The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-05-26
THE SINCERITY OF NIB. GREELEY'S
LETTER.

columns of its issue of Thursday to
comments upon Mr.. Greeley's letter
of acceptance, and attempts to show
that las a purported expression OF
facts and sentiments it is inslncere,
hypocritical and false; that 1t makes
use of modesty as a mask Tor di>>lihu-
lation," and that sit pretends to have
discovered in the Cincinnati platform
declarations which its author Is aware
have been the abiding prlncIpleSo OF the
Republican party and that sit deals
recklessly i'll charges which every IN
telligent person knows to be untrue"
First-The inSincerity of Mr.. Greeleys
letter is charged, because he says III his
letter that he has waited ITO know how
the work of the Convention was re-
ceived,' and that he Is now satisfied
s.that the movement which found ex
preston at Cincinnati has received the
stamp of public APPROVAL
We fail 10 perceive the mask of IN
sincerity in this language. The En-
terprise SAYS it is in>incere, because
sit implies that Mr.. Greeley would
have declined the nomination unless
it had met with popular appreciation,
whereas no one can doubt that he
would have eagerly accepted it under
any circumstances" While we agree
entirely with the Enterprise as to the
implication above quoted. we differ As
entirely from its last conclusion We
do not believe Mr.. Greeley to be so
devoid of political sagacity or common
sense as to have eagerly accepted
or accepted at all a nomination which,
from the one of the public press. he
could Judge to he unpopular with the
people. and when the Enterprise. in
commenting further upon this part OF
MIR. Greeley's letter, says "Mr. Gree
lev must know that FOR every publlca
ton which has given its support o the
movement, a dozen have ridiculed or
denounced IL Ottii-bA-
what it knows-if its editor is at all
posted as 10 the general news OF the
dav-to be a palpable falsehood. We
assert that fully o~ne-third OF the lie
publican press in the country are sup
porting the nominees and platform
of the Cincinnati Convention, and
furthermore, that more than nine
tenths of the Democratic press are IN
favor of ratifying that platform and its
nominees at Baltimore. The editor OF
the Enterprise must either be wilfuily
blind or have made a wOful mistake
in his arithmetic, when he accounts
the Journals who favor Mr.. Greeley as
one thirteenth of the public press.
With the hypocrisy part of the Enter
prise, we content ourselves by simply
saving that we believe Mr.. Greeley
honest in declaring the CIncinnatl
platform to ''embody in 1t In few
words the needs and aspirations of to-
dav." We admit that the second
clause of Mr.. G~reeiey's epitome Is
s.RepubIican doctrine" but boldly
aver-and all men who have e the
Congressional reports for the past four
wears cannot fail to See-that the adj
ministration party have persistently
refused to carry into effect the prInci-
pie enumerated therein, but have used
all the Weapons of the administration
to perpetuate their power and
to selfish and personal ends, rather
than to the healing of differences and
the purpose of free government. The
third clause is termed clap trap by the
Enterprise. We admit that under the
pursued by the administration
all declarations OF principles are clap
tran. inasmuch as none of them are or
ever been carried into effect
But. we believe that Mr.. Greeley is
honest and has the popular heart and
Judgment in his favor, when he says
..that each (State) shall be left
free to enforce us rl9ntS anu Pioihote
he we'll being of its inhabitants, by
such a as the Judgment of its own
shall prescribe" The criti
cisrn of the Enterprise upon the fourth
and fifth sections is hardly worthy OF
norica. We merely say that in no
was there ever before an OK
,rassion in favor OF the one-term poi
aIthnuch doubtless the