Year: 1862


Tho following letter of GenerM Dix, In
which be declines being candidate IN the
coming election In this State, is ~ patriotic
as it is just, and the reader will perceive
that the views he 80 pithily expresses are
exactly the same we have urged In these
columns


LETTER FROM aENERAL DIX TO FRIEND IN NEW


YORK.


FoR1REss MONROE Dot. %, 1852


Ny nanle I SEQ, is again used in connec-
ton With political Office without my knowledge or con
sent shall remain at my post ding all can 10 sustain
the government in putting down the rebellion and at
moment when the OF tho nation hanging by
thread cannot leave my duties here 70 be drawn into
my party strife. Neither will any All
us,ment Of the contest with the nsurgen. states winch
shall acknowledge their success


Tho rebellion began in fraud dsonor and violence and
must end in submission to the constitution and the laws
Tho secession leaders have put the gro-ds
which would make their part indeliibe dis
grace to US


In my sphere OF duty my intention 10 carry tho
war without either violence TO the constitution to the
principles Of justice and humanity, asd to contend 70
the last 10 avert triumph over all that is stable in
government honorable in political oomlnnionship.


My whoc counsc through life has proved my dcvo





assurance should be needed that this faith is
changed Bu, at a moment ike this, unless all par
ties win rally round the government in putting down
thus rebellion, leaving questions among ourselves to
DO settled when the national honor is vindeaei and
our nation secured there be nothing
for us in the future but disaster and disgrace


JOHN A. DIX.


Gen. Dix says that when the existence Of the
nation is hanging by thread. he cannot leave
his duties as general to be drawn into any
party strife. This is the genuine language of a
patriot soldier Would not General Wsds
worth follow the example with great credit to
himself, and save the State from being tie scene
OF political strife. when al the popular energy
and enthusiasm ought to be directed against
the common enemy General Dix truly observes
that. at moment like this, unless al parties
will rally round the government in putting down
this rebellion, leaving questions among ourselves
TO be settled when the national honor Is vindica-
ted and our existence as q nation secured there
can be nothing for us in the future but disaster
and disgrace" The faction who first entered
the field and put forward General Wadsworth
as strong partisan of the most extreme kind,
who had committed himself to the most
violent radical views, are responsible for the
contest. If they do not now withdraw him.
or If he will not withdraw himself, they
will only show that they prefer party to
country, and that they are willing to risk the
safety Of the republic for the smallest chance of
party success Seymour has offered to retire if
Wadsworth retlrcs, and allow General Dix to
he al od with Ruf0 WoIs
worth's organ, the Tribune, has declared that
the radicals will not allow Seymour TO retire,
and will compel him to fight, by keeping their
own champion in the field, there is nothing left
for the people bat 10 make . choice between
them.


II is worthy Of remark that the principles Of
General Dix are more in accordance with those
OF Seymour than with the ultra-radical senti-
ments of Wadsworth. General Dix says he has
always been conservative, that he is still un-
changed, and that it is his "ntention to carry on
the war in his own sphere without either vio-
lence to the constitution or to the principles OF
Justice and humanity" The conservative can.
didate stands on this platform. But the radical
programme equally violates the constitution





And this is the issue TO be tried by the people
in the coming elections; and, Judging from tho
way the popular vote has already gone, there
can be but little doubt about the result.


The popular reverence for the letter and
spirit of the constitution. which the revolution
ary radicals are tIampling under foot, is one
cause Of the great conservative counter-revou-
tion whichis is sweeping over the country. Another
cause is the rampant corruption developed in
the republican party, exceeding all prece-
dent-corruption exposed not by hostile de-
mocrats, but by republicans themselves. Wit
ness the report Of the Van Wyck committee,
the report of Robert Dale Owen and Joseph
Holt and other reports, laying bare the plum
der of the nation in lis extremity by set OF
greedy cormorants, who sported with the
health aud lives of the brave volunteers of the
army in order to make money out OF them hy
shoddy and other rottei contracts A third
cause is the disorganizHtion of the currency by
Mr. Chase, depreciatne il from twenty-five to
thirty per cent, causing silver and even copper
to disappear from the operations of trade. and
substituting instead postage stamps and other
shinplasters, to the infinite disgust OF the
people. Had My. Chase done his duty, as we
urged him, the depreciation would not have been
| more than seven or eight per cent. and silver.
instead oil being boarded, would have remained
in the hands Of business men for change. But
| lie was too busily engaged in his radical
schemes, and in meddling with the generals OF
the army, TO attend to his proper duties
Lastly, while the currency is deprecated and
paper dollar is only worth from five TO six
shillings, and while wages have not advance cd
prices Of the necessaries Of life have gone
fearfuly upward. Flour, which in 1850 sold
at from IS to So so, now sells at from
| Ss to SO, in the face Of abundant crops