Washington sentinel., 1856-08-12
From the Richmond Daily Despatch.

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him a demigod, his opponents represent
him as devil-totally depraved- one
redeeming feature. 1t is not always easy TO
obtain discriminating portraiture, an exact
| daguerreotype OF the mans moral image. In
regard, for example, to Horace Greeley, who has
become such notorious person, but little is
/ known save that he is an unprincipled and un-
scrupulous abolition editor. But we have Just
discovered description of the man, in a New
York chronological paper, which analyzes and
takes him apart, body. soul and boots, so that
he who reads knows Greeley from the crown of
his head to the soles of his feel, as well as if
he had known him personally all his life. We
append that description, and recommend it to
our readers. 1t is key to the man Horace
the whole man, and explains all the phenomena
of the New York Tribune.
In order to do justice to this account, it
must be recollected that the writer has evi.
IDENTIFY no sort OF intention or thought Of doing
| injustice to Greeley. The object of the paper
in which it appeared, "The Unit was simply
to give in each number detailed and accurate
descriptions of two of the most distinguished
persons of the country. In accordance with
this object, five columns of q single number
are devoted to Horace Greeley, as manifested
| 6y hts material organic con nfornaation." Feel
| ing some curiosity to see such an ANALYSIS, we
have read the whole article, and must confess
that we never witnessed just such an operation
before. Ii is not ferocious attack upon Mr.
| Greeley, but appears, in fact, to come from
| brother "reformer." 1t is as cold and mas
soness as marble; as scientific and meehani-.
| cal dissection as ever was performed bv an
anatomist upon dead body. No onerator
ever laid open the interior structure Of bn.
man carcass with more scrupuous fidelity and
invinciple composure. But to the extracts:
The Higher Intellectual Faculties, with ide.
ality, having a marked preponderance in Mr.
Greeleys organization, he is impressible. ide.
ally, philosophicaly-- the former than the
latter The lower or Animal range of faculties
has strong secondary influence. Against
these two, his spiritual and moral organization
has to struggle hard for the feeble existence
it succeeds in maintaining. Mr.. Greeley is
sufficiently supplied with the requisites for
Moral Appreciation and action, to keep him
from falling irredeemably low; but they have
little or nothing to do with guiding him. He
has suffered them to lie neglected. When h.
has exercised them, he has not applied the an
propriate stimulaDts. Hence they have been
/ gradually dying in him. Some of them are
dead already THE whole man does not die
at once.) Others have deserted their Lawful
Sovereign, the Hols>Spirt, and have consorted
with or become the servants of the intellect.
and sometimes of the Animal Propensites.r
y
Mr.. Greely has no constitutional apprecia.
ton of truth He is not Morally impressible.
He does not feel Truth, and then use Iptellect
as mere instrument to sustain it. to prove Il
to those who require intellectual proof: and to
corroborate his own Moral Appropriations. He
cannot distinguish Right from Wrong, without
using the intellect, which is his highest Guide
his highest primary cause of action Deficient
in Conscientiousness and Firmness his Idealitv
and Hope consorting with the Intelect-the
latter perverted into mere Intellectual and
Animal Anticipation-hi Spiritual Faculty in.
actve-dosng-'h IS just as likely to take false
as true one; and SelfEsteem. or Conceit
rather, being the largest organ in the Group Of
the Will, the best part of his life is passed in
repelling the assaults made on his motives-in
explaining and defining his positions" which
he can not do satisfactorily; because be has no
purpose"
| Mr.. Greely has no superfuous Moral Power.
neither IS 1t OF that kind that makes man have
any distinct purpose. Benevolence, Marvellous.
ness, Hope and Ideality, (al improperly con.
trolled) constitute his moral capital. His
Spiritual Faculty, though small, is a little larger
than Hope but IT is controlled by Marvellous.
ness. He is quite deficient in conscientious
ness and Firmness. They have no influence
on his actions. None of the moral faculties has
any direct influence on his general character.
They are oil controlled by, or they except.
however, beneyolence; TO which all his other
Moral Faculties are subjected, or for which thew
are neglected. This is the only Moral Faculty
that maintains strong though not uniform
equality with the Intellect"
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"Mr. Greely is often as dissatisfied with the
positions his organization forces him into. as
his opponents are; but having once taken them,
his conceit makes him defend them. He loves
and hates his works at the same time-loyes
them because they are his own; and hates them
bebause they are no better, because he has no
unitdry purpose to accomplish by them, and
because he is obliged to defend them, which be
cannot help doing, as long as he continues to
place SO high an estimate on his Inelect-so
little on the power Of God. This SelcEsteem or
Conceit in Mr.. Greely is, by many persons.
mistaken for Firmness, in which he is quite
deficient. Mr.. Greely is Dodger Dodgers
are artful--not firm. If Mr.. Greely had Firm.
ness, he would not be running from one ex.
| treme to another, and changing his plans so
| often
"A man deficient IN Religion and Conscien-
tousness can have no fixed purpose. ado
Right, and leave the result to God is not Mr..
Greely's motto. The Tribune and the Tariff
[now, abolition first; God and the Right next
When Mr.. Greely does seek the Truth, he looks
for it in the wrong way-through his intellect,
instead Of to God directly"
"In his private department, Mr. Greey is
much below very ordinary men. He is gener.
ally exceedingly loose in his personal ar.
rangements; and not choice in his personal as.
sociations. A man from the very lowest dregs
Of society can make advances to him, with as
much freedom as man Of character and
standing; for the reason that as we have be.
fore stated, be is not materially impressible
| He knows no difference between the polished
gentleman and the ungraceful poor. lie only
knows them intellectually, ideally. A coarse
vulgar man, that, without knocking, would en-.
ter his room, walk up TO him, slap him famil.
iarly on the back, and call him Horace would
be better received by him, no matter how in.