Show NICOLAY HITS BACK in an open letter to col mcclure lie ile cites facts WHICH THE CHIT WELL DISPUTE A I memorandum la in Lincol ns 8 own Decla declaring n he did not wish to 0 inter later ferel bout the th lio july 9 john G nicolay today to day addressed an open letter to col mcclure editor ot of the i phila philadelphia delphia times replying to the latest editorial on the subject nicolay fays says in part lie was at the baltimore convention as a spectator D 0 cook chairman of the illinois delegation a ega tion had a conversation with him about about the coarse conroe of certain disaffected leaders in illinois that tion nicolay reported to the president in a letterio letter to major hay II 11 ay assistant private secretary what he had heard had made cook uspicio as that swett might be ue to lincoln one of the straws which led to this belief was that swett had telegraphed to baltimore urging the illinois delegation to go for holt cook wanted to know confidentially w whether bebb e r in ur urging g holt for the vice p presidency r eviden cl swell swett reflected the presidents wis whether the president had any preference or whether he wished not even to interfere by confidential indication upon this letter president linco lincoln in made the following endorsement in bis big own handwriting swett is unquestionably all right mr air holt is a good man bat but 1 bad had not beard heard or thought of him for vice president wish not to interfere about the vice president eat cannot interfere about the platform convention must judge tor for itself this written evidence says nicolay cannot be turned in trying t to evade its force you assert lf lincoln 0 called yon you to washington and urged the nomination of johnson and that you returned to baltimore to work and vole vote in obedience to that request against your personal predilections predilection the proceedings of 0 the convention says N nicolay show that you acted an entirely minor part Is it probable that lincoln among all the other men in the pennsylvania delegation simon gameron cameron thaddeus stevens A II 11 keeder reeder galusha A grow and others would have called you alone to receive his secret instructions it is a matter of public history that simon cameron was more prominent and efficient than any other pennell in the movement ia that state to give lincoln a second term and that 0 on 11 the of january 1864 be transmitted to the president the written request ot of every union member of the pennsylvania legislature to acce accept p a reno re no this and hia his ab subsequent open and unvarying report left no doubt of camerons attitude how was it with you 7 nic lay quotes a letter from mc C olure lure to a president lincoln may alay 2nd and 1864 protesting against the intimation in one or two papers that he t mcclure wag was not cordially in favor of Lincol ns and assuring him of cordial support and continues that is only a month before the convention you felt called upon to personally protest against accusations cusat ions of party disloyalty bat this is not all when the time came to make the nominations for vice V ice president Preel dent simon cameron chairman of the pennsylvania delegation and one of the earlie earniest ear fiest et and moat moot persistent frienda of lincoln himself nominated hannibal hamlin for vice president t whilo while the whole vote of pe pennsylvania n neyl vania was on the first ballot cast f for or ham lins nomination re BO so also the illinois delegation cast its entire vote for hamlin on the first ballot does it stand to reason that lincoln called upon u a you ou to desert and nominate aft a johnson ob neon and gave no intimation of this desire to the C chairmen of the pennsylvania and illinois delegations dare you venture the assertion that lincoln was deceiving cameron deceiving cook carrying on a secret intrigue against banila and another secret intrigue against holt and that on to top of the 11 whole hole be he writing a doll deliberate a rate lie to us that may be your conception of abraham lincoln but it is to not riot mine |