New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-02
From the Cleveland Daily LEADER
The Detection of Horace Greeley.

| II General Grant SnOulu DE Tie nOHliHte'
The only reason that can be given for this
determination of the Tribune editor is the fact
that he believes in the policy of "rule OF
ruin" The so-called philosopher OF the
Tribune has of late been pretty well set up by
the proposal made by some political asses to
nominate him for the Presidency. But find
ing he had not ghost of a chance OF getting
| the nomination, he has commenced sys-
tematc attack upon General Grant, giving
the reason for so doing the alleged abuses in
the New York custom-hOuse, which have
been handed down from former Administra-
tons. In the pursuit of his malignant war
fare upon General Grant, Mr.. Greeley takes
particular pains to ignore entirely the great
and good work which had been accomplished
| by the Administration in reducing the Gov
ernment's expenses, the peoples taxes, and
| our great debt. Nor is the fact alluded to
that our Government is in more peaceful and
| friendly relations with foreign Powers than
at any time during the last ten years, and
| that the percentage of defalcations is less
than it has been at any time since the days
of President Adams administration. Re-
CARELESS of the remarkable success of Gen.
Grants administration in these and other
respects, Mr.. Greeley has tacitly given out
that he will not support the President for re-
election should he be renominated. And
why? Because he Worace Greeley has be-
come sOrehead through disappointment and
chagrin at the failure of the ridiculous prOpO-
sitiOn to nominate himself as the Republican
candidate for the Presidency and Because his
Overweening self-conceit has prompted him
to believe that through the means of his 7'1-
bune newspaper he can revenge himself on
Gen. Grant for being the favored and sue
cessful aspirant for the highest national honor,
by procuring his defeat, if not in the Conven-
ton, then before the people. And this is
not the first time that Horace Greeley has
labored under the hallucination that he rules
the Republican party and can make and UNI
make its candidates at his pleasure.
In l84S, when Gen. Taylor was nominated
for the Presidency by the Wing party, Mr..
Greeley at first refused to support him, and
opposed him through all the summer, alleg-
ing as his reason that Taylor was nominated
in the interests of slavery. Finally, when
Mr.. Greeley found that he was of no great
account as power to defeat Gen. Taylor, he
turned around at the eleventh hour and sup
ported him vigorously. But to show further
that Mr.. Greeley did not care so much about
the slavery questions entering into Taylor's
nomination., as he did for the fact that his
own wishes were ignored in the making of
that nomination, it is only necessary to refer
to the circumstance of his giving hearty apd
prompt support to the nomination of Gen.
Scott in 1852, on a pro-slavery platform.
That tells the story of the Inconsistency, or
rather hypocrisy, of Horace Greeley on those
occasions.
Mr.. Greeley, during the dark and gloomy
days of the winter of 1S6O-6l, advocated the
dissolution of the Union by allowing our
"erring Southern sisters" to depart in peace,
and even tried to prove their constitutional
right so to do. But when the firing on Sum-
ter reused the whole North like a volcano,
Mr.. Greeley made another of his awkward
political somersaults, and beloved and kept
believing out his insane cry of ION to Rich
mOnd," evidently for the purpose of making
up for his having advocated the Southern
cause.
In 1868 or 1864, Mr.. Greeley, infatuated as
usual with the idea of his own 6verpowering
influence, undertook to envelope himself in
the robe of diplomacy, and volunteered to
make treaty of peace on behalf of our Gov
eminent with some rebel commissioners at
Niagara Falls. The result of his astute ne
gotiations was that the war kept on as before,
paying no heed to Greeley's mediation, much
to the discontinue of his insuflerable self
conceit.
About this time the Tribune came out in
favor of stopping the war, and paying $500,
600, 900 for the emancipated slaves.
In 1864 Mr.. Greeley resOlutely opposed the
denomination of Abraham Lincoln, just as he
is now opposing the denomination of Gen.
Grant. But as usual the party quietly ig-
nOred Mr.. Greeley, and elected the man the
people chose.
When the war was over Mr.. Greeley advO-
Gated immediate and universal amnesty to all
| rebels, even including those who deliberately,
and from motives of inhuman policy, starved
to death $4,000 Union prisoners at Ander-
| L.; al,
| the rebels, he was the first and only Repub-
lican who went bail for JEFF. Davis, the man
of all others most responsible for the tortur-
ing and death of those thousands of defence.
| less Union prisoners.
We have thus given sketch of the crooked
political career of Mr.. Greeley, to show that
whatever he may do, he cannot influence the
| result of the coming Presidential election.
His signal and inglOrious failures to control
| the politics of the country and the Republican
party in the past, are a sure promise that he
can do no more in the year 1872.
To show the fictitious character of the
reputation Mr.. Greeley has managed to build
up for himself for honesty, independence, and
fairness, it is only necessary to recite the
above brief history of his political course, and
to remind our readers of Mr.. Greeley's tacit
Endorsement of the New York city finances
under the management of the Tammany
thieves, such Endorsement being procured by
his receiving city advertisements to the value
of $50, 900 per annum; and of his refusing tC
show up the Tammany thieves for weeks ant
months after the expose made by the Times
of his denouncing the alleged swindlings OF
mere thousands in the New York Custom
house, in language fifty times as strong ant
as frequent as his denunciations, (f such they
may be called,) of the stealings of the ter
millions by Tammany Democratic thieves
thus showing where his sympathies lay; ant
of his never opposing by word or act the
wholesale endowment of Roman Catholic in
situations and churches with millions of pub
lie money, nine-tenths of which was paid b,
Protestant taxpayers.
In view of the great probability that Mr.
Greeley will formally abandon the Republican
party and oppose the election of Presiden
Grant should he be renominated, it is well thai
the Republicans of the country should be ad
vised and reminded of these facts in Mr.. Gree
ley's political career, that they may be able t,
judge of the value of his political opinions
and treat both him and his oracular organ a.
the twain deserve, that is, by giving both th,
editor and his paper severe letting alone.
Mr.. Greeley should be taught unmistakabl
by his subscribers, that they regard him an,
care for his paper only as the advocate o
Republican principles, and that when he de
finitely departs from this OCCUPATION. the