Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-06-28

attentions. We arrived at home on
Saturday evening.
THE CHAPPAQUA SAGE.
Chances at His Political Record.
Sudden changes Of opinion always
excite distrust unless they are ac-
companicd by causes SO adequate
and apparent that the metamorphosis
is at once explained. When sur
rounding circumstances are the
same, and where no logical or suffi-
cient reason can be perceived for q
revolution in life long action and
sentiment, there naturally arises a
suspicion of hidden, mcrcenary,
selfish, or dishonorable motives. If
the conversion, besides being
sudden and logically incxplicable,
was calculated to subserve ambitious
ends and aspirations, while a con.
tinuance in the former sentiments
would not, the doubt of honest con-
viction and high minded 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 political coadjutors. Like Saul
ofTarsus he has suddenly bctook
himself to the companionship of
those whom he has ever before de-
nounccd as base and dangerous. In
the case of the saint there was q
light in the heavens visible to those
who stood round about; but in the
case of the Chappaqua philosopher
there is only the blackncss of CHM
merriam darkness, far from sugges-
tive Of anything celestial. Horace
Greedy has deserted the Republicans
nay more, the censures and objur-
cations which for so many years
he bestowed upon their opponents,
he now pours out upon them, he
well knowing that the Democrats
make it their greatest boast that
they are unchanged. Horace Gree
ley has not kept his "frst estate"
politically, he is
"Murrd headlons flaming from the tn ETHEREAL
sky,
To bottomlcss perdition."
Not only has he deserted the great
and noble party to which he was
attached, but his hatred towards it
will hereafter be greater than that
of person who never belonged to
it. During the old wars between
the Mahometans and Christians, the
latter were accustomed to say that
zone renegade was worse than ten
Turks" There is a natural abhor-
renee in the human mind against
treachery and selfish descrtion.
The renegade feels and knows it.
He is sensible of the need he de-
serves from faithful and honorable
minds, and he hates those who
award it to him. AS the Northern
dough faces exceeded the very
slavemongers in their obsequious-
ness and devotion to the system of
slavery, so Greeley and the Tribune
will now exceed Marble and the
World in the spitefalness, malig-
nancy, and venom with which they
will pursue the Republicans.
Well, be it so. Let him do his
worst md that 3cOrSt will not be
found very portentous or dreadful.
As individuals Of tho same family
are chary in public criticisms of
each other, so members Of poll
tical party are reluctant to make
attacks on an associate whose
hearts, right and yet much of whose
conduct is mlschievous. This for
bcarance has long been exercised
towards Greeley; but now his de-
sertion renders 1T legitimate to
examine the man as he is and has
been.
He is now an enemy to the Re-
publican party. He will either
be the Presidential candidate of
the so called "Liberals," or that of
the Democratic party, or an 1shma-
elitish bushwhacker marauding on
the outskirts of those he hates the
most. But he need not be feared in
either position. If the Democrats
do not take him up, he cannot get a
single electoral vote. If they do, it
will cause the stampede Of hundreds
of thousand of Democrats. All the
soreheads, all the personal adhercnts
all the misguided Republicans
Greeley could carry with him would
not compensate for such loss. The
Cincinnati conglomeration Of odds
and ends which eliminated in the
nomination of Greeley, is already
dissolving into it's original clements.
Stanley Matthews, its first chairman
has publicly denounced it rs being
itself the most striking example he
could adduce of chicanery and cor
ruption. The revenue reformers
have openly seeded and issued
call for another Convention. The
New York Evening Post has dcser-
ted the connection. The movement
is not supported by any Republican
papers Of influence and ability. The
Tribune when challenged to name
any Republican daily newspaper
except itself, that cast 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 persisted for want Of
support. The German Republican
press throughout the Union, remains
true to its allegiance, and both Re
publican and Democratic Germans,
as rule, rcpudiatc Greeley as a
or as q chief. They are
not dice to be shifted at will from
one place to another, by any pol
itical jugglers however adroit. The
great body of American Republi-
cans rejects the Tribune sage with
the disgust his recreancy merits.
Among the Democrats, SO far
from gaining new strength, Greeley
constantly becomes more distastefal