The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-16
THE TAMMANY CANDIDATES.
CRAFTSMANSHIP

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| Va, brings out to the astonisheC
gaze of his more careless friends
the claim to craftsmanship, which
we all readily acknowledge Mr.
Greeley to have right and titlt
to. 1t says:
what Horace Greeley was il
war we all know; the extent of hi:
craftsmanship in peace is what
puzzles the present generation OF
readers and thinkers, and leaves to
the future antiquist the most per
picking of unsolved problems in
human history and politics. When
a firm and decided attitude on the
part of the North, as to the right
of secession, seemed imperatively
demanded in 1860, we find Greeley
advocating the right until the voice
OF remonstrance was so loud and
indignant as almost to shake the
Tribune building to its foundation
before he needed it. When, dur
ing the first two years of the war,
moderation was needed to secure
the support of the moderate men
of the country, Greeley was the
most radical of all the extremists.
When Abraham Lincoln was ear
rying the country through its most
critical period, acting on the prin-
ciple of doing or forbearing to do,
as doing or forbearing to do would
save the Union, Horace Greeley
placed every possible embarrass-
ment in his way. He suddenly
changed his tactics whenever a
change imperiled the fortunes of
the hour; and as dOggedly adhered
to his crotchets when such adher-
ence could serve no possible end
but that of defeat to our cause.
''From a supporter of the right
of secession, he became the leader
of a campaign of hate-advocat
ing war of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the people of the South might find
poverty at their fre-sides, and see
privation in the anxious eyes of
mothers and the rags of children
This was the attitude of Mr.. Gree
ley while the armies of the North
were overwhelming the rebellious
traitors in the field and scatter
ing them like leaves before an an
cry wind But when General Lee
was marching North, and it look
ed as though the tread of hostile
armies was coming n little nearer
home-whGn he was watering his
horses in the Susquehanna-Gree-
ley WAS ready to sue for peace at
almost any price. And even when
General Grant had driven the re-
bellion to the last ditch, Greeley
was 'bobbing around with his pro
position to pay $400,000,O0O for
what no longer had an existence,
in fact-the malignant cause (ac-
cording to H. G. of the war it.
self This is Greeley's vacillat-
ing record during the war. tt
should satisfy the most enthusiasts
tic Greeley admirer that he is mol
statesman in war.
''But how is it to be in peace?
What assurance are we to have
that he will not prove the same
unstable weathercock that he
showed himself to be in war?
Craftsmanship demands first of all,
stability of character; not a shift |
ing, changing policy every day in
the year. To be ruler of men is |
to command your own spirit-to
stand as pillared rock before the |
tempests that shake the pusillani- |
nous soul. But this is not Mr.. |
Greeley. He can neither com |
mand his own spirit, nor can he
stand against the storm winds of
violence. At the first
sign of discomfort in Printing
House Square q carriage has in.
been ordered to the back
door of the Tribune building, when |
away went the Philosopher as
fast as the 1eetest horses heels !
could take him"