Letter Of Ex-congressman Tappan

ÜBADFOUD, H. M., JUly 91. Charles S. Sanborn, Ksq. My Dear Sir : Your kind letter of yesterday saying that you aro a Greeley Kepublioan, and agkiug my opiuioa in referenoo to the Presidential struggle tliat is now upon us, has beon raooived. I hare no dosire to concoal my opiniong, and I am very apt to spaak what l think. I have no heaitatiou in saying that I Lotend, to the bsst of my aoility, to support Horaca Oreeley for tlio Presidoncy. I oeranot stop now to go at length into tho details, bttt in duo timo I propose to give ,he reasons for the faitti thnt is in 111:1. I ruay sty briefiy, howewr, that in tnking his eourso 1 foUow the bast conviotions of my own judginent, bating no jot or ittla of my liitpublican l'uitn, with the mi 1 1 sinoerity and earnestnesa that íromptísd me, early in lift), to ever my lolitical telations with tha party to which boiouged and to bcuome, in tho lmi ;uage of the divy, "a poor, miserable, dopised abolitioniat." If it should talte as oug now as it did t!un to vindictitu the tap 1 take, I shall not rugret huving ta:on it. I seê my way cluarer by tha light of the this new tnoTmut to tüe benefiont end of tho groat revolution through which thia nuticn has piissud, and is piiusnur, than in nuy other way. 1 doem it utt ivs imponant, now that tho war is var, to unifca .tha country by tho strong oords of 1'rtiVïrnal amity, aa it wa to rusli out the robolliou which sought to leatroy it. I do not rcgurd it, therefore, uit a i groat uational cülüraity that the grtrat Democratie party, ut last rid of the 'irus of slavery, have, with a heurtiness hat I did not uxpuot, whouled thuit entir9 columns 011 thi! Cinuiiiiiati platform, whioh is ot onco Kepublioan and Deaiocratio in th isfi of those ternis, and hava accepted n ita exponent tuo lifo-long advoytiti.1 of Repttblioan ideas. Nor oía I either ashtitiitd or afruid to act with thoa r.i t)iu South who have bosa opposcd to ub, whfire tiioy now hold ouï thu hand of iriendihip and ask us to believe and txuet thom when they aay they wunt peaco and reoonoiliation, and aooopt in good faith all tho results of the war. Ün the contrary I rsjoioü that this is 80, and I sinoerely büliovo that IXoraoo Greeley is tho instrument in tho hauds of a. kind Providence through whom the Nortb and South aro to be united as they nover bsforo havo been united. I oan not distTUBt tho earnest deolarationg of suoh repreeentative men ae Colonel Shorter, of .labama, when he tays that all the acoumuiationa of his lifo were inveitsd in sluves aad were swept r.way by oniancipatiou, nd yet if by a br9tii ho oould bring l:vvery baok ngaiu hu would ci4 do it; and oï Ojveruor Vancu, of North Oaiolina (both of whoin I know) whsn he deolarijs that, although he onoe fought dgint ths str and stripos, he ia now " willi'ig to dia under and ior tho old flag." Nor are these isolated canes. There is markod ohange of tone in nearly the entiro Houthein prosa. I bolieve it is time to heal up nstead of at nvery elootion teariug open the wounds made by the war. I beliove, aleo, thnt the rights of the oolored people at the South would be safer under a poKoy auoh as Trould tond to mutual coniidencb and iriundship botween theui and the whito3, rathor than undur one that would, for an indafinite peiiod, keep one race arniyed Rgan?t the other. In oonolusion, I can not refrain from sayingf that the personal respect I entertain for Mr. Greoley, and the coufldsnee I havo ir, him, asure mo that should th moveiaent of which he is the head triumph in November, every just expectation will be realized, and every promise of roform faithfully carried out. I know Mr. Qreeley woll, and, notwithstanding tho bad tRste manifested by some of thoso for whom he has furnühcd ideas for the last qunrter of a century in atfecting to ridiculo him as a uandidate, I regard him, and hftvo long so rpgarded hiin, not only as tho moit thoroughly honest man I evur knüw, but as one of the very ablogt men in the country. Thore are othr qncstions that I rnight rofor to which havo weight with im, but thia letter ia alroady longcr thtm I inU-nded. And, askitig you to excuse thö haste in which it ia writtfm, I um very truly your friond and obedient sorvaut, MA80N W. TAPPAN.