The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-17
Tho World on MIR. Greeley.

courSo HAS UeeH marhcu Dy beIles VI
Inconsistencies and eIf-contradictions
for the past four or five months. It is
an able journal, beyond all question
perhaps the ablest edited of any political
paper in the United States. We have
always admired it and attached great i'm
portance to its well-digested views. But
our admiration is being fast provoked
out of US by its present absurd attitude.
At the inception OF the Liberal move
ment, there was no more earnest advo-
cate OF its principles than the World,
and we doubt if there was any moro
powerful instrumentality to its primitive
success. The TVorlG vas regarded as
the chief standard bearer of the Demo.
oracy, and the bold leaders of Liberalism
on the Republican side were encouraged
to believe that what it 80 promptly and
heartily endorsed would be supported
by the party which at that time it Ger
tainly represented. The 1VorM con-
tinued to encourage and to hold out
promises, indirectly. it is true, but none
the less binding on that account, that
it would sustain the movement up to the
very moment of the Cincinnati nomi-
nation. No sooner were Greeley and
Brown nominated, than this paper, to
the astonishment of all its readers. faced
about, and instead of pushing forward
the good work which it had so COM
mendably helped to inaugurate. teemed
day by day with the most bitter and
virulent attacks upon Mr.. Greeley. It
did not desist from this injurious and
inconsistent course even after it acknow-
ledSed that the nomination OF Mr.. Gree
ley at Baltimore was foregone conclu-
sion, thus showing that the motives of
it's action was not simply to defeat MIR.
Greeley's endorsement by the Demo
oracy, but that it was impeiled either by
envy, or else that it is acting treacher-
ous part in the interests of Grant But
one might have forgiven all this, attri-
buting the Worlds vagaries to tempo.
rary alteration of it's usually sound
judgment, had the paper abided in good
faith the action of the Baltimore Con
vention. which it was pledged to do be-
fore that body convened, and which it
has deliberately expressed it's purpose to
do since.
Instead, however, Of supporting man
fully the Baltimore nomination, we fiud
tue World indulging in lengthy diatribes
against the Tribune. and endeavoring,
in a sort of covert, sneaking way, to
array the Liberal Republicans and the
Democrats against one another, oy dwell
ing upon tie mighty obligations which
the latter have conferred upon Mr.. Gree
ley. The World maniiests very plainly
that the loayes. and fishes OF Office, or. at
any rate, simple party ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
is the chief consideration it has in view.
The World appears. for instance, !. far
more desirons that the Democracy should
''put a hook through Mr.. Greeley's s
nose," or that the party should have the
lions share of the Cabinet appoint
ments. than of the election Of the Libe-
raj ticket and the salvation of the coun.
try.
The Herald, though it favors Grant
personally, is, by its unbiased criticism
of the faults of his administration, and
its candid acknowledgment of the patri-
otto spirit which underlies the Liberal
movement, and of the honesty and
worth Of Mr.. Greeley, far better Libe-
raj paper than the World has yet shown
itself to be. The very drst idea Of the
Liberal movement is, that in relation to
the two existing political parties. the
Democratic and the Republican, it shall
be non-partisan. It cannot be called
either Democratic or Republican
party, as those parties now exist. It is
to occupy middle poaition, forming q
new party, which will embrace the
healthful principles Of both the old par
ties, hsrnonized and cemented together
with the new and noble principle Of re-.
conciliation between the sections OF the
Union. 1t expunges from Democracy