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Show By W; U. Telecraph.J 1IX OS tiRBELEV. ( Chicago, (. A letter from general I John A. Dis declining to attend a j Greeley meeting, gives the following I reasons why he is opposed to that j gentleman: "First, because I beliove nim as unstable as water, perpetually 1 floundering, to carry out the soriptural figure, amid the surges of opinion, and deficient in all the requisites essential , to affirm a bold and consistent admin-1 istration of the government. Second, because he has usually been found among the most extreme ultraists on the great questions of political and social duty which havo been brought under public discussion during the last quarter of a century. Third, because he has been the advocate, and instance in-stance persistently, of that moat unjust and unequal commercial system which ; is destroying our mercantile and ship-I ship-I ping interests, and heaping up an immense im-mense accumulation of wealth in the hands of the protected classes by its opposition and impoverishment of all others. Fourth, beoause he is associ- ated in relations, more or less intimate, with some of the chief plunderers of the city of New York, justly warranting warrant-ing the apprehension that through tho complicity of his facile disposition the same system of fraud or corruption which has disgraced the municipal I government of this oity may be carried to a more infamous length in the ad-; ad-; ministration of tho federal government, j And, fifth, because in tho darkest hour . of the country's peril, when a traitor-I traitor-I ous combination had been formed to overthrow the government, he openly ' counseled the cowardly policy of non-i non-i resistance and acquiescence in tho dissolution dis-solution of the Union whenever the cntton States should make up their minds to go. |