The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-26
THE cuAppAaUa SAGE.
Chances al his Political Record.

Sudden changes Of opinion always
) excite distrust unless they are accom-
panied bv causes 80 adequate and ap-
parant that the mctamorphosls Is at
once rNnlaincd. When surrounding
= circumstances are the same. and
where no logical or sufficient reason
can be- perceived for q revolution in
life long action and sentiment. there
naturally arises a suspicion of hidden,
mcrcenary, selfish. or dishonorablc
motives. If the conversion, besides
being sudden and logically incNpIica-
bic, was calculated to subservc ambi-
tions ends and aspirations, while Il
continuance in the former sentiments
would not. the doubt of honest con-
viction and high-mindcd sincerity in
the premises would almost, or quite,
amount to certainty.
Such is the position which Horace
Greeley now occupies in the minds Of
those who have hitherto been his pol
itical coadjutors. Like Saul of Tarsus
he has suddenly bctook himself 10 the
companionship of those whom he has
ever before denounced a. base and
dangerous. In the ease of the saint
there was a light in the heavens visi-
bic to those who stood round about
but in the case of the Chappaquc
philosopher hcreis only the blackncss
of Cimmerian darkness, far from sug-
gcstive of anything celestial. Horace
Greeley has deserted the Republicans,
nay more, the ccnsurcS and obju@a-
tons which for 81 many wears he be-
slowed upon their opponents, he now
pours out upon them, he well knowing
that the Democrats make it their
/ greatest boast that they are mchang-
ed. Horace Greeley has not kept his
first estate" politically, he is
-HurI'dheadlong Raining from the tn ETHEREAL
sky.
With hideous ruin and combustion. Gown
To bottomless perlition.'
Not only has he deserted the great
and noble party to which hc was at
tachcd. but his hatred towards it will
hereafter be greater than that of a
person who never belonged TO il.
During the old wars between the Ma
hometans and Christians. the latter
were accustomed to say that zone
renegade was worse than ten Turks
There is Il natural adherence in the
human mind against trcachcry and
selfish dcsertion. Thcrcncgadc feels
and knows it. He il sensible of the
need hc deserves from faithful and
honorable minds. and he hates those
who award it to him As the North
ern dough faces exceeded the very
slavcmongcrs in their obsequieuSness
and devotion to the system of slavery.
80 Greeley and the Tribune will now
exceed Marble and the World in the
-pitcfulncss, malignancy. and venom
with which they will pursue the Re
publicans.
Well. be il 80. Let him do his
worst, and that ,rorSf will not be
found very poNentOus or dreadful. As
individuals of the same family are
chary in public criticisms of each
other, 50 members of n political party
are reluctant to make attacks on an
associate whose heart j. right and vet
much if whose conducl is mischicv-
Gus This forbcarancc has long been
exercised towards Greeley; but now
his dcsertion renders it Legitimate to
examine the man H. he iS and has
been. He is now an enemy to the
Republican party. He will either be
the Presidential candidate of the 50
called Liberals, !" or that of the Dem
Ocratic party, or an lshmalitish BUSH
whackcr marauding on the outskirts
of those he hates the most. But he
need not he feared in either position.
If the Democrats do not take him up.
he cannot get a single electoral vote.
If they do, ii will cause the stampede
ofhundrcds Ofthousands of Democrats.
All the sorchcadS, all the personal ad-
hcrcnts, all the misguided Republi-
cans Greeley could carry with him
Aolfl ii'l ibl -h'li al lb~~.
The Cincinnati conglomeration of
odds and ends which eliminated in
the nomination of Greeley, is already
dissolving into its original elements.
Stanley Matthews, It's first chairman,
has publicly denounced il a. being
itself the most striking example he
could adducc of chicancry and cur
ruption. The revenue rcformers have
openly seeded and issued a call for
another Convention. The New York
Evening Post has deserted the con
ncction. The movement is not sup
ported by any Republican papers of
influence and ability The Tribune
when challenged to name any Repub-
lican daily newspaper except itself
that east its lot with the Cincinnati
mongrel party could not do it, and
could only designate four insignificant
weekly Tor weakly papers in its own
state. and one of them has since per-
ishcd for want Of support. The Ger
man Republican press throughout the
Union, remains true to its allegiance,
and both Republican and Democratic
Germans, a. rule, rcpudiate Greeley
as a candidate or a. II chief They
are not dice to be shifted at will from
one place to another, by any political
iug.lcr however adroit. The great
body of American Republicans re-
jcct the Tribune sage with the dis
gust his recrcancy merits
Among the Democrats, 50 far from
gaining new strength, Greeley CON
stantly becomes more distascful and
mwclcome. The leading Democratic
journals are opposed to his being
nominated at Baltimore. a. are the
most prominent Democratic leading
mcn- Where, then, is Greelcv's
strength 1t j. certainly not porteg-
tious in the North, and will not bc UNI
less the Blair family, bv the same
manipulation, trcachcrics and c0nspi-
racics which effected the nomination
AT Cincinnati can force him upon the
Baltimore Convention. In that case
will any considerable number of Re
publicans follow him into the Demo
cratic camp! Only misguided, dis
appointed and rccrcant Republicans
can do 50. Their number We feel
sure, will be small. The great Re
publican party itself, is too devoted
"a IL ,,riucinl.. too ,voll o..,aintoI