Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-21
The ola Pittsburgh Gazette says


we append a few of the many favorable COM
mens
The old Pittsburgh Gazette says;
There is nothing in the letter 70 sustain the
charges brought against Mr. Greeley by the
n Y Times and the N r. Courier & En-
quirer, and the studied silence of those prints
since publicity has been given it, shows that
the letter contains no basis for the insinna-
tons OF which it was made the text. IN that
respect it is a triumphant vindication Of Mr..
Greeley; and we trust that the warfare made
upon him by those to whom it was shown
without much regard for the sacredness Of
private correspondence, and who seem to have
thoroughly Inexperienced its contents, will
now cease. .r
Forney's Press comments at some length,
and with truth remarks
The editor is like the ladder upon which
the statesman mounts to distinction, TOO fire.
quently to be kicked away the moment the
statesman attains the long coveted prize
Thousands Of these men are to-day laboring
and starving, while those they elevate are
proud and prosperous. -"
Horace Greeley has been the architect of
many dazzling reputation. With his IN
ceasing efforts, his fertile intellect, and his
enthusiastic devotion to his great profession,
he has forgotten himselfin bis zeal for others;
he has seen the prize of high place, the
emoluments of great Office, the honors and
distinctions of parties and Of combinations,
absorbed and monopolized by Others, shreWd
and cunning gamesters, who while watching
his energies have ayailed themselves Of the
fruits of his brain. A% This letter,
written in the impulsiye frankness Of the mo-
ment, has been held over Mr.. Greeley's head
as a sort of rod, until at last he demanded
its revelation, and has finally given it to the
world in bis own paper. Some parts Of it
are full Of humor, and others show that the
neglect of the leader has profoundly affected
his working and persevering friend. 1t is a
lesson that politicians should study and lay
to heart Greeley deserves credit, if only
for teaching it, and we trust it will have its
proper influence in all time to come.
The Boston Traveller one of the most in
dependent-an and sagacious of New England po-
litical journals, pointedly says;
This letter leads us to reflect upon two
great truths, upon which volumes might be
written. One of these is the services often
required Of newspapers and editors, and the
neglect with which they are treated after no
more is TO be obtained from them Politi-
clans, public officers, corporations, merchants,
and individuals generally, in the community,
are in the habit Of using journalists as ladders
upon which they may reach the high places
I,,Fv av,1 nd lob 4ho 1oI
der away beneath them. We are glad that
Mr.. Greeley has set himself effectually in op-
position to this, and we hope his cOntempo-
raries will set with the same sense of selEre-
spect
'The World, just established New York
daily, edited with marked ability and taking
a mgn stand as an Independents, fair judging
journal, in publishing Mr.. Weeds review OF
the Greeley letter, thus closes its own candid
comment:
Even the Albany Journals comments
make an impression favorable to Mr. Greeley,
although they, like his own letter, exhibit
him as a whimsical bundle of oddities. Mr..
Weeds keen insight into character must have
been sleeping on its post during these sixteen
years of political intimacy with the junior
member of the firm, if the chief regret he
now feels at the publication of the letter is
only ''because it destroys ideals of disinter-
estedness" By his own account, Mr.. Gree
ley's conduct during all that period was every
way becoming and altogether above suspicion.
He was offered the clerkship of the Assembly
and wouldn't touch it; he might have had
the Common Council printing, but Gre
fused to have anything to do with it, he
could, at any time, have gone to Albany and
shared in the profits of the public printing,
but he had no fancy for legislative jobs. Does
not this testimony of Mr.. Weed strengthen
Mr.. Greeley's own assertion that what he
most coveted was preeiatior-honOrable
recognition of his services by those who had
profited by them? It looks, not like proof
of insincerity, but of commendable self-re-
spect that he wished this recognition to be
spontaneous, and would not humiliate him
self by asking for it.
The Editor of the staunch Republican
Portage County Democrat after having read
the Greeley letter with attention, writes, that
in his "opiniOn the publication of it win not
only not damage Mr.. Greeley, but will place
him in a still stronger and more influential
position" he adds
The letter is marked by characteristic
frankness, and unreserved, transparent direct
ness. It was written under a smarting sense
of political ingratitude, injustice and neglect
but discloses nothing as the public had been
led to expect, of the Yenal partisan, the
mercenary office seeker, or the revengeful
enemy. H
The letter does disclose that the writer is
not free from the ambition common to man
for he is but human-that be like Others is
gratifed when his best services are apprecia-
ted, and wounded when they are nOt-that
in his early struggles with poverty and en-
barrassment the advantages of political and
official position would have been grateful to
him