The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-11
HORACE GREELEY.

T,;bvne upon the killing Of LoriAg by Ora
b I'm, remark, that however much they hsd
d .sested the principles Of Greeley, they have,
n /, to the malignant and libellous article re-
fsrred to, given him credit for sincerity. It
will be recollected. too. that John Mitchell,
in his Richmond address whilst pointedly
condemning the infamous doctrines Of tie
Tribuae, expressed the opinion that he had .
rood though perverted heart.
This il an opinion which we have never
been able to entertain. The very claims TO
superior honesty, virtue and benevolence'
~hich the Tribune has always, directly or IN
iirectiy, put forth. have excited our suspi-
ions. We have observed its course narro"
iy in both political and sectional disputes and
We have never known it to rise above tne
oartisan,-the sophistical, the disingenuouF'
the dishonest partisan,-who would Sickle az
40 means to accomplish an end. The III
bune has never failed, within our knowledge,
to omit, suppress or manufacture facts when
aver either was necessary for the purpose Ct
its argument.
Horace Greeley is man of very consider
able intellectual parts, but his moral Organ
cation is radically defective. This deciara-
ion would not give him half as much offence
IS to say that he is good man with weak
mind. So that the truth can be spoken IN re-
gard to him without danger of hurting ms
feelings. Greeley is man OF remarkapie
energy. He came to New York Pennies
apprentice to the printing business, and ne Is
now rich. He is the head of paper winch
brings in a cool 800, 900 per annum. PHI
lanthropy is profitable trade, but, if philan-
thropy didn't pay, would Greeley be phi
lanthropist9 That is the question. 1t IS an
abuse of language, however, to speak OF him
as philanthropist. 1.-The were, color would
make no distinction in his benevolence. lie
would show some charity for the white race
of the South, as well as compassion for the
black. His love of his species consists prln-
cipally of hate of Southern white men. The
columns of the Tribune every day demon
strate this fact. No practical measure for re-
lieving the negroes of their imagined sor-
rows is pointed out. There is nothing but
constant abuse of their master, and incessant,
incendiary appeals to the worst passions OF
human nature. Envy, malice, and all un-
charitableness are the ingredients which COM
pose the philanthropy of the New York 1ra-
bune.
In one respect it may be said that Greeley
is honest 1t is his real feelings, no doubt,
which are shown in the Tribune. His ma
lightly is too vigorous to be confined by the
restraints of prudence. But it is not the iron
of slavery that enters his soul, that frets and
gals, and enrages him. 1t is because he COW
cts his neighbours servants, envies his rich
domain, and, worse than all, imagines that his
neighbor looks down upon him as socially in
ferior. His bile is stirred by the just indig
nation which his war upon Southern property
provokes from the Southern press, and his
pride is MORALLY wounded by the contemptu
Gus application of the term Yankee, term
of which, were he true Yankee, he ought to
be proud, and which is much too good for
such people as himself. The feelings thus
aroused are freely exhibited in the Tribune,
and to this extent Greeley is an honest man.
for he makes no concealment of the worst
passions. 1t is evident that it would do his
Utmost heart good to see every Southern town
sacked and in flames, and the inhabitants
subjected to every species of barbarity and
degradation which the savage insurgents
could infict. He isnot alone in this, we sus-
pect but he is almost alone in the manifesto
ton of it. The man who is willing to exhibit,
in daily paper, such character, cannot be
otherwise than sincere in his hate. But it is
his philanthropy which is hollow, uncandid,
dishonest. He never proved its commences
by the outlay of dollar for the liberation of
single slave Apart from abolition, he is
no better nor much worse that we know of,
than the publicans and sinners generally of
the New York press. Bennett, whom he calls
Satan, is quite as virtuous a person as him.
self, and if he be an imp of darkness, may at
least console himself that he .'never stole the
livery of the court of Heaven to serve the
Devil in.
We cannot lay down our pen without expressing
our satisfaction at the recent by the Dan.
Vile and South-Sde Railroads of the difficulties
hch led to these excited interchanges betwee the
press and The Intelligencer. Az these
have terminated their dissenaons hope for
ever not willing to allude again to old provo.
cations We seriously trust that nothing will
gain to disturb the settlement they have made of
sheir matters. Let their rivalry be generous one
,ud let the relations between them always be con-
formable to what the public interests require them to
,e.-Petersburg Inteliigencer.
This temper of the Intelligencer is certain
y not only to be commended, but reciprocal
ed. 1t is well enough, however, to intimate
lust here, that the settlement of the matter of
4 through ticket was not settlement of all
The sources of disturbance in the relations of
he roads. So far as this city is concerned,
he settlement of the rates and interchange
If .freights is much more important matter.
But we trust that that too will be properly
disposed of, and that before the fall trade
As to rivalry generous or
nngenerous, we cannot see why there should
be such thing at all. The roads intersect
each other at something not far from right
angles. 1t is their business to have fair and
lust rates-such as will not sacrifice the in.
terests Of the public or of their companies
without any determinations for themselves
or against others. 1t is their business to take
what is given them and convey it to where