Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1872-05-10
GREEDY.
r. p. TICKLE,
Secretary.

Mr.. Henry Waterson of the COur.
ier-Jomnal. the leading paper Of the
great central North was at the
Cincinnati. Convention, and writes We
~ able article upon the action oft hat
body. We clip the following on the
nominee, Mr.. Greedy.
Horace Greeley is the best known citizen
of America. His career has made deeper
impression upon his iellow-citizens than that
of any living man. His face is familiar to
everybody His picture swings in more cot
tageS and log-cabins than that of any Of his
contemporaries. 1t is a kind face, the face
of an able, honest old man, who never pur-
sued a fallen enemy and is incapable of de-
ceit. His record is, likewise, full Of whimsi-
cal, odd, attractive points. More can be said
for him and against than can be said of any
other candidate who was ever put in nomina-
ton for the Presidency. But, casting up the
balance, this result can be struck of, he never
committed an error that sprang fir m malig-
nance or yenality, and all his shortcomings
and his weakn IS
"Lear to virtues side"
He was the over-zealous partisan Of freedom;
the oyer-zealous partisan of peace; the over
jealous partisan of protection. lie has habit
ually sacrificed himself to good impulses,
sometimes misdirecied and sometimes out Of
season, but always generous and brave.
lie di,, not fear the slave power when 1t
controlled the politics Of the whole country
lie did not fear the war-power when he bold
Iv went to Canada to make an impossible
peace He did not fear the power OF prejudice
when he obeyed the generous suggestion of
a nature, always 0verttowing, and he went to
Richmond TO open the prison-doorS of Jetfer-
son d Wis He has feared UOthing in long
life of striving after both ideal and practical
standards, having been equally courageous
and whimsical, able and kindly.
They will laugh at his fOibles, but they can
not deny that there is certain genial power
even in bis foibles. They may carlo him
and lampOon him; but their pictures and
their Jokes will ohly serve to make that COM
ioal kind old face the more pleasing and the
more familiar, if that be possible, to the peo-
pie. and to render his peculiarities the less
objectio able by producing a popular reac-
tion in his favor.
Mr.. Greeley has as many clements Of
strength within himseif-as many Of what
the DOLE lclane Cali --Sr
any candidate who ever asked the suifrages OF
the American people. In these be resembles
Mr.. Lincoln His old white coat will prove a
counterpart to the famous surtout of Napoleon,
which had only to be raised upon walking
stick to muster the troops Of all Europe into
the field. His old white hat will be a homely
modern Illustration of the white plume of
Henry of Navarro, shining with inspiring
brightness of an orifame in tie thick of TIE
fight. It does not neeA George Alfred Town
send and Frank Blair to predict that much r
the philosopher Of peace, whose emblem is
tie emblem Of Greeley, WHITE.
Ibis is an epoch OF peace, and peace has
no reg resentative so conspicuous as Horace
Greedy. lie is on record as the first to pro-
c.sim universal amnesty. He is on record as
the most powerful assailant of those scourges
Of the South and of honest government, the
cArpet-baggers. No man, in himself, could
pessess fever objectionable traits TO the Dem
ocrats, who viii take him, if they take the
movement which has put him into the field,
With real enthusiasm.
Is has been evident al along that the De-
u,o,-2cv base desired enly esapcS 90 in