The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-14
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Olnef bLue.
From an article by Hon. Mr.. scovilIe,
of New Jersey, written in reply to ex-
Senator Wallis critique upon Horace
Greeley, we make the following ex-
tract: 81 .-sE-
Mr.. Greeley Is remarkable for his in
tellectual conscientiousness. Many men
are morally honest; few men have MEL
IectUdl integrity. Mr.. Seward said New
York had no leader after the Constitu-
tional amendment became part of the
Congressional plan of reconstruction.
New York found leader, and when,
bv almost unanimous consent, the Sem
atorship was accorded to him, with the
popular and tacit understanding that
Horace Greeley would give up half his
platform, "uniVerSal amnesty" he not
only refused the moral bribe, but grim
ly refused even to be silent on that
question. Show me another example,!
He lost the Senatorial purple, but he
gained in the hearts of the. people; for If
a man plants himself indomitably on
the right, the great world will sooner or
later swing around to him. Horace
Greeley has made Presidents and un-
made them. rs
His Tribune has made halfou public
men ''great," but he, unselfish, never
-''givinY up to party what was meant
for mankind" has gone steadily on
ward, scarcely ever being in office, if
we may except his half term in Con-
gress, and his election as delegate at
large to the Constitutional Convention
of New York.
No man has ever said more bitter
things, or true, against Andrew John
son than the philOsopherofthe Tribune,
and yet Andrew johnson sends his
uame to the Senate as Minister 10 Aus
tria, knowing well that he cannot
swerye him hairs breadth from the
line of principle. Mr.. Greeley Is not
without personal vanity, and not with
out ambition. Who isP What a manly
ring has his letter dissolving the old
partnership of Seward, Weed and
Greeley Self-respect could no longer
permit him to be the servant OF such
man as Thurlow Weed.
He said 80, and It was u noble thing
to say 1t when he did and as he did.
The writer to whom we have SO often
referred, not because of the merit OF the
article, but because of MIR. Greeley's
unselfish devotion to principle, de-
mRnded that some one, of his own free
will and accord, should make some
answer, however imperfect and frag-
mentarY, to the animus of the magazine
sketch The writer thinks Mr.. Greeley
"a great man and great fool, or, to
adopt mild euphemisrn, great child"
NeiD Jersey 1ld1dEi'Ie.)
Napoleon's definition of great man
WAS that man who did great things.
And the defeat alone of the Seward
Johnson plan of restoration, backed, as
it was pretended to be, by the great
name of Abraham Lincoln, stamps Mr..
Greeley's name with greatness foreyer,
and his fame will grow brighter and
brighter as he nears the perfect day. 1t
is The heart that makes the soldier; and
all philosophy teaches us that the in
tellect, when true to the line, acts
through the sensibilities.
We can count on the fingers of either
hand the public men in America whom
power never warped. Horace Greeley,
to his eternal honor be 1t said, is one of
the five righteous, and like Abou Ben.
Adhem, his "nRme leads all the rest"
If we made exceptions, they would be
In favor of Stevens and Sumner, Gar
rison and Phillips.
Horace Greeley never abandons II
principle-he never went back on a
friend. That he is not understood he
well knows, and has said so when ad-
dressing his friends as marrow minded
blockheads," who meant to serve the
country, but did not know how. And
the act for which he has been most Sc
verely censured was done from the lof-
tieSt and purest motives, and after con-
sultatiou with the great men in whom
we all trust, but who have not yet been
generous enough TO share the blame
which the populRce are ready always,
upon the lightest provocatton, to shower
upon their prophets, crying one day
"HosannaW and the next day prepar-
ing the cru3ifixion.
Nominis ,StdL UmbrO is mistaken when
he:says Horace Greeley's character is
a conjunction of "childish mot child
like( qualities with great mental capac-
ity." 1t is true he has wonderful SIM
plicity OF character.
He does not like to obey, nor does he
desire to command. He Is true to him
self in being true to his convictions.
But simplicity is always an attribute OF
that power which is not pretentious.
III. G.. is not the timid sentimentalist
people think he is. Right well he
knows the world he despises for its
meanness and duplicity.
He knowA too, the world