The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-15

and death without benefit Of clergy to brew
beer, before he viii consent TO open negotia-
tions on any subject with her sMajesty's Minis
ters.
Genet, of course, was misunderstood, mis-
represented, and msligned by the fools and
scoundrels whom he regarded it as his high
and holy mission TO soourge out Of America.
Jefferson wrote to Madison that he thought
"Genets appointment the most oalamitous
ever made" and described him as "hot-
headed, all imagination, no Judgment, pas
sionate, disrespectful, and even indecent to-
wards the President" Have not Copper
heads and people of that kind used just such
language as this about Greeley at home, and
can we doubt that he will be in like terms
reviled abroad by those timid creatures mis-
called statesmen, in whom education has
emasoulated the intellect and the religion OF
routine rusted out the elastic springs Of the
conscience and the soul2 But what's the
odds The career of Genet as the Apostle
of Jacobinism in America was inter
rupted by variety of unfortunate
circumstances. The detection of General
Dumouriez the defeat of the revolutionary
army at Neerwindep, the long series OF re-
verses which followed, eliminating in the sur
render of Valenciennes to the Duke of York,
the unpleasantpess which resulted from the
attempt Of the Friends of Humanity in France
to clothe "Frenoh citizens of African descent
in Hayti with political privileges-all these
things shook the faith of tickle populace,
and Citizen Genet subsided from the public
eye into the calm of connubial life. We do
not chose to anticipate like termination to
the efforts of Greeley rs the evangelist Of Eng
land, nor will we dwell even for a moment
upon so gloomy possibility. By all means
let the radicals send him abroad. Whatever
mischief Reverdy Johnson may have done,
Horace Greeley is the man of men promptly
to undo. The Radicals hold that Mr.. john
son has eaten more dinners with decent people
than he ought to have eaten. Not even
the Lord Mayor, we venture to say, will at
tempt to dine Mr.. Greeley twice. Mr.. John
SOD, they tell us, has degraded the Republic
by Shaking hands" with Mr.. Laird. We
should like to see Mr.. Laird or any other such
man shaking hands with Horace Greeley
Freedom shrieked, they assure us, when
Reverdy Johnson called Mr.. Roebuck his
''friend" over the knives and forks of the
Sheffield cutters. Freedom will wipe her
weeping eyes if over the Sheffield cutters give
Horace Greeley chance at their "dog
Tear-em ~ Mr.. Johnson publicly drinks wne
and treats bloated aristocrats to Baltimore
Madeira. Horace Greeley does not know
"Habersham'' or "Ilarriet' from Newark
cider. Mr.. Johnson, having been derived his
diplomatic small-clothes by act Of Congress,
goes about in that simple evening dress of the
period which confounds the peer with the
pdlouu, anu DOLu Win res SptCldCl6 upper
servants out of livery. Horace Greeley will
be uniform unto himself Breezy, unbut-
toned, and bucolic, he will make for his emil
nent trousers and his indomitable boots a
place in history with the brown suit of Frank-
lin and the threadbare blue coat of Frederic
the Great. Finally, it is a strength to diplo-
mats as it is to other impostors to stand we'll
with the fair sex. Metternich and Mahomet
thus alike prevailed. Kaunitz ruled Austria
by his smile and his peruke. Schwartzenberg
boasted that he had rose-pink little ear
listening at the key-hole of every Cabinet in
Europe. Franklin himself kindled the SYM
pathies of France with America into a blaze,
less by the bolts he snatched from heaven
than by the sparks he drew from lovely eyes
at Versailles and in the Tuileries. Whatever
else may be said for or against Mr.. Greeley,
it cannot be denied that he is thoroughly a
ladies' man. If we are to believe his auto
biography, he is as fond of dancing as Reverdy
Johnson is of dinners. Is there another radi-
cal in all the land of whom as much can be
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