The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-08-10
TiItOn's Criticism Of Greeley's Atti'
tude on the Woman Question:


The telegraph brings lis this morning
portions Of a letter addressed by HORACE
GREELEY to the Golden Age, defining his
views on Marriage, Divorce and Woman
Suffrage. tMr. GREELEY, 1t may be re-
marked, evidently suffers some at the
hands of the telegraphers) The follow
ing is m article in the Golden Age OF the
5th,.tO which Mr.. GREELEY's letter is evil
IDENTIFY reply. Our readers may like TO
sec both sides:
If anybody supposes that we are want.
ing in respect for Mr.. Horace Greeley, he
knows little Of the more than common
affection and reverence which We have
always entertained Tor this honest and no.
BILE man.
When, therefore, we shy, as we frankly
do, that the course of the Tribune on the
woman question seems 10 us u daily gravi-
tation farther and faster toward the dark.
ness Of the middle ages, we are not max
ing n willing but an unwilling criticism on
n Journal which, instead If being the chiei
hindrAnce, ought to be the best help, 10
the cause Of w0man's Acknowledgement.
Outside Of the Roman Catholic Church
we do not know n man so backward In
his views on all that pertains to the sta
tus OF woman, rs Mr.. Greeley. He holds
Tor instance, that there ought to be no di.
vOrCe at all-not for any crime, even the
worst. II his ideAs Oh this subject were
moulded into the legislation Of the
land, they would require the recon.
structiOn Of the statute book Of every
state of the Union, save South Carolina
lie holds, too, thAtir u man marries and
his vile dies, there should be no second
marie 5e-on the ground that such d
union would conpllCate the martial rela
tions Of the original parties In the othel
HOrId-althOugh wiser authority thar
Mr.. Greeley has taught lis that "ln hea
"ven there is neithermarrying nor giving
"in marriage" o..
Mr.. Greeley's unreasonable tenets OF
these points, II they were enforced BY
civil statute or by public opinion, woult
bear like y CALLING deSpOtism on million
Of human hearts. .
1t Is these views which underlie all thu
criticisms that the Tribune 80 ruthlesslJ
and rudGly makes ON woman suffrage
: and on all the social questions connected
Herewith. A bitter fountain cannot Civ
forth sweet waters People who imagint
that Mr.. Greeley will one day veer rount
/, toward woman suffrage do not under
;, stand that he must first change his iunla
mental convictions Of the proper mora
u relations which should subsst between
2 husband mud wife not only in this worlt
q but also in the next. ..
. Mr. Grceleys notion Of no divorc,
u for any cause, not even for adultery q
0 any other crime, and his twin notion q
1 no second marriage after the first Is dis
:. solved by death, areA brace Of thGorie
which, ON account Of their absurdity ant
I folly, deserve 10 have no place in the lii
/ erai thought of an enlightened age, bu
n which nevertheless have lent to the late
years pfthe Tribune baleful Conservu
y tism which makes It's sometimes thin
$ that its editor may yet be tempted to en-
c his life in a monastery. .lH
/. Mr.. Greeley Is a man OF so much cathC
:, licity that we are impatient at seeing |
3 him any faint Of narrOwness, His prOpe
i place Is at the head Of the aprCgresSiv
h thought Of the present age. But on th
@ woman question, he is more hopelessl
i, wrong than any other Of Its opponent
II whom we have ever met. Our esteer
is for him Is so warm and deep that "
7. would rather these words were spoke