The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-08-15
GEN. DIX ON GREELEY.

Inst, asking my aid to procure speaker
for a Greeley meeting at Hancock, was
sent to me while was in England, and I
have been unable until now to acknovl.
edge It's reception.
I do not understand on what ground
you consider yourself authorized to ad-
dress such request to me. IF you had
been familiar with the course of my pub
lie life, and equally so with Mr.. Greeley's,
you could not have suppose me capable
Of advocating his election to the Office of
President of the United States without
'mputing to me the utter abandonment OF
all political principle.
am opposed to Mr.. Greeley.
1. Yecause believe hina to be as Gun
stable as water" perpetuaIly foundering
(to carry out the Scriptural tigure) amid
the surges Of opinion, and deficient in all
the requisites essential to firm, steady,
and consistent administration of the gov
ernment.
2. Because he has usually been found
among the most extreme ultraists on the
great questions of political and social
duty which have been brought under
public discussion during the last quarter
of a century.
3. Because he has been the advocate
(and in this instance persistently) of that
most unjust and unequal commercial sys-
tenn which is destroying our mercantile
and shipping interests, and heaping up
enormous accumulations Of wealth in the
hands OF the protected classes to the OPP
preston and mpoverishment of all Others
4. Because he is associated, in rela-
tons more or less intimate with some Of
the chief plunderers Of the city of New
York, justly warranting the apprehen-
sion that through his completely or his
faclle disposition, the same system of
fraud and corruption which has disgr&ced
the municipal government of this city
may be carried to more Infamous extremes
in the administration of the Federal Gov
ernment and,
5. Because in the darkest hour Of tie
country's peril, when a traitorous combj-
nation had been formed to overthrow the
Government, he openly counseled the cow
ardly policp of nonresistance, and an &C
quiescence in the dissolution of the Union,
whenever the Cotton States should make
up tQeir minds to 60.
The coalition which has beea formed
to promote his election is one Of the most
extraordinary in the history Of parties, in
respect both to the disc3rdant elements it
embraces and the surrender of principles
1t involves.
The Cincinnati Convention, called to
bring before the people important meas
ures of reform nominated him greatly to
the surprise of the whole country, know
ing him, in regard to one Of those measures
to be an implacable pponent-nominated
him, too, against the wishes and judg-
ment Of the chief promoters of the move
ment, who accepted him, either with an
avowed or an ill concealed disgust, which
would be far more creditable to their feel
ings if the act of acceptance were rot ut
terly irreconcilable with their principles
The Democratic Convention at Balti-
more Endorsed and commended him to the
support OF their party not as the expert
ment ofany principles thee have professed
or any measures they have advocatee, but
as known and bitter opponent of both
the man who, perhaps, of all Others, has
been the most malignant of the Democ'
racy, impeaching its integrity, traducing
its motives, and vilifyin@ % AZ acter.
The adoption of euch u D4au 80 their
candidate for the chief magigtracy OF the
Union, is the most conspicuous abandon
ment of politicals known to party con-
tests. a rlE.u t....t
1t remains to be seen whether the great
body of the Democratic voters, and the
true friends of reform, can be made par
ties to this INSCRIPTIONS coalition between
political leaders. ...a
That Gen. Grant hrs committed mis-
takes, his most sincere friends admit. But
if his errors had been fourfold more M
merCus, he would, in my opinion, be q
much better Chief Magistrate than MIR.
Greeley. lie has, in that capacity, done
much for which he deserves the thanks of
the country. Above all all, he has kept
it at peace, Notwithstanding the efforts of
sensational journals and popularity
ing politicians TO provoke hostilities with
Spain on the question Of Cuba, and WITH
Great Britain on the Alabama claims and
the fisheries. .i .f
If regardless Of these titles to the ap-
proVal of his fellow citizens, and of his
invaluable sevices during the late civil
war they should set him aside for Mr..
Greeley if the latter, mere cratic poll
ticien, untried in any important public
trust, should be elevated to the chief
magistracy eff the Union-a Unien 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 discarded for successor so
i'll qualified and SO unscrupulously nomi-
mated and sustained, the example would
be most deplorable in its influence on all
high motives to political action, and justi-
fly the NEST painful forebodings as to the
future. am respectfully yours,
Is JOHN A. Dix.
A. B. CoRNvELI, Hancock, N. Y.