The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-26
Groclcy's Cartl--ssJust Oncc''-IIow He
Keeps His Vows.

We reprint to-day Horace Greeley's card
headed Just Once" published in the Tribune
Immediately after the battle of Bull run in Or
der that the reader may compare IL with the
present course of that journal, and see how well
he has kept his promises TO an indignant PEG
pie.
Long before the battle Of Bull run the
standing war cry of the T.ibame was, Son to
RichmondW ard every day some fresh attack,
some inslnuation Of treason, was published in
its columns against General Scott, because he
did not order an immediate advance upon Rich
mond, by way of Manassas junction; and the
members Of the Cabinet were assailcd in the
most bitter terms because they permitted Gene
raj Scott to delay the onward march OF the
grand army. But no sooner was the disastrous
battle Of Bull run fought than the Tribune came
out in an editorial with the mos virllcnt abuse
Of the administration for its ''inencicncy of pre-
paration aud fooliardy and inexcu'ab under
estimate Of the enemy" "These.' added the Ir;-
b'tne, prevailed at Washington until they haze
made shirwrcck Of our grand and heroic arm y.
We have fought aud been beaten. God forgive
our rulers that this is So" Thus does the Ti,-
6e,ne assault the administration. and pray God
to forgive it for listening to lis own rabd
clamors This, however, would not go down
with the people, who felt disposed to Suspend
the Tribune, if not Greeley himself, remember
ing, as they did, that day after day that journal
bounded on The army to its destruction against
the batteries of Manassas. Greeley, therefore,
came out in the card which weTeprnt to-day,
making the humiliating confession that, instead
Of being The editor of the Tribune, he had ab-
Dictated his functions, and consented to play the
part of drummer boy to the establishment
that the advice Onward to Richmond" which
appcare,. in the editorial columns seven times
a week, ''was not his nor anything OF like i'm
ptrt.'
According to Greelcy's own admission,
therefore, the conduct of his journal was hand
ed over to the management Of some secret reyo-
lutionary committee Of the Robespierre Marat
and Danton stamp. But he makes the best atone
mcnt in his power for this criminal folly by
declaring that he retired from the arena OF
politics for the future chat neither war nor the
movements Of the army would any longer form
topics of discussion in his journal-whence we
concluded that Greeley, retiring from Tie
troubles Of the world, which had grown too
great for him, would go to work in some Sc
Guided spot to organize phalanx, ard revive
once more the socialistic and communist ideas
of which he was SO Jealous an advocate few
years ago--a kind OF rg'gt,,n peccatoraan-
where womens' rights could be enjoyed, and
free love could hasa f. .e Scops including ANAL
gamaton OF the black and white races Bur e,
the surprise Of everybody, mouth has not
elapsed till Greeley's repentance-very much
resembling in its sincerity that of the felon on
the scaiold, with the rope around his neck
turns ont to be all sham, and he returns, like
the swine that was washed, to his wallowing in
the political mire 1t is the nature Of the ami
NAL.
Greeley is meddling in the affairs Of the go
vernment as bad as ever, and embarrassing its
operations in every way. He is making the
war as unpopular as he can among the demo-
cratic masses, who will do all the lighting, by
representing il as q war of abolition, and not q
war to restore the Union and vindicate the
principles of the Revolution and of the constitu-
ton He is again guilty Of "a foolhardy and
inexcusable under estimate of the enemy" and
is doing his utmost to induce the government to
adopt bis views and again dash like locomo-
tive at full speed against pile of rocks heaped
on the track In an article in Saturdays num-
Der. headed "Bull Run" he criticises the battle
once more. though in his card of July Is he
SAID he would only write that time on The sub
ject--. Just Oncc"-aud bid adcu for ever TO
war. al bar" quoth Greeley, all criticism
in .hese columns on army movements, p1st or
.fai.Jc' nc has thus cast all his promises to the