, 1872-06-27

and on paper negotiable nowhes Q, that
complimented him with their business.
He is singularly pure aud modest
man. In thirty years ot pretty intimate
acquaintance, never heard him use
word that would bring the slightest fut.
ter of crimson to the purest cheek that
womanhood ever unvailed to society. I
do not believe that he ever told or could
be induced to listen to vulgar story,
And this almost superhuman purity Of
character is perhaps what has made him
such favorite among talented and re.
fined women. For although woman
was the cause of our loosing Eden, she
brought with her more than man did Of
its purity. and its loss would have been
intolerable if Adam had failed to bring
her with him.
'' But there are things in his cLarac.
ter about which people differ, or pre-
tend to differ. Even those who conceda
to him the great virtues I have men.
toned pretend to deprscate his election
to the Presidency through fear that he
lacks sound Judgment, executive abili.
ty, financial skill, and discrimination Of
character. How wofully they are mis-.
taken who seem to see the shadow of
those suspicious his election and brill
liant administration will show. / have
had some experience among public men
for many years at Washington; have
known intimately most of the illustri-
GUS American statesmen of the second
generation-Clay, Calhoun, Benton.
Crittenden, Mangum, and others and
I never knew any one whose judgment
was more keen and unerring. whose
ideas Of executive management were
more enlarged and liberal, whose knowl,
edge of finance and political economy
was clearer or more extensive, and
whose estimate of character was more
quick and comprehensive and if We
honestly weigh his character against
that of the more and less illustrious OF
those who have filed the Executive
chair, we shall discover in him the hon.
esty of Washington, the brain of Jeffer.
son, the frmness of jackson, ard the
wisdom of half dozen of our later
Presidents. while as a writer he is far
superior to them all and it will DO
something to boast of to see once moro
in the chair of Washington an honest
and an able man. 1t will be something
to boast of that, at the close Of the first
century of our Government the eblest
writer that ever filled the Exc :utiva
chair was elected by our votes. It will
be pleasure worth a century's waiting
to read his messages.
" There is stubborn error amone
certain nervous moneybags that things
are going to run if Greeley is elected.
And this is said by men who have felt
proud of having voted for Harrison, Polk,
Lincoln. and Grant. It is not my cue
to say anything against Gen. Grant. I
think the country owes him too much
to hear with pleasure an, thing against
him personally, but what was he when
taken from his Missouri tannery, in
knowledge and character, compared
with Horace Greeley What was Abrc.
ham Lincoln. cracking jokes on Western
circuits, compared with Horace Greeley
except what he had learned, as I have
often heard him acknowledge, from Mr..
Greeley's paper :? What was Gen. Tay-
lor, or James K.Polk, or Gen. Harrison.
or all of them put togethsr, for ability.
craftsmanship, and character, before
they were elected, as compared with
Horace Greeley +? Clay, Calhoun, Ben.
ton, and Webster could not get to the
chair which Harrison, Polk, and Tyler
filed, and when Lincoln was nominated
the same sneers were common against
him that now salute Mr.. Greeley. His
boots and dress and walk and dignity
were no better than Greeley's. He was
a railsplitter as Mr.. Greeley is wood,
chopper, but for all that what rank does
he hold among our recent Presidents ?
Second only to that with which Mr.,
Greeley will retire in 1877,
Do these mer, who object to him "a
wanting in ability, not know that he
hes taught most Of our living statesmen
what they know? But while knowi.
edge is power, honesty is the craving Of
the nations heart, and in no one so
much rs Mr.. Greeley can that craving
be grati6ed. He is throughly upright
and ingrained and stuhhornly honest.
There is not gold enough in California
nor stamps enough in the national cur.
rency to bribe him TO dc dishonest act,
You could as easily drive the most stub
born mule thas ever hraoed his foot
against his drivers mandate as to drive
Mr.. Greeley into the pathway which
leads to dishonesty"
The New York Herald has been for
some time past strong advocate Of the
rejection of Grant, but it is forced to
make this confession: 1.-THE disgraceful
and psinful condition of affairs in the
Southern States. the tendency of the