The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-02
Horace (SreeleY,

IL is difficult, in high party times, to obtain a
dispassiona,e description of any leading man ident
hed with great party. Whilst the friends of q
prom inent political person laud him a. a demgod
his opponents represent him as a devi-totally dc.
prayed-wthout one redeeming feature. 1t is not
always easy to obtain a discriminating portrsiture,
an exact daguerreotype of the mans moral image.
In regard, for example, to Horace Greeley, who
has become such q notorious person, but little is
known save that he is an unprincipled and unscru.
pulous abolition editor. But we have just discov.
cred 4 description of the man. in . New York
chronological paper, which analyses and takes him
apart, body, soul aud boots, so that be who reads
knows Greeley from the crown Of his head to the
'soies of his feet, a. well As IL he had known him
personally ali his life. We append that descrip-
lion, and recommend it to our readers. 1t is key
70 the man Horaee-the whole man, and explains
all the phenomena of the New York Tribune
In order to do justice to this account it must be
recoected that the writer has evidently no sort of
intention thought Of doing injustice to Greeley
The object of the paper in which 1t 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 &C
eordance with this object, five columns of single
number are devoted to HORACE GREELEY" as
asifesed by HE material organic conformation
Feeling some curiosity to see such An analysis, we
have read the whole article and must confess tina.
We have never witnessed just such an operation
before 1t is not ferocious attack upon Mr. Gree
ley. but appears in fact, to come from brother
+reformer 1t is as cold and passionless a. mar.
BILE; as scientific and mechanical a dissection a.
ever was performed by an anatomist upon . dead
body. No operator ever laid open the interior
structure of hnmau carcass with more scrupu.
.ous fidelity and invincible composure But to the
extracts:
"The Higher Intellectual Faculties with Ideali.
~. having marked preponderance ia Mr. Gree
lys organization he is impressible Ideally, philoso
phiealy-more the ferner than the latter The
Lower or Animal range of Faculties has 4 strong
secondary influence. Against these two his Sp ir.
itual and Moral organization has to struggle hard
for the feeble existence il succeeds In maintaining
Mr. Greedy is sufficiently Supplied with the re.
auistes for Moral Appreciation and action To
keep him from falling Incidentally low; but thew
have little or nothing 10 do with guiding him. He
has suffered them to lie neglected When he has
exercised them he has not applied the appropriate
siimulants. Hence they have been gradually DIV.
Ing in him. Some of them are dead already =
tTse whole man does not die At once) Others
have deserted their Lawful Sovereign, the HOLY
Spirit. and have consorted with or become the ser-
wants of the intellect, and sometimes OF the Ami.
NAL Propensities."
Mr. Greedy has no constitutional appreciation
ct Truth. He is not Morally impossible. he
does not feel Truth, and then use his Intellect As a
mere instrument to sustain It, to prove II to those
who require Intellectual proof and to corroborate
bis Moral Appreciasions. He cannot dietin.
guish Right from Wrong, without nsing the Intel.
lect, which Is his highest Guide Ibis highest pri-
mary cause of action. Deficient In Conscientious
ness aud Firmness, his Ideality and Hope consort
Ing with the Inteleet-ihe latter perverted into
mere Intellectual and Animal Anticipation-his
Spirtfual Faculty ipactive-doxIne-he Is inst "a
nkeiy te take false rs . true one; and SelfE..
ssena. or Conceii rather, being the largest organ
10 me 1fonp Of the W the best part of his lie i.
passed IN repelliDg the assaults made on his me.
nsee-in explaining and defining his positiors !,
no purpose 10 aas
r,,.as freely has no superfiaous Moral po~..
snx = = Of that kind that makes ma. ~.
ne. lint a purpose. Renevoienee, Narvellons'
nope ana Ideally. taii inpropsriy consrnsCs
- saIe nh moral capital Ala sprisn.s r.e..sl
asn small y . tistis larger thsn No. ~I ~.
as.as s y y MarvelIoosness he 4 nrs,. S a
len snl n oenscisn sousness ana Pirnps.a u.s &c.
- Haaesce On his asstcns. Hcue - ~ ~