manifested bad faith. They
exhibited a determination on the
spot, by words and acts, to resist
the fair expression of the convention. Ex-
actly what to do they did not then know.
Immediately after the nomination, how
ever, they made efforts to influence the
journalists mentioned above to withhold
their ditorial support of the ticket. Those
gentlem en- consulted together carefully as
to their true course. They decided that
they had entered that convention with their
EdnuluhAb anu udNA given nm AuG DCol sup
port within their power, and had been fair
ly defeated by a handsome majority and
ought to be bound by the result. They
considered well the important fact that the
Trumbul and Davis, and Brown and Cox
men were defeated, but not one of them
threatened to bolt. 1t was well known,
also, that the Greeley men entered the con-
ventiOn to abide by the result of its DELHI
lerations, and support the nominees who
ever they might be. These facts all con
sidered, and the other greater fact that
Grant and his official plunderers at Wash
ington we're watching and praying for
bolt the great journalists determined to
notify their home editors to support the
ticket the next day and did so.
But the disatfected, who never went into
the convention for the purpose ofoverthrow-
ing a corrupt administration unless they
, eould do it in their own way, through their
Vl,Wu ring, gave up the fight upon Greeley at
Cinsmnati and went to their several homes
to watch events and consider what they
sbould do in the future. They now see
that the ticket nominated at Cincinnati Is
success: that it will be Endorsed at Balu-
more. and will be elected by the people;
that unless they take some step in the di-
rsctiOn of influencing the Baltimore con-
vention, in the hope of being allowed to
enter the movement in good standing
again. they will be left out in the cold, with
Grant and his Otfice-hOldeTs, without intlu-
euce or hope Of recognition by the incoming
fGree,eyl administration. Hence this con
ference
To make it respectable they have induced
Senator SchurZ to attend it. l had the
pleasure of meeting that gentleman at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel upon his arrival from
ST. Louis Yesterday. He assured nue. that,
so far as he was concerned, the Cincinnati
nominations are to be adhered to; that the