The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-06-27
Washington Correspondence.
THE CHAPPAOUA SAGE.


THE CHAPPAQUA SAGE.
OR CHANCES AT HIS POLITICAL RECORD.
Sudden changes of opinion always ex
cite distrust unless they are accompanied
by causes so adequate and apparent that
the metamorphosis is at once explained.
When surrounding circumstances are the
same, and where no logical or sufficient
reason can be perceived for revolution
In life long action and sentiment, there
naturally arises a suspicion of hidden,
mercenary, selfish, or dishonorable mo-
tives. If the conversion, besides being
logically inexplicable, was calculated to
subserve ambitious ends and aspirations,
while continuance in the former senti-
ments would not, the doubt of honest
conviction and high minded sincerity in
the premises would almost, or quite,
amount to certainty.
Such is the position which Horace
Greeley now occupies in the minds OF
those who have hitherto been bis politi-
cal coadjutors. Like Saul of Tarsus he
has suddenly betook himself to the COM
panionship of those whom he has ever
before denounced as base and dangerous.
In the case of the saint there was light
in the heavens visible to those who
stood round about but in this case of
the Chappaqua philosopher there is ooly
the blackness of Cimmerian darkness,
far from suggestive of anything celestial.
Horace Greeley has deserted the Repub-
cans, nay more, the censures and objur-
ations which for SO many years he be-
slowed upon their opponents, he now
pours out upon them, he we'll knowing
that the Democrats make it their great
est boast that they are unchanged. Hor-
ace Greeley has not kept his 'frst
estate" politically, he is
"Hurl'd headlong flaming from ETHEREAL sky,
With hdeous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition.''
Not only has he deserted the great and
noble party to which he was attached
but his hatred towards it will hereafter
be greater than that of person who
never belonged to it. During the old
wars between the Mohametans and
Christians, the latter were accustomed
to say that lone renegade was worse
than ten Turks, There is a natural alb
horrence in the human mind against
treachery and selfish dcser;ion. The
renegade feels and knows it. He is
sensible of the need he deserves from
faithful and honorable minds, and he
hates those who award it to him. As
the Northern dough faces exceed the
very sla7emongers in their obsequious-
ness aud devotion to the system Of slav-
cry, SO Greeley and the Tribune will now
exceed Marble and the World in the
spitefnllness, malignancy, and venom
with which they will pursue the Repub-
licans.
Well, be it so. Let him do his worst,
and that acorst will not be found very
portentious or dreadful. As individuals
of the same family are charry in public
criticisms of each other, so members of a
political party are re eluctant to make at
tacks on an associate whose heart Is right
and yet much of whose conduct is mis-
chievous. This forbearance has long
been exercised towards Greeley: but
now his desertion renders it legitimate
to examine the man as he is and has
been. He is now an enemy to the Re-
publican party. He will either be the
presidential candidate of the so called
Liberals" or that of the Democratic
party, or an Ishmaelitish bushwhacke CT
marauding on the outskirts of those he
hates the most. But he need net be
feared in either position. IF the Demo
Gratis do net take him Up, he cannot get
single electoral vote. IF thev do, it
will cause the stampede of hundreds oil
thousands, of Democrats. All the sore
heads, ali the personal adherents, ali the
misguided Republicans Greely could car
ry with him would not compensate for
such a loss. The Cincinnati conglomera-
ton of odds and ends which eliminated
liz the nomination of Greely, is already
dissolving into its original elements.
Stanley Mathews, its first chairman, has
publicly denounced it as beeing itself the
most striking example he could adduce
of chieanery and corruption. The Rev
enue reformers have openly seeded and
issued call for another convention.
The New York Evening Post has desert
ed the connection. The movement is
not supported by any Republican paper
of Influence and ability. The Tribune
when challenged to name any daily Re-
publican newspaper except itself, that
cast its lot With the Cincinnati mongre1
party could not do it, and could only
designate four insignificant weekly (ol
weakly papers in its own State, and one
OF them has since perished for want ol
support. The German Republican
Press throughout the Union. resLaius
true to its allegiance, and both Republic
an and Democratic Germans, as rule
repudiate Greeley rs candidate or as
chief They are not dice to be shifted at vii
from one place to another by any polite
al juggler however adroit. The great
body of the American Republicans rejec
the Tribune sage with the disgust his re
creancy merits.
Among the Democrats, so far frou
gaining new strength, Greeley constant,
becomes more distasteful and unwel