New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-18
TO MIR. LYMAN FIREMAN..

The Republican candidate for Congressman
MT Large in this State is announced to speak
this evening in our city. The Grant orators
have expended most of their elOquence so far
on the real or fictitious record of their OPP
ponents, and as they have not yet been Housed
to the danger of that amusement, we purpose
putting few inquiries to Mr.. Lyman Ire
main in case he should yield to the prevailing
temptation. Our questions relate first to Mr..
Tremain's own record, and next to what Mr..
Treman has said about the record of Presi-
dent Grant And we want it to be understood
that we shall insist upon straightforward an
swers.
In the early days of the Rebellion, was or
was not Mr.. Lyman Tremain, like Gen. DIX
and some other late but lusty patriots, what
his friends are now calling pronounced
SecessiOnistf
Did or did not Mr.. Lyman Tremain. In the
Democratic State Convention of 1861, carry
such sentiments to such length thaV 'no
Convention refused to follow hint
Did or did not Mr.. Lyman fireman.. on INC
list of February, 1861. utter tho following ian-
guage in public speech u WISH 10 say
:. that, traitorous though it may be, stanu
"here to oppose the policy of war with the
" Soutb. now. hereafter, and forever! lha1
" war is a war against our brethren, war
" AGAINST your countrymen, a war against those
" rnited with YOU by all the ties OF consan-
guinity, by all the memories ana tradi'lonS
" of the mast. by everything that can tend 10
strengthen and cement and Dnd inc peopio
+" of the North TO the South. IL ID
" enough that now | am prepared to take tne
" responsibility of saying | am resolved 10
| " resist # here and to resist it everywhere.
90 And if that be treason, make the most Oh H.
eff, after all negotiations, we ma we have
reached that point we OF the North can ho
"longer say to our brethren OF the South hoI
the South to the North, in the language Oh
"Ruth to Naomi, whittier thou goest VIII
"s on. and where thou lodgest l Will lodge
"sthy people shall be my people, and thy Goa
"'mv Cod: if, repeat, we have reached that
"point in our history, even then would say
90 Snare the blood of my brethren; let as part
".in peace peaceaJly diSSoIUe this C0ngederacy;'
" and No mart of the responsibility shall rest
"on u.s."
Was or was not Mr.. Lyman Tremaln one OF
those whom Gen. Dix denounces, yet of whom
Gen. Dix was one himself, who believed IN
1850 and 1861 that peaceable separation was
better than war;
Having answered these questions, and shown
how from a Secession Democrat he became
straight Republican, Mr. Lyman Tremaln Is
requested TO pass on to his experiences as
Liberal Republican. From the origin OF the
reform movement inside the party until very
few weeks ago Mr.. Lyman Tremain was one
of the seyerest critics of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of President Grant He denounced III very
bitter language the policy by which the Pres
dent has shattered the Republican party and
alienated its most distinguished and disinter-
ested supporters. No Republican, except per-
haps Charles Sumner and Carl Schurz, has CEN
sured the course of the Republican authorities
at Washington with moro freedom than Mr.
Lyman Tremain. Does he still hold the same
opinion of Grant that he held few months
agof
Mr.. Lyman Tremain in a recent public
speech severely rebuked President Grant for
his invidious, unjust and impolitc distlnc-
tons between the two wings of the Republic
can party in this State, and his failure to
"harmonize conflicting interests Is he still
of opinion that the President "shOuld not
" have made war with one to crafty the
othern1
Mr.. Lyman Tremain in the same speech de-
clared that the appointment of such man
cas- Tom Murphy to the COllectorship of New
"YOrk" was reprOach TO the Administration
which appointed him. What does Mr.. Lyman
Tremain say to that appointment nowf
Mr.. Lyman Tremain declared that "after
" the investigation relative to the Custom
"hOuse revealed the rottenness existing in the
management of its affairs" the President
Certainly ought to have removed" Mr..
Thomas Murphy "at once, and that without
"giving him such a public Endorsement as he
"did after he was finally removed" Does
Mr. Tremain still admit the rottenness of the
CustOm-hOuse, and is he still indignant at the
Presidents public commentator of the delin-
Quent Collector
After exhausting his record as a Liberal, Mr..
Lyman Treman is requested to enlghten us
on the circumstances Of his reconversion.
Why did he give his sympathy to the Liberal
cause until the eve of the Republican State
Convention Was he insincere two months
ago, or is he insincere nOw7 Shall we follow
the Tremain of July or the Tremain of Sep
TENDER One of the two must be humbug
Which is it ?
Now, Mr.. Tremain, there has been shutting
and false ,pretense enough in this campaign,
and We intend to hold you to a strict account
You have a good many things TO explain away
before you can decenty attack other people,
and though the job will be pretty heavy one
we mean that you shall undertake it.
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