The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-23

Horace Greedy, who has been run by
outside Influences Especially of the
New York Sam for various offices of
honor ard profit in the gift OF General
Grant, appears in Mondays Tribune
with nu editorial entitled "Balm for the
Wounded" in which, after abiding 10
tile generous support he has received
gratis, lie says that he has in no way
helped nor hiEdered their operations,
but that, although he has had several
interviews with General Grant concern
ing other meditated appointments
nothing has been said on either side as
TO HE own. AT the same time Mr..
Greeley assures his friends that
he in no manner departs from
his rule of never refusing ap.
pointments or nominations that have
never been rendered him; nor does he
make it his custom TO affirm the acidi-
ty of grapes which hang above his
reach. There is one office, however, he
admits, for which Gen. Grant seems to
have recognized him as we'll adapted,
and that is as proper person TO act as
model, exemplar, pattern, fuEelman,
to his great and growing army of dis
appointed oftice-seekers-tO be their
guide, philosopher and friend" in cir
cumstances peculiarly trying to tenn
per ard department. This MIR. Greeley
accepts, and addresses his suffering
fellow mortals as follows:
Comrades in adversely! brethren OF
the sOrehead persuasion! be soothed
D.n1rR . Ia
is not all a dreary waste-republicS are
notspecialIy acknowledgements
is not perverse, undisceruing block
head-th6 country Is not going to the
dpnuition bow vows, although we
have not been provided with Ctnces.
On the contrary, suns VIII shine and
waters dance, flowers will bloom and
harveats ripen. precisely as though we
had bored harder or button-holed more
adroitlV, and SO wormed our way up
10 the places whence more fortunate
aspirants are now grinniDg down at us
in glad exultatiOn and measureless con-
tent. Let us, then, dear brethren! take
these bullets OF fortune in good part,
and try 10 believe that there is n jewel
In the loads head, though as yet We
don't begin to see it. Let us eschew
profanity, which is worse than useless,
and whining, which is contemplate,
and betake ourselves 10 our proper
CallingS with re2olute II not with joyful
hearts. Let us turn with zeal to our
business, il business we already have;
If we have none, let US make haste TO
lind useful WoTk-never before more
HbUndant-and set to doing it with all
our might. Let US cherish our wives
and children, il such we already have;
il any of us lack those vital elements
OF mundane felicity, let him make haste
to attain them. In short, loved compa-
triOts let us show how we'll we should
have filled the offices to which we re-
Bpectively aspired by showing how use
full and how jolly we can do without
them: and thus, if we can not be distin-
guished or powerful, at least save our
selves from being accounted ridiculous
or contemplate. Since no one would
pity our misfortunes, let us exhibit
neither wound nor scar, but go gaily on
our several ways as though nothing had
happened. So shall we prove ourselves
superior 10 adversely, and show that,
though we have not commanded sue
cess We may yet rank with those who
have not already justified their defeat
by showing that it was deserved.
Brethren! be staunch in adversely, and
then, If prosperity should ever overtake
you, you will know how 10 appreciate
and enjoy it!