Washington sentinel., 1856-08-09
From the New York Day Book.
Greeley, webb a. Co.

OF freedom, than the sentiments they promul
gate now, when compared with those they put
forth few years since. Before it was seen at
the North that the slavery question could be
made a stepping stone to political preferment,
the very men who now advocate negro free
dom with the utmost vehemence, were the OPP
ponent of the very doctrines they now labor
with might and main to impose upon the peo,
ple Prominent among these stands Horace
Greeley, who, before he became crazy upon
this subject, or at least before he was so base
as to give up what little moral integrity ma.
ture had originally but needessy bestowed
upon him. advocated reasonable doctrines
upon the now allabsorbing topic of negro
slavery. In the Ne,o Yorker, 1884, a paper he
edited before he started that immaculate sheet
the Tribune, he says:
To philosophical observer, the existence
of domestic servitude in one portion of the
Union while it is forbidden and condemned in
another would indeed seem to afford no plaus-
ible pretext for variance or alienation. The
Union was formed with perfect knowledge,
on the one hand, that slavery existed at the
South, and, on the other, that it was utterly
disapproved and discounienanced at the North.
But the trainers of the Constitution saw no
reason for distrust and dissenson in this cir
cumstance. Wisely aooiding all discussion Of
question so delicate and ercitiag they pro-
ceed to the formation Of "a more perfect union,
which, leaving each section in the possession
of its undoubted right Of regulating its own
internal government, and enjoying its own
speculative opinions, provided only for the
common benefit and mutual well-being Of the
whole. And why should not this arrangement
be satisfactory and perfect?' \ 4 I'VE
hazard the assertion, that there never existed
t.,z l.ot., L.
BILE of amalgamation - inhabiting the same
district Of country, and in open and friendly
contact with each other that maintained
perfect equality of political and social condi-
ton 1t remains to be proved, that
the nineteeth century viii afford direct con-
tradiction to all former er'experince."
Such were Mr.. Greeley's opinions in 1894.
How changed Now he thinks each section
should not regulate its own internal govern
ment:' in word, he wants Congress to take
this matter out of the hands Of the people of
Kansas, and determine beforehand what do
mestic institutions it shall have. A pretty
free State this would be Then too, he says
there shall be no more "slave States;'' or, in
other words, he is going to use the power of
the General Government, provided Fremont be
elected, to prerent the people from regulating
their own internal affairs" In 1884, he
thought "the trainers of the Constitution wisely
left this matter to each section !" now he thinks
they didn't. Then he thought the negro and
white race incapable of amalgamation, and
that "they never could in contact enjoy a
perfect equality Of political and social condi-
ton" Now he not only thinks a negro ought
to vote, but he last fall recommended Fred
Douglass to be run as candidate for Con-
gress. As for amafgamaton, not long since
he declared that some of the finest specimens
Of men were mongrels, and he thought the
crossing of the races had not yet been suifi-e
ciently tried No matter, aboitionism with
him has been a good investment 1t has made
him rich and famous. If he had been honest
he might have died poor and unknown. So
much for Greely.
As for poor Webb, in 1884 he was so furious
against the abolitionists that he approved of,
and cheered on the mob which assaulted them
in this city at that time. In the Courier Of
July llth, of that year, he said:
at is time, for the reputation of the city,
and perhaps for the welfare of themselves, that
these Abolitionists and Anal lgamationists should
know the ground on which they stand. They
are, we learn, always camorous with the police
for protection, and demand it as a right inherent
to their characters as American citizens. Now
zoe tell them that, when they openly and publicly
outrage public feeling, they hare no right TO
demand projection from the people they insult.
When they endeavor to disseminate opinions
which, if generally imbibed, must infallibly
destroy our National Union, and produce scenes
Of blood and carnage horrid to think of; when
they thus preach up treason and murder, the
9giS Of The tdU Indignantly iciLsdrups its
shelter from them.
"'When they villify our religion by CHASING
the Reemer of the world in the lowest grade of
the human species; when they debase the noble
race from which we spring-that race which
called civilization into existence, and from which
have proceeded all the great, the brave and the
good that have ever lived-and place it in the
same scale rs the most stupid, ferocous and
cowardy of the divisions into which the Creator
has divided mankind, then they place them.
selves beyond The pale Of all idw for they violate
every law divine and human. Ought not, we
ask, our city authoritirs to make them under
stand this; to tell them that they prosecute
their reasonable and beastly plans at their
ocn pera?"
But Colonel Webb became convert to the
Greeley and Seward school soon after they in
augurated their new policy in natural and
plausible enough manner For fighting duel
he had been sentenced to two years imprison-
ment, but Seward, who then happened to be
Governor, pardoned him before he had served
one day Of his term. If he we're not Seward
man after this he was certainly basely ungen-
erous. Still he has improved even on bis
teachers, and true TO his pugnacious disposition,
the Colonel proposes "to fight" if Fremont be
not elected. Like the Poughkeepsie Sharp's
rifle clergyman he goes for revolution He
is for "subduing" the Shareholders" Just as
he formerly desired to do the aboltionists. 1t
will thus be seen that the Colonel is true to
his instincts Whatever he undertakes smells
Of gunpowder.
But is it not pitiful to see men, who know
better, intent upon involving their country in
untold evils, merely to achieve political supre.
macy. Horace Greely and James Watson Webb
are neither so crazy or stupid not to know that
the condition of the negro cannot be changed in
this country without involving us in untold evils.
Yet they go on laboring TO debauch the public
mind with cries Of freedom" "free Kansas"
all Of which are as hollow and hypocriiical as
their own unpatriotic hearts. They know they
are deceiving the people and they only hope to
keen up the delusion until thew can get into