, 1873-05-24

Tho fullcBt copy Of your spcech ! Nhvo socn |
WA In tlo oincinnati, Commercial, md evon
that doos not contain what you eaid Of tho Vice.
Presidential nomination. should Hike to l,ave
comploto copy. Tie Eucnfng Post (Now Yorl) |
reprinted ncarly tho wllolo Of THO Gonntre'ats
report. Extracts, moro Or 1osa full, 1lnvo been
lin worry many otlor papors. It hag astracted
yory groat attention, and has given much satR-
faction, 40 far az hoar, to my frienuu, whether
now 1spSafos spna Grant or Seymour T. reso1tny onasay
'pa ool. WILL WILLIAM Dnows. NloholasvllIe, Ky.
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1868.
MY DEAR CoIoNE1: You may haVo thought
letter from Now York. But what could add to
wlat had sail. I know you honest bravo. res-
olutc, mud that, unleBB convinced of orror, yon
will Hpoak 1unt according to your declared con
viotiona. I a,n grateful, for fool onoted by
your friendship md support. It II my 'lrdonbt-
ing beliof that assaults OIL Gov. Seymour DO no
good to my body, but arc both unTise and u,.-
conaontng to bo nominated upon tho platform
Of tho New York Convention without exproaalng
any dissent from tho dogmns on reconstruotton
which it puts forth, and still moro In accepting
aftor the revolutionary construction giiven to
it by. tho nomination Of blair, fresh from
| tho publication Of Ills Drodhead letter. But
| lilo error WAS ono which might easily be
and / do not think thatit warrants t!loreproachea
which hayo boon directed against him.
| judge pierrcpont has inado tho truo Issue
botwoen Seymour and Blair, and Grant and Col
fax no aayzsa ,tr Ms when n hS sayn dhat IT an m
G4at fss aa oss leaving soyoa seu mud ooaa
almost wholly out Of sight. inclo.o to you
You will doubtless be struok, as / wes, with tho
account of tho coavoraation betwoen him and
| Grant, nnd the declaration Of Grant that "hia
negro suffrage" I hopo that, iayfng mado
enough progress during tho var to become
"glaa Of d negro enliBtmont" (Which certainly
could mover say), he hns maao progress enough
..tho South the whole people of tho Bouth; in
"good citizons," all good citfzenB, OF whatever
complexion or nativity aud in securing tile rights
Of oil bY the suffrage OF a something else than
south) negro suffrage" Sincerely yours
1 Col. WILLIAM B1OwN. y. p. CuAsE.
/ WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1868.
h[Y DEAR COLONEL: On my return last night
| found your two 1etters OF tho 11th and 1Ath,
with tho leltorB and slips from newspapers in
cloaod with them, mud mn much obliged to you
for MI. But must assure you that needed no
ean4aon Of your 99txes @a Tor making ths
for yo, to act except from motives honorable to
yourself and most ftind to mo, and eyory word
write expressing thapls and gratitude for your
vindioation Of me against Republican ulisropro-
aentation and misu,ldoratanlin comes from my
heart. I regretted nothing III your spoech OK
cort it's tone and tenor concerning Gov
Seymour. I was sure when, tho platform Nas
adopted aud interpreted on the citnl question OF
tho stability Or forciblo subyorsion Of the accom-
plished work Of roconHtruction by tile letter and
| nomination Of Con. Dlair, that nohrly NIL tho
{ Republicans and very many Of tue ConsorVa-
tives, who aro anxious to uuito with tho Do!no-
crata in opposition to tho oxtronlo measures OF
tito Republican leaders, would be constrained to
tho support OF Gen. Grant. But it was not and
is not my belief that Gov. Seymour desired to
have this isa,1o made, or that lie wished tho
nomination for himself. I Aayo seen nothing in
Ills action which makes mo question tho sincerity
Of lis doctarod wiDhes for n different ISSUE alld
for another candidate. Hardly any man would
have resisted tho approaches 1nado to linn by a
convention Which seemed to be. and perhaps
conaont coma % to Lis own domination. 7That
ho did not resist may be doplored on pub
lie gro,,1lfls; but my friends should not con-
plain. had no claim on democratic Consen- 70 31
ton, representing What may bo called tho old
limo Democracy. Tho nomination was propo6ad
only as a nouns Of uniting in support OF thu
ticket those in goncral sympathy with that Do
nocraey other iasues that have arisen since the
avu1, hit WHO were as much III ovor IN favor OF
securing to tho onfranc1iiscd people a1l the rights
of mon mud citizonB, ns tho best, il not the only,
9aan 0 81 EshsSin heq Sstcn afsF an ara b tGs
s: ton of tho platform especially, tho Convention
refused that union. This refusal may 10 regret
ted, but i is not matter Of co1npsatnt; GOV.
uobody--uo Democrat WHO thinks other issuea
. paramount III importance to TINT Of poaco aud
tho universal suffrage, Tor supporting Gov sey-
mour; ard no Republican or Conservative
who thinks pence and reorganization On the
basis of Justice for all, and suffrage to secure
justico, paramount to nil other isaNos, for enp.
porting Gen. Grant. These laat eau yinticate
fhoir position ant ut tho same time 10 full JUS
tico to tho abilities, statosmausllip, patriotism,
; ana purc private character of Coy. Seymour.
; The former con maintain theirs without aspor.
sion upon Gen. Grant, aua with full aeknowl
oilgnent Of tho services ho has rendered in his
, military capacity.
Please tnko tlis ~ slight expression Of wlla
! said in my former lottor, and as explaining
why cannot cousont to have tho extract from
that lettor which you quote, published. I know
tbat Gov. Seymour and his frioslds, who wore
also nv frionda fool much hurt by what yol
gnid Of him, and what othors of my frionls liav
| gaid, aud arc inosinotl to regard mo az in SOM
snrt rasnonsibla for those sayiuss and the pub
1jcation Of tilat extraot, disconnected from wi,a
{ wrote Of hin, would confis1n that i'm