The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-05
CONGRESSMAN cOx'S MASS MEETING.
A ROusing Rally at tho Riding School to
End.rsc Sunset Cox for Congress.
ssRecolleciions'' Of the ''Busy Life" Of
His Political Opponent.


number OF popular speakers were present and
much enthusiasm manifested.
Mayor uALI. In the course OF HIS address, mad,
the following remarks:--
Greeley's running Is a farce. Have you ever seen
Morton's farce OF "box and Coxg' In that farce
Box was Journeyman printer, Ike Greeley. the
printer into box Just as nezf election day oul
friend s. =. unitals which Ia law papers stand Iof
.'truly''l Will ge. Greeley Ia tisht pace ~ inc Dai-
LOT box. The republican papers nom Whcn nave
quoted do not, however Take tue strongest ~ oula.
Greeley Is really ineligible TO q seat "a Congres, aor
the same reason mat IN law makes nlch lugl, q
gible Tor purposes or tfugt or 10 maAe
contracts and 70 benr WINES lcs abopt ei n
Some have thought him malicious. anu cunning,
and ~ Wit o Su oy u the as a he
is homo ably ineligible 10 go " Congress rom ms
PETERS District, or win a widow Woman At ll5
West Forty-thira street, ~ weed d!.ict or a. the
wesimoreand Hotel N BOOKS sals ~, snre e
not, as have found from personal Inquiry, iesis.
tered in any OF tile cly districts, hut conhne myself
to the point lha hc Is al irresponsible agent, as the
best reason why people should vote against HIM.
What are the characteristics, In medicine and in
law oil ia irresponsible NAL?
He l. ieebie or purpose, trelnulous in Judgment,
unstable and inconsistent IN thought and deed,
dong motyeless taings. telling motveiess false
hoods, friendly with a man one moment AMI I'M
friendly tue next, eccentric 10 dress, eccentric In
eating and urinkinQ Gevoured by the worm self
consciousness lnii OF unaccountabe idiosyncracles
and pfeluQCes, aud awkward adcctatlons: uncep-
IAN al relrlous opinions he Is one day pIuyeflul
ana the nexE wildly blasphe nous; one moment no
Is calm The IeAt furious. Psychologists diiIeg to
whether or no mental disease y ocesioned by con-
diion OF the body Some believe II Is, and some do
not The Old maxim was, .teas sGisa Ia cogpoTe
sdno.n We viii not discuss the philosophy. But
there h abundant evidence that Greeeys brain has
been pAysiologically disordered since ms hiIfn. Mr.
Parton his piogfapher, says tiat his parturton
diincu!t that ne was born black III the lace Win
eGusion OF blood on the bra n, and that FOR many
Gays was doubtful that he would live. IN his own
frantic "kecuiiectlons OF BusyDody's Lleii he
lions how terribly SICK ne was IN Childhood, and
how his mother watched hini with tenoerer care
because ne was nos as otner children were lie
also says ~ ms ''Busy LIE ne could never
stand i, WINDOW ana look at the rain without
becoming horribly sick There IL acre evi-
dent symptom OF bydrophobLL The mad man,
like laad dog, fears Tire water. This
delicate slat1 OF the brain was IN nowise improved
by The terrilc pounding on the read given him by
the cane OF the cowardly Congressman Rust, or
Arkansas, a. the Capitol. lie says in his frantic
RecCIectlons that nc used to fail asleep at school
ana beein spel words. lie Is ut times affected
with brain lever. In ms famous letter TO Governor
for awhile and cool ID iegeIed brain.' Thls
Is the frantic EXPRESSION OF mailman
driven 70 additional despair by crazy amD..
tnreescore years, attest lesion OF the BRAN. You
Can explain MS vasares upon no other principle.
Read lii has frantic Eeco,ectlOns what mex pcabe
things lie has zone In The say OF shifting itom one
point 10 another and from one place to another.
mysterious disappearance " insane people out
oi-the way places. lie ninsel natrates low ne used
suddenly 10 leave his printing ONCE and On foot
cross whole New England tiaies and even New
YORK. ras was u madmaiis usual restless cuiiya-
ton Oh tue UNDERSTANDING by rSaesDlaNiS4l. Z CT,
with oil his reckless disregard OF consistency in life,
he always Keeps on MS desk before hln in mis-
affected cGdity IL dress. Scare mad persons desire
70 go naked. opnea twisted straw aeldt her head.
Barnaby i.udge carried raven on lbs shoulder and
attracted universal o4seii atlon by the staDgcDess
OF his dress as Dickens talls ~. There Is young
woman IN Blackwelis Island Lunatic Asylum very
much like Greeley Ia Lhis respect. One day she
dresses in order and The neGs IN di;ort or, Lut
equally adniing the kengt ana the unkeinpt.
Greeey ms all the Maolnan'3 leeb.euesa OF pur-
pose. lie began lis career by engaging IN q news
paper deyosed to lottery fckefs. 1hen he went INTO
the Log CaDfn anu Aetc 4Jie1, ana faxed Until he
snet with the money and strong, sane purpose OF
McErath ani o. editorial aids IKE the hEe Ray
mond and Mr. Dana. AS editor OF the Neoc YofNe,. |
he cultivated shareholders 90 increase his Southern
circulation. he Borshipped tins STAKEHOLDER Clay
with the same .eeblcness OF purpose VITA
winch ne afterwards worshipped Lincoln. Had
Clay not died when he ala there Is no uouht that
he would have deser ed alia ALEC in ms old age lie
Says In his ''Frantic Recoectlons that lie opposed
AZ, Lllc2ip fcr reelection. he had IN the 716une
pn6Sed Lincoln for United States senator wheu The
latter ran against Douglas, aud mad favored The lat
ter lie informs Us in his "sraotic Rec0lectons'
that he took hatred to tobacco because lie had TO
yoans 4 uHs Sdi' to dfnS Whisky Madnen are
Greeleys monemapia Is always protection. Lie
has almost free trade Ill the yagallss Of
free.iover at various tines ON tire eve OF war he
preached secession. All throughout the war ne
preached peace as mucl as ls dared. III peace lie
was for war; ia war for peace. He Went baIl for
JEFF Davis, the only just charity ne ever did Yet all
the while he was insisilns apoa beng woIsnipped
by his adherent5 asa consistent opponent OF The re-
beuon. In darkest days he said that
II Lee waered his horses III the Delaware
Che aaa l o. the famous ..0n to Richmond cry,
which precipitated disaster. Yet what an insane
to meet George Sanders and Colorado Jewett; and
TO this day lie labors under the aeuslon, ana his
friends know IT, mat i was done IA ne interest ana
Mr.. Raymond, in his .'lAfe OF LncoD,n has alum
dainty reiuted. Moliveless ingraitudc to friends
yo srtstst pyl f.f N n III ra.f
Thnrlow Weed and wllliam IL. seward,
aud Thomas Mctlrstn, whose energy built 6p the
1rsouae and Charles A. Dana, whose WONDERFUL
paragraphs gave IL world Wide renown. Yet he has
systematically turned on these, cursed them IKE
trooper IN conversation, magned them In his paper,
and slandered them IN his recent pook. TINS ours
ing. OF Greeiey's Is another ACT OF q mailman. He
will sometimes sit lii his editorial sanctutI. quiet
and calm reading q newspapsr; something VIII
swearing, and cal upon tne nearest man
TO KICK hun down i stare Was !, there eyer
@ sezsa his T papers, isd esnse ne
manifested Sanity by drawing BIS full pay and com.
plment OF stationery and books He affects 10
believe in no hs and YET seaGs People 70 4 BY OBJ
10 Insult polished Clergyman every Sunday by
GO weir nus pew into 10 n APP were
eloquent chaplin can be excused only upon the plea
He writes insane maunderlngs about farming. He
seriously recommends people 10 plant acorns in
order TO grow up oaks 81 ard says u Is the most pro-
tabc crop and that the land Will yield less But the
best OF the Joke Is that TX Marvel, who as Donald
G. Mitchell Is an excellent farmer, thought Greeley
sufficiently IN earnest TO write comments against
the idea. He has iEsanely surrounded his farm
with hts eccenricfies His craving Tor notorey lsa
symptom or mailman. myself saw him III 1850 In
Chicago, while In company with two other
gentlemen who also laughed at MIN, 60
behind the door OF the BARRIERS shop IN
the hotel and carefully adjust his uow-
sers In the inside OF his bO0ts Tie must
IL don't much matter what it Is. Tie last time he
ran for Congress II was IN lower district. He once
had idea OF going 10 Virginia to run for United
States Senator. All these cratic movements show
insanity. People said he once went TO Europe De
cause he could not be Governor. There was no ne
cessity for him 10 CO. All people wondered why he
Old go. While In Paris he attracted so much atten-