The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-03-12


h+Dune caused lie loss Of tie election 70 The
same malign radical influence In Congress, In
the Cabinet and elsewhere, Mr.. Weed at
tributes % political revolution In four
Of the largest States In the Union" He
shows that II Is entirely owing TO Greeley and.
the other abolition leaders that the war for the
Union has heretofore failed and the enthusiasm
which burned 70 brightly ID the beginning has
grown dim. And he ADDS: "Ealf million Of
men will not again go TO their graves like
beds under the threats Of political hyen.<
who remain ut homo howlins-A peculiarly Of
tho one idea men who do their utmost to aggra-
vats the horrors Of war, but take precious care
not to expose their own craven carcasses"
Verify this is stab under the ffth rib.
Weed truly observes that Greeley Is scared at
the uprising Of the people. He finds the people
now, in their town and city elections, repa-
dating the issue he has forced, and he shirks
the responsibility. But "be cannot dodge
either this or more fearful consequences"
There is = meaning in these words to which
Greeley would do we'll to take heed before Il
IL too late. But his fate drives him on. Like
man half way over the cracking, dissolving Ice
on . deep, broad river, It IL as periious for him
to retreat - to advance. Gre long" says Mr..
Weed, "those Who are bercaved ofscns, husbands
and brothers will begin 10 inquire who invited
the cotton States TO secedei who told them
they had the right to withdraw from the
Unionf who stigmatized and tainted the Dor
der States? who intensified the rebellion and
perverted the war; who conspires with vallsn-
dighams who, when the life Of the nation Il
dependent upon union, deals forth ribald de-
nunciation against the democratic party. who.
in the darkest hour of the war, traitorously
proclaimed that we must put down the rebel
lion in sixty days or make peace upon tho best
attainable termsS' " !,
In his card in reply, while passing over I'M
noticed the greater part Of this indictment,
"H. G." pronounccs it ga lie" that he invited
the cotton States to secede. The whole world
knows that two years ago he said, upon the
principles of the Declaration Of Independence,
they had perfect and indefeasible right 70
withdraw. Again, he pronounces It another
lie" that he said 1--WE must put down the rebel
lion in sixty days or make peace on the best
attainable terms" That he did lately say this
is matter of such public notoriety that 1t TO
quires the brazen edrontery Of Greeley to
deny it. And what does he say yesterday In
the very article following his card' He says II
battles should soon take place betwees
four Of the five armies Of Unionists end
Confederates now facing each other on tho
Rappahannock, near Charleston. Port Hudson.
vicksburg and Southern Tennessee and II
three of Thorn should result decisively 10 favor
Of our side, CHOSE results would go very fer
towards deciding the fate Of the Unioa." Bet,
On the other hand, hc,says "if the rebel armiss
shall generally defeat and demolish ours in fair
Gght we shall probably have 10 give it APP.
But battles in all these places may come Oh In
less than sixty days; so that Greeley denies In
one column what he afirms In the next. And
no doubt in week hence he will deny all
about our shaving to give it up" just IS he de-
MED all about his promising an army Of nine
hundred thousand abolitionIsts to Aght tho bat
ties Of the Union IL Mr.. Lincoln would osly
issue his proclamation Of freedom to the slave.
But even in his card "H G." denounces "any
compromise" as "infernap' whereby the South
ern States might be restored to the Union a.
they were before the war, with their State In
stitutions preserved. This he pronouncss
"worse than defeat-worse even than disunion."
Yet Tomorrow Greeley, when put in . corner,
will deny that he is o disunionist. M
Thurlow Weed knows Greeley like book.
He was verdant enough" he says, "to believe
in his patriotism and simplicity for fifteen years."
but now he should "know his hide in tan
yard He warns him that his "incendiarism
imperils vital interests and that he is 'laying
up wrath against the day Of wrath; and let him
be admonished in season; for If he continues
playing away all that good aad wise men
cherish, he is provoking retributions compared
with which his remorse for the On to Rich
mond bravado will be as nothing"
Thus is Thurlow Weed on one side aud John
Van Buren, on the other breaking up what re-
mains of the republican party, by Withdrawing
from IL all its Union elements and leaving the
abolition rump alone In its "owl-lke fanati-
cism to reap the reward Of its crimes. The
conservatives Of the democratic and republican
parties will form q new and overwhelming
combination, and the niggerheads and copper
heads will go down together to their own
place. r..
OLD ABE's LAST JoKE.-When our good Pre-