Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-03-16
THE AMERICAN CONFLICT.
Horace Greeley's Forthcoming His
History Of the Great Rebellion.

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the superior quality of the paper and the
good taste and mechanical skill uith
which the entire book seems to be got
ten up. Clothed 10 such beautiful car.
ments, Mr. Gresley's thoughts and opin-
ions would not lack readers. even though
they might, at times fail to possess m leh
interest in themselves
AS editer Of the New York Tribune,
Mr. Greeley has long been recognized as
a writer Of perspieuity and power Per
haps as a writer Of clear. direct, yigo-
rous AngIo-Saxon," he has few if any SUI
lcriors in the country. II is this that
has given his paper its reputation and in
iiaenee, and wo need say nothing fnrth-
/ er as to the style Of his history, than to
affirm that It possesses all the vIgor and
i 'aciness OF the Tribune leaders, pruned
| 4 exereseences and inadvertences which
Invariably attach to articles prepared for
dily papers on tue impulse Of the mo-
nenf, and amid tie rush aud hurry OF
bsiness
lr Greeley entities hia new book the
American Conflict, a history Of the
Graf Rebellion, It's Causes, incidents
andltesults, intended TO exhibit especi-
allyits Moral and Political Phases, with
the irift and progress Of American opin-
ion especting Human Slavery, from
/ lii6 1864 The irst octave volume
is to issued early in May He lays
out lrge patch Of ground for eulti-
vation,)n we are satisfied, fron the
speeima sheets before ~, that Il will
not be tinly plowed or careIessly sown
Mr. Gre'ey IS too thorough workman
for that
We hAs not the space for extensive
quotaiiousyet We cannot forbear max
ing few hieh We find ready to our
hand, havip been prepared for the Gin
cinnaii Gastfe by its intelligent CORES.
pondent, nate
Mr. Greelss pictures are graphic.
For instanca, the following picture Of
the life led bymr fathers at the close Of
the Revolution,y War
The warm, bght fireside of even the
bumblest familTn the long winter even
= irgs, was a cent? Of cheer and enjoy
ment Social inFcourse was more gem
eral, less formal, ore hearty, more val.
ued, than at preset Friendships we're
warmer aud deelr Relationship, by
blood or by marage, was more pro.
! foundly regarded. den we're not ashan.
ed TO own that they owed their cousins
better than their der neighbors, and
: their neighbrs bett, than the rest ol
mankind To spend month, in the dead
- Of winter, in visit tohe dear old home.
stead, and interchan,s Of affeetionate
greetings with brotherand sisters, mar
ried and settled at dances Of twenty
to fifty miles apart, wasnot deemed M
n absolute waste OF time, or even an ex-
> pertinent on fraternal eslity and hospi.
tality.
The illusion that the mes that were
are better than those tha,are, has prob
- ably pervadeS all ages Yet passion
ately earnest assertion, vaicb many ot
us have hearo from the bs of the ole
men OF thirtf to fifty vars ago, tha
the days of their youth wer sweeter ane
happier than hose VIC have known, will
s doubtless justly US in hlieving lha
they wre by no means inolerahle. !
is not 90 much 10 assume nat the mer
By wh'se valor aud virtue American in
Dependence was achieved, ad who nyct
to enoy, for half a centur, thereafter
\ the gatitude of their eounry, and tht
he homes pride of their ehildrensaw weakl
{, - as fsrly distributed, and tie labor 0
ai freeren as adequately rewardd, as thos'
N. of anoSt any other countryor Of an,
- preous generation.
N Greeley's personal skcches ar
:, iniutable he has been so ntimatel
- connected with the public uen of tn
" day for years past, and his memory is $
ten;ious Of incidents that haze oecu
1s redindeT his own immediate observe
tiosthat in this particular his book wi
.. posss an interest unattainaae by an
or. 9th.
! lie story Of the Alton tragedy Zone {
theesults of which was to bring out th
yog Wing lawyer, Wendell Phillips, 8
1, nnd-slayery mani, is tsld and th
sksh Of the martyred Loyejoy IS thu
contly concluded:
Wat Loe9oys murder shsued.
r.. lie details of this tragedy are i'm por
anRs they serve to silence two caviIi
. with have been most familiar in tn
mehs o. the champions of SLAYER
e. " koa want to oppose slavery, VII
do you go where it is2n has been tr
alAr uT1antly asked many thousand time
'As Ms.ovejoy did exactly this-as Lund,
- anl3arrisou- and many others had don
Z; bee him-and only left slave for
frsState when such removal was in
T. pesively demanded Why don't va
Ike clear Of the fanstical Abolition, an
ON disss the question in moderation an
90 temper2" Mr. Lovejoy did exact
thalso. He was not the advocate
eN, Gasonism; on the contrary, he col
deled it. He was not the ehampiC
Mt. of " political party, nor any peeshi
4; Z; Inf anti-slavery action. He did n
u.sd asd pash an Abolition Journal His Vi
Ss'y siuy and purely religions newspape
nest in lch slavery was from time TO tin
i-ine, dlSsSed, and its evils exposed, Ill
tent thdof intemperanee or any other il
LES mdFsy. Bnt this he was not permits
to doFhether in slave or 10 a fr