Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-01-13
From the Near York Tribune.
CONCERNING PARTY POLL
T/ElS

= CLHD.
The following old private letter, in
response to one from q Democrat
} commencing the Editor of this jour.
nal as a candidate for next President
having at length been given to the
, public by, the gentleman to whom ii
was addressed, is copied into THE
TRIBUNE as an intimation that who.
soever has any more private letters
from the same source that he deems OF
interest to the public is at liberty tc
! pris. ,DsH1:
: From The Lexington Mo) Caucasian.
New YORK, Oct. Is, 1871.
P. DOMAIN, esq.,, Lexington, No.
My DemSr: ! have yours of the 4th
inst. | have no doubt that the policy
you suggest is that which your party
} ought to adopt. They should have
taken up Salmon p. Chase in 1868.
Then, as the result of that contest, the
return Of genuine peace and thrift
would have been promoted. That
policy gave you more last year in
Missouri than could have been achiev-
ed by party triumph. You only err
as to the proper candidate. ! am not
the man you need. Your party is
mostly Free Trade, and | am a fero-
cious Protestionist. have no doubt
that | might be enoninated and elected
by your help, but it would place us all
in false position. If !, who am ad-
versclv Interested, can see this, ! am
sure your good Sense on reflection
realise it, You must take some man
like Gratz Brown, or Tyumbull, or
Gen. Cox, late Secretary of the lnte-
rior, and thus help to pacity and reu-
mite our country anew.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY
Had the Democratic leaders in 1868
taken such advice rs is above given,
we 40 not know whether Chase or
Grant would have then been chosen
/ President bu, the country would, III
cit her case have been very tar on the
road to perfect Reconstruction through
u general and hearty acquiescence in
/ Universal Amnesty and Impartial
Suffrag" as the solid. immovable bases
Of our restored National cdiIiro. But
i those leaders learn very slowly, and
rarely uppreheud their opportunity
till long after it has PASSED away. As
/ was o.,ce irrrvcrrnllv said Of Daniel
Webster, they are Railways riding a
/ dead horse.
Tie st. Lonis Urmo,rot thus com
lnents on the above letter:
"Mr. Greeley thinks the Demo rats
made mistake, four wears ago, in not
running Chiet-Jnstice Chase as their
! Presidential candidate. 1t is we'll
/ known at that time that Mr. Greeley s
personal preference was for Mr.. Chase
as Republican candidate. He had,
however. pledged himself in advance
to the support of the nominee Of the
Chicago Convention, whoever he
might be. From tins letter, it is mani
fes, that his pledge was insincere; that
if Mr.. Chase, having failed to secure
the nomination at Chicago, had been
honored with that Of the New \ ork
assomblage, Mr.. Greeley would have
supported the Democratic candidate.
'ln this letter, Mr.. Greeley departs
from what he has hitherto declared to
be his unvarying rule Of conduct. He
declines the nomination. He has al
WAYS told us that he neither sought
nor declined such things but felt him
self ever bound to obey the call OF his
countrvmen. Now he SAYS he won t
take nomination, even when he had
reason to believe it would result in
his election.
* * * He SAYS practically, that he
cannot help to inaugurate a Free Trade
policy by becoming the candidate Of n
Free Trade party Yet if the Free
Traders will put up some other candi-
date he will give them his support.
The mistakes in the above para
graph are amazing. Mr. Greeley has
declined no nomination whatever.
lie has on V written privatel Y to a
Democrat, who proposed to him as a
candidate on an Independent plattor
that Gin his ud 5mrnu he was not the
Republican best adapted to the end i'll
view--that his stubborn Protectionism
would render him unacceptable to
Democrats, whe are generally Free
Traders
He has given no hint that he would
have supported Chi"fJustice Chase as
the Democratic nominee in any contin
gency. He d'd nrdentlv desire that
Mr.. G. should be the Democratic nom
inee in 1868, in order that the stupid
anachroniSm Of resisting the admission
Of the Blacks, since they are free, to
the rights Of citizenship, should be
brushed away. In this spirit, he has
welcomed and commended the Me-
Departure, without finding therein a
reason why he or any other Republl-
can should vote the Democratic ticket;
and he has never thought Of protfer-
ing "his support" to a Democratic
Free Trader But he wishes both
parties to consent, so soon as may be, to
Universal Amnesty and Impartial