The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-07-25
THE GREELEY SEYMOUR
CONSPIRACY.
The Scheme from the Beginning.
THAT MARVELLOUS HONESTY
SHOWN UP.
n. G.. ATOTs HImseIfin in Favor OF Pay
Ing Pensions TO Southern BIS
abled Soldiers.
The Case Fully Proven.

From the BIngharnton lS.Y.l Republican
July y.
To-day we redeem our pledge TO
prove true our charges against Horace
Greeley, HoratiO Seymour, and Wal
do Hutchins, IN reference to the can
didacy Of Horace Greeley at Cincin-
natl and Baltimore. We do more
than redeem our pledge-in this sense
that we had obligated ourselves TO pre-
sent the proof, upon denial by any
one Of the three, Of the truth Of our
charges and there has been no such
denial. Accepting that failure TO meet
the challenge as q confession that nc
denial is possible, except at a risk
greater than that Of permitting the
charges which have been before the
public just twenty days, and unable
10 gain the additional advantage Oi
making it certain not only that the
| cojlusiOn we charge, between these
men, really existed, but that the truth
is not in them, we give TO the public
the proofs that have convinced US, be-
yOnd the possibility Of denial or ques-
tiOn, that Horace Greeley was made
Democratic candidate for President
by his own procuring, and that Gin
cinnati and Baltimore were parts Oi
the same conspiracy.
We reprint here the terms Of our in
dictment, as follows:
"a Challenge,
"FOR HORACE GREELEY. WALDO HCTCHINs
AND HORATIO SEYMOUR.
These men have failed TO answer
the charges Of political arrangement
or bargaining made concerning them
and repeated by this journal; and il
order that the issue may the more
plainly appear, and they may have
opportunity Of denying, or admitting
or explaining the facts, as they shall
prefer, we put those facts as we under
stand them iu form as follows:
ti That Horace Greeley agreed, il
October, 1871, on his own behalf, TO b
a candidate for President Of the Unit
ed States, II Horatio Seymour and thu
| Democratic leaders would suppOr
him; and held a correspondence oil
/ that subject; Of which one letter wa
dated Oct. 4, 1871. That Mr.. Greeley
formally recognized his agreement
and communicated the fact of thu
Democratic proposition TO Reuben E
! Fenton, who consented to give his as
sistance to the scheme.
''2. That HoratiO Seymour (wE'
was regarded as himself a candidate)
and some of the Democratic leader
subsequently, agreed to give Mr.. Gree
ley their support, cOnditionally. Tha
Horatio Seymour communicated will
Waldo Hutchins on this subject, il
reference especially to the Cincinnati
convention. That HOratiO SeymOu
acknowledged tie correspondence o
himself and Hutchins, in letter dat
ed May l, 1872, three days before TIN
Cincinnati convention was held.
"3. That Waldo Hutchins respond
ed, and became a delegate to that con
vention. That the fact of DemOcrati
coalition was well understood by som
Of the delegates to the Cincinnati con
vention and that the expectation O
this Democratic support aided or sc
cured Mr.. Greeley's nomination,
For the purpose of classification W
present the proofs in order, as follows
/. The narrative of the originator 0
the scheme which made Horace Gree
lev 8 candidate for President by Dem
ocratic influence at Cincinnati-hi
credentials being letters of HOrac
/ Greeley and HOratio Seymour.
2. The corrOborative statement c
several gentlemen, well known an
prominent citizens, who have beel
cognizant of the scheme, in some @
its details, or have seen the letters
&c, which are a part of it.
8. Affidavits setting forth the NOR
important facts Of the scheme, or es
tablishing the statements preceding
and verifying the letters.
4. An exposure of the correspon
dence, embracing the names of tn
writers Of the letters, the apprOximat
or exact dates, the references of aU
thority, and an analysis of the con
tents Of the letters.
The following is the statement c
Mr.. Carmichael:
Lewis Carmichael is farmer, prof.
} ably between so and 55 years of agt
who owns and resides upon a tract G
$40 acres of improved land, two mile
west of the village of Unadilla, j
Otsego County. For over twent
years he has enjoyed the reputation
of being q politician of influence an
sagacity, and was consulted in time
of important political movements b
Dickinson and other eminent men.