Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-05-11
Private Dalzelps CORRESPONDENCE.

A correspondent of the Chicago TI'i-
6uae, speaking of the extensive CORE
spondence Private Dalzell, OF Ohio, has
had with public men of national repu-
tation, says; The heterogeneous collec-
ton of letters in the Private's hands in
cludes correspondence with all the lead
ing statesmen, scholars, soldiers, orators,
and literary people of the latter half of
the nineteenth century. The Private
has preserved them with religious care.
The public press has seen many of
them-such only, however, as were
written for publication. He says he
made one exception in publishing the
sad letter from Garfield of July, 2, 1880.
prophetic of his fate, and onl5 gave it
to the press after it was clear that the
President would die, and upon the con-
ylction that it ought to be published
No man has higher respect for the
confidential obligation of private cor
respondence, and no money could induce
Private Dalzell to violate it.
A great many public men, at import
ant epochs of their careers, have in
trusted to him the secret that they
would have communicated to the public
at the right moment, and in that way
many apparently private letters have
found Their way through his hands to
the press. But your correspondent saw
there III large packages in Private Dali
zell's office letters from William Cullen |
Bryant, Henry W. Lopgfellow, Professor
W. d. Whiting, Moncure ID. Conway,
John G.. SAKE, Henry Ward Beecher,
Thurlow Weed, "Sunset" Cox, Thad- |
deus Stevens, Henry Wilson, SCHUYLER |
Colfax, Presidents Grant, Hayes, Gar
field, and Arthur, Senators Conkling, |
Edmurds, Wade, Sumner, Sherman, |
Cockre!l, Anthony, Ferry, Cameron, |
Logan, and almost every living Con-
gre. smol Of note from Governors Eos
ter, Porter, Long, Tod Brough, Geary, |
Morton, Curtin, Cox, Dennison, Moves
from B.nsham in Japan, Comfy at |
Hawaii, Noyes at Paris, Lowell at Lon
don, and many other leading diplonates; |
from Horace Cir eley, Joseph Medill, I
NJ. Halstead, Richard Smut, Edwin I
Cowlcs, George ID. Prentice, Parson I
Brown ow, William Lloyd Garrison,
Wendell Phillips, Samuel Bowles, and
Dom Piatt
lie la a box labeled Dead" In it
are placed, rs fast az the grave claims
his correspondents, the letters of the
illEsiri,n dead. In it alone he has over
a thonsaad letters on all sorts Of sub
iects-r iigious, literary, legal, political,
dipl na.i., an ilisecll., I, JUS - but
ev r. ,ne rrh wssh xfre sions Of
fricE i,llp. times a. G',uaeid's letters
fl q lagn lT pat4oA & that space.
Their are the stately letiers Of SKINNER
on faulil.ss rap.r, in rich, heavy, EN-
DO sed ENVELOPES; the plain. llfash-
iouci. y, How envelopes, AID 70 2lscap Of
Henry Wilson the leaves torn from
day books. and scribLiel over roughly,
OF Bep Wade, of fiarson, in Aslt1bula
County, Ohio, WRIT II between cases in
his dizzy cid law Office under the shad-
ows OF obscuriiy III the las, days of his
noble life G.. eeley's quick, nervous
hierop,yphics mingle with Douglas
faultless uad. clear hand Garfelds
clear, swift, bold dashes with Morton's
strong, black lines and broad, plain
strokes. He never revealed a secret,
never betrayed a confidence. but to his
friends proved as true AS steel ALWAYS