New-York tribune., 1872-10-08
uR. GlRRYS0Y ON MR. GREELEY.


1t is hard to believe that Mr.. William Lloyd
Garrison, no matter how indomitable the preJu-
dice for the moment possessing his mcom-
promising nature, would tell falsehoods win
n prepense malice. There is another inn
morality from which he cannot so readily be
absolved. Having satisfied himself that any
man is to be censured, Mr.. Garrison appears
to feel at liberty to say of that man whatever
may lend force and point to the Indictment.
The specific facts are not of the least conse-
quence. The culprit who in Dir. Garri-
sons estimation has offended in one point,
has offended in all; and therefore
Mr. Greeley, in running for the Presidency
against Mr.. GarrisOn's judgment, has com.
mitted the seven deadly sins, and would have
committed fourteen if there had been so many
Nr. GarIisOnis latest criticism Of Mr. Greeleys
public purse is a specimen of the writer's
frigid wrath and moral strabismus. 1t is so full
e assertions which everybody except Mr.. Gaul-
-on knows to be false, that an ill-informed
person might regard it as piece of amiable
and complimentary irony. 1t begins char
octeristically enough with the assertion
that no candidate for the Presidency has
before allowed himself "to enter the
" eectioneerng field travelling from State
"to State' This is not true-seyeral
candidates have during the canvass Travelled
and made speeches. Again, Mr.. Greeley Is
charged with ,"uttering self-laudatory har-
"angues to gathering crowds covering with
" obloquy his rival, and eXertIng all his
powers to secure his own election, as the
wisest Of statesmen and the most disnter-
ested of patriots" 1t is only charitable to
believe that Mr. Garrison has not read the
speeches which he here, with such loose
virulence, misrepresents. BY applying at this
Office, either personally or by letter, he may
receive collection of these addresses
in convenient form; and having
youchsafed them tho most cursOry Pc
rusal, he will find no self-laudatory
harangues," no "obloquy" cast upon Grant,
no claim, express or implied, on the part of
the speaker, to be regarded as " the wisest OF
" statesmen and most disnterested of patriots
We assert that in no speech by him delivered
during the present canvass has Mr. Greeley
covered with oblOquy his rival" We call
upon Mr.. Garrison TO make good his accusa-
ton. We want no generalitieS. We want
time, place, and the letter of the text This
matter attended to, we ask Mr.. Garrison to
specify those passages in MIR. Greeey's ad-
dresses which are described as selt-laudatoIy
"haraneues." Here, again. we demand time,
place, and the text
These are matters of morality. Something
we might be pardOned for writing OF matters
of taste, when Mr.. Garrison says of our candi-
date: "Having got through with bis Eastern
exhibitions of himself, he has been going his
rounds at the West, awakening as much
"curiOsity as frst-class caravan, repeating
"his 'conciliatory' platitudes ad nauSeam,
GLOWING his own trumpet, and vauntingly
prOclaiming his destiny to be the occupancy
"Of the White House for the next four years.
We are sorry for Mr. Garrison. In all our
experience, we do not remember so sudden
and 80 sad deterioration of character after
such a brief experience of bad company. Evil
communications have made short work both
of Mr.. Galrson's manners and morals. In an
article of no inordinate length, he
has contrived to charge Mr.. Greeley
with elf-laudatory harangues," with SOW
ing the seeds of discord and alienation
broadcast with "vanity sef-seeking and
unscrupulOusness," with being "Out of his
fright mind" with "meanness and brutality"
with disgusting selfshness,n with "auda-
"ciously undertaking to bully the loyal Whites"
and with scattering frebrands, arrows, and
death while canting about peace. reconcile.
cation, and truce to all dscOrds." And this
is the same Mr.. Garrison whose feelings are
SO wounded at the "obloquy" which he as
sumes to have been cast upon his master!
Alas poor human nature Here is the salt
of the earth grown unsavory! Here is the
gentleman and the Christian transmOgrifed
into-nO matter whati