The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-08
Greeley Expose. our WHY governor.

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1t is quite apparent that the conflict now
going on in the +" irrepressible party will
bring much bad blood to the surface, and
reveal, to the popular eye, many hidden ways
of darkness in the Republican family, hith-
erto kept secret through the general inter-
est in the spoils for which that tribe Of
spoilsmen have so coarsely hungered.
The grievous disappointment of Mr.. Sew.
ARDS enthusiastic admirers and expectant
personal friends, at his base betrayal, is
ruug in all its changes of lamentation by
RAYMOND, of the New York Times, and the
Chevalier WEBB, of the Courier and En-
quirer, and is echoed, with every variation
Of sound and snarl, by the lesser organists,
from Maine to Minnesota. Thus far the
bilious wrath it has distilled, has been
poured almost entirely upon the hairless
head of HORACE GREELEY. Poor HORACE,
weighed down by the vast responsibility so
persistently thrust upon him, and smarting
under the merciIess castigations to which he
is subjected, returns the fire with that philo-
sophie fortitude for which he is distin-
guished. Tacitly acknowledging the animus
which inspired him in the conflict at Chi
cago, he proceeds, after his replication to
Messrs. RAYMOND and WEBB, to say:
One word, now. to political friends out Of the
State, who must be looking at this wrangle
with silent amazement. beg you to under,
stand, fellow Republicans, that we are not all
born fools here in New York-that we under
stand perfectly well that the nominations at
Chicago were not made by Mr.. Greeley, and
could not have been prevented or perverted by
the combined potency of Lieut.. Gov. Raymond
and Gen. Webb.
Then rising to the full proportions of his
naive modesty, so inimitably characteristic,
he begins to shoulder off some of the burden
some responsibility lavished upon him, in
this wise
In addition to the weight of numbers, the
weight of character was also immensely against
m--three-fourths of the delegates and out.
siders having any national reputation, including
Gov. Boutwell, Of Mass, Senator Simmons Of
R. l., David Wilmot, Thaddeus Stevens, and
and Carter of Ohio, the three Blairs, Cows. Den
nison of Ohio, Kirkwood of Iowa, RAMSEY of
Minnesota, and the Governors expectant of
Pennsylvania and Indiana, being decidedly, i'm
mOvably adverse to such nomination. In view
of these and kindred facts. the omnipotence &C.
corded to my efforts would be absurd if it were
not malicious. 1t is, in fact, keen hunt for
dead mems shoes-the grafton of Antony over
the body of the Caesar he hopes to succeed. It
is not for nothing that The Times hastens to
announce that Gov. Seward will not accept q
reelection to the Senate next winter-that he
will refuse any post in President Lincoln's Cab
inet-that he will definitely retire from public
life on the 4th of next March. 1t is like the in.
scription on the Partisan tombstone-"Here
lies Pierre DrouOt, the tenderest and best of
husbands. His disconsolate widow still keeps
the shop, No. II rue Lepelletier."
1t is to be regretted that the indicate
position into which Mr.. GREELEY is forced:
should torture him into the unkenneling of
Bluff Alleck, of MIMI, in wanton disregard
of the crafty intimation from our Governor
that be was, "as matter of course" to be
sheltered from observation, at least in the
atmosphere of his own State. But the
load was too heavy for the Tribune Philoso-
pher, and while we admit its terrible force,
we still think he should have preserved that
higher moral fortitude, which would have
saved his Gubernatorial co-laborer from
Minnesota, his present chagrin and NORTH
cation.