The New York herald., 1874-08-31
HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM PUBLIC LIFE
No Opposition to the
Third Term.
A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT.
Contribution to the Beeoher
Correspondence.

nOn OF the Kansas Republican State COnven-
tiOn, the indirect repudiation OF the Pennsylvania
convention ana the avowed opposition Of Vice
president Wilson, 1t has not been without some
cOmpensating recent accessions. Mr.. George
Francis Train Is at Long Branch, at the Ocean
Hotel and hts arrival has been instrumental in
ehciting the fact that he has Withdrawn his OPP
position to President Grant and will not contest,
II he should not actively support his reelection.
Mr.. Train refuses to take any part In politics or to
have anything to do with the newspapers at the
present time, declaring that he has abandoned all
thought OF becoming again candidate for the
Presidency or Of doing anything but watch the
current OF events.
THE ADVANTAGES OF ABsTEMIoUsNEss.
He has entirely given up eating animal food, and
to this he attributes the present coolness of his
brain and the calm content that has taken
the place of his old restless ambition to rule and
reform the country. He can now look on with
comparative Indifference and watch the arrival OF
those events already predicted by him. and which
he believes Will come to pass just as certainly as
dd the vindicaton Of the woman whose truthful
ness he maintained at the expense Of his liberty.
What those events will in his Judgment be can be
gathered from the speeches he made when can
ddate before the people. The beginning OF the
end Is to be the panic OF 1874 which, according to
Professor Train, Is to occur some time between
September and November OF the present year,
and to be Of greater extent than the panic of 1887
1s47, 1867, 1867 and 1873 combined. Our financial
edifice is likened by the ex-presdential candidate
to five story building the ground story being the
nrst mortgage, the next the second mortgage, the
next the third mortgage, the next the furniture
the next the wtles dover and the roof Outstand-
ing bills When the panic comes 1t must knock
away oil the structure except the ground floor
or first mortgage. and as this will be Immediately
destroyed by legislation our property necessarily
falls to pieces like a house built OF cards.
WHAT WE ARE COMING TO-
1t can readily be understood what must follow
according to the Train philosophy. The great
theatre at which the play of lie is being enacted
is divided into two parts, the reserved orchestra
chairs and the body of he house. In the select
circle are seated 100000 favored individuals who
are all property and no taxes--the "boated bond
holders" as Thad Stevens called them In the
body Iof the house are the 100000 people who
are no property and all taxes. 1t will not be sur
prisng the crowded audience behind should breay
INTO and overrun the orchestra reserved seats.
All this might have been prevented II the people
OF the United States had elected George Francis
Train their President instead OF Ulysses s. Grant;
but they did not do It and must take the conse-
quences. Five conventions were held in the last
Presidential canvass and the platform specie
payments and national banks in some, and ma
tlOnal banks and specie payments in others. VOr
pop,t, with forty mlllion people jumped on to the
with thousand ard twenty-eight at the other
end, went up In the air. Grant brought up at the
Hence Mr.. Train has made up his mind thai he
will nave nothing TO do with politics or press and
ever, interest the people to know the reason OF
his retirement into private life; hence he Will eX-
cUSe this reference to his views.
TRAIN AND THE THIRD TERM.
Meeting personal friend OF President Grant to.
day ! mentioned Mr.. Trains presence at the
lew weeks ago, received letter IRON his old oppo-
nent OF a very singular character. My informant
who had the letter, states that III it Mr. Train
informs the President that he is no longer in the
Presidential field; that he has made up his mind
that President Grant is the peoples choice and
the proper man for the Presidency OF the United
States. The people have SO decided. Beecner is
%am i%s Of
OF Congressional honor and purity, and Grant OF
The people Of the United States; So
na: : said saa against President Grant. to to
advise him that he regards the prospects of third
term as very promising and to assure him that it
will not any longer find an OppOnent in George
Francis Train. The President can. therefore, con
Kansas and Pennsylvania by the knowledge that
one OF his rivals at least is out OF the way.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE BEkCHER LITERATURE.
well known public character, whose name is
withheld for the reason that he does not desire to
be mixed up in any ny public p6acoI manner with the
remarkable letter TO Frank Moulton, with whom
he is intimately acquainted; 1t is curious addi-
tiOn to the Plymouth Rock lterature:-
LONG BRANCH, LELANp's OCEAN HOUSE. August 30. 1874
FRANCIS d. MouLroN. Remsen street. Brooklyn:-
"Brayo rhrse Cheers for MOatoni Que man against
for mannood sent that
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he ihs s sis Wh you The aesns are running
ths thing was doS ssI, ;Aimishty's primary Christ
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named named the Plymouth church rag pitt ....s.s, - v 49,
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When Beecher tumb1ed into the Titon vault you and
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p1agiag through the filth OF ages while the whole world
When rats commence gnawing the rotten timber of
s
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and up with the religion Of health. Beeehsrs religion
wa !. s"ss TO Se @ wh they g
church srove 70 keep people out of hell instead Of keep
Ing "'N S'' u THE Iis Rrarise OF THE HARVEST
Of in
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ne goas to SIT on The shore Of Beecer uxurv
Tne wall OF starving wor6men ere long may starte
the popous churchinen with the wild cry OF civil war
Man and monopoly have subdued land and water
through steam and electricity; but man and mind are
still ensaved.
Art dispaces nature. Colleges schools. churches
everywhere tor the rich. but no money no knowedge
the Door Wait till the lava torrents OF an en-
people pour through the panic stricken cities with
tho fever frenzy despair Talk DOT OF crops
where corn cheaper than fuel Can this restore par
alyzed Industry
can pauperze the favor OF the few why boast
o abundant harvesis? Where 1000 professional aDortios
lists commit their hourly murders under the shadow OF
plymouth church; where politics signify robbng the
treasury; where religion means Beechersm; where
pastoral visits called hding," who can be sur
prised that alsehood truth and everywhere
vice Is mistaken Tor virtue?
how can man be happy with dreams OF perpetual
paradise: forty should to Grim con with
the nay lever pastor his congregation would not believe
It. we nave not yet the the beginning, mucn
more the beginning OF tho end.
SEPTEMBER AT THE BRANCH
There were quite large number Oh arrivals at