New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-14

was the least pals able Of any zoe ibo result Of bis
: he hinge. And even the Democratic press OF The
country prom, ,ed by manly and generous cntmen.o'
and despisp meanness dupicity and treacheryI
actuated by sense Of justice TO manly opponeh'i
and mosr ing over the spectacle of q distinguished
statesm9 n becoming the victim of personal and roiti-
cal kpavery-unites with all who cal themselves men,
in e. ekiDg to soften the blow ntctta under Tue garo Oh
fri ndship ~ geuer usy and feareesy conceding that
lady they heretofore have been 10 as,au Vhe cnle
statesman Of ranscendent abilities, and man OF u1-
mpeached and unimpeschable purity, both in his public
and private life.
And how does Greeley bear this 2 Does he not Only
feel the rebake conveyed TO him, but heed it also, by
shrinking into obscury until his reaehery shall cease
to be remembered Far from it. He feels it deeply;
even the rhinoceros can be made 20 feel the sharp
pointed spear which penetaes beneath his coat OF mall
but instead of shrinking from the public gaze, he writes
an article and publishes it in Tn independent, over
bis own sign ature rebVkDg the Democratic press for
their inconsistency and beratng them for presuming
to discover thing but vileness in William III. Sew
ard. When ne defest. d Lincoln and elected Douglas,
the Democratic press Landed his independence, and
commended his treachery 10 Repu6hcanism; ana ne
Soolsbly supposed that when by still deeper planned
schemeo of yilainy he smote his friend under the nth
rib struck down the favorte son of New-f ork, and
deprived Mr.. Seward Of the nomination which was hls
due that press would do him honor, as the man
of all others who had struck the create blow 10 ben All
of the Democracy and agans the principles OF Repuo
licanism How terrible then, his disappointment, when
the ress of all parties true TO their instincts as gentle
men and as men, unite in holding him up as viper which
has stuIg the bosom which warmed him INTO LIE, and
turning to bis victim, perceive only bis virtues, ana
bear manly and honorable testimony to his abilities as
statesman aud his devotion to what ne considers the
great principles of the Constitution We can re ioy
appreciate the modification and despair at THIS exuo
ton of public sentiments but we can not understand
the foy bordering upon madness, waIch coud lnduce
the editor of The TRIBUNE to give vent to his feelings
in the article which extract from me indePendent
| & and ,Iiahl ia
that has its moral" which is, "6e taahtalto prin-
"cipL." He takes care, however, TO say there Is
"nuch cant and hypocrisy tn these manifestations Of
"sorrop." Where then, the ooral-where the reward
for being true to ncple! Is that reward to be found
in the false expressions of originating in "cant
and by pocisy Z" is ii 10 be rea oed at such Con-
venons as that of Chicago, where honest and we'll
meaning were led into repudlsrnon OF the We'll
known and clearly wishes OF their eonsntu-
ents because miserable Uiper, who was known to
have been nursed into political life ano Importance by
William II. Seward, and who assumed to be his CRATE
fu f nd and ardent admrer shed crocodile tears over
the undUala6ity of his great friend, and urged the
necessity of his rejection by the very men elected to do
him honor -,
No no; the plea for writing this queruous scoldng
of the DemOcr tic press Is as false as IS the whole po
a life Of its auhor-as false as Is atheism and mi
deity, exhibiting itself in Spirualism Fourierism,
and Free Love- and yet pratng of men being rendered
little fit for the Kingdom OF God" Its pur
pose give vent to his gall and bitterness against
IL
manlness in frOwning down and treating with scorn
such reachery and fraud has marked the conduct of
| Horace Greeley toward William II. Seward.
We have not space for further commentary on this
yery extraordinary fault finding with the Democratic
press and its sneers at Mr.. Stewards being the abest,
the wisest and the greatest of living Republicans"
but the reader will perceive that faithful as s the de-
scripton of Mr.. Stewards prosecutions, it lacks the
Growing picture which the writer, of all others, was
best qualified 10 give. We allude, of course to his
aboIs in THE TRIBUNE and elsewhere, during the last
three years. to exhibit himself the nearest aud dear
est aud most devoted friend of Seward; and at the
time seeking TO demOraze the public mind and
prepare it for the declaration that his election to the
Presidency was an impossbility-that his nomination
at Chicago would be equivalent TO the abandonment of
Republican principles by insuring his defeat-and that
even in the State of New.York, Bates, any
g nominee of the Republican party, would poll
twenty thousand more votes than William
difficulty in completing what Mr.. Greeley has
left unfinished. 1t may be that he had not
time to complete his task, busy he is "engi-
neering the Republican Machine through the coming
" election" Now we all know what this means.
Mr. Greeley and his coaborers at Chicago busily
engaged in arranging the coming Republican Convsn-
toD, and who are to be its nominees for Governor.
&C., &c. He says he is the only man who ever beat
ThuIlow Weed, and that he values his triumph over
Weed at Chicago even more nan his triumph over
Seward and of course, it becomes him to prove that
be is equal to the position he has selected to fill. Bat
let Others as well as Mr. Seward beware of his friend
ship When asked, a few days since, whether he was
in favor of Gov Morgans denomination, in despite
of the open opposition of all who felt greved by his
I" veto of the Bankrupt law and the Susquehanna
" Railroad" his answer is said 10 ha been: Yes,
" unless can be prOUed, as am assured can be,
that Cor. Morgan urged Members Of the AssemUy
" TO rote against has retOeS !! :"
And this is the who that he is to &c en-
gineer the machine in the coming election" this be
so-f, as he asserts, he and - are TO carry this
State in November-we may as well let it be known,
far and wide that New-Yok is lost to the Republican
cause. The Empire State is Republican to the core,
and intends TO vndcae her faith in her principles but
let it be proclaimed that Horace Greeley is to guide
her. and he and his friends to receive the credit of the
work to be done-et it be whispered even, that the
West look to that quarter to carry the State for Lin
coln-and neither Seward his friends, all their
spec ches and entreates, will avail to make the people
wake up from the apathy which now peryades the
STATE from suspicion that those who cheated
at Chicago are now engineering the machinetor the
coming electiOR.'
This is plain language but it is necessary; and we
use II because defeat if something be not done,
and that speedily to dsabuse the public mind in regard
to Greeey's position toward the party in the coming
election"
THE KENTUCKY ELECTION.