New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-26
IN UN-0E1IR HELENV

Ia il possble for falsebOOd to be invented
in relation to Mr.. Greeley too fantastic to find
welcome in Grant paper2 1t is now asserted
every day that he never was an anti-Slavery
man that he is dishonest and prOfane; that
his morals are atrOcious, and that his hat Is
white. Mr.. Wendell Phillips says he is in a
Syndicate which is buying up the Rebel debt.
The same amiable aristOcrat tells the
negroes that Greeley intends to sell
their wives and steal their pigs, If
he is elected. John Thomas of The NeT- York
Times says Mr.. Greeley is so shOckingly ugly
that the sight of him in New-Hampshire has
seriously damaged the Liberal canvass.
few chaw-bacons in Unadilla get up set of
periuries about Mr.. Greeley's advocacy OF
pensions to Rebel soldiers, and then get
frightened and retract them. But respectable
Grant people keep ON repeating the perjuries,
lust as if they had never been retracted, or
as if they needed retraction.
But we have nowhere seen so nasty little
invention IS that which The Womdn's journal
permits itself in an article signed Helen Jen-
"kins.n 1t says that Mr.. Greeley denies to
women the right of working for their own
living; if elected, would turn all women out of
public employment; and then goes on to in
dulge in the following prurient follies
Better, in his estimation, for woman to
"work for thirty cents day, sewing In some
"hot garnet or dark cellar, than to handle
"money in the handsome Treasury rooms at
Washington at twelve or fifteen hundred
dollars year. Better that some man should
Get this $1,000, and buy the virtue of the
woman who failed to keep herself alive on
a. thirty cents day, than to have placed that
woman in a position to honestly earn her
Gown support. Now, these sentiments of
Horace Greeley are no secret. He has
"avowed them publicly, privately, and re-
peatedly."
| We do not think there will be time between
now and November to invent another false
hood so ingeniously impossible as this, but if
there should be, we shall expect to find it in
the columns of The WOmans Journal. Not
that there Is anything especially wicked or
malicious about that paper. 1t is conducted
by several very estimable ladies of both sexes.
But it has most fascinating incapacity for
telling either truth or consistent fabri-
cations. Its editors must read THE
TRIBUNE, because they fill their own
little pages with spiteful comments upon it.
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They must therefore know that no other paper
has ever so consistently advocated equal justice
for women in the struggle for life. 1t is
ridiculously untrue that Mr.. Greeley has ever
objected to women enjoying public employ
ments for which they are eligible. But what shall
we say of woman who will thrust under the
nose of the public such high-favored falsehood
as that Mr.. Greeley thinks and says woman
might better be the mistress OF Treasury
clerk, than Treasury clerk herselfY "These
Sentiments of Horace Greeley" says Helen
Jenkins, "are no secret. He has avowed them
publicly, privately, and repeatedly" If so,
he has shown great ignorance of the female
character and the Washington markets. There
must be a panic in virtue before the surplus of
81, 800 year can make any large investments
in it.
The patronymic of the fair libeler gives
rise to dark suspicious. " John Thomas" are
syllables which lead up TO Jenkins more
naturally than the name of the Spartan
Queen. Tho story is almost too SHY AMI