New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-01
APERsONAL PORTRAIT.

PERSONAL PORTRAIT.
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There blesses the State of Maine with
the light Of his countenance q certain Geo.
f. Talbot, Loco-Foco Free Soiler, +. 5.
candidate for Governor in 1862 who seems
i'll pleased that the growing Anti-Slavery
sentiment of the North does NOS work so
nicely in the way of Politics as when it
elected Polk and brought Texas and the
Mexican War upon US in 1914. Mr.. Tai
bot, we regret to see, attributes an exag-
gerated consequence in the premises to The
Tribune and its Editor, and is moved by
his aggrieved sensibilities to indite the fol-
lowing slasher:
HORACE GREELEY.
There is no man In the country whose services the
Shareholders could so i'll spare as those OF Horace Gree
lev He is the regularly accredited minister plenip9-
Tertiary of the Slave Power of the South at the Court OF
the religious and reformatory sentiment OF the North
Ordinarily 1t is the duty and custom OF power 10 sus-
tain and aid Its minister In all his official functions, as
well as In his character and person But this diplomatic
Office is of such character that the government he
represents obliged ostenbly TO repudiae and abuse
him. and to seem 70 thWart all MIS- purposes ana Views
In hne, to give him standing and influence with the
Jealous OF ganzaon whom il Is his mission to control
there must be between his employers and himself
perpetual public dispute, ordinations and recrmina-
lions very edifyinq for outsiders 10 behold.
To sustain ones self In such delicate office, as is
very apparent requires great deal OF talent and that
of a very peculiar kind Mr. Greeley Is OF all the world
the very fer his place. lie has been accused oil
inconsistency. Il has been said that the unpleasant
and sdicrous dilemmas In which he has involved HIM
self the painful writings and wrggngs which he has
imposed upon himself as the rites Of his God and'Mam
mon worship are evidences OF an insane Intellect or
bsd heart
Crticisms like these based upon adequate corcep
tons of his mission, reformers word IT, have done him
efscnta injustice EVENT. before next autumn, be should
come blubbering into lugubrlous support OF webster
and Fillmore, whom he has been denouncing for the
last three years swearing with his hand on his heart
and bis eyes turned up to heaven, Ia M PscksH that
IL divine necessity, forced upon him by providen'
t6 circumstances, have no doubt that could all DO
explained consistently with the role which he has
deItaken to play nay, more that there would be
vein Of percepnbe 10 critical minds In the ei0-
Quent sOphisry with which he would yindcae his
cOuTse and oyerwhelm all Directors
His apostleship is TO the Genti!es OF Anti Slavery.
These men unfortunately for the quiet OF the Govern
menD have votes and become periodically OF consider
able importance 10 the lordshps exercising authority
over u.s. Let to their ways to what Dr. Dewey learned
deprecaes the mere instinct Of conscience these
men wouli vote against Slavery Extension, Mexican
War; Ful tive Slave Bills, and kindred measures
10 lead thtm directly to the accomplishment of such
rascalities would quite ntimidate and dsaiect them
The pig is TO be got to Kilkenny, but ii be by i'm
posng upon bis detective topography, and under pre-
text OF going To Cork.
Men that have retained the luxury of conscience do
not like to have II overlooked. They rather plume
Themselves upon it as rarity and expect at least to
have It's existence recognized Now Il Is obvious that
the brutal appeals and low barroom logic of such jour
mails The Express cannot reach this class OF people.
The solemn objurgatons OF The Journal Of Commerce are
little to their taste There be journal of the
school, hypercrca in morals adept in all the cant
of REFORM and TO which the whole philosophy Of pro-
ress familiar TO put the sd nnstrators of the LOrer
lac In communication with these sensitive spirits Be
hold our NEw.YoRK TRIBUNE deep in Kossuth and
European Revolution the accredited organ OF Socialism,
the medium OF the communications OF ghosts the eBthu
ssstc advocate Of Cold Water, the premature harbnger
Of tie good time coming committed to every yecheyeN
novelty In faith life able 20 deceive the very elect
For about fourffths Of the time 1t Ia permitted this
splendid journal TO report Abolition meetings TO indulge
in spicy AnSayery editorials, 10 range the worldwide
field Of reforms generally and 10 play dexterously and
not always harmessy the blunted fols Of H9her LaD
logic against its clumsy and stupid Py0SGcy
This ~ keep in check large class
of Abotonsts 70 smuse them with Wig plans Of put
ting end TO Slavery, and even to make them look
with suspicion and disgust upon men of the aitn
and Of more consistent action. Holding aloof from
these The Tribune courageously protests against its
party designs expresses grave suspicion OF It's selected
leaders bur- at the nick Of time goes In with what Of
moral support has been able to seduce the efectusl
support Of Whgsm and Slavery.
IL ls4S, Greeley advocated the Wilmot Proviso, and
opposed the nomination Of Taylor, the candidate
most obr oxiOIs the snsayeTy feelings of the North
1t kept this position just long enough TO prevent the de
tAchmeut Of large fragment Of the Wing party in the
Northern States, Al then at the head Of ia dupes went
over support the nomination fl 10 be ndds" The
pretext has ever been peddlsrs calculation of
profits; but II IL plain 10 be seen that but for The
TTblHes defecsn might have had the beginning of
g North, with Daniel Webster its COryphsus-and
no 7th Of March Speech, and Fugitive Slave Law
On the other hand II Is plain that aside from the spois
Of otce, land they we, wrested from The Iribanes
friends in few month,) the Wings of the Horace
Greeley stamp got no Tariff and get none and that
10 amount Of outward prosperity would begin 10 com.
persafe r the debauchiDg Of the public morals the
breaking down Of the safeguards Of national justice and
the pusianincus surrender Of the whole Government
10 zsvehoding 20 which contamination so deyou,ly To
be deplored, The Tribune so largely contributed.
In lejO under the strange fascination OF Henry Clay
at the anhpodes Of all that Horace Greeley be-
eves in, and inferior TO himself In geaus and influence
be sdyocsed the Compromise osiensbIy 10 rescue New
Mexico from the rspsciy Of Texas and Insure the Free
dom Of California while the q1id pro qlo the FsQiicc
Sore Lar, was kept in the back ground
just now The Tribune ID in commissions In It's endeavor
10 make Gen. scott acceptable 10 the ScRi as the Hag
car didAte Tor President Some green hands down
there have medcled with the business who do not seem
T. be aware OF The diplomatic functions which Mr Gree
i has go long exercised There aceordb civ quite
prospect OF late that his counsels would be revuased
altogether TIL has compelled the minister to be more
expc than ever in explaining to these obstinate Lsck
ae0ds his position La doing IL, he has forgotten the