Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-05
a Rhinoceros ,Touched.I

HoRACE GREELEY, the disunion priest ana
prophet of the New York Tribune, is out m
adouble-leadedle leadcr,p pathetlcally depreca-
ting ..'yiolence in Politics." He declares
himself opposed to all manner of personal
abuse and defamation oflcandidates, and Is
irifayor of conducting the canvass upon
strictly decent and gentlemanly rules, ana
appeals feelingly to the Democrats Tor q
cessation of the bitter hostilities OF the cam
paign. People who have read or Under
stood the course of The Tribune since GREE
LEY was nominated elector, sold out FIRE.
MONT and west in for LINCOLN, will be
surprised at this sudden breaking out OF
gentility in that paper; but it Is easily ex-
planned. From the time GREELEY was as
sured of his reward and came out for LIN
coin, The Tribune has been a sewer through
which perpetual stream of lies, SANDER,
defamation and personal vituperation
poured in torrents. There was no SANDER
too foul, no lie too audacious for its columns.
1t accused MCCLELLAN of having betrayed
his armyofhis having secretlygiven the rob
els several batteries OF artillery, of his having
actually offered his services to the rebel
Government for reward in gold. All these
lies were promptly contradicted and proved
false by The World and other Democratic
Journals, but The Tribune paid no attention
to contradictions, and repeated the false-
hoods, prefacing them with the remark that
they ''had not been denied" This auda-
cious and shameless course Of The Tribune
excited the disgust of everybody, but, 1t
was persisted in until endurance ceased to
be virtue. The Democratic press was
then forced into offensive warfare, for which
the Abolitionists were in no wise prepared.
(, The World and other journals began to ven
tilate "the infamy Of the White House" "
and to question the "honestyn of Old ABE
in the disbursement of the White House
appropriations, and in his interference to
stop the investigation into the St. louis
swindle, in which the Presidents family
were engaged; and opened up the prolific
field of Mr.. Bob LINcoLN's stupendous
specnlations in cotton, in connection with
Abolition Senators. The infamous conduct
of GREELEY and other prominent LINCOLN
leaders In holding negro balls and mis-
cegenation carnivals in their club rooms
in New York was exposed, and all things
indicated the most scandalous develop
ments in regard to the Administration and
its supporters that ever brought the blush
to the cheek of a nation. Old GREELEY re-
ceived an intimation from the White House
that these exposures must be stopped, if
possible, and GREELEY himself was only too
anxious to have them stopped. Even his
rhinoceros hide began to feel the'lash he
himself had put in motion. So he comes
out in pitiful double-leadcd leader crying
Enough" and begging that this war of
personalities, in which he was rapidly sink
ing himself and his master, might stop.
The old rhinoceros was brought to the floor
with ring through his nose, and he now
bellows Justify for mercy. The Tribune has
for several days been remarkably decent,
and if the violence which it first began, and
now deprecates, viii have the effect of max
ing the journals which follow The Tribune
in all things more decent and respectable,
it will not have been altogether fruitless.