The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-13

e .trong evidence that the RcRdiusters
know they are doomed TO defeat, we cue
the fset that General Malone went 20 &c"
YORK last week and addressed the tnioi-
I,eag1ie Club. This Club proved long ego
that II was made up OF malignant chcn''es
Of the southern people. Dtspdtth.
kmong Ia members are such men as
General winfield 8. Hancock, the Demo
cratic candidate for President IN 1851. was
n became he belonged 10 the Union-bcague
T1nb ~ New York that Hancock was ue-
feated last year p Wig.
The Win, VIC take II for granted Is in
error. The Union League Club hiss for
years been a Radical Republican organiza-
iion-ccrtainIy practically 30, whether
nominqlIy otherwise or not. The follow
ing note il timely;
STANTON, October II, 1891.
Editors Dispatch When reading your
very inst structures upon the Union League
Club Of New York, which General Malone
recently addressed, have distinct recol-
lection that this sanle Union League Gun
either adopted or had under consideration
bylaw not TO admit in the future any man
who was Democrat. IL was during the
presidential campaign last fall. Am cor
rect. f.
we cannot recall the fact alluded to by
our correspondent: but We can quote from
HoRAcR GgRELEY's letter to tue same CLUB
enough TO show that IL was recognized by
him as a Republican organization. In one
OF the extracts below Mr.. GREELEY says:
"Your attempt TO base great, enduring
porfu OH the hate and wrath necessarily
engendercd by bloody civil war Is as
though you should plant colony on an
iceberg"
That language implies that the Union
League Club is a Republican organization.
Here are some further extracts from Mr..
GREELRY's letter:
From the New York Tribune. May 23, 1861
BIZ these presents greeting To heSSrS.
George W. BhRt, John A. Kennedy,
John o. Stone. Stephen Hyatt and thirty
Others, members of The Union League
Club:
Gentlcmen,--I was favored on the 10th
instant. by an official note from our ever
courteous president, JOHN Jay, notifying
me that requiSition had been presented to
him for ga spesial meeting Of the Club
at an early day for the purpose OF taking
into consideration the conduct OF Horace
Greeley, member Of the Club, who has be-
come bondsman for Jefferson Davis, late
chief officer Of the rebel Government"
Gentlcmen,-I shall not attend your
meeting this evening. have m engage
ment ont Of town, aud shall keep II. | do
not recognize you as capable OF Judging,
or even fully apprehending me. You evil
IDENTIFY regard me as weak seniimcntalist,
misled by maudling philosophy.
ARRAIGN you AS NARR0W-NINDED BLOCK
HEADS,
who would like TO be useful to a great and
GOOD cause but don't know how. Your at-
tempt to base a great, enduring party on
the hate aud wrath necessarily engendered
by bloody civil war is as though you
should plant c2lony on an iceberg which
had somehow driited into tropical ocean.
tel YOU here that, out OF a life earnestly
devoted to the good Of human kind, your
children will select my going to Richmond
and signing that bail-bond as the wiSest
act, and win feel that il did more for free
dom and humanity than all OF y0u were
competent to do though you had lived TO
the age of Methuselah.
Han ,r,,. CpuHsr