New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-31

in language from the views of Mr.. Greeley.
for the utterance of which he has been Bit
tcrly denounced by the whole paTasitical fol-
lowing of Grant, in stump speeches, in ser
mons better becoming the stump than the
pulpit, and in religious" newspapers from
whose scheme good neighborhood, if not tho
love of God, has been eliminated. Can 1t DO
possible that Mr.. Beecher serves an earthly
master, takes his tune from his leaders hand,
and his tone from his commanders voice
Has Grantism so utterly put kindness, lot
giveness, and heavenly pity out OF fashion
that they arc no more to be found I'D
churches than last years bonnets ana
shawlsq Perhaps even Mr. Beecher may DO
Just n little shocked when he comes to con-
slider the horrible diabolism which 1T has been
the business of the supporters OF the ADMIN
istration TO foster and intensity. Perhaps not |;
for, after all, there Is q smirch OF worldnness
in the moral constitution Of some very goOu
men, which the rosy light of their unfeigned
pietsm only makes more grim and ugly. We
question the sincerity of no man unless ne
compels us to question it; but we decline to
be censurcd for holding fnst to the Republican
faith, az set forth by Grant himself and by
understand what the last-ramed gentleman
meant when he spoke Of the possibility that
the North might become " demOralized by pros
"perty and besotted by groveling instincts"
Let no lively LOyalist" hasten to empty
upon us the vials of his indignation. These
are only the apprehensiOns of Mr.. Beecher In
1866. "In such case,n he added, the South
mot only will control the Government, but 1t
Sought to do it," In all the heat of these
latter controversies, have we ever said so much
as this
We have, it is true, just as Mr..
Beecher did, expressed the hope that South
ern society might be "calmed, settled and
occupied and soOthed with new hopes and
prosperous industries This, too, is the hope
everywhere and upon all occasions during the
present canvass expressed by MIR. Greeley
Ask n Grant Republican if he thinks that the
South should be "soothed," and he will be
bankrupt of words in which to express his
sublime scOrn of such pusllanimity. What
ever may have been the occasion OF such
popularity of the present canvass, we unhesl-
tatingly affirm that almost the sole resource OF
the Grant party has been an appeal to North
ern prejudices and resentments, with the con-
tinued existence of which anything like social
calmness at the South is quite Incompatible.
Mr. Beecher is a gentleman not unaccustomed
TO sharp observation of social phenomena.
He understands, no man better, human pas
sions and motives he knows, or should know
in his quality of clergyman, the treatment
which is likely to lead those who have done
wrong to sense of their error and to firm
To, oil
things were plain to him. They are equally plain
to great mass of Liberal voters to-day. The
Greeley movement is no mora and no less
than an attempt to do those things IN
season for the promotion of which the Cleve-
land Convention was gathered out of
season. The Union is riven to-day,
the South is to-day wretched and palsied and
uneasy, simply because, at the proper time, Mr..
Beecher's good advice was not followed 1t is
because of this unsatisfactory condition OF
affairs that the Liberal party is in existence.
1t could never have been organized If 1t
had not been terribly needed. 1t is melan-
chOly consideration that at this hour, so full
of the most vital issues when the Republic
needs the personal devotion OF every citizen,
wien petty pecuniary interests should be for
gotten, when the worship of any man, what
ever his record, is dangerous, when fidelity to
party may mean inGdelity to the country-it
is indeed painful to think that at such time
men of high and virtuous standing, selected
to be the wise counselors of the people, should
suffer themselves to sink breast-high in the
quagmires of the political field, while they
still aver their footing to be upon the table
land of a rare and lofty public virtue. Are
they deceived7 Then Heaven pity their
heads Are they not deceiyedR Then Heaven
pity their hearts