The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-09-06

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Times and Tribune has beeu filled, for
the last week, with an array of the per-
sonal quarrel of Weed and Greeley, who
have said everything that is not pretty
about each other, and are now evidently
only waiting to take breath and get u new
supply OF paper to 20 at it again. But
to keep the interest in the quarrel from
growing stale, Mr.. e. Dana, formerly
Mr.. Greeley's associate on the Tribune,
and more lately assistant secretary of war,
takes the matter up in his Chicago Re-
publican. and pitches into both. Mr.
Dana says
The fact will hardly be questioned that,
during the last fifteen years, the lceisla-
ton Of New York has become notorious
for its corruption; that Nc. Weed has
exercised over it an authority, contested
and assailed indeed, bLt still remaining IN
his hands that his immediate friends
have been the parties most deeply inter.
ested in corrupt grants and discreditablc
projects at Albany that he has steadily
dciended them and their schemes; and
that, from a poor man, he has become a
very rich one. From all these facts. the
inference seems irresistible that he is more
responsible than any other individual for
the corruption OF public virtue in New
York aud it il this belief which has
raised what would else have been mnrn
personal controversy into the proportion a.,
OF question Of national concern. 1t it Is
n public calamity that a man like Mr..
Weed should have turned his back upon
his own earlier career, and have lent him
self to sap the very foundations of the re-
public, for the sake Of pelf, the record
respecting Mr., Greeley, though not one
OF degradation from avarice and public
corruption, is almost equally lamentable.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Greeley was
Il secessionist at the beginning of the war,
and remained Il secessiOnist all through it.
With timidity and debility amounting to
cowardice, and the most ahiect and pitia-
bic, playing part repugnant TO his con-
vlctions VIXEN he spasmOrlically supported
the government i'll its efforts TO crush the
rebellion; falling in with every preposter-
Gus scheme that tools like Colorado .Jewett
and scoundrels like Jacob Thompson de-
vised in the interest OF the rebels, propos-
ing now the intervention Of Switzerland
and now that Of Louis Napoleon as the
means Of settling the war; consorting
with Fernando Wood and the most trea-
sonable copperhcads, hating Mr.. Lincoln
and abusing Mr.. Stanton, because they
objected to his absurd notions such as
that the rebels should be bought off with
four hundred Millions and because they
persisted in their duty in spite of him it
is impossible to find Il more deplorable
catalogue Of unpatrioiic, useless, and dis
creditablo vagaric', than his during these
four years. Nothing but his great talents
and theNonfdcnce Of the people in his
former sincerity in behalf of the right.
have prevented him from becoming an
object of general contempt. Neither can
he any longer be called leader of the pco-
pie. The conservative wing of the party
does not coniide in Mr. Weed, nor the
radical wing in Mr.. Greeley. The lacl;
OF patriotism OF the one is di.trusted quito
as deeply as the corrupt tendencies of the
other, though of the two the latter we re-
gard as at present infinitely more danger
Gus to the public welfare. But it Is time
that their personal pocmic, should come
to an end. This long round Of mutual
recrminalion in which they ind'nge every
few months is about as Improbable and
tiresome as the ohiurga;iono of old women
in the municipalities Let them try ard
have it all out now, so that they will
never need to speak of each other again.