Year: 1868

Letter of Thaddeus Stevens in Favor Of Grant


and Wade.


The following letter from the Hon. Thaddeus Ste
vens to one OF the Pennsylvania delegates to the
Chicago Convention sufficiently explains ITSELF -


WASHINGTON, March 28. 1863.
MY DEAR SIR received your letter of the oath
inst. this morning and am glad yOu intend TO be at
Chicago personally. If your constituents and mine
nave ndGed PreierSce tr ior wee trGsae. az
IT your duty, as matter of personal fidelity, to begin
by voting for that person. whether he be friend OF
lating the wishes OF his constituents to please
any other person. But II the person thus indicated
as their frst choice should fail OF probability of
election or gradually decline, then, If were there
my wishes were 10 be consulted should use all
my efforts i'm favor Of B. +. Wade. He is q true
man, In whom you and I, and every radical
man, can condde; and you will find that the
country: as well as our particular friends will
this letter to your colleagues. shall be Kept from
the convention, but desire to see an honest man
bility. As to the candidate for the Presidency, pre-
sumo you all agree that none other than General
indoctrnated in principle without Ostentation and
without pride, do not see how better Sc
lection can be made. His Judgment of men is so
him the abest and purest men OF the nation. With
Grant and Wade to guide and defend US, this nation
in four years Will have acquired prosperity which
will be the wonder of the world. Universal freedom,
maintained by universal suffrage on this continent,
cannot fail to have that effect Cti r He respect TGvr


ToR J. HOUSTON, Lancaster, Pa


Letter of Senntor Wilson ON Grant and Tcm-


pernnce.


SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON. March 30, 1858


MY DEAR SIR-In a communication to the Anti
slavery Standard you say that "Senator Wilson
works for Grant, who Is no radical, ana objects
to other candidates who are radicals, because
they sometimes drink" I am sure YOU do
not intend to be UNJUST but you certainly
have placed me in false position. For thirty-seven
years have been pledged temperance man. and
have strven to he faithful TO q cause my heart loves
and my judgment approves While nave ever re.
garded inlemperance to be terrible calamity 10
humanity and sa against Col, | have
always felt the deepest pity and sympathy
for all whose lives were blighted by IT, ! know
OF no radical whose name has been mentioned
for the Presidency who gets drunk, or to whose
nomination | have objected because he sometimes
drinks. have seen General Grant in the camp, In
his office, AT his own house and al dinner parties
seen hin, drink eren glass of frine nor have
ever seen him when ! had the slightest reason to
think he was in any degree under the influence of
drink.


You say further, that work for Grant, who IL not
u radical. have done little work for General Grant
for It was not necessary that any one should work
for him The republicans OF nearly every State with
great unanirnity have pronounced for him: but this
result not achieved by work. but by the needs OF
the country and the instincts OF q patriotic and
liberty flowing people. | took occasion more than
two years ago TO express the floor Of the senate
my conviction that patriotic and berty-lOvn
people, betrayed 10y the President, would turn TO
that great soldier and summon him to marshal
them 70 victory Ihirty-two years ago rlliy COM
mitted myself 10 the anti-slavery cause and have
sriven with voice and vote advance II to is final
and browning triumph. II because ] was
an antslavery man, radical republican, because
believed the cause OF equal and Impartial liberty 10
be above the ambitions and Interests OF public men,
and because believed General Grant would carry
that cause to assured victory that turned to him as
the Presidential candidate Of the republican party.
know him 10 be an honest just and firm man.
whose fdety to his country and to the equal rights
of all his countrymen cannot be questioned


Gladly would have welcomed the nomination
OF some one OF the veteran anti-slayery men N
such nomination could have assured the success
Of our cause In the great struggle Of this wear.
But the pioneer snti-savery men have ever been
forced by the needs OF their struggling cause to
be self-sacrincing and selfforgetful. That self
sacrificing spirit and sefforgetfulness have achieved
glorious victories for humanity In the past, and
trust will win In the future tho election Of President
under whose administration the unity Of the country
Will be assured and the equal rights and privileges OF
all its citizens secured. Yours, truly,


HENRY WILSON.
JAMES RRDPATH, ESQ, Boston.