The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-21
OUR NEW YORK LErrER-

tw York Politics - Horace Greeley's
finances for the United States senate
The Probable CandIdates-Rnymo
Making the Amende Honorable.
NEW YORK, November 2O.-Tbe elac,ion is
uauly over before the political g1udnuncs
oeem 10 discuss the Senatorial question.
aIhong me candidates are General Martindale
senator Folger, Ira Harris, the present incum-
DeLt, AMI the editor OF the New York I,,ibupp.
- Inougn l nave named him last Horace
Greeley Is the foremost picture on the Senatorial
canvas. Since the celebrated firm of Weed
Seward, and Greeley dissolved political partner,
SNIP owing to the dissatisfaction of The honest
partner IN that hrm, Horace Greeley 1t has
Deen commonly supposed that mir. Greeley had
no chance whatever for office in New
York. ,And nothing is more certain
than that be never asked for any
Once in the gilt OF the people. And / am
not sure that he had not ceased to expect office;
ior lhe writer OF this well remembers, when
dining at Delmonicos with him, on the evening
OIL the 22d OF last February, that the philosopher
Oh tne !rt0une distinctly declared that the only
P,Ts asPnTatons m ne had left for political prelerment
would be FULLY gratifed by a seat as delegate in
tne approaching Constitutional Convention for
New York. And in the Tribune of yesterday
Horace Greeley IN characteristic letter,
ueclares tnaJ no man is authorized to "bore or
Duttonhole" any otner man 10 advocating his
claims 10 q seat in the Senate. This is in per.
course.
There is a naiUete about him which is per-
1ectly charming, when 1t is remembered that
the best part OF his life has been spent in the
strlies ana rvalres of New York politics, of
which William II. Seward and Henry j. Ray
mond have been shining lights.
Apropos OF the 22d OF February, distinctly
remember MIR. Greeley's prediction that nothing
was more certain than the defeat OF the Andrew
Johnson-Seward coalition, which for the first
Time stalked before the public on the evening of
that memorable day when Andrew johnson
spoke ms piece" in which he dgn6ed Thsd.
nnG G.tFn. l., Il,.,.- Al
TRAITORS at the other end OF the line" And on
the same evening Mr.. Seward, at the Cooper
Institute, reiterated his prediction that some
Cabinet Ministers, and even The President
might be washed overheard, but that the shID
OF state would be saved The venerable Secre-
tary was right.
AT least one President and one Secretary of
State have been washed overheard and never
did the ship of state so bravey faunt the Stars
and Stripes at the masthead, or more gallantly
breast the waves as we near that port where
liberty shall be universal-where equal laws
shall exist side by side with equal rights; and,
as Tennyson says:-
"ture law commeasures perfect freedom"
ought TO be Senator. No man mas.
since the days Of the Fathers, been
truer to an idea-and that idea embracing
the very toundation-stones of the republc-than
Horace Greeley. HIS battle against the South
has always been a fight for the rights of the
many against the tyranny of the few.
Nothing can prevent Mr.. Greeley's election
unless the cry should be raised that the West is
entitled to the Senator as against the East-the
old cry Of political sel6shness, with the faintest
foundation possible in equity. In times like
these we want our great men in the National
Council, to take the place of those
"Simple great ones
n Gone forever and forever by"
What difference does it make if Mr.. Greeley
happens tn live in Westchester county, and
Senator Harris comes from the West and the
West gives the big ajorites? Let il be re-
membered that Mr.. Greeley belongs to that
class of statesmen who were born for the uni
verse, and who never did give up for party what
was "meant tor mankind" If Horace Greeley
| is the man for the place (and an honest man 1 |
| think he is), in Heavens name put him there in
spite OF the vulgar bargaining of political sell
tishness, or the clamor of Wall street!
Even Raymond comes ont to-day with "a most
graceful mention of Horace Greeleys claims for
the Senate, a very proper return for Mr..
Greeleys welcome, when Mr.. Raymond ceased
! ito eat ''the husks which the Democratic swine
&did eat"
1 met yesterday, Major.Geueral Francis W.
Barlow Secretary of State OF New York. He is
a young gentleman OF thirty winters, a brave
soldier and hl9htoned statesman. He won
his spurs at Antietam, and came home to win
political aurels in the campaign against Gene
raj Slocum. General Barlow had lust returned
from day or two with your excellent Mayor,
Mr.. McMIchael, and his son He thinks your
MAY or (who believe is now at hOme) is man
of rare culture and OF most genial manners.
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