, 1874-06-12
nnphlosophtcal In thoory, md aH no foundation

for complaint.
ALTHOUGH mn. GREELEY AND OTHERS
roroatedly mado this complaint while uudor tho
Greeley. in lator wrltingB, assigned tho trne
oa,ao OF Mr.. Olnys acfoat. In 1a0O, ho addressed
4 Rcrlca Of lcttora to fIiram Kolohum, Enq., OF
Nov York, In which OCCURS tho following passage:
You nnow how vcl,cmently Dnnicl wonstor and 1ou
tension, ind hon uoH both errcraid 1r. 0'ags Alaba-
s"s s"rai ns. has .sts VIC ea % fse.
get tho huildrr Of baclt Daua brow nt tho Willy
meetings thronghont that memorable contest "a hc
made resistance tn HAvcry extension tho key nptD Of
Tint struggle. Woro y0 and no thon oonondin0 that
y The Constitution natlo not for tte whto
mud against whites tbst you nato that glorious though
unfortunate struggle =. .infnrtHnu1 as Non and
ss sr &C. srS =; Ss "a NJ S;ese g o4 Sfa ca9 sss &c
Ahfl.SlnrtFv GROUND Ire had chostn.
plainly appcars from this TINT, although n1r.
Greeley oxecratod Mr.. Clny's lottcr, na having
rnjustItably woakonod his high moral position
himself Justified In honping abuse upon tho nan
who permitted lllruBcif to bo voted for by thogo
mon who, il they did not exccrato tho lottor,
could not persuade themselves to giYo tho nuthor
II l,is position rms wsenkonoa by such a lottor,
wl,at would hayo been tho otfect upon tito posi-
tion Of tho Liberty Party IT. after all tlioy hnd
declared and affirmed before tho world, they Ind
ehowod unqualified objootion to tho admission
Of Toxins as SLAVE. State. and had givon their
yotcs to tho author of t'liH lottcr, wi,o thonght
that slavery ought not to effect the subtcct ono
boen. uttcrly prostrated and dissolved. Mr..
Groeloy Designed to saltc Z high moral position
| on tho subject Of slayery. lind not Mr.. Birney
right not only to tako, but to hold, high
moral position on the name subject?
II tho Liborty party had thon surrendered, at
| what tlmo would the Republican rarty have tri-
nmphed upon the question Of oppoaltion to slay-
cry extension
But hlr. Greeley as ho grows older, n'ao growa
fcat. In The d'i5aaoH Of jim. :, 1851, 10 replies
| to IN article Of tho Rochester Daily Union, In
which It Is nssorted tint, "ntr. Seward and Thur
low Weed plotted for MFR. Olay's defoat," and
Tint t thia waa known to Mr. Greeley, He denies
ard aud Weed arc not his friends. ''yot TINT
| truth Is TRUTH" AMI le must nttor it--that It
" has long been LIS decided conviction that but
for Mr. Ctuy's o,rH unfortunate and sadly per-
| ncration Of 1'eras, his election could not hare
| bec7, prercnted"
In 1919 hTr. Drnoy
| REMOVED TO THE BTATE OF MICHIGAN,
| md nndo Ills homo upon tho Saginaw nvor, flrss
| Ct Saginaw City, thon ut Lowor Saginaw, nov
in.18i5 ho became tho Liberty party candidate
for tho office OF Governor Of tho State Of Micl,i-
| gan. Ho received S.029 votes for that office.
;ihis number he|d Tho balance. Tho ,Whtss 2,
compelled, in 1854, to coa1caco with the Liberty
Party. This union was tho founda-
tion Of tho Republican Party, which haa
Ss saso e !. now IN tnst 4s!y evdens stse s
tho Republican party haH becn indebted for this
| SUCCESS to the public sentiment that had boon
created by tho discussion OF slavery through
the agencies Of tho Liberal purity, and to the nd
t{rro nj r1r4r 1rv4t
| And 10 with the par1y throughout tho nation,
| HISTORY WILL, CONFIRM THE CoEcLUs1oS,
| TINT without tho effect Of tue seed Rown by the
earlier agitatorB Of tho question of slavery, and
snnization Of tho Liberty party. tho triumph q
! the Repuhlcan party would have been deferred
The 1000 votes cast In 1910 became moro thar
100000 In 1853, and enough to olect Abraham
Lincoln President in 1860.
In 1911, hnVing been Wilowor for severn
yenrs Mr.. Dirney was united in marriage to Mist
i3liznboth T.. Eitzhugl, Of Livingston County
| N. \, mud slster Of Mrs. Gerrit Smith. BY thiE
| marriage he had two children, one Of whom BUR
| vived him, but died in 1866, while aorving d!
| Major in tho Federal Army.
BY his first mnrriage Ao Ind aoven children
only throe Of whom noW survive, two aons ane
one daughtor.
In 1865,
| HIS HEA1rH nAv1Nu BECOME IMPAIRED,
lie took up his abodo at tue residence of Theo
| dorc D. Void, upon Rar1tan Buy. ucar Perth Am
boy. He rent to this place Chiefly for tho pur
poao Of experimenting tho education of Ai!
friond, Nr. Void, to whom ho was greatly at
! tachea.
Ho Ind for sovoral gears previous avoided
any public effort, Oh account Of bis voict
boing impaired, eausoa by, ., fall from bill
But he wss neycy Idle. Scarcely day passei
without his writing an article on some subiec
connected with tho Auti-siayery roiorn;. Thcst
were published anonymously In New York ant
tributor to the National lntettigencer at Wash
i,gton OF articles upon literary aul general po
Gtical topics.
| During tho month Of November, 1867, hc bo
carao uore than usually unTull. and during tha
buried at Perth A,nboy, but sovaral years aftc
his widow had them romoyod to Hampton, ho
family residence, noar Gonosee, Livingston
County, where they now llo H. th9 M private como
his youngest gou, Fitzhugh Ghney, reposo il
ills retrospect shows that Jnmos q. Dirno
spent largo portion Of his llfo In II struggle 70
ireo speech, the rght to discuss topics, :,
life OF the nation; TINT ho oyiuccd lis earnoai
moss by confirming his acts to hiB principles
that for lis fidelity ilo WIS subjected to m ,lu
usual extent to abuse and dotrac!ion,- that b
expended his estate mud his time. unreacryedl,
incompatblity Of freolon and slayory aud c
tho danger forobodng tho Government.
No man ever moro mildly spoke the words c
truth md soborness than ho. He revilod n
. man. A rulo which uniformly guided bis orr
, conduct, mud which ho hnbits,nlly urged upo
, his own household, was to "spoak OWL of n
. an,"-oftcn has he boon known robuAe ii!
parngIng romark concerning his bittoreut oppe
| | unntS.
Mr.. doodcll added tAat tho Liberty par
: polcd mora yotes from tile Democratic pnrt
: thau from tho Whig pnrty, lie. had ofte
called Horace drooley's notice to this fact, bl
| he never gnve it any Intention.
Mr.. George ". olarlso thon sang tho song Wlt
. ten and Huug on the OCCASION Of tho nominate
t Of Mr.. Dirney to tho Presidency in 1843.
=: Among other announcements, WAS ono I'll,
: portraita Of Benjamin Luntfy and John Brow
0 would be sold in tho afternoon ut 81 apiece, Il
; prococda Of tho sato OF tho former to he doyott
. to erecting q monument to Nir. LundY.
t Altar another song, tic Convention ad1ournt
i, until p. III.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
: Tho Convention mot ut the hour named, Go