The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-05-17
Ilas Dug HIS pollticar Grave,

EIns Dug HIS Political Grave.
Horace Greeley about q ycarag
was very well pleased with Grants
administration. lie then thought
him a safe ami prudent executive.
The taxes had becnlargely reduced.
Over two hundred millions of the
national debt had been paid off and
carccled, up to that time, in face OF
the fact that one hundred and twen-
ty millions per anDum were being
paid for pensions to tie widows and
orphans ofour struggle, Peace with
foreign nations and with Indian
tribes had been preserved. mvlew
of these facts, Greeley, last year,
was well satisfied with Grants adj
ministration. Now, his sentiments
are entirely the ether way, though
the policy OF Gen. Grant is IN.
changed. Mr.. Greeley has been
long engaged in political Journal
ism, and in the past has exerted no
little influerce in moulding the po-
litical sentiments of the people
1t is strange to us that one who
had, through long years of fearless
and powerful advocacy of certain
clearly enurciated principles, sue
ceeded in commanding almost the
entire confidence of a large class Of
his readers, should, in these latter
days, in tie "sere and yellow leaf"
ofhis life, 50 degenerate from the
high standard Of political morals
which he had set up, as by his
conduct and contradictory scnti-
ments to give the lie to many Of his
previous positions, es:range his
readers from their confidence, and
place himself in position where all
OF his former denuuciations of incon-
sistercy and demagogucry, as esti-
mated by him in others, should nee
cSsarily react upon himself; and
then have the etlrontery to ask SEN
siblc, hol est people to endorse him
in it. A fierce denouncer Of the
bolting movement in Missouri OF
two years ago, he is now the bolt
ing party's candidate for President.
\ friend and supporter of Grants
administration last year, he is now
one of the most ungenerous enemies,
being actuated in his opposition by
the most disreputable of motives,
in the eyes of a true man, viz: self
ish ambition and pique. 1t isstrange
that an eminent political educator,
like Greeley, at least like he has
been, should degenerate into the
commission of so grave a folly. As
the readers of his Journal, whom he
formerly fed with political aliment !;
who followed the political current
which he pointed out, and which he
made clear and transparent by his
mastery logic; who graduated III
the political school Of Greeley, see
him now favoring what he formerly
condemned couLtenancing what lie
formerly scorIed; filling the cur
rent, which lie lad formerly made
so clear, with impurities, what can
they do but turn from his influence
with feelings ofsorowing disgust !?
TheTcannot follow him without
changing tie current of their polit-
ical thoughts; and unlike Grec'ey,
they have not had the influence of
selfish ambition to attain the Presi-
dcncy, or heart burnings from per-
soual failures to influence political
results, to estrangc them from the
paths of consistency ard devotion
to principle. They must leave him,
if true to themselves, as all political
suicides are left, to chew the cud of
disappointment and neglect, and so
lie will be left.
An exchange tells us that twenty
years ago Leland Stanford arrived