The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-08-15
0HNERAL JOHN Y. DIX.
He Gives Pungent Reasons Tor
Preferring Grant to Greeley.


The following letter from Gen. John
A. Dix has been made public:
WEsTHAMpToN, July T.-DEAR
SIR: Your letter Of the 18th inst.
asking my aid to procure . speaker fol
a Greeley meeting ct Hancock, Va
sent me while l was In New England,
and have been unable until now to
acknowledge its reception.
do not know on what ground you
consider yourself authorized toaddress
such . request to me. II you had
been familiar with the course Of my
public life, and equally SO with 1lr.
Greeley's, you could not have opposed
me capable of advocating lis election
to the office Of Presider... Of the United
States without impr.ting to me the ut
ter abandonmeD. Of all political prin-
ciple.
am Opposed to Mr.. Greeley:
l. Because believe him to be -
uDstable as water, perpetually floun-
!, dering ito carry out the scriptural dg.
ure) amid the surges of opinion, and
deficient in all the requisites essential
to firm, steady, and consistent ad-
ministration of the Government.
2. Because he has usually been found
among the most extreme ultraists on
tho great questions Of political and 60
cial duty which have been brought
under public discussion during the
last quarter of century.
3. Because he has been the advocate
land in this instance persistently) OF
that most unjust and unequal CONNER
cial system which is destroying our
mercantile and commercial interests,
and heaping up enormous accumula.
tions of wealth in the hands Of tho
protected classes, to the oppression and
impoverishment of all others.
4. Because he is associated, In rela-
tions more or less intimate, with some
of the chief plunderers OF the city Of
New York. warranting the apprehen-
sion that, through his completely or
his facile disposition, the same system
Of fraud or corruption which has dis
graced the municipal government Of
this city may be carried to more infA-
nous extremes in the administration
Of the Federal Government; and,
S. Because in the darkest hour OF
the country's peril, when traitorous
combination had been formed to over
throw the Government, he openly
counseled the policy of non-resistance,
and an acquiesence in the dissolution
of the Union, whenever the cotton
States should make up their minds to
go.
The coalition which has been formed
to promote his election is one of the
most extraordinary in the history Of
parties, In aspect both to the discord-
ant element it embraces, and the sur
render of principle 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 In regard to
one of those measures, to be an impla-
cable opponent-nominated him, too,
against the wishes and judgment OF
the chief promoters of the movement.
who accepted him, either with an
avowed or ill.concealed disgust, which
would be far more creditable to their
feelings if the act of acceptance was
not utterly irreconcilable with their
principles.
The Dem ocratic Convention at Bal
timore Endorsed and commended him
to the support Of their party-not -
snv eAponvnt Of .ny principles they
professed or any measures they had
advocated, but as known and bitter
opponent Of both-the man who, per-
haps Of all others, has been the most
malignant assailant of the Democracy,
impesching its integrity, traducing its
motives. and vilifying its character.
The adoption of such man as their
candidate for the chief magistracy Of
the Union, is the most conspicuous
abandonment. of political principles
known to party contests.
1t remains to be seen whether the
great body of the Democratic voters,
and the true friends of reform, can be
made parties to this INSCRIPTIONS CO.
alition between political leaders.
That Gen. Grant has committed mis-
takes, his most sincere friends admit.
But if his errors had been four-fold
more numerous, he would, in my opin-
ion, be much safer Chief Magistrate
than Mr.. Greeley. He has, In that
capacity done much for which he de-
serves the thanks of the country.
Above all, he has kept it at peace, not.
withstan1ing the efforts Of sensational
journalists and popularity-seeking pol
iticians to provoke hostilities with
Spain on the question of Cuba, and
with Great Britain on the Alabama
Claims aud the fisheries.
II, regardless of these titles to the
approval of his fellow-citizens, and Of
his invaluable services during the late
civil war, they should set him aside
for Mr.. Greeley if the latter, q mere
politician, untried in any important
public trust, should be elevated to the
Chief Magistracy of the Union-a
Union which would not now exist If
his counsels had been followed-and
if the man who, of all others, has done
the most to preserve it should be dis
carded for a successor SO Unqualified
and so unscrupulously nominated and
sustained, the example would be most
deplorable in its influence on all high
motives to political action, and justify
the most painful forebodings as to the
uture am respectfully yours,
| JOHN A. DIX.
/ A. B. CoRNwELL Esq, Hancock, NY.