The New York herald., 1872-08-11
'The New York Rural Sentiment"
Giving Reasons for Support
ing the Sage.
sARToR REsARTUs.
The Career Of Honest Old Horace
The Solon and Founder Of the
Republican Party.
DlsAFrECrED COUNTRY POLITICIANS.

NORMANsKILL VALLEY, August 8, 1872.
The eastern end Of the valley Of the NOrmanskill
s one Of the richest portions OF central New York.
The small, sluggish river washes down from the
rougher and rocker regions OF SchOharie and
Schenectady counties plentiful alluvial deposits,
and this action has been continuing for centuries
and, doubtless, began before Darwin's primal
inhabitants Of the wilderness yet bore very
striking resemblance to humanity. Yet some
evidence OF their former presence still exists The
fountainhead Of the Normanskill 10 not more than
mile from the course Of the Schoharie River,
and yet IL nOws almost ut right angles
with IL. The waters OF the two streams ultimately
mingle In the noble current Of the hudson. Lying
In bowy SUGGESTIONS OF gentle hills and we'll
watered hOllows, which picturesque with the
stately groves OF ems that dot the broad expanses
of cultured fields, this s almost vertable Garden
OF Eden--to an ancient cOmparison-but for
the fact that its beauty and fine agricultural cOndi
ton have been the work of a long line Of
THRIFTY TILLERs OF TIE SOIL,
whose present successors dwell In cool, spacious
farm houses, and slowly increase their fortunes
with every day OF their lives while cOntentedly
joyng the possession and the generous products of
their broad acres
The calm, quiet life of the well-tO-do farmer con-
sttutes him the true freeman of nation of free.
men. He Is unshacked by the entanged cares OF
business, by the bondage OF intense thought or the
forced allegiance to selfish political interests which
often break mems consciences, and, prince in
his own domain, always surveys the horizon OF
public AFFAIRS with cooler Judgment and less bias
Of prejudice than the merchant, the Office
holder or the scholar. lie looks more
to integrity of principle, to the evidences
of the Yankee quality of capablity, and
less to those of eloquence or culture in the men
whom he favOrs. He rests satisfied with what is
progressing smoothly without great alarms, pro-
vided 1t was originally favored by mis- preconceved
opinions and lends but dull ear to the charges
that are breathed by busy lips against the high
personages who have long held his confidence. 1t
is not easily shaken either by humor or foul-odored
accusation. Although having the best chance for
thinking without prejudice, yet his predictions
are the power that influence most his sentiments
and they do not change unless slowly and regret
fully.
THE RURAL MIND.
This is a sketch of the general state of the rural
mind of the country. For the very reasons given
above 1t is decisively and permanently divided
There arc men who have regarded Greeley through
the latest years of our history the hero eIce
LenCe OF Its destny-as the man who built up
by his own efforts the great party that so
long held the Of its power; and through
its most momentous epochs he was. perhaps,
venerated as much and in some such fashion as
was Sol0n after he had given the laws to others,
and while he held himself aloof for the stipulated
ten years. The country folk felt o brotherhood OF
feeling with the man who was used to making
speeches at agricultural fairs and who talked and
wrote so knowingly Of squashes turnips and corn.
What though he was npracticable in his ideas on
these great subjects, he was
THEIR MENTAL HERO,
the man Of great qualities and even Of genius, who
made his aim in life the obtaining OF their good
WILL for there no doubt that it was upon this that
he founded his hope of success
WHO WILL VOTE FOR GREELEY.
Old men who have grown gray in following their
ploughs through the burrows of life, with faces
tanned as much as their cowhide boots in the suns
Of many summers, and forms bent by tong in the
gathering Of many harvests, feel as if they had
worked at his side in the same contest
and with the same worthy principle, only
in different way-he working out the
intellectual problem, they the physical. Those who
ar his contemporaries have watched him since the
beg inning OF his public life and found something in
all his eccentricites to recommend him to their
lOve-for so he Is regarded.
Among these men Greeley is invulnerabe. They
have followed him from the beginning and they
will follow him TO the end. Their faith Is in the old
white hat, which most of them some time or
other, have seen at agricultural gatherings. It, to
1as Is Ttes the w yHn vote S b. Snss sss nd
But uky for r0 the o'p phlosophers fDs eueess
ls1sSSs s5S s sas %fS wne ass s sGns snfe
not in this way Of thinking There is no doubt that
his majority nay IN M, Mew W YorE T. secure but think it
by the hopes Of the liberal wise men and prophets.
The "solid old republicans" whose political laitn
from the shock which was given them by .the
ta;ling Of Jefferson Davis" This is a trite thing
for one to o. mention even at this time when the
In fearful manner. But it is one of the points
which will turn the result of this campaign, strange
abated the hero-worship OF Greeley by the old re-
publicans and to-day it Is referred 70 in every poll
Of the men sho now sem The omne Of the
democrats a 10 s!::er than traitor ITO to the mis-,
sion ,i I ont IeSs s G@S9J @ fs Sy aai 81 ssssos e. R
asS sS' sa9ery yss may may once more creep serpense
1ia It nss e Ssen RsS 8 Ss Ss % psop @
ra IF hs msd THAT s it 0fs ms ). ss aEspaed a g
whatever arguments the liberal stump speakers are
able to employ The alleged vacillation in princi-
thought; his old bargains with Thurlow Weed; his |
editorial course at the beginning Of the war; his
re iree.eeStioS; % his So contradictory course in re,
gard to General Grant; MS APOLOGIES for certain
support OF the democrats OF New York city; his
obstinate boiling from the regular organization
there; his antagonlsm 10 the PRESIDENT, alter 80
strongly laudng his administration and, lastly, his
hohnObbng with democrats, 'copperheads," unrc-
pentant "rebels'' and Tammanytes, and accepting
the nomination OF the "sorehead conspiracy" at
CINCINNATI which, they say. had at heart the de-
struction of the time honorcd republican party.
These are their words. They believe that
GREELEYS COURSE FOR THE LAST TWELVE YEARS
has been shaped atogethe by his desire to secure
the Presidency; that he has been ''hshlng for the
sort of medley support which he has at length
gained and has been trying TO make all SHADES
of opinions meet in q common conviction OF his own
worth. Part OF this plot was his opposition to LIN
coins reelection: his eager 1avornP oil an amnesty
act although he had previously written the savage
hope that the rebels should not return home In
peace but should find their hearths cold and DESC
late and their lands and houses ravaged his stand
ing bail for the "arci-rebel;' his journeys North
and West and all the rest OF the record. 1t Is hard