Gentlemen, I shall not attend your meeting this evening. I have an engagement out
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from his party and personal admirers as he had never incurred.
His motives were attacked, his interview with Davis misrepresented, and he was handed over by thousands of Republicans to the company of the late rebels.
An indication of the public feeling was furnished by its effect on the sale of his history of the rebellion.
In his own words, that sale then “almost ceased for a season; thousands who had subscribed for it refusing to take their copies.”
But, he added, “at all events, the public has learned that I act upon my convictions without fear of personal consequences.”
The feeling against Greeley in New York city manifested itself most pointedly in a call, signed by more than thirty members, for a special meeting of the Union League Club, to consider his conduct in becoming Davis's bondsman.
In reply to an official notification of this meeting, Greeley wrote to the signers of the call a vigorous letter, in which he rehearsed his early views about the disposition to be made of Davis, recalled the fact that, soon after their publication, the acceptance of a portrait of him by the club had been opposed by its president, and added:
New York, D. Appleton and Company, March 1903.
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