Worcester daily spy., 1872-08-13
GsrceIer,s Accentnnre

The following corrected copy OF Horace Gree
ley's letter accepting the Baltimore nomin;Aion
has lately been published The obseurty of
Mr. Greeley's handwriting helps 10 explain
some material discrepancies between this and
the imperiect version previously given to thc
world:
CHAPPAQUA July IS, 1872.
Gen. John Ii. Regan, eX-pOStmaster general,
southern confederacy, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, c.
5. A., Admiral Semmes and Judge J. G. Alb
bOtt, committee, &c.
GeRtlemelt-Reciprocatin@ most warmly the
hearty manifestation of personal regard con-
tanned in your letter, informing me of my Sc.
lection by the great and glorious democratic
party as its candidate for the presidency, &C
cept the nomination.
Having repeatedly declared through the col
umns of my "organ," the New York Tribune,
that no weight should be attached to the utter
ances of person who is up for office when they
are made on the eve OF election, | beg leave to
refer You to my record.
In the great campaign now so auspiciously
inaugurated, | have a right TO expect the en-
dorsement of the "rebels" as the republicans
call them, because as far back as 1851 declared
that whenever any considerable portion of our
Union shall deliberately resolve to 20 out we
shall resist all coercive measures designed TO
keep them in. If the cotton states shall decide
that they can do better out of the Union than
l earnestly and persistently urged President Lin
coin to push con to Richmond, !" and when he
followed my advice the Union army was nearly
annihilated. | endeavored in the Tribune re-
peatedly to induce him to stop the war, and
while General Grant was determined "to fight
it out on that line it it took all summer" TO let
the southern coniederacy he recognized | de-
clared that the star Spangled banner was
"Rauntng lie." And bailed our mutual friend,
that pure patriot, TO whom our country owes
such deep debt of gratitude, jeff Davis
The former Shareholders will of course stand
by me; for duriag the rebellion | repeatedly ad-
vised the purchase of their slaves, and never
having changed my sentiments, it may not be
too late, if ] am elected, for them to bring in
their bills.
count on the support Of the Temperance men,
because ] have always been sound on all the
great moral questions advocated by their party.
Before was seized with the presidential fever,
(which has poisoned and paralyzed the very
best of our public men," at a time when | eX-
pressed myself "as a decided enemy of the dem
ocratic party even in its most respectable as
pects," | stated that ''ninety-nine of every hun
tensely, efficiently democratic-or, as Mike
Walsh proclaimed them, nurseries of democracy.
township without one of these nurseries is
certain TO be republican. Every youth who is
learning to sip and soak in the grOg-Sh0ps is
being fashioned to the uses OF the sham demOc-
district which yOu will pronounce morally rotten
given up in part to debauchery and vice
whose voters subSist mainly by keeping policy
offices, gambling houses, grog shops, and darker
dens of infamy, and that district will be found
giving a large majority for that which styles it.
self the democratic party.
know that the Tammany rings are heartily
with me, because when every other paper in the
country denounced their frauds, the Tribune
suppressed the strongest charges against them,
and you will all bear witness that was very
careful not to tell the public what 81 knew about
corruption" My silence is rewarded. Tweed,
Morrlssey, Connolly, Hall, lngersoll, Garvey,
Hoffman, AL are mt work for the good cause.
trust the republicans will stand by me, for
about year ago | stated "that it is of great
importance that the democracy shall be kept
out of power, while it is of small moment that
A or b tenant the White house. For such a
triumph means a restoration to power of those
who deserted their seats in congress to plunge
the country into the red sea of secession and re-
bellion. Though you paint an inch thick to
this complexion you must come at last. The
brain, the heart, the soul of the democratic
party is the rebel element of the south and its
northern allies and sympathizers Asdemocrat-
ic triumph in 1872 would be Il virtual reversal
of the AppomatoX surrender. The party would
come into power with the hate, the chagrin, the
wrath the modification Of ten bitter years to
guide its steps 1t would deplete the treasury
and hail the tdngS of national bankruptcy with
unalloyed gadness and unconcealed exulta-
ton"
have further said: 81 have always advo-
Gated and justified the kukluX act. hold it
especially desirable for the south, aud if it does
prove strong enough to effect its purpose ]
hope it will be made stronger and stronger"
Thus you see, gentlemen, ,1rom these few eX-
tracts, which might be multiplied if time and
space permitted, that | am an honest and CON
sstent man, and can add dignity, stability and
character to the presidential office.
You say truly, the democratic convention was
a sublime success, most appropriately held in
Baltimore, where the first resistance was made
to Massachusetts soldiers marching to the de-
fence of the national capitol, in an opera house
owned by the same John I. Ford who was pro-
prictor of the theatre where Lincoln was shot,
the stage scenery prepared by Spangler, one of
the aSsaSsins, and the several acts Of the great
drama of "a Happy Family" ushered in by the
patriotic strains OF "My Maryland" and
"DiXie"
With hearty sentiments of unalloyed affection
for the dear democracy, of whose leading meas
ures have been so staunch an advocate, and
with whose prominent men have been so init
mately associated, am your and their obedient
servant, IL GREELEY
P. S.-l regret that the opposition is led by
one of whom | have written: 81 like Grant
He taught our armies to conquer in the west,
and subsequently in the cast also. Richmond
would not come to us until we sent Grant after
it. lie has neuer been defeated and he neUer
gW BE-" H. G.