New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-04
He Kills the Leaders and Cap.
lures the Party.

lures the Party.
1t is thought that Shakespeare lover
stepped the modesty of nature," violated in
fact the broad license allowed to poets, when
he described a weeping queen, in widest grief
over the corpse of her murdered husbands
father, to be arrested in her pious course,
wooed and won by the cruel murderer of both.
The scene is, indeed, most shocking, and is
tolerated on the stage only when some great
actor, like Edwin Booth, throws around it
the fascination peculiar to greatness. The
whole plot is, however, unnatural, and only
possible in presence of unbelievable deprav-
ity. Yet Something almost as unnatural in
the way of a political courtship is just now
going on before our eyes. Horace Greeley,
who has killed more Democratic leaders than
any other man in America, is now wooing
the Democratic party with all the tervor of
his sunny nature. She spits at him, re-
proaches him with murderous assaults upon
those she loved and honored while they
lived; she is astonished at his hardihood in
daring to approach her after his murders;
calls down curses upon his guilty head, but
all to no purpose. Horace gains visibly.
Her resentment has now almost entirely sub
sided. She will neither thrust him through
with the sword nor allow him to do il HIM
self. In fact she already loves him, and,
though she is on the way to the Democratic
funeral, she will scarcely have buried her
dead protectors, when she will be in the
hands of him who slew them. Anne cursed
and spit upon Gloster, but, after all, yielded
to a man who described himself rs de
formed, unfinished, sent before his time into
this breathing world, scarce made up" He
turned all her bitter imprecations into Sc
ductive arguments, and won by means oil
them. In like manner, the Tribune turns
all the wrath and rdicule poured out by
Democratic assailants to the benefit OF llor-
ace Greeley, and the latter may well eNclaim,
Tin case he succeeds, as he doubtless will
succeed,) only changing one word ofthe text,
"Was ever woman in this humOr woocd?
Was ever woman in this humor Won? I'll
have her, but will not keep her long
There is not an honest Democrat in the
land who does not revolt at the political life
and character of Horace Greeley. They
know him to have been one of the most IN
dustrious, persevering, and formidable Of all
their assailants. Democrats in the Virginia
Convention the other day held their noses
while they spoke of him. His name brings n
erimace TO the face and a shudder to the
frame of any old fashioned Democrat, and
| vet they will find his charms irresistible.
They see in him the loaves and fishes oil
office, the restoration to place and power for
which their appetite has been whctted by a
dozen years Of fasting, and they embrace him
from this unnatural and ravenous hunger.
The Southern wing of the Democracy, the
old slaveholding class, think that Greeley
is the only name under heaven whereby they
can regain any part Of their lost power over
their negroes, and drive out the carpet
baggers. For these they will go for Greeley
or for anybody else. Anybody to beat Grant,
means in that section anybody that will re-
mand the colorcd people of the South to the
control of the old master class. Well, they
may find in Mr.. Greeley all they expect. He
may even do more and worse than any South
ern man would do in case of his election by
the Democrats and yet, knowing the man
rs we do, we feel almost certain that he will
disappoint his Democratic allies about as
badly as he has disappointed and grieyed his
old political associates.