The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-06-28

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philosopher there is only the black
ness of Cimmerian darkness, far from
suggestive of anything celestial. Hor
ace Greeley has deserted the Repub.
licans, nay more, the ceusures an(
objurgations which for so many year.
he bestowed upon their opponents, b,
now pours out upon them, he well
knowing that the Democrats make il
their greatest boast that they arc
unchanged. Horace Greeley has no,
kept his first estate,' politically, he il
"Hurl'd headlong flaming from theth' ethe.
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perditiOn."
Not only has he deserted the great
and noble party to which he was at.
tached, but his hatred towards it will
hereafter be greater than that of a
person who never belonged to it.
During the old wars between the
and Christians, the lat.
ter were accustomed to say that "one
was worse than ten Turks.'
There is q natural adherence in the
human mind against treachery and
selfish desertion. The renegade feels
and knows it. He is senseble of the
need he deserves from faithful and
honorable minds, and he hates those
who award it to him. AS the North
I'm dough-faces exceeded the very
'lavemongers in their obsequiousness
md devotion to the system of slavery,
70 Greeley and the Tribune will now
xceed Marble and the World in the
pitefulness, malignancy, and venom
'ith which they will pursue the Re-
Olblicans.
o Well, be it 60. Let him do his
9 lrst, and that irorst will not be found
0 y portentous or dreadful. As IL
9 duals Of the same family are chary
ublic criticisms of each other, so
nSers of political party are re
o Int to make attacks on an associ-
T ahose heart is right and yet much
II Sc conduct is mischievOus. This
iotance has long been exercised
TOYS Greeley; but now his de
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ae the man as he is and has been.
B now an enemy to the Republi.
e party. He will either be the
e ideniial candidate of the socalled
;. berals," or that of the Democratic
y, oran Ishmaelitish bushwhacke.
auding on the outskirts of those
ates the most. But he need not
Dared in either position, If the
bocrsts do not take him up, he
y bot get a single electoral vote.
ley do, it will cause the stampede
= hndreds of thousands of Demo-
B. All the soreheads, all the per.
Il adherents, all the misguided
uhlicans Greeley could carry with
would not compensate for such a
The Cincinnati conglomeration
dds and ends which eliminated .
he nomination of Greeley, is al
ly dissolving into its original ele-
,lsts. Stanley Matthews, its first !
'nTirman, has publicly denounced it !
,9eing itself the most striking ex- {
sple he could adduce of chicanery
3 corruption. The revenue re
@ers have openly seeded and
eled call for another Convention.
le New York Epening Post has
3erted the connection. The move {.
mt is not supported by any Repub- .
an papers OF influence and ability. !
% Tribune, when challenged to name :
y Republican daily newspaper ex Z
pit itself, that cast its lot with the 7
ncinnaIi mOngrel party, could not a
it. and could only designate four n
significant weekly Tor weakly pa G
rs inits own state, and one of them a
} sinceperished for want ofsupport. Il
eGermanRepublican press through ,
THE Union, remains true to its al .
lance, and both Republicans and u
mocratic Germans, as a rule, re "
date Greeley as q candidate or as u
hief. They are not dice to be II
fled at will from one place to o
,ther, by any political juggler how. a
II adj loit. The great body of Amer. u
n Republican reject the Tribune o
,e with the disgust his recreancy "a
rits, a
Among the Democrats so far from u
ming new strength. Greeley con- e
ntly becomes more distaseful and W
Welcome. The leading Democratic
nails are opposed to his being W
inhaled at Baltimore, as are the in
1T prominent Democratic leading it
D. Where, then, is Greeley's M
myth? 1t is certainly not perten. W
in the North, and will not be g.
ess the Blair family, by the same
treacheries and con- m
'acies which effected the nomina- W
at Cincinnati can force him up. d.
he Baltimore Convention. In that la
3 will any considerable number of he
,Lblicans follow him into the Dem d.
attic camp2 Only misguided, dis 81
ointed and recreant Republicans it
do so. Their number we feel az
Q, will be small. The great Re- W
'lican party itself, is too devoted fe
ts principles, too well acquainted M
the needs and situation of the W.
ntry, too much animated with OF
.lligence, tco sensible that liberty &C
reform can only be maintained by VI
own success, too patriotic, and pt
progressive, to be led into any ve
70 chase after Horace Greeley.
,ver since he obtained reputs- IS
and prominence as a partisan and az
gent editor of the Log Cabin, in IL Il
5, it has been patent at all who n
W, and to all who critically OBJ. bs
red him, that he especially lacked "
qualifications necessary for an able G.,
successful leader. The Harrison nr
paign was managed by shrewd tb
sagacious men like Seward and trl
ed. They made use of Greeley to or
1t advantage, and as a writer he IN
efficient execution. He was han in, in
SO adroitly that he fancied he was sb
directing and controlling mind, tn
wished to establish triumyirate trl
l Seward and Weed. They saw tr,
vas very well as a writer, but tb
Id be ruinous as leader. Others wi
it too, and greedy and anxious A,
ireeley has always been for office, ne ne
her the Wings nor Republicans On
er dared to trust him in prominent to
executive positions. II he now -;