Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-09-01
THE HAPPY FAMILY.
Jas. Watson webb, L-Orace Greely
and NVin. ii. Seward.
"They were lovely in life
In death they shall not separa

| "They were lovely in life
IN death they shall not separate.
The cut>throat war of Webb, Seward
and Gree'y still goes on. Webb thus be-
labors Greely in his last paper:
He trembled at his own work; and in the
deep curses of the people and the loss OF
tens Of thousands in his circulation, reads
the handwriting on the wall, and requires
no Daniel to interpret it. In such an
emergency, discretion would inculcate 81 =.
lence; while remorse and stines of con-
science, and the contempt and odium OF
honest men should prompt him to seek
obscurity and oblivion, in the hope that
good men and frank minded honorable,
politicians, who never cease to be gentle
men, may forget his treason in the appar-
ent death of the traitor.
of G's lachrymose article to the Mde-
| pendent, it asks:
L" Is reward to be found in false express.
ions of sorrow originating in cant and
| hypocrisy?' or is it to be reaped at such
Conventions as that at Chicago, where
honest and we'll meaning men were led in
to reputation Of the well known. and
clearly expressed wishes of their constitu.
en,s, because a miserable viper who was
known to have been nursed into pol tical
life and Importance by VIM. II. Seward,
and who assumed to be his grateful friend
and ardent admirer, shed crockodie tears
over the uravaiability Of his great friend,
and urged the necessity of the rejection by
the very men elected to do him houor!"
1t may be that he had not time to com
| plete his task, busy as he is "engiReerjng
the RepubItcan machine hrough the com,
ing eIecti0n.' Now, we all know what
this means. Mr.. Greeley and his co la
borers at Chicago are busily engaged in
arranging the coming Republican Conven-
tion, and who are to be its nominee for
Governor, &c, &c. lie says he is the only
man that ever beat Thurlow Weed. and he
values his triumph over Weed at Chicago
even more that his triumph over Seward;
and OF course it becomes him to prove that
he is equal to the position he has selected
to fill. But let others, as well as Seward,
beware Of his friendship. When asked a
few days since, whether he was in favor of
Gov Morgans denomination; in despite
| of the open opposition of all, who feel
grieved by bis veto Of the Bankrupt Law
and the Susquehanna Railroad, his answer
is said to have been-"Yes, unless it can
be proved, as | am assured it can be, that
Gov Morgan urged members Of the AS
sembly to vote against his vetoes"
And this is the man that assumes that
he is to "engneer the machine in the com,
ing election If this be so-if, as he as
serts, he and -- are to carry this
State in November-we may as well let it
be known far and wide, that New York is
lest to The Republican cause. Let it be
proclaimed that Horace Greeley is to guide
her, and he and his friends are to receive
the credit Of the worl, to be doue--let it
be whispered even, that the West look to
Ha' quarter to carry the State for Lin
coIn-and neither Seward nor his friends.
nor all thir speeches ana entrcaties, will
avail to make the pcopl" wake up from
the apathy which now pevvtdes the State
from mere suspicion that those who
cheated us at Chicago. are now "cHyiMeer-
ing the murhIte for the comma clecttoa.n