The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-28

GREEIEY IL Co. ON GOVERNMENT AND BRAN
BREAD.-The incessant markings, growlings,
grumblings, murmurings, complainings aud
threatenings about the administration in which
Greeley g. Co, of the Tribune, indulge, and
the contcmpt, scorn, sights, abuse and disdain
which they heer upon POOR Honest Ok Abe
the Presto ent OF heir own choice have been
matters of great wonderment lately to many
people. Old Abe and his Cabinet have been
especially Mortified and astounded, and are
at their wits ends to know the why and where
fore of this journalistic burlcsque upon Bonn
bastes Furioso.
Honest Old Abe does not know what to make
of Greeley & Co., end prays devoutly every
Right that b. nsy re saved from his friends
Seward shruss HIS sAoulders, and, taught by
his own expeEepc5 &C Chicago. Gays that it Is
no more than 1ight have been expected
rom Horace. Cameron declares that he has
discovered the secret oua Of the Iritunc's
corps wants another foreign mission, O Ia
Harvey. Postmaster Blair says, bluutly, that
he has the right pig by the ear, and That
Greeley wants him to resign, SO that he may get
the Postmaster Generalship. Smith, Of the In
terror, is wide awake, and knows that some Of
Greeley's company are after fat contracts in
his department. Gideon Welles, of Connecti-
cut, who is not generally known to be mem
Der of the Cabinet, thinks, after profound re
Fiction, that the subject is too deep for him,
aud that he cannot understand it. Bates agrees
u,;% Int xuyith h. in,
jraternal style. Chase is too busy frying 10 get
money to care much about the matter. and is
understood to use bad language Whenever his
financial reveries are disturbed. Bur al o.
these great personages are astonished. and none
can understand Greeley 4 Co. in their geaaa
imitation of the bowling dervshes.
1t is q little singular that such wise folk can
not grasp 80 simple a case as this. We will en-
tighten them upon the subject, with our u,l
benevolence. Greeley q Co. are what Berkley
calls minute philosophers" or philosophers OF
a very small stripe. They arc great upon ab-
stract ideas and impracticabe theories, b't
cannot understand or appreciate anything
practical and realistic. They Can argue for
years in Low Dutch upon the question whether
or not the moon is made of Green cheese, aud
never so far demcan themselves as to come to
any conclusion upon the subjece. They can
write profound essays upontopics OF walcb they
are totally ignorant, to be reaa Before free love
and women's rights associations, to auditors ~
ignorant az themselves. A fact. however.
Ia too much for them. They could never lie arm
that one and one make two, aud how can they
be expected to understand governmental
policy or military tactics They can never
walk upon . beaten road, but must always
follow will. o. the-wisps. Fourieriteism came up.
and they followed that; Maine Lavish, aud
they followed that; anti-rentism, vegetarian.
iem anti-slaveryiam, and they followed each
OF there humbugs in succession. WHAT can
you expect Of such philosophers: That is the
secret about Greeley a. Co.: and all Old Abe
and hlD Cabinet need do is to follow the pub
lies cxample--mind their own business aud
.et ihese insane dervishcs howl UNDECIDED.