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NicoiA,'- Open letter To col. NE.
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WAIfiSGroN. July 's.-John q.
Nicolay today addressed an open lut,or
u Colonel Mcclure, editor u the Phil.
adclpiia Times, replying to the latter.
editorial. Nlc0luy says In paft that hc
was ut tie baltimore convention AZ a
spectator. u. q. Cook, chairman Of
the Illinois delegation, had a c0nvcra.
ton with him about the course u Ger.
tain dis1iioctrd leaders In Illinois.
That conversation Nicolny reported 10
the President In u letter 10 MeJor Hay,
assistant private secretary. What he
had heard had made Cook suspicious
that SWEET might bc untrue 10 l.lncoln.
One o. the straws which led 10 this
belief was that = welt had talOgfapiivl
10 Baltimore urging tho Illinois dele.
CATION 10 80 for Holt. Cook wanted TO
know Conhdeullally whether Ia urging
Holt for the Nico. pferidupcy, SWEET
reflected the pn,sidenta WISHES. or
WHIT hur lie iHhcd not to Interfere 10y
confidential Indication. Upon this
letter President Lincoln made the FOL.
10 wing enhancement In his own hand.
writing;
"Swett Il unqucsiionably all right.
MI. Holt len good man, but I had not
heard of thought Of him tor vlcu prvsi.
dent. | wish not 10 Interfere about the
vice president. ! cannot interfere about
the platform. The convention must
judge Tor itsolf"
"fhis written evidence" says Nlco-
lay, "caunot be turned aside. fntrying
/ 10 cvadc ~ force, you assert that Lin-
/ coin called you 10 Washington and
urged the nomination Of johnson, and
| that you Returned 20 baltimore a.
work aud vo,. IN obedience b that
r'ques, against your pctsonal predilec.
lions.
"rho proccedinga Of tho convention
show that you acted an entirely differ.
cnt part. II II probable that Lincoln,
among all other men Ia the Pcnnsyl.
vnnla delegation (Simon Cameron,
rhudcus Stevens, a. II. Recder. 0Alu.
Hha a. bnlw aud Othcr-l, would have
/ called you Rl0nu 10 receive his secret
/ instfuctionti IL isa matter OF public
history that Simon Cameron was more
prominent aud efficient than any other
Pennsylvania Ia tho movement Of
that State 10 give Lincoln n second
term, and that on the iith o. January,
lisa, he transmitted 10 the President
tho written request Of every Union
member Of tn. Pennsylvania Lvgisla.
turr, 70 accept the nomination. This,
and hiA sub.tquunt open And unvnry.
ing support, lcft no doubt Of csmcfon's
attitude. How was II with your"
Nicolay then quote. n letter from
Mcclure 10 ffcsideIt Lincoln May .,
1894, protesting against the intimation
In one or two papcrs that he (McClurcl
was not cordially In favor u Lincoln's
nomination, and assuring him 81 his cor-
dialHuppoft,n and continues; "rhnt thus,
only u mouth before thu convention,
you felt called upon 10 personally pro-
tsst against the accusations u tho party
o. disloyhliy. Hut this 10 not all.
When tue time came to make nomlna.
tons for vico.prc-idcni, Simon Cam.
efuu, chairman ~ the Pennsylvania
delegation aud one u the dearest aud
most persistent friends OF Lincoln,
himself nominated Hannibal Hamlin
for vicc,prcsldrnt, while the vote u
Pennsylvania was on tho nrst ballot
cast for liamlin'a runominatlon, 20 also
the Illinois delegation east its entire
vote for Hamiin ON tho INT ballot.
Doe. II stand IA reason that Lincoln
called upon you 10 desert Hanlin aud
nominate johnson and gave no Init.
nation ofthi- desire 10 the chairman
of the i'ennsylyania and Illinois dele.
gationsi Darr you venture IN. as<er-
ton that Lincoln was deceiving Cam.
-ron, dcceiving Cook, carrying on q
secret intrigue against Hamlin aud
another secret intrigue against Holt,
aud that ON top Of the whole, lac was
writing deliberate lie 10 usg That
may he your conception Of Abraham
Lincoln, but It l. not that OF others"