The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-21

the paper. Tickets must be printed, ii
at all. tomorrow. There ought to be a
dozen men in each township who viii
see that each meeting announced is re-
specially attended, and that the noni-
nstions made are brought to the office
Tonight 80 as to appear tomorrow.
We urge upon our friends attention to
this important matter tonight. DO not
neglect it, supposing that some one else
Will look aFterit.
Remember the meetings to-night>
OUR correspondent, SC. P.," who
writes US many interesting and in
structive articles, and who is generally
we'll informed on all subjects to which
addresses himself, falls short of his
customary comprehensiveuess and APP
probation, in our judgment, in the
view which he takes of Mr.. Greeley's
status before and during the war. We
consider it an injustice to the latter to
class him among those who were in
any reproachful sense responsible for
the war. Mr.. Greeley was the life
long, consistent and persistent enemy
OF slavery, as he is OF all sorts of wrong
and oppression. His arguments against
slavery, and especially against the pol
icy OF Matchmaking it in our territories,
took strong hold upon the millions who
were directly and indirectly his read
ers. The Republican party was the re-
suit OF those wide spread and deeply
rooted convictions among the people of
the Free States. The success of that
party at the polls in 1850 was the pre-
text of the South for secession. Only
in that sense therefore can Mr.. Gree
ley be said to be responsible for
the war. As well talk however Of the
propagators of truth anywhere being
responsible for a contest with error, AS
to speak of the Republican party being
responsible for the war. They did not
want the war, but the South did. The
latter, not the former, made the war.
There is the broadest, deepest and most
unmistakable difference in the world
between the two. Mr.. Greeley is IL man
of peace, man of great goodness of
private life, man ofincorruptible po-
lltical and social principles. He has
been teacher, educator, a nd, in many
respects, a leader of the people, and has
sought to do good in all matters of
popular reform and progress. 1t is too
late in thu Euxy To 10
thodoxy of the views which he so long
and so ably, and, at the last, so triumph
antly expounded to the people in re-
gard 10 the wrong, the unnaturalness,
and the dangers of slavery, and our
correspondent might just as we'll hold
Martin Luther and his colleagues to
account for the blood that fol-
lowed the Inauguration of Profess
testantism; as to classify Mr. Greeley,
and the men OF his stamp, along with
the Keitts, Rhetts and Pryors of the
South.
AS for Mr.. Greeley's eccentricities and
alterations at the outset of the war,
during the war. and since, we have
nought to say, save that We esteem the
disinterested motives which actuate
him, while we disagree wholly with
respective programmes which he at
tempted from time to time, as he
thought, in the interests of the country,
He is VIGOROUSLY a poor politicians
lamentable tactician, as has
been said-but just as VIGOROUSLY
man ofexalted aims in whatever he adj
vocates. His faults, for the most part,
like those of Goldsmith's Village
SchooImaster, have such an ingredient
and leaven of virtue in them that all
who know and appreciate the man es-
teen him scarcely less for what they
approve than for what they disapprove.
His recent Richmond affair looks quite
ridiculous to the people in one as pect of
1t, and yet in another 1t has relieving
phase, from the fact that it is consist
ent with the position held by Mr.. Gree
ley since the overthrow oftbe rebellion.
More than that, it is consistent with his
lifelong opposition to capital punish
nent, with his general aversion to
blood-shedding, and with the extensive
list Of his humanitarian ideas and adj !
vocacies, and especially with his "unl-
versaI amnesty and universal suf-
frage letter, which is supposed to have
cost him the U. s. Senatorship from
New York.
These remarks we make not by way
of inviting any further discussion of
the subject from our correspondent, for,
In our opinion, the game is not worth
the candle. We are content that Hor-
ace Greeley shall bump his head against
stone walls a dozen times a year, If he
wants to. He nearly always pays the
penalty, az does every other man, for
his bIunders. Hell not leader to- day
because he is too unsafe, but he il a
power in the land, and always will be,
because he is a man of great intellect
and great excelIencies.
THERE having been some dispute rel
alive to the Pope's forbidding American
Protestants worshipping in Rome, and
Mr.. King having stated that worship
was permitted in the American Chapel,
Mr.. Ireneus Prime, in the New York
Observer, gives the status of the case as
follows: "When Mr.. King transferred
the arms of the United States LegetiOn'
to the door Of the chapel, 1t necessarily
had the same effect as II he had moved
an army to guard 1t. The arms OF the
Legation gave it the protection Of our
own Government as II the chapel had
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