The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-02-17
Shower Bath and Strait Jacket for
Poor Greeley or the Trihune.

A Shower Bath and Strait Jacket for
Poor Greeley OF the Tribune.
The editorial staff of the New York Tribune
must be either drunk or crazy-perhaps little
of both. We were under the impression that
poor Greeley had recovered from his Manassas
brain fever; but we have been mistaken. We
noticed a statement in the Tribune, some time
ago, that its intoxicated editor had gone to the
wars; but that statement was probably untrue.
Only yesterday morning there was an editorial
article in the Tribune which poor Greeley must
have dictated in one Of his craziest spells, and
which the drunken editor must have written
during one of his most beastly fits of intoxica-
ton. That article charges the editor of the
HERALD with being liar, swindler, a forger,
thief, rebel and murderer--of newspapers
if not of men. We ask if any person who was
in the possession Of his right senses. or who
was not temporarily deprived Of his senses by
drink, could ever have written and published
such brutal blackguardsm and vile vulgar
ity?
Under ordinary circumstances, if gentle
man is attacked in such a manner, he has a
legal redress in suit for libel. But were we
to resort to such suit poor Greeley would
plead moral insanity, or throw the respon-
sibility upon silly Gay, as he once did upon
Mr.. Dana, and thus leave us with all our costs
to pay aud no satisfaction obtained Besides
this Greeley is already held to answer in a
libel suit for $50 900 brought by Mr. Cook of
Chicago; and as the libel is clear. and Mr..
Cook will certainly gain his cause, what will be
left Of poor Greeley for another suit? We be-
lieve that Greeley owns about FIVE shares in the
Tribune Association. These shares are worth
the nominal price Of five dollars each in the
stock market, with offers to purchase. The
total amount Of Gree'eys property is there
fore about twenty-five dollars From this sum
deduct $4,000, and how much remains.
Considerably less than nothing. When
a liheller is actually worth $49.a75 less
than nothing, how can you bring a suit against
him Especially. also, when he will certainly
plead insanity as his defence. and can sustain
his plea by quoting from any one Of his articles:
And. in addition to all this, poor Greeley is
Liable 10 be arrested at any moment by the
United States government as guilty Of treason,
under the law of 1899, by his confessed cores
ponlence with Mercier, Jewett, Val'andigham
and Company in favor Of French mediation in
our affairs. The idea of sueing q lnnatc.
heggar and traitor is absurd. We are thus
deprived by circumstances of onr lawful vim
dicaiion.
1t is exceedingly doubtful, however. whether
any one can be libeiled by poor Greeley. There
is certain class of vagabonds from whom no
gentleman can receive an Insult Poor Gree
ley belongs to that class Of pariahs. Socially,
mentally and morally he ranks below the mise
rable negroes he worships but, unlike them,
he las degraded and brutalzed himself We
liar, swiadler torgcr, thief and rebel as Greeley
SAYS we are-bave lived here nearly forty years.
We remember Greeley when he was compare
lively sane, innocent and virtuou- man. We
say comparatively" for even then he had
weakness for vcgetarianism thousand
dollar drafts and free love. Now. negro
on the brain and heart has utterly
demoralized him. Parton. lis biogra-
pher, says he was born black; and we can rea-
Oily believe it, When we reflect upon what he
was and might have beca aud what he is we
both despise and pity him. His paper has now
no circulation and less influence As he adj
mits in the article to which we have referred,
the HERALD exceeds his Tribune as greatly in
the number rs in the character ana position
Of its subscribers. As for its enterprise, Gree
lev confesses in the same articie--p cino re-
ritds-that the letter of Gay, his managing edi
Tor saying, "The HERALD is constantly ahead;
are obliged 10 copy from its genune.
In his own columns lie has repeatedly stated
that ;he Tribune Association lost money BY the
publication of their paper. Cooks libel suit
will close up the TTib'alr. in spite Of it. con-
tracts for government guns aud State prison
beef In politics poor Greeley has cut the
throat of his own party, and it will have grand
funeral in 1864 with numerous though unsym-
pathizing, mourners and burial, which shall
know no resurrection. The unhappy negroma-
niac who edits the Tribune sees before him,
then. only ruin aud perdition in this world and
the next. Even now he Is in bis last gasps and
mortal struggles. His shouts, shrieks and
groans proclaim his approaching dissolution.
While We invite The public to gaze upon him,
we beseech them rather to weep than TO smile
"a he convulses, tears, bites and mutiates him
self. Lost az he i, this thing was once 0 man.
Let us hope that Heaven will be more merciful
to him than he was to himself, and drop the
curtain.
NALLkNDlGHAa AND GREErEY.This worthy
pair Of comprehension Mobile frdtr'u-are
embarked in the same boa, and both rowing in
the opposite direction to that to which their
faces are turned. They are both bound for Sc
paration, though both pretend aloud 20 their
opponents that they are in favor Of the Union,