New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-12
A MATTER WITH Mcssrs. GREELEY & Co.
From The chicago Tribune, FEB. 2.


article part politics, and part personal to ourselves
which we find in Tue N. Y. TRIBUsE Of the 29th ut.
Judging from experience in previous controversy on
the sse theme is perhaps, putting the thing in an
extra strong light 10 ask our cOtemporary to give a
place for the reply which follows. We make the re-
quest nevertheless and the event shall show whether
the excess Of fair dealing which The TRIBUSE -four
ishes in the faces Of its adversare is the busser Of
the broggsdocio or something else.
We shall speak first Of the political affairs referred
TO in the article which we copy. Sioce Mr. Douglas
started op his Pro-Savery cruise TO the lf Of Mex
CO. where he sdvanced the theory that negroes were
entitled TO consideration only when their claims were
disputed by crocodles we have deemed it the duty Of
come one more capable than ourselves, 10 apply fit
terms TO the criminal folly Of The n. T. TRIBUNE in
st clipgng to the costtas Of that politician. While
the Illinois election pending we looked for the hos
tity Of TaE TRIBUNE against the Republican candi
dates though did not lcok for il in the backdoor
round the fashion in which it came. This hoe
tity seems now 10 be confessed in the declaration,
" our personal convictions could not surrender,
" did we entirely conceal them" But now that the
election is passed and Mr. Douglas has syowedly
TUNED TO bis vOmit, il s amazing beyond al things
that Tux TRIBUNE should still hang to hls skirts and
insist upon chasing him with Seward Fremont and
Chase IL did few days since in elcle on Presl-
dental candidates Ii Is only 10 be accounted for on
the belief entertained by hundreds Of the friends OF
Tx N. Y TRIBUNE and IFS chief editor, that having
fixed upon policy, however visionary he will follow
It into the jaws of Tophet rather than to admit that
he wss mistaken. His theory becomes the solid
bridge reaching hence to the Millennium, which man
kind must troop over miss salvation utterly Facts
are the merest OF bub Sles, sense vapor aud
his own experience iack.O'lsntern beside the true
granite Of his fantastic conceptions Let us not under
rate his generally honest purposes, nor pay too little
regard TO the good he has done and is capable OF
0ur ipg
to do serious harm 10 the Republican cause in the
West his obstinacy will not suffer hi to retr@ce
step nor even TO pause midway IN his ~ld career ~
is quite consistent to give aid ard comfort TO hr
Douglas now while he Is turning the crank OF the FRO
Slavery machine during the campaign when he
was only promising to.
Let us not be misunderstood nor misplaced. We
repeatedly charged The n. Y. TRIBUNE, both before
aud aft our election, with aiding aud a6etting DIR:
Douglas, and damaging the Repu0hcan nominees ana
the Republican cause. We did not charge that this
was done openly in its editorial columns, but that 1t
was done covertly putting us n ialse position, an
damnpg Mr. Lincoln with faint praise, IN It's WASH
ington Correspondence and in the whole tenor OF its
columns In these particulars 1t has not aOatea aJo
from it's then position Of smothered ilwi and disbon
eat indirection. DoOelas is cheek by jowl with the
Propaganda, couDseng the ieoDous seizure OF CuDs,
and THE TRIBUNE is as much enanoied OF hitn IN iIs
personal convictions, as when he was denying the
first paragraph in the Declaration of Independence, ON
the stump in Illinois. 1t cannot be alleged that this
course is pursued TO make MIR. Douglas too black Tor
understand whether approved it or not-becsuse,
according TO The TRIBUNE. he has done thatJob Tor
himself already.
The grounds upon which The TRIBUSE now places
its support Of Mr. Douglas viz: that his opposition 10
Ieoompton entitled him to six years reelection, IN
which he would be at perfect liberty to plunge heels
over head into flhbusterism, Cuba stealing or any
other iniauty, to us the very acme oi suti
6cation partaking too, of something when cals ior
the inter ference Of the police. II we had undertaken
TO frame an intolerably severe criticism upon TEE
-l,.k slar
charged that it had contributed power TO dangerous
man with the full knowledge OF his proneneis TO work
mscble-hat il had puta butcher KNIFE IN tne hahds
desperado. Yet here we have 1t confessed ana naae
light Of, Now let Mr.. Doug.ss 60 on hlh0usterlng
ard slavery extending five and han years longer
let him suddenly halt on the eve of an election wnich
ia to determine bis own case and lHE NJ L. lklBI NJ
ia commit ed TO TO his reecue and proVlde MN
the means TO battle the enemies Of Slavery six years
longer. But there seems no present danger OF an IN
terregnum on the psrt OF IHE lRIBuNEi ana IL ism
tended to follow the logic OF the above we
suggest there should be The Transition might
rot be so easy in 1861.
Now word on personalities The TRIBINE
Surprise on noticing brief business note mot de-
signed for pubhcation in ob3cure sixby nine sheet
In back county Of Minnesota, is as agreeable "a
that of the fellow who reeed of the top OF the stage
when picked up and told that the coach had not ue-
set IL he had known that, he wouldn't have got on.
Our own columns have carried right under the nose oi
Tux TRIBUNE editor the same information which
astourds him when coming from the head waters OF
taken pains to have him aware OF it. We gave him
reminder of il less than two weeks since, when he
coupled Mr.. Douglass name with those ot seward,
Fremont and Chase in his article on the Presidency
We submit that the astonishment IN TINS case Deonos
10 different side of the story.
The public will take notice that did not open this
chapter of issues but since has been opened
we shall not shrink from It's contents The ioE tone
and i'll nature of the comments on exactly two letters
written from this Office 10 THE TRlBUNE during the
Campagn-which letters were inserted IN lts dsly ed
ton, where they could do US good and suppressed
in the weekly where they were desired to appear
have nothing to do with what follows. We can reply
IN the circus tongue probably when we have nothing
better TO offer We wish know then why the pIlnel-
pal editor Of THE TRIBUNE wrote leter3to Nj. Lncons
isw.partner last Summer, telling the Republicans OF
Illinois TO "nomir and elect their owe man, and ne
"tMr. Greeley would be entirely soitstsdf" We re-
fer 10 the letter ending Do not consider US all natu-
raj fools down this way, "a very apt cepreoat,on,
ss we thought then. We wish TO kno" Why the ne
pubncars Of Ilirois were paltered with IN such
double sense, when THE TRIBUNE " cid not sympa'
thize with its Chicago namesske and when its edl-
Tor "could not surrender bis personal convictions
Ii was this dupicity which conounded us aud Jared
al our precOnceiyed notions Of The NEW-l0Rk IGlB'
rSr, during the late Illinois campaign. 1t Is very
well for Tuk TRIBUNE now to scout the foolish oao-
bic" about arrangement or understanding OF soma
kind between The TRlBUSE AID Mr.. Douglas which
by the way we have never alluded to-, but that wlI
be more thoroughly settled when the Herndon letter s
more thoroughly explained. Whether Mr.. Greeley a.
lowed himself TO be privately eaucused at Washing
ton by our Senator not is certain that the course
which he Immediately adopted in writing 10 Mr. Hern-
don, and forth, would have been very appropriate
in oIe who had had a half hours session with Doug
las.
Now we have no wish TO get iuto prolonged con-
troyerey with THE y. Y. TRIBUNE, It's iLhuen.i.l
chief We have had many meetings With him exceed.
ugly pleasant end pro1tahe 70 ourselves, and it has
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