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be determined by the popular Toto, and may in
time become matter perhaps Of bargain and
sale among the Electors.
uN SEEMLY pUARREILING,

UNsEEMLY gUARREILING.
lhe death of Mr. Greeley, as affecting the in
terests Of the New York Tribune, has been made
the occasion Of one or two very unseemly exhibi-
hons OF personal rancor and business conpeti-
ton upon the part of some Of the other New
York journals. The Sun, upon the very day of
his death and in the body OF the narrative con-
tanning the details, has q personal fling against
Mr. "hitelaw Reid, the managing editor Of the
Tribune, accusing him Of suppresging q note
from Mr. Greeley, denying the authorship Of an
editorial article entitled 'Crumbs of Comfort,
which WIS printed immediately after the cleo
tion, although Mr. Greeley had specially re-
questcd the publication Of the explanation.
In the same article, the editor Of the
Sun takes occasions to state that
Mr.. Greeley commended and indorsed
the "On to Richmond" editorial, which ema-
mated from, or at least inspired BY the editor
OF the Sun, who, at the time Of it's publication,
was managing editor Of the Tribune. Neither of
these facts-if they are faets-were at all peril
nent to the account Of Mr.. Greeley's last hours
and death, and they sadly marred q narrative
which, in all other respects, was credit to jour-
nelism. It would hnYe been just as appropriate
to have inserted in the narrative a political ap-
peal to the people, or an invectiye against those
WHO opposed AIr. Greeley in the recent canvass.
The matter was wholly extraneous, and should
have been eliminated from the article, as out Of
taste and not in keeping with the solennity Of
the occasion. It only adds to the gray
ity Of the offence that the writer
allowed personal animosity to control him so far
as to openly exhibit to the public an old busi-
only in the profession, aud in every line and
word to betrey an animus against every person
who has filed the position which he once occu-
pied. It matters not whether tho structures had
any foundation or not. They we're alike un-
scem1y and out Of place, and shocking to pco-
pie Of sensibi1ity. Such an exhibition only has
its parallel in the frequent quarrels Of relatives
over the division Of property before its owner is
buried. 1Ir. Greeley had but just breath
ed his last when this article appear
ed, and it was printed at time
when it was known that Mr. Gree1ey's as
eociate could not answer the accusations against
him which were embodied in it. It was. there
fore, both ill-timed and indecorous, and meets
the serorest censure, not only from tie friends
Of Mr.. Greeley, but from all who cherish feel
ing of respect for tho dead, and for the solemni-
ties Of such m occasion. Hardly less unbecom-
ing is the conduct Of the New York Times, which,
under the hippant pretext that tho friends Of
Ar. Greeley, meaning his editorial associates,
had concealed lis real condition from tho public,
aims 3 direct blow at the business pron-
perity Of the Tribune, even while it's
editor was dying. II the editor of
thee Sun was unable to conceal his feelings
in the shadow OF death, the editor of the Times
is scarcely less able to conceal his joy that in the
death Of Nr. Greeley, the Tribune will die
whole history Of journalism, we can recall moth
ing more unbecoming than these two exlibi~
tions Of spleen. Outside OF New York City,
the newspaper press OF the country, even
lently opposed him, have put on record the kind
Lest expressions Of sympathy, and have uttered
no word which could jar upon the mournfulncss
of the occasion, either directly or indirectly.
The individual expressions of the public have
been Of the same character. It WAS reserved
for two New York journals, which specially and
boasting1y appropriate to themselves precedence
in metropolitan journalism, and assume to ba
models for others to copy, to prove that, when
the opportunity offers, they are unable to rise
superior to personal dislikes. We know not or
care not whether the statements are true. They
are unmanly and Indecent. Mr. Greeley is dead,
and silence BELTS the dead, at least until he is
laid in his last resting-place.