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HERALD OFFICE, aOth January, 1874
More Rows" very Pretty Quarrel M 1t
stands"
Another very pretty quarrel has just been added
TO the list which already engages the interest OF
the world. In this city, Potts and Wainwright
commenced-Hughes and Cheever followed
whilst in Congress, Adams and Ingersoll are daily
in arms. Shriver has challenged Weller, who
dare'nt fight, and lngersoll falls foul upon an I'M
happy reporter Washington is now in historical
excitement at these explosions of harmless vaor
whilst New York is in fair way of losing its nte-
rest IN the concerns Of Messrs Potts, Wainwright,
Hughes and Cheever, by counter explosion,
which has just taken place between James Wat
son Webb, the famous Colonel, and Horace
Greeley, Fourier philosopher, of more aspiring
eminence than any of his predecessors, ancient or
modern.
The Presidential election in 1916, or rather the
loaves and fishes connected with it, has been the
cause of this amable difference. Both are Clay
men to the centre; and one phase of the dispute il
which can put forth the greatest interest for the
candidate. Webb conducts the Courier and En-
qurer which is the organ of the Wall street wings;
whilst Greeley soiloquizes in the Tribune, which
is the organ of the country wings. The that
can influence the greatest number of votes may
reasonably be supposed to have the first claim to
the spoils and Webb, cunningly perceiving that
the Wall sheet interest," great as it may be to him,
has very small dimensions compared with the
country interest, thus 'walked into " Greeley on
Saturday last -
During the whole of 1899, the Courier and Enquirer
was the ardent Incorporating and devoted advocate of
Mr. Clay for the Presidency and insisted upon his nom-
nation by the Harrsburgh Convention even while that
bune during this period, and how engaged Why, he
perambulatng this State from North to South and
East to West, denouncing Henry Clay a STAKEHOLDER
organizing abolition ciques against him; preaching in
favor OF Scott In quarter and Harrison in another
and, finally we find him at Harrisburgh, boldly i'm
pudently and falsely procaimng that If Mr. Clay
nominated Mr. Van Buren, would inevitably be elected
Well, Mr.. Clay was defeated in the nomination. and
Horace Greeley returned to New York. boastn that this
was his work and this true His constant travel
ling through the western part this State end the false
hoods he circulated in relation Mr. Clay and his false
statements at Harrisburgh in relation to public opinion
here had the desired effect; and than any
ten men in the United states brought upon the whig
party and the country the curse Of Tylerism.
Coming from " friend" this was not to be to-
lerated by Greeley, who among his other peculiari
ties does not exactly number that of patient endu-
rance and accordingly he penned reply in the
Tribune Of yesterday, which is really curious and
characteristic. His answer to the political re-
miniscences' Of the Colonel is as follows:-
The Courer's memory is a short one 1t seems to 60
back only TO 1889. But remember boy though
we were, how deeply feelings involved in the
great contest OF 1885, when the pure the able, the
cessful the unproscriptve the economical and Just ad-
mnistration of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay
put down-ed down we thought-by the most atrocious
personal imputations on those lofty statesmen We
not take political defeat much to heart then
but then most keeny felt that if rascals deserved
the pillory or the CELL they deserved it who rng the
changes on bargain and corruption -" east room, bill
lard table" sunday riding" and all the monstrous
severely simple and inAexbly Just man. John Quincy
Adams Among these deceivers, noted particularly
INSCRIPTIONS and outrageous two named Mordecai NJ
Noah and James Watson Webb, who conducted, jointly
severally, two three National Advocates" the
" Enquirer" the Courier" and ultimately the Courier
and Enquirer" And their ISLANDERS did not with
their overwhelming triumph but continued down to late
in 1882 when Mr. Clay was the candidate for President
and was assailed grossly, unusy he had been in
1928 Yet that year 80 after the public mind had been
thoroughly poisoned and Mr. Clays defeat secured these
men Tor the military one at leas made sudden somerset
into our ranks !on what inducement will not say
But this we that if the Of $50 900 twas there
was there not odd 1915 D will send him back to
Tammany Hall and his staying there, the money
will be raised promptly and cheerully; and it will be the
best expenditure made for the whig cause We
to 1899 ;lt is amentabe that many ofthose who
bowed the whitening that for time
Frustrated condemned to obscurity all independent
thought and manly dignity, will continue to talk as
though its yoke still the neck Of the country
Thus the Courier" makes devotion-not to the great
principles and benefcent Of the wing party,
which Will endure and be worth fighting for long after all
of dead and forgoten-but the person Of Mr..
Clay the standard Of political orthodoxy! The :" Cou
rer' supported Mr. Clays selection the wing candi
date for President in 1885, editor of the Tribune
Chem private citizen and not then connected
with any political journaD-did not but. loving his coun;
try more even than Mr.. Clay, whom he knew and
admired while he had met written to either
General Harrison or General Scott, to the
the nomination Of Mr. Clay at Harrisburg would
not be best that the wings would probably be de-
eaed on him. and could succeed with another candidate
SO believing he acted accoringy openly publicly sta
ting his convictions and their to such friends
chose to interchange ideas with him and taking jour-
Detroit and back during the He also to
Harrisburg, when the Convention met any body had
whom he knew, or who sought discussion with him
the si su. SO much he did he has always admitted
riSnstised Educated in party which regards princi
ciples more important than he labored
the triumph OF the principles he ardeny cherished at
the expense OF the man whom he would have greatly
preferred had he esteemed the chance Of equal
with him Tile did NOT kill General Harrison, select
that noisy Cayman, John Tyler, for Vice Presdent)
He may have erred in Northumberland that he did
what thenl Very MANY Of the wsest and purest wings
in the land entertained the convictions and pusued
the same course The tremendous victory which follow
ed and ratified the Harrisburg nominations evinces that
the choice there made the shameful fraud which
the Courier represents it.
Besides politics, the military assaiant of Gree
ley brolled him upon another gridiron:
The Editor Of The Tribune ia abolitionst; pre-
csey the reverse He is Philosopher; Christian.
He is pupil OF Graham and would have all the world
live upon bran bread and sawdus in favor OF lv
ing m our fathers did and Of enjoy in moderation the
good things which God has bestowed upon He is the
advocate of the Fourerism Socialism, md all the
foolcries which have birth the debang and dis
gushing spectacles Of vice and immortality which Fanny
Wright, Collins and others exhibit while he pretends
deny that these the legitimate features Of his creed
we on the contrary in favor preserving society asst
Island God has permitted to be for six thousand years
anxious only to prune Of its vices by giving to virtue
Is Just reward and visiting upon crime the severest
atty OF the laws. He, a Philosopher, would remodel
everyhingchange il possible the very phraseology of
the Bible itself and demonstrate the absurdy OF the
Christian religion from the fact that its great Author did
not incucae the theory Of Charles Fourier while
would stand by the faith and the practices Of fathers
humby conendng that that which God instituted and