The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-07-25
Observation-Disclosures.


tions of the day. These conflicts of opin-
ion enable those who, like ourself, have
no great pretentions to craftsmanship, to
como to correct conclusions as to the merits
Of the controversy.
The last ARegIaaiap contains a letter
written by the last Of the three gentlemen
whose names head this article, and writ
ten at the other two. Mr. Davis was the
President Of the late $50 called Southern
Confederacy; Mr.. Greeley, the editor of
the New York Tribune and Mr.. Barker
a member Of the last Congress. They
were all active contributors to the causes
that brought about the late rebellion, but
after it actually commenced the first only
sustained it, while the two last fought to
put it down. We use the word ''fought''
figurativeIy, Of course, for the talents Of
these three distinguished gentlemen could
not be spared from the councils al Wash
ington and Richmond, so that neither of
them ever sought the tented field
The letter Of Mr.. Barker is severe upon
h3S.-Greeley, and still more severe upon
Mr.. Davis. We have no doubt Mr..
Greeley will feel deeply panied that Mr..
Barker has F'felt constrained to differ with
him in opinion heretofore, but the chief
unforgivable crime laid to his charge by
Mr.. B. is that he went call the way to
Richmond" and went bail for Jeff Davis.
''7Hercas (wc give Mr.. Barkcr's own Eng
- and thereby he stultifed himself,
4 ced bad taste, and utterly disregarded
Is lefed the sentiment of the loyal mass
and denounces Horace as 'fhe backer
~tsqotorious traitor" He then winds
assuring Greeley that he "may
sttey-aud explain, and scold, and
lten as he will, but (he said Barker
,Taning) tell him, more in sorrow than in
: ger, that by his imprudent trip to Rich
ond he managed to get a Jlack spot on
old 1clate coat which not all the ingenui-
and sophistry Of the Tribune establish
= u 0he New York Tribune meaning)
can ever cover or erase" Then follows
the conclusion, in the following statesman
like and significant words, SO frequently
used as "Amen" by Boston divines-
THAT'S SO"-and Greeley is no more
But if Mr.. Barker's rebuke of Greeley
IS scathing his attack upon Davis is abso-
lutely fearful Never this side of the BIZ
Rngsgate ishmarket was heard such awful,
such whitening invective! And it is not
made without sufficient information of the
facts whereof he speaks, for Mr.. Barker is
kno,riedgaJle man. 81 have watched
his public course" quoth Barker, "with
the utmost care, and am morally certain
that treason, danning treason Ga new kind,
we suppose has been lurking in his heart
for the last twenty years.
After comparing Davis with Calhoun,
and regretting that that statesman was
permitted TO die a natural death, he pro-
ceeds with about column of the tcorst
abuse we ever read. We shall give few
OF the adjectives and nowns, as sample:
"PeUured wretch," "base and bloody
usurper, "ungodly ambition" ''arch, trai-
tor, ''scoundrel and arbitrator, ''sneak
and coward" "willing to unsex himself"
''accursed carcass" ''infernal seeessionist
and traitor, the slave-driver and freedom
hater, the butcherer of Union prisoners
and Presidential murderer" "author of ten
thousand crimes, this wholesale murderer,
this chief of all villains &c. &c. &c.
NOW, here's "pretty kettle of fish"
Greeley and Davis, of course, both take
the AlIeghanian, and their feelings may be
"more easily imagined than described,
But what are they going to do about it I?
Neither Of them can afford to lie under
these heavy charges, brought to their doors
oy respectable ex-member of Congress.
" can only say, in all frankness, that
eacl OF either of them shall have a column
oi the Freeman to reply to Mr.. Barker,
Pto'iued "teT letters avoid scurrility and
gross personalities. And, we doubt not,
the reading public will await with anx-
" the result Of this tremendous mental
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