Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-22
GEN. DIX DECLARES FOR GRANT.
lis Reasons for Opposing Greeley.
WEsTHAMPToN, july 81, 1872.

WEsTHAMPToN july 81, 1872.
DEAR SIR Your letter Of the 18th inst,
asking my AID to procure speaker for Gree
lev meeting at Hancock, was sent to me while
| was III Now England and | have been unable
until now to acknowledge It's reception. / do
not understand on what ground you cOnsid-
cred yourself authorized TO address such a re-
quest TO me. II you had been familiar with
the course Of my pubic life, and equally so
With Mr. GreeIey's YOU could not have sup
posed me capable Of advocating his election to
the Office of President of the United States
without imputing 10 me an utter abandonment
of all political principle. ! am opposed 10 Mr..
Greeley:
/. Because believe him to be as " unstable
as water perpctually toundering Ito carry
out the Scilpural tigure) amid the surges Of
opinion, and deficient in all the requisites es
sental to firm, steady, and consistent adj
ministration of the Government
2. Because he has usually been found
among the most extreme ultrasts on the
great questions of political and social duty
which have been brought under public dis
cusslon during the last quarter OF a century.
8. Because he has been the advocate (and
in this instance persi,teny), of that most
unjust and unequal commercial system, which
Is destroying our mercantile and shipping IN
terests and heaplng up enormous accumuia-
tons Of wealth IN the hands OF the protected
classes, to the oppression and mpoyerlshmeht
OF all others.
4. Because he il associated, in relations
more or less intimate, with some of the chief
plundcrcrs OF the City Of New York, justly
warranting the apprehension that through his
completely or his facila disposition, the same
system of fraud and corruption which has dis
gracod the Municipal government of this city
may be carried to more Infamous extremes in
the administration Of the Federal Govern
mcnt and.
5. Because in the darkest hour of the
Cuuutrys peril, when a trmtorous combination
had been formed to overthrow the Govern
mcnt, he openly counseled the cowardly policy
Of non-rcslstauce, and an acquicsceuce in the
dissolution Of the Union Whenever the cotton
States should make MP their minds to go,
AN uNscRUPULoUs COALITION.
The coalition, which has been formed to
promote his election, Is one Of the most EXTRA
ordinary in the history OF parties, In respect
both to the discordGut clements il embraces
and the surrender of principles It involves.
/ The Cincinnati Convention, called to bring
before the people important measures OF re-
form, nominated him, greatly to the surprise
Of the whole county, knowing him, III regard
to one OF those measures, to be an lmpaca-
BILE opponent Nominated him, too, against
the wishes and Judgment of the chief promo
tors OF the movement, who accepted him eth
or with an ayowcd or an ill-coucealed dis
gust, which would he lar more credlta-
ble to their feelings if the act
of acceptance were not utterly irreconciable
with their principles. The Democratic Con-
veutiou at Baltimore Endorsed and commended
him 70 the support of their party-nut as the
exponent OF ANY principles they have prCtesscd,
ur any measures they have advocated, but as
a known and bitter opponent of both-the
man who, perhaps, of all others, has been the
most malignant a>salaut OF theDemocracy, inn
paachlng its integrity, traducing its motives,
and yilltying its character, The adoption Of
such a man as their candidate for the Chief
Magistracy of the Union is the most couspicu.
Gus abandonment of political principles
known to party contests. 1t remains to be
seen whether the great body Of the Demo-
cratic voters, and the true friends OF REFORM,
can be made parties of this INSCRIPTIONS
coalition between political leaders.
GRANT SAFER THAN GREELEY.
That Gen. Grant has committed mistakes
his most sincere friends admit. But If Lis er-
rors had been fuur.told more numerous, he
would, in my opinion. be q much safer Chief
Magistrate than Mr.. Greeley. He has, in that
capacity, done much for which he deserves the
thanks Of the country, Above all, he kept it
Nt peace, notwithstanding the efforts Of SEN
satlon journals and apularity-seekiug politi-
Grams to provoke hOstthllvS with Spain on the
question of Cuba, and with Great Britain on
the Alabama Claims and the fisheries. H.
regardless TO these titles to the approval
oi his fctlew.CIUZcus, and Of his IN
valuable services during the late civil war
they should set him aside for Mr.. Greeley II
the latter, mere crratc politician, untued IN
any IMPORTANT trust should be elevated to the
CM.t Na,lstyaCy uGtbe Uui1n-a Union which
would mot now exist II his cauuscs had been
iolowe3-aud If the man who, of all others
has done the most "a preserve It should be
discarded fora successor SO III qualified and
s1 unscrUpuluusy nominated ana sustained
the example would he most dcp.orable IN ITS