The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-24
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| lsso. Bennett published q most scandalous pa
| ner But since that, mark you, gentlemen he
has reformed. The Herald, which was once
rather too much addicted to recording the
exploits of Rosina Townsend, and others of
her stamp, has grown up to be a most infuen-
tial and reliable sheet. We don't believe that
his Holiness has, even now, the least idea Of
canonizing Bennett, but must say that in all
that pertains to the great issues of the day,
he is, compared with Greeley, /" Hyperion to
a Satyr" On all the great constitutional
questions which have, within the last six
wears, shaken the Union to its centre, Bennett
has stood boldly forth as champion of
Southern rights, and of the Compromise mea-
sures. He has always been opposed to the
whole motley crew of incendiaries and fana-
ties who would recklessly burn their neigh
bor's house, in order to bring their own tea
kettles to q simmer He didn't believe that
Kossuth was second Messiah, and could not
find in his broken English any thing to recon
ellie him TO the total humiliation Of all pre-
vious oratory lie don't take stock in the
Rochester line, and the only raps he cares for
are those which he, from time to time, admin
listers to the knuckles and pates of madmen
philanthropists.
Greeley, on the other hand, stands now
where he did ten years ago, and we are una
BILE to discover the least symptom of amend
ment. He founded the Tribune as a fanatic
he has conducted il as fanatic-and, doubt
less, viii continue to do so, for the "fools are
not all dead yet" His columns are like so
many alleys in Bazaar, where every form of
innovation, fanaticism and humbuggery are
made patent to the public. Spiritual Rap
pings, Abolition, Woman's Rights, Mesmer-
ism, Clairvoyance and Fourierism, have been
vended in turn from his shelves, and are ne
yer removed till they get shop-worn, when
they are pitched, without ceremony, into linn
DO, to give place to other and more mon
strous bubbles of our times We had sup
posed that the old white coat was guilty
of at least two-thirds of the enormities which
people have charged upon Greeley personally,
and really felt inclined to rejoice when we
heard that it had been stolen We thought
there was good time coming and that
Greeley once disencumbered of that antede-
luvian vestment, would be as candid and rea-
sonable as he is vigorous and enterprising.-
But it proves otherwise: the old white coat
was not so much to blame after all; it had
only, ike charity, covered multitude of
sins" In few days we shall see Bennett on
his strong Scotch steed fitting at Greeley with
might and main, and shall be sorry if either
falls, for really, in the absence of matters of
greater interest, prolonged editorial quar-
rel will be worthy of attention We doubt
not that Crosses Slang Dictionary will get
thumbed and dog cared in the operation, and
that the public will derive vastly increased
| knowledge of the powers and beauties of Bill
| lingsgate.
| On the whole, we think, that while Bennett
| has been gradually improving, Greeley has
| been growing worse. We are sorry to say
| SO, for Horace is really a man of talents,
and the possessor of capital tact in getting
up a newspaper. We had intended to fold
him under the shadow of our editorial wings,
as hen does her chickens but he would
not. He keeps such bad company-rappers,
Missionaries, and men of one idea, that we
shall have to give him up shortly. 1.-The would
only drop these one idea men, who, when they
get even that one, keep it buzzing in their
heads like bee in drum, we should have
hopes of him. If the devil really does edit
BENEFITS paper, or turn the crank of the
press in printing it, Greeley ought not to com
plain, but take it as an additional evidence
that spirits can visit this world, and move
other things besides tables.