Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-25

caslons from propulsion rather than from
enjoyment. Ills smile, at snch times Of
exhibition, Is Inst Of good-humored boy
who had much rather 20 play Ia the yard
than exhibit before companYs and & occur
red to me that, for worldly uses, q man
might have such thing as too exuberant
health and temperance. He spoke to few,
and then always by request; and be was,
/ TO great extent, the reiening influence IN
that presence. Underwood, the judge,
| with whom lay the option Of taking bail,
paid much more respect to Horace Greeley's
intentions than To Mf Davis.
Alter the bond was signed, as Mr.. Gree
ley stepped back toward column or pillar
where he had first stood, MFR. Davis rose
from his chair with a smile of respect, and
reached out bis hand, bowling like one I'M
der deep obligation, and fully accepting the
act in les benevolent spirit. Mr.. Greeley
took the hand, without speaking, so far as I
could see, and the action lasted only Dor
ton of moment. The two have never
had communications since.
Mr.. Voorhees, says that Mr.. Greeley's
act was meddlesome impertinence. A pub
lie man who could stigmatize a large and
painstaking act of kindness like that, in
such terms, has ,quesulous and provincial
nature, and generous age wastes time
upon him. What meddlesome inperti-
nences was not Mr. voorhees, guilty Of du-
ring the war-pr0lo longing It by his exam
pie, adding stupidity to the inevitable, and
assuming that the whole epic tragedy re-
volved about himself. To save his seat in
Congress, and remember some old grudee,
personal only to him, this long7haired ego
fist would recommend personal govern
ment till doomsday, and load the earpetbaQ
hanging round the neck of the South. That
impairment act of Horace Greeley, brave as
it was, had nearly driven him from the
head Of the Tribune
After the crowd left the court room, Mr..
Greeley proceeded directly to his hotel, in
the company of Mr.. Bolts, and, introducing
myself, the former said:
/" Why, Gath, why haven't you introduce
ed yourself to me before? Come walk
down the street." ak7F UTo TEF
, - THE sMALL-AuNDRD HOWL. --~,A
That night the Richmond newspaper
folks gave us all supper, and Mr.. Greeley
presided. He gave toast in Geld water
that the emRities of the past be buried, and
we lay our hands and hearts to the peace
of the future. We all, Greeley excepted, 1,
drank great deal of champagne, and Young I
Mcfarland, editor of Forney's Washing
ton Chronicle "a paper now defunct, be-
lieve, killed by Bohemian named Fox, by
Holden, the North Carolina outlaw, and by
Morris, renegade preacher), toasted
JEFF. Davis for which the small-minded
and timid Forney afterward cut off
McFarland's head. As nearly as l
can remember my speech, it was to the eff
Go0 that 4ha Mora1,ol he
in buttons had had his day; that the best
way to spoil the American volunteer was to
make him believe that nobody else had ever
served his country from the noblest mo-
tiyes; and that for myself, long an army
correspondent, had seen great deal of
meanness, jealousy, intrigue and several
penitentiary offenses committed in the ar
my, hailed its disarmament and the open
ing of the prison doors to them that were |
bound.
Little did we know the fury that was
gathering in the North for Horace Greeley. |
The New York Times, never truly in earn |
est except when it gets the Tribune foul, |
had its brief revenge, and was meaner than |
ever. The Christian press kept Christ's |
admonition with vengeance. "Be good |
to your enemies; pray for them that |
use you" l am afraid l |
have never been charitable to the Christian |
press ever since. l ascertained that the |
New York Independent and several of its |
pious contemporaries farmed out their |
financial columns. My own account of the !
Court-scene was Quilted and altered in |
very impertinent manner by the editor of |
The paper employing me, and Mr.. Greeley |
sent to me in vain for the MS. to use it on /
The Tribune.
do know that the city of Richmond ap-
preciated that act. The feeling that day all |
over the fre-scarred Capital Of the Old |
Dominion was a warming loyalty to the
Union again. The noisy rebuke is hushed |
now, and none accuse the act but very /
useless and snowy Indiana Democrat.
The man who went on the bond of Jeffer- |
son DAVIS will preside in the White House,
1t Washington, from the 4th day of next |
March, and prove the pen, in the hands of
1ne entirely merciful, mightier than the
sword. GATH.