The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-28
The Little Rump Poodles Barking
nt the Abolition Lion.

lht IitNlb huinp FoOuIeS baTklnE
ht the Abolition Lion.
lloRACE GREELEY, who we believe to be
no better than he ought to be, but who has
been, and is yet considered, the great Lion
of the Abolition press of this country, ior
= purpose better known to himself than
anybody else, was very prompt to step for
ward ana have his name placed upon The
bail-bond Of Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS, lat,
inmate Ok military bastlle. For this act
of Mr.. GREELEY's all the little Rump poo.
dies of the country have set up such a
barking aud yowling as to cause Horace
20 look around to see what the matter H.
Discovering the cause, he at once turns fun
upon the whole pack, and thus goes for
'cm: :"
AT once, a concerted howl of dcnmca-
ton and rage was sent up from every side
against me by the Ittle creatures whom
Cod for some inscrutable purpose, permits
TO edit a majority Of orr minor Journals.
echoed by yell of stop my paperr from
thousands of imperfcctly instructed read
ers of the Tribune. one impudent puppy
wrote me to answer categorcally whether
was or was not in favor of hanging jeff.
Davis, adding that must stop his paper if
WIZ li't' ''Vbtts Nbluutttftu ASSURANCES
That l was deiNiug public opiniOu,-that
most Of my readers were against meas If
! could be induced to write what they
wished said rather than what they needed
70 be told. | never before realized so vivid
ly the bascncss OF the Editorial vocation
according to the vulgar conception of IT,
The din raised about my ears now is moth
ingto that then endured and dcspised.
am Inundated by the reflection that il Is
Cor was in the power of such insects to
annoy me- even by pretending to discover
with surprise something that [ have for
years been publicly, emphatically pro
claiming"
Having thus silenced and sent some of
the more timid little fellows to their kennels,
he turns himself upon their masters, and i'm
manner that plainly speaks the power he
has been accustomed to WELD among them,
he says, addressing the club of which he is
Il member:
60 do not recognize you as capable of
Judging, or even fully apprchendmg me
Nou evidently rcgardsme as a weak scnti-
hehtlllsl' miSled by Inaudlm philosophy.
! arralgn You rs narrow minded block
heads, who would like to be useful to "A great
and good cause, but don't know how. Your
attempt to base u great, enduring party ON
the nate and wrath necessarily eugcndcred
ny bloody Civil War, is rs though you
shoulu plant colony on an iceberg which
had somehow driited into tropical ocean.
! tel you here that, out of n life earnestly
devoted to the good of human kind, your
children will select my going to Richmond
ana signing that bail-bond rs the wi,esL ACT.
and will feel that 1t did more for Freedom
ana Humanity than all OF you were compe-
of Melhusclah.
81 as K nothing of you, then, but that you
proceed TO your end by direct, frank, man
~ way. Don't slide OF into a mild resolu- |
llon OF censure, but move the expulsion |
when you purpoSed, and which deserve ifI
deserve any reproach whatever. All /
care ior Is, that you make this square,
stahu-up light, and record your Judgment
Dy yeas anu nays. care not how few vote
WIN me, nor how many vote against me
Tor know the latter will repent it in dust
ana ashes before three years have passed.
Understand, once for all, that | dare YOU
ana defy you, and that propose to fight it
out ON the line that have held from the day
OF Lee 5 surrender
If 1t was not so serious matter, we
would be moved to excessive mrth by the
pen-portraits HORACE has drawn of the
poodles consigned to the same kennel with |
himself, but the character he has given to |
these "little creatures whom COP, for
some inscrutable. purpose, permits to edit |
majority of our minor journals" is such
that we are forced to suppress our mirth,
as we turn to contemplate the condition to
which these 'little creatures" with GREE
LEY at their head, have brought the country
and the Government. The picture is mirth-
provoking, but the lamentable condition of
Dt1airg eft irg tloI Iao
81 arraign you as narrow minded block
heads" says HORACE, turning to the mas
tiers of the''pacll. ."-"narrow-minded block
heads, who would like to be useful but
don't know how" And it is by these "nar-
row-minded blockheads," and these "little |
creatures, that two great sections of n once
greatRepublie have been brought toa bloody |
collision that sacrificed life without thought
devastated the country--disrupte the
Union--destroyed a Republic-oyerthrew
Democratic government - demoralized q |
people--piled mountain of debt upon the |
sons of toll, and is rapidly reducing to |
bankruptcy, poverty, want, outlawry and
slavery, beneath military despotism, the
very best white men of the country--the |
farmer, mechanic, and laborlng men of the
North and South.
II arraign you," says Mr.. GREELEY, as
"narrow-minded blockheads," who don't
know how to be useful. Let the Ameri-
can people take up the charge-the indict-
ment made by GRFELEY, and arraigu, try
and condemn these marrow minded block |
heads, with HORACE GREELEY as accessory
before the fact, and Mt the next election
pass such sentence upon them as SHAH
place it beyond their power to do further
mischief.
---ss
HOwling at Horace Greeley.
There is true magnanimity in what the
Lebanon star says:
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