New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11
A Recruit from New Hampshire -Ex-COn-
cressman Tnppan for GreeIey.

A Recruit frOm New Hampshire - x~C0us
gresham Tappan for Greeley.
The following letter, written by the Hon.
NJ w. Tappan to friend, has just been
made public through the columns Of the
Springfield Republican:
BRADFORD, N. H., July 81, 1872
MY DEAR S1R-Your kind letter of yes
terday saying that you are a Greeley Re
publican, and asking my opinion in refer
ence to the presidential struggle that is
upon US, has been received. | have no de-
sire to conceal my opinions, and am very
apt to speak what think. have no hest
tation in saying that intend, to the best of
my ability, to support Horace Greeley for
the Presidency. / can not stop now TO go
at length into the details, but in due time |
propose TO give the reasons for the faith
that Is in me. / may say briefly, however,
that in taking this course follow the best
convictions of my own judgment, batting no
jot or little of my Republican faith, with
the same sincerity and earnestness that
prompted me, early in life; to sever my pO-
iitical relations with the party to which
belonged, and to become, in the
language of the day, "a poor, misera-
BILE, despised AbOlitiOuist." If it shOnId
take as long as it did then to vindicate the
rightfuiness Of the step take, shall not
regret having taken it. see my way clearer
by the light of this new movement to the
beneicent end of the great revolution
through which this nation has passed, and
is passing than any other way. / deem it
just as important, now that the war is over,
to unite the country by the strong cords of
fraternal amity as it was to crush out the
rebellion which sought to destroy it. | do
not regard it, therefore, as great national
calamity that the great Democratic party,
at last rid of the virus of slavery, have,
with a heartiness that did not expect,
wheeled their entire columns on to the
Cincinnati platform, which is at once Re
publican and Democratic in the best sense
of those terms, and have accepted as its ex-
pOnent the lifelong advocate of Republican
ideas. Nor am either ashamed or afraid
to act with those at the South who have
been opposed to us, where they now hold
out the hand of friendship and ask us to be-
Heye and trust them when they say they
want peace and reconciliation, and accept |
in good faith all the results of the war. On
the contrary, / rejoice that this is SO, and
sincerely believe that Horace Greeley is the |
instrument in the hands of kind Provi- |
dence, through whom the North and South
are to be united as they never have before |
been united. can not distrust the earnest
declarations of such representative men as |
Colonel Shorter, of Alabama, when he saws |
that all the Accommodations of his life were |
invested in slaves, and were swept away by |
emancipation, and yet, if by a breath, he |
could bring slavery back again, he would not |
do it; and of Governor Vance, of North |
Carolina (both of whom know, when he |
declares that, although he once fought |
against the stars and stripes, he is now /
willing to die under and for the old flag" /
Nor are these isolated cases. There is a /
marked change of tone throughout nearly /
the entire Southern press. l believe it is |
time to heal up instead of at every election |
tearing open the wounds made by the war.
/ belieye also that the rights of the cOlored |
people at the South would be safer under a
policy such as would tend to mutual conf
dence and friendship between them and the
whites, rather than under one that would |
for an indefinite period keep one race ar
rayed against the other.
In conclusion, can not refrain from say
ing that the personal respect entertain for
Mr.. Greeley, and the confidence / have in
him, assure me that should the movement
of which he is the head triumph in NOvem-
Der, every just expectation will be realized,
and every promise of reform faithfully be
Garfield .0ut' | know Mr.. Greeley well, and,
the bad taste manifested
by some of those for whom he has furnished
ideas for the last quarter of a century in af.
fecting to ridiCule him as a candidate | re-
gard him, and long have SO regarded him,
not only as the most thoroughly honest man
L ever KNEW DuU as one OF Ll0 very aDIeSt
men in the country. There are other ques-
tons that l might refer to, which have
weight with me, but this letter is already
longer than l intended. And, asking you to !
excuse the haste in which it is written, |
am, very truly your friend and Obedient
servant. MASON w. TAPPAN. /
Commenting upon the letter, the Repub'
lio0n says:
The most important Indication of Liberal
in New Hampshire is the
declaration of the Hon. Mason w. Tappan
FOR Mr.. Greeley. He has been from the be-
ginning one of the ablest and most promi-
lent Free Sellers and Republicans of that
State; he represented the Concord and
Manchester district in Congress from 1856
% 1861, and in the latter year he promptly
transferred himself to the field of battle.
md took the cOlonelcy of the first regiment |
which New Hampshire sent to the war,
lis record, politically, is without blemish,
lis character personally without spot and
70 brings to the Liberal movement great
loral weight, and will have unquestionably |
large personal following among his old |
Olitica1 friends mall parts of that State.