The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-10

was unjust and pernicious, and their reply
was an attempt to persuade me off dock into
thirty water, which l was barely able
with help to prevent. Long after that tried
to persuade another stakeholder (son of
a lifelong negro-trader, and now him
self a Rebel General) that he had
made an unfair proposition in Congress, and
he replied by attempting to persuade hole
into the top of my skull, and my brains out
through that hole. That is all my personal
experience on the subjects but | have very
often been assured (no doubt truly that if
should ever go South, and attempt there to
persuade people that slavery was wrong, l
should very soon have the breath of lie per-
suaded out of my body"
Now suppose, after all this and still later
experience of the temper and spirit which
slavery and Rebellion have fostered Mr.. Greeley
should also fall by the hand of an assassin,
would his fate arouse the commiseration which
was extended to Booths illustrious victim,
would he receive the same apotheoss?
Would not the verdict be:--He obstinately
shut his eyes to facts he tamely substituted
tolerance of crime for justice. His experience
taught him nothing. He was a burned child
that would still play with the fire. He brought
upon himself merited punishment for his tenn
porizing and vacillation.
Mr.. Greeley's excellence as an editor is in
disputable. His ready memory and varied
In good cause his logic is very effective; in a
bad cause his special pleading is ingenious
Let his antagonist beware how he uses wea-
pons that may be turned upon himself.
When James Watson Webb undertook to
ridicule Greeley's shabby attire, he was
silenced by the retort that the dress which he
found so ridiculous was not nearly so
singular as that he would himself have worn
but for the clemency of Governor Seward.
When Mordecai M. Noah deprecated the negro
as belonging to an inferior race which had no
rights that white men were bound to respect,
Mr.. Greeley's stinging and conclusive answer
was, that man belonging to a nationality
which for centuries had been outlawed in every
Christian nation, should be the last one to ex-
cite prejudices ON account of race or color.
Nor is it fitting to deny the greatness of
Horace Greeleys heart. There is too much
enthusiasm there for what he believes to be
right too ready willingness to battle, against
any odds, for whatever he deems a humani-
tartan object, to permit any lover of mankind
to withhold his respect and affection for the
man. Were his head as cool as his heart is
warm, his judgment as sound as his aims are
noble, he would not have made the mistakes
which prove him to be an unfit leader in the
path of progress he so devotedly loves.
[The above exceedingly clever, but some
what prejudiced article, bears internal evil
dence Of being the composition of the Hon.
James W. Wall, of Burlington, N. j., some
time United States Senator from that State.
The following estimate of Mr.. Greeley's life
and character, written by the Hon. James M.
Soovel, of Camden, N. j., is presented to the
public as an offset to the partial structures of
the ex-senator. 1t is written from an entirely
different standpoint, and, we think, with more
justice and truer appreciation of the great
philosopher of the IIribune.'-ED. TELE-
| GRAPH.
HORACE GREELEY:
WHAT HE IS, AND WHAT THE COUNTRY OWES HIM.
The Northern Monthly and ". j. Magazine
devotes nine pages of its August number to an
article (whose author contrary to the rule
which obtains with this magazine, writes
under the rose) which, in no kindly spirit,
pictures the peculiarities of the really genial
! gentle, and many-sided philosopher of the
! Tribune.
The sting of the sketch, like the poison o1
some serpents, is the tail of it. This new
| NOminiS Stat Urabra says:-"Were his head as
cool as his heart is warm, his judgment as
sound as his aims are noble, he would not
have made the mistakes which prove him to
be an unfit leader in the path of progress he
so devotedly loves"
| NOW IL Is Sd16 10 say, anu IL Gail D6 Sdlu WIFI
perfect truthfulness, that critic who begins
his article with an encomium on William II.
Seward as the writer in the Nel0 Jersey Maya
zine does, is apt to end it with a sneer at the
muscular morality, the veracity and courage
the pluck-which have already made Horace
Greeley's name more widely known than that
of any other public man since the death of
Abraham Lincoln.
1t is not fashionable now to stone the pro-
phets. Young America only snubs them.
With unbecoming audacity the Northern
Monthly critic intimates that because Mr..
Greeley had made mistakes he is not fit to be
q leader. Now God made Horace Greeley a
leader of the people, and whom God has
ioined together let no man put asunder.
Mr.. Greeley is essentially man of oonvic-
tiOns, and ninety-nine times in hundred his
convictions are right and woe to the luckless
wight or the much-venturing knight who
takes up a lance to defend meanness, or enters
the lists to uphold injustice He the con-
servative apologlst of human selhshness OF
rapacity, is apt to 60 down,
"Rider and horse
| In one red burial blent"
Even Wendell Phillips, who cannot be accused
of any present tenderness for Horace Greeley,
never hesitated to say that, during the war,
the Tribune was the white plume of Navarro,
always in the forefront of the fight for the
right.
If the reader of this can see any sense in
the question of NoniniS Stat Umbra-'If Gree
ley should also fall by the hand of an assassin,
would his fate arouse the commiseTation
which was extended to Booths illustrious