Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

have encouraged a thought of possible sue
cess and he is not, probably, less clear in bis
vision, or strength of stomach, now, when
there is no difficulty for the waytaring man,
though fool, in reading the handwriting
upon the wall. The days of modification for
eur worthy friend are at hand.
CHAPPAQUA WISDOM .AND CONsIsTENcY.-
The approaches to the Presidency are strewn
with disappointments bankrupt ambitions and
wrecks OF human greatness. Regulations
garnered by years Of care, foresight and appli-
cation, are wasted by the all labsorbng idea of
becoming President. Men of unquestioned
ability sacrifice tile true honors of their lives
TO the insane idea. The disease is inveterate
and ncurable, and when it gets hold of a
man. it never leaves him. From the moment
OF the attack, he grows more and more reck
less and unprincipled, repudiatcs his former
most cherished sentiments, turns his back on
! old and tried friends, and forms alliances with
those who had always dctesed him. But who
ever supposed that the Philosopher of the Tri-
6une, who has so forcibly noted the folly anG
rashncss Of others, should himself fall into
the same weakness ? Bat so it is, not only,
but he presents, perhaps, the most stlikng
and most lamcntable victim Of the malady
Before he became victim he had quite no.
ton of the Presidential disease, was well &C.
quainted with its symptoms, and had clear
perception OF its intractable and incurablc
character. At Il banquet given III Montreal,
in 1853, Mr.. Greeley, in speaking OF Daniel
| Webster, made use of the following language:
"Mr. Webster was not only gentle
man, but he had the elements of moral
greatness; and he had faults as we'll
lie failed only in one respect, aud in this
respect | differ from him-he wanted TO
be President, and don't. But for that
one misfortune he would have been the
greatest man America ever produced.
We have seen our greatest man, Mr..
I Chase, making the same blunder. |
have seen men who had the disease early,
and died of it at very old age. Gen;
eral Lewis Cass died at about eighty-two,
and up TO the day Of his death he wanted
to be President. No one ever escapes
who once catches the disease; and he
lives and dies in the dcluson. Being
| reader and an observer at an early age,
saw how it poisoned and paralyzed the
very best of our public men, and | have
carefully avoided it,"
Two years only have elapsed since this Ut
terance, and already may Mr. Greeley be adj
dressed in the words of the Roman satirist-
Change but the name of ihee-the tale is told
| Although. always erratic and Wis
ionary, always welded to specious fall
lacies, always abounding in contradict.
ions, yet he has now involved himself in
a mesh of antagonisms which are woi.-
deriul in comparison with his former
position.
If there was any one thing more than
another to which he prolessed an unultcrable
attachment, it was the principle of protection,
or as he expressed it, protection to American
industry" Yet, in order to purchase free trade
votes, he threw overheard the child of his nj
fiction, leaving it TO find favor or countenance
as it could. Knowing that he has no possible
chance of getting so much rs one electoral
vote. unless he is nominated at Baltimore,
next July, by the Democrats, he is employing
every measure and every urtiice in his power
| to bring about such n consummatiOn. lie is
la alliance with the Tammany Ring, as has
been charged home to him, and has not been
denied by himself or Tho Tribune. A late
number Of the ~ y. Cmmlereia! AdUertis'er
publishes the following suggestive paragraph:
We have the lion aud the lamb lying down
to gether-lree trader and protcctionest eros
sing their legs under the same mahogany
jew and Christian iraternizing in most eX
emplary manner The files of the Log Cabin,
and OF The Tri6aae would furnish volumes OF
scurrility and abuse which Horace Greeley
poured out on the Loco Focos, Free Traders,
Rum Parry, Democrats, as he called them, ard
to whom he now cuddles and to whom he sac,
riices the opinions upon which he used to
pride himself most Here is specimen of
the compliments that formerly ruined from
his pen.
"Point wherever you please to an elec-
tion district which you will pronounce
morally rot,en--given up in great part
TO debauchery and vice-and that dis
trict will be found at nearly or every
election to give large majority tor that
which styles itself the Democrtic party"
"Take all the haun,s of debauchery
in the land and you will find nine-tenths
of their master spirits active participants
OF that same Democracy"
=. "May it be written on my
grave that never was its follower, and
lived and died in nothing its debtor"
1t has been given out in certain quarters
that the Greeley and Brown ticket would get
the Irish vote. Hear Is what tho New York
Irish American has TO say: