Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-12-13
The National Democratic Committee hav
issued the following:

HEADQUARTERS OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC /
COMMITTEE New York, Dec. 8.
The Democratic National Convention did, in Ju-
ly, 1872, with an unanimity unprecedented in the
history of the party, nominate as their candidate
for the office of President of the United States,
Horace Greeley, of New York. Six States cast
their Electoral votes for him at the late election,
and millions of men in other States where we
failed of testified their appreciation of his
noble character and the great service he had rem
dered the country. by voting our Electoral tlcket
But Horace Greeley is dead, and the splendor of
now diminished by the sorrow which this sad event
has cast upon the people whom he loved, and who
regarded him of the best. truest and bravest
of men. E
The lessons of his pure and blameless life will
long remain impressed upon the age in which he
lived. Every beat of his great heart was in sym
pathy with humanity in its breadest form. He
loved the Government, he loved his felow-men,
and the labors of his whole life were to elevate
the condition Of mankind. No struggle for lib
erty, ,zciv or religious, ever made on the sur
face of the earth, since his manhood began, with
which he did not affectionately sympathize; or to
which he failed to give faithful and powerful aid
ness, of charity, of forgiveness, and of love- Not
his stricken family alone, but stricken people,
fGs
tee, in behalf of the great party who achieved
honor by their faithful effort to elect him to the
first office in the Government, will do all in their
power to honor his name and memory.
10 AUGUSTUS SCErELL,
Chairman National Democratic Committee.
A Salt Lake dispatch of the I'd says: "a
weI-known diamond broker of this city,
named Will, is said to be the party who,
with Harpending of San francisco, and Ar
nold put up the Infamous diamond swindle.
Efforts are making here, by legal process, to
bring the guilty parties TO justice. Janin is
generally condemned - The victims at Salt
Lake loseover 800, ,o00I : 1 &-~C4 00
The following letter, written by Horace
Greeley to Hon. Charles Lanman, is at this
time peculiarly interesting:
NEW oYoRK, oR, June q, 1871 rs
p Received yours of 25th instant / have all my
ife been doing what people called vastly foolish
and lmpolitic acts andI do not dispute their Judg
ment. ] only said that what did seemed to me
the right thing. If should die before election or
be beaten therein, please testify for me that do
not regret having braved public opinion when L
thought it wrong and knew it to be merciless. .a-
(Signed), HORACE GREELEY.
At a general meeting of the Centennial
Commission in Philadelphia, on the 4th,
Commissioners from twenty-seven States
were present. The report from the Execu-
tive Committee was accepted, and design
for seal adopted.
Mr.. Ward Hunt, who has been appointed
to the Supreme Bench of the United States to
fill the place resigned by Justice Nelson, is
prominent lawyer of Utica, n. Y, where
he was born in 1910, and where his whole
life has been spent. He is a graduate of
Union College, and of the law school at
Litchield, Conn.,
The Presidential electors, chosen at the
recent election, met at the capitals of their
respective States on the 4th, and voted for
and Of tha mi tod
| States.
| The funeral of Horace Greeley occurred in
| New York on the 4th. The funeral services
were under the direction of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher and DR.. Chaplin. President
Grant, vice-President Colfax, Vice President
elect Wilson, prominent journalists, distin-