The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-22

can't he ANYTHING else. He IL controlled u!
no system. no principles. His own conccil'
and capriccs are to him reason, ana law:
and Constitution; all else is false ana oit
yageous. lie is kind-hcartCd where positive
slitcr!n. and individual want are brought
before him. and even i'll case OF distress
communities from political h1rdShipS, -
with us, his kind nature forces h!,a 20 hiui1
out imprompiu declarations III ftVGr oI
amchor:ting their condition by HbcraI
,nca> urcs, amnesty. and so OIL. Bot TIC
moment the party he belongs to lnVrnts
some scheme for increasing the r!@oi> OF
those who have excited MS svmHathlcs, he
falls into line, ju>titics party ou;ra@">, and
eXclaim, a.ain>t the victims IL did the vol
against the lamb for having provoked The
prosecutions he ju>tllic>.
GREELEY lately travelled through par
of the South. and afterwards commented
upon what he saw, saying many things fan
to the South, and likewise 1USt, and dc-
nouncine the thicving carpet-5a@@ GERS viii
great severity. lie discovered, on re1icc.
ton, that these speeches did not gee st
we'll with the kukuX measures which, II.
obedience to the evil genius ira; iIIha ,it>
his mind aud is ever at strife Will the "oOC
one, he had sustained. So he found il
necessary to explain his speeches; and
whether the old maxim that explanations
are retractions be true or not, 1t is true OF
GREELEY S explanations. He founders very
much. and goes back on his better nature
treachcrou>ly. He even attempts to drnn,
the meaning Of " carpet-bag9er; assumes
that there are good and bad Of them,
and is So gentle on even the bad that
the poor sulllhrUnS lind little cause left
for saving barsh word of carpet.
baggers. Now, GREELEY should know
well enough what the South means by car
pct-bag2ers, and that the term is not ap.
piled at all to sincere and honest gentle
men from the North who come to the South
with the purpose OF casting their lot with
Us and becoming useful citizens. The term
is only applied to the birds of passage and
OF prey who come to get Office hy honey
Juggling the negroes and OBTAINING the
whites-thus widening the breach between
their purpose in getting it--that of Swind-
Hing The State and making all the money
they can out Of it. This is the only "car.
pct-baggcl" we know, and Mr.. GREELEY
Is surely aware of this, Notwithstanding his
sophistry about two classes OF them as con-
Vcnient means Of cons0ing them all for his
denunciations, each Dagger thinking too
well of himself to suppose that GREELEY
meant him. The whitc-hatted philosopher
caught an immense number Of carpet
bagSers in his net when he first cast it into
The sea /; but he has cut two great holes in
The net, and they will all escape.
As part Of the T17bune'S game of hold
Ing with the hare and running with the
hounds In all southern matters, it takes up
the North Carolina discussion about
amending the Constitution, and takes the
ultra-Radical view, denying the right Of the
people to hold convention to amend Their
Constitution. The Constitution itself de-
ciares that two-thirds Of the Legislature
may call convention to amend that lnstrt-
ment, and the Radicals who hold the OIL
fees contend that this provision precluoes
the people from calling such u convention
The people are the source oil all Po"et,
and according to precedents III se'.'". y.
the States, and according to the oplpioiiS VI
our greatest men, have the right at all
times TO amend their organic la" d! con-
yention of their representatives. ms,
<,pvr,rv says is "plainly illegal" OF
course. AZ GKEELEY's opinion is legal any
thiro nnnosed to it must be Illegal.
capv,ry has been robbed by men who
PLAYED upon his sympathies-he Is lmpui-
sively generous-but he is deliberately un-
fair and perversely partisan. His morality
is PENELopE's web-the good in it Of one
day Is uudone the next. He has said some
wise things, and done many kind things !;
but his absurd ideas are greatly in excess
of his wise ones, and the Injustice and hard
heartedness of his partisan>hip is Il
pity that it should be Said-uyerDaiances his
good actions.
MIR. GREELEY, i'll short, has so bcdcyi!led
his own fame by his follies that it would
be well if he went into his cocoon, and
withdrew from the public arena. His own
party ridicule him very much in private.
They need the influence OF the Tribune ];
but they often say it is questionable
whether il does more good than harm. Its
EDITORS friendship for the South has not
availed 1t much. 1t has been very much
like the fox on the -roost-mighty
smooth and gentle, but terribly angry
now and then at kukux among the hens!