The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-05-31

tinaclOuS ADVOCACY OF mercy TO the |
vanquished. CHANGING to enter the
clubhouse the next { Saturday J eve
ming, | received a full broadside of
your scowls, ere we listened to q
clerical harangue intended. to prove
that Mr. Lineoln had been Prosidrn
tiall \ removctl brcs,lse q his noto.
,riousleaain@ toward clemency, in
mderto make way iofes successor
who would give the Rebels full
measure of stern justice. Twas coon
made to comprehend that | had no
~ ympathizers-or none who dared
seem such--in your crowded assem-
blage. And some maladroit admirer
having, a few days afterward, made
the Club present of my portrait,
its bare reception was resisted in Il
speech from the Chair by your then
President--a speech whose vigorous
invective was ju. titled solely by my
pleadings for lenity to the Rebels
At once, a concerted howl of de
nunciation and rage was sent up trO
every side against me by the little
creatures whom God, for some in
scrutable purpose, permits to edit a
majority Of our minor journals, ech
oed by yell of "Stop my paper!
from thousands Of imperfectly in
strncrrd readers of The Tribune -
One impatient puppy wrote me to
nnswrr categorically whether | was
or was not in favor of hanging JEFF.
Davis, adding that must stop his
paper il were not Scores volun-
teered assurances that ] was defying
public opiuiOn--that most OF my
readers were agaldst meas If |
could he induced to write what they
needed to he toll ! never before
realized so yividly the haseness Of
the Editorial vocation according to
the vulgar conception of IL. The din
raised about V ears now IL nothing
10 that then endured and despised.
am Inundated by the reflection that
it is for was IN the power OF such
insects to annoy me, even by pre-
tending to discover with surprise
something that have for years been
publicly, emphatically proclaiming "
After thus lunging at persons and
things, he goes on to tell how honest
he was last Fall, when he was spoken
of for Senator from New York, and
takes considerable credit to himself
because he announced himself in ia
vor of Universal Amnesty in the
face of the advice OF certain friends
to koop quiet. We do not wish to
ascribe anything other than child
like honesty to the venerable Horace
but it looked then as II he IN adG hi,
declaration for effect, thinking tha
he would he elected to the coveted of
flee in spite Of anything he nigh
declare. Before his declaration o
Of "univrseal Amnesty" the peopl,
ofthe State OF New York and the press
Republican ofcourse-were aimos
unanimous for him, particularly thu
latter, and Horace thought that h'
could ride one 0: his pet schemes ant
the Senatorship at the time. III,
found lie couldn't.
Horace gives the members Of tn,
club, and in fact every one else VIII,
differs with him, his opinion OF then
thus:
"Gentlemen, / shall not attent
your meeting this evening. ! hav
t an engagement out Of town, and shal
keep it, | do not recognize YOU a
capable Of judging, or even fully ap
pretending nc. You evidently re
= gard me as a weak snntimentalist
D misled by q maudlin philosophy.
;, arraign you rs narrow minded block
/, heads, who would like to be usefr
to great and good cause, but don
know how"
: Wepresume everybody has heard {
J., the Jury of which the foreman sale
}, when asked by the Judge if the
! agreed. "No; those are eleven of tn
the most contrary devils i ever ha
, anything to do with"
Greeley's day for usefulness ha
past, and it would be we'll enough
drop him. When one man know
more, in his own opinion, than h
h party, he should leave it and see
b more congenial association.