Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-03-18
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rhurlov Weed On Greeley and the Tribune.

| low w Weed, the veteran " mug ana RepuDucan
editor of the Albany Evening Journal, from
the editorship of that paper The attacks of
the ultra Republican or Abolition press upon
him, accusing him of hostility to the Admin
istratiou, have drawn from Mr. Weed the
following letter to the editors of the paper
he so lately controlled We publish the let
ter as an important document connected with
the politics Of the day, and as exposing the
position of Greely and the radicals by whom
the Administrator which Mr. Weed defends
is, according to his own admission, in great
measure now, and likely soon to be wholly
controlled. The letter appeared in the AL
bany Evening Journal of January 81, and is
as follows:
To the Editor of the Journal:
It is not my intention to keep before the
people," and but for the material misrcpresen-
tations of two or three journals, would not
intrude, even to express what I feel most
gratefully, the more than kindly, the gener-
GUS construction of the press, irrespective Of
party, To the letters of troops of KIND friends
shall endeavor to reply individually.
I have referred frequently to the incendi-
airy principles OF the New York Tribune, be-
cause that journal, by its vast circulation. ex-
erts maign influence throughout the whole
North again admonish my countrymen to
shake of this incabus, to emancipate them
selves from their mental thraldom, before all is
lost. Mr. Greedy, the infatuated victim Of
the widest ambition. viii soon amid the
e crash of worlds and the wreck of matter. F"
be seized with remorse that comes too
late" I speak not idly. This Architect Of
Ruin has much to answer for.
First, while Slidell, Toombs Mason, Davis,
etc, etc, were maturing their scheme for re-
beIlion, and the Gulf States, under their in
structions, were seeding, Mr.. Greeley apFroy-
ed. justified, and invited them 10 go forward
with their tressonable designsl Here IS the
evidence from his own Tribune, and in his
own language
From the Tribune Of NOy. g. 1850.
"If the cotton States shall become satisfied
that they can do better out Of the Union than
in it we insist on the letting them go in
peace. The right to secede may be revolu-
tionary one, but it exists nevertheless. :
K We must ever resist the right Of any
State to remain in the Union and nullify or
defy the law thereof To Withdraw from tie
Union is quite another matter; whenever
considerable section Of our Union shall dehb-
erately resolve to go out We shall resist all
coerciys measures designed to keep it in. We
hope never to live in a republic whereof one
section is pinned to another by bayouets.'
From the Tribune Nov %, 1861
"If the cotton States unitedy and earnest
ly wish to Withdraw peacefully from the
Union, we think they should and would be
allowed to do 50. Any attempt to compel
them by force to remain would be contrary
to the principles enunciaLed in the immortal
Declaration of Independence CONTRARY to
the fundamental ideas on which human Eber-
ty is based"
From the Tribune Dec. II, 1901
"If it (the Declaration of Independence
justified the secession from the British empire
of three millions of colonists in l776, we do
not see why it would not justify the secess-
ion of five millions of Southrons from the
Union in 1861"
[From the Tribune Feb %, 1881
" Whenever it shall be clear that the great
body of the Southern people have become
conclusively alienated from the Union, and
anxious to escape from it, we will do our best
to forward their views"
Here then, in the outbreak OF the REBEL
ion, is the Tribune being its best to for
ward their views" Their views were for
warded with fatal colerity. We all see with
what consequences.
When the rebellion, thus encouraged, be-
came a reality, the Tribune, with an insolence
peculiarly its own, assumed a dictatorship
over the government and the army. Our
first calamity was occasioned by its insane
cries Of " ON TO RIDHMoND.' After the in
glorious defeat at Bull Run, Mr. Greeley be-
came spasmodicaIy repentant, confessing that
he had done wrong, and promising to mind
his own business But this promise was soon
forgotten, and the Tribune became as arrog-
ant as ever and ere long its inflated editor
put forth an edict in the name of hundreds !
of thousands, addressed to the President of
the United States demanding change Of
policy in his administration Of the govern
ment.
And now we are called to witness with
a new phase Of character-a
startling change of switchl
The editor OF the New York Times, in
carefully prepared article, charged Mr.. Gree
ley with seeing through Mr. Mercier the
French minister, foreign Intervention! And
still worse, the accusation goes so far to i'm
plicate Mr.. Greeley in a correspondence with
Mr.. Vallandigham ! We venture to say
that not ten of the Tribune's hundred thous-
and subscribers. on any outside authority
would have believed either Of these state
ments. And yet both are virtually admitted
in the Tribune Of yesterday: