The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1860-03-10

huence of the right sort-a kind worth
more to us than all the ephemeral, politi-
cal, and dreamy stuff that we can gather
up from now to the end of time.
MR.. HORACE GREELEY'S DISLIKES.
The responsible editor of the Tribune"
although yet on the sunny side of fifty,
has fallen into that peculiar idiosyncracy
of extreme old age, which leads him to be-
lieve that mankind in general feel an in
terest in his likes and his dislikts. In the
issue of that paper for the 28th ult,, and in
an article which betrays his style, he ex-
claims ave love liberty, equality, jus.
tice, humanity; but we do not like ne
groes, and heartily wish no individual of
that race had ever been brought to Ameri-
ca"
This is very nearly the time of the year
and phase of the moon in which, since
1916 or Whereabouts, Mr.. Greeley has been
in the habit of giving vent to his negro
hate. Sometimes the fit does not attack
him till May, and once we remember that
it was kept off until August. We have
hitherto regarded it as mild form of mon
omania or peculiar aversion, which some
persons otherwise sane, and even talented,
entertain in regard to objects or sounds
but the present exhibition is so violent and
malevolent that we really fear that the
ovcr-worked brain of this distinguished
man is yielding to the invisious approach
of thatranOIaSSe5 Mt which has carried off
so many cable editors before him;
There is no little evidence in the short
sentence we quote to show that the writer
of it is passing from lighter to graver
form of mental disorder-from DlOn0n1dnaa
to dementia. This latter is characterized
as incoherent notwithstanding to DR..
Copeland, ga chronic form Of insanity,
characterized by impairment of the sensi-
bility and the will, and By incoherence Of
IDEAS"
In addition to his negotiating ideas,
Mr.. Greeley manifests strange incohe-
renee, an idiotic jumbling of iGeas, when
he says, Il love humanity" "but do not
like negroes" AS he everywhere admits
negroes to be part and parcel of humani-
ty-that humanity which he loves-it fol
lows tnat he claims to love the whole while
he hates part of humanity. And this in
coherence-nay, extravaganza ideas is
more manifest when he exclaims' eve
heartily wish no individual of that race had
ever been brought to America p This is
wish which only mailman could have
uttered. Had no negro ever been brought
to America, there could have been no be-
ginning of the American Revolution, the
first blood of which was gloriously shed by
the negro Attacks; there would have been
no maintaining the Revolutionary war,
some of the best and most efficient regi-
ments of which were composed of negroes;
there would have been no ultimate triumph
to the American arms, for there was not
one regiment too many in that war on the
side of the colonists. There would have
been no triumph in the war of 1912 had
there been no negroes on board the Ameri-
can fleets; there would have been no SUI
gar trade, no cotton-gin, no forests cleared
in the South and South West, no two hun
dred millions worth of cotton to export this
year from the United Statcs-yet British
colony; no slavery discussion. no Missouri
Compromise, no "Neao York IFi6une',
which has waxed fat and great on the negro
question; no Horace Greeley /! no-noth-
ing.
To put Horace Greeley's dislikes down
in cool, plain English, he dislikes the ne
gro SO thoroughly that he would rathee un
hinge all the progress and all the history,
including himself, of the last century and
a half, 'than had the negro brought to
America" Had this thought come from
wretched and jaded misanthrope, not bur
dened with any but moping and sallow
melancholy, it would hardly excite remark;
but y hen it comes from one in the full ex-
erciso of powerful, vigorous, and active
intellect, it falls with a sudden, strange jar
on the ear, which awakens intense solicit
tude for the sanity of the author.