New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-27
GEMS FROM THE ALBANY EVENING JOUR
NAL
MR.. GREELEY AN ACTOR.

MR.. GREELEY AN ACTOR.
We thought Mr.. Greeley wiser and better man
than be is. We invested him with virtues that only
existed in our too partial estimate OF his charseter.
We were unconscious Of bis vaultiug ambition-bis
insatiate thirst for Office Had we known IN seasoo
that
From his ambitious finger
bis infmity should have been INDUCED though at hia
expense, for Office Is the last thing he hted Tor.
In his Temperance, Socialist and other reforms we
nstook the political aspirant for the phiianthropM!
We believed him a natural instead Of the drtye'ot
man he Ia. We knew that while THE TRIBUNE aitsct-
ed brown bread and "a vegetable diet, re Editor
rejected neither trkte bread roast beef; but We
did not know, suspect, that ne was fhSudious y
dress that he much made up as any Actor; and
that be went abroad for effect, as regularly IA tins
quack Doctor who used to walk Broadway IN tights.
brocade and velvet with three-cornered cooked hat.
Nor in our simplicity, did we dream that Mr. Greeley
is ever found in crowds, Of Fairs, Hastings, Ma.
Meetings, Celebrations, &e &c, only 70 DC sse AZ.
that he was to be made Governor or President. AnA
now would not believe, if could resist the
yiction-that he Invites the Slave Stses to sscede In
the expectation that be will be President Of North
ern COnfederacy.
THE TRIBUNE A NEST OF OFFICE-sERKERs.
Though the nominal head Of the concern, i IL un-
ius, to attribute all the vagaries Of Tax TRIBUNE TO
Mr.. Greeley. That Hydra has half dozen heads
each with a speciality, or ism, Of its own, but all
Kissing in chorus when the Fraternity is interested.
Nor is Mr. Greeley the only editor who confesses 70
would not {" take Knighthood for their fortune"
Two Of them looking for Foreign Missions, and
others expect Dukedoms at least. Indeed, TRIBUKE
editors ready TO serve their country, would equip
Department.
MAIGNITY OF THE TRIBUNE.
The opposition of The NEw-YoRK TRIBUSY, and
those who sympahze with that incendiary journal, 10
infiamed by political hostility TO Gov. Seward. They
have aboIed, in Congress and IN the Peace Cenyen-
tion 10 prevent a union Of all who love the Union Ia
the hope of excluding hIm from the Cabinet This N
the language of The Post So" the key to the etraords-
nary pursued BY those rho lead IN tie oppo-
sutton 10 erery plan for e peaceful adjustment 81 our
national difficulties" In other words men In Con
gress and in the Peace Convention from our own
STATED aided by the vaulting ambition and personal
malignity of TIE NEwYoRK TRIBUNE, are ready TO
dissolve the Union destroy the Government and bank
rupt and ruin the people TO keep Gov. Seward out q
the Cabinet and secure for themselves and their sd-
herents the "spoils of Office
TIE TRIBUNE REyENGEFUL, CAPRICioUs, fIIPUL-
Two OF three wears ago, when its party would nos
accept a Maine Law" plank, The TRIBUNE re-
nounced all allegiance 20 party pledging ITSELF thenes-
forward to Fl. ht on its own hook; and now II sup
ports or opposes Republican nominees as happens 70
ike or dislike them. Last Winter, If The TRsusB
was TO be credited the world would have come TO -
end without " Pro-Rata Freight Law" Now IL b
az dumb as clam ON the questions Of Maine Law
and "Pro Rata" both hobbies having been run under
last Winter toe denounced the Susquehanna Rail-
road BILL Now il approves of the bill to aid that en-.
terprse. So il Is in all things-hfui capricaons ana
reVengeful.