The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-19

Tho BerOmeters OF Public Opinion
The newspaper press Ia emphatically the
barometer of public opinion, and in that
view we proceed to produce from our distant
contemporaries further expressions of their
views in the pending Presidential contest.
AS 'all eyes are on Delaware 1t may not
be amiss to quote the following from the
Wilmington Commercial of the 18th INSTANT
"a multitude Of expressions used by Mr.
Greeley, in his speeches and his editorials,
can be quoted to show that he had, until
within few months. high opinion Of Presi-
dent Grant" His opinion is now, probably,
aggregated according to the ''higher law of
self-preservation-both Presidential and pru-
Dental.
The anti-Greeley papers. In quoting old
times sentences Of the editor Greeley. only
furnish themes and legends for the pro-
Greeleyites in making up their rallying cries
and transparencies. For example, an anti
Greeley paper publishes the following as
coming from tho Chappaqua philosophers
own pen =
II in full and Anal review my life and practice
infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be
thereby led to distrust tho principles 70 which
proved recreant.
Voltaire could scarcely have placed in words
o sentiment 80 sublime. But is it original
Overhaul your classics. Horace, and when
found make note.
This is a very true remark of the Cleveland
Herald (Grant) ITO know how the Presi-
Dental question Is running one must feel the
pulse of the rural districts The truth of the
well-known line, "God made the country,
man made the town." was never more clearly
proven than when, visiting our unpretentious
fellow citizens in the agricultural regions, we
listen to what they have to say, as they halt in
the ground they are ploughing or the corn
they are hoeing, upon the political topics of
the day. We would rather take as the current
of public opinion the views of our really agri-
cultural people than all the sententious decla-
rations our city pot-house politicians can
evoke. W a.,..z4 .e.-.:,-, .....y---7s ,.so
The Salt Lake Tribune brigham Young's
organ) thinks that the republican journalists
have worked up Greeley sensation, and con-
tinues:-
A new phase to the case, however, has now come.
Greeley is the nominee Of the democratic party as
well as the liberal republicans, and II 1t be In the
range OF possibility they will inevitably carry him
to the White House with an extraordinary enthu-
siasm.
The Boston advertiser GRANT declares that
the republican nominations Grant and Will
sony 'are accepted and sustained throughout
New England with unanimity scarcely paral-
leled in times of political excitement"
A Greeley flag raising in Maine furnishes ma
terial for glorifcation article in the Boston
Post Greeley, in the course of which it
says:-
The appearance on the same platform OF Marcellus
Emery, democratic candidate for Congress, and
Colonel Godfrey, Commander Of the Grand Army Of
the Republic Of Mr. McCrIllis delegate to the Bati
more Convention and General Boynton and such
event as has been chrOnicled. One and all are en-
listed for the war, putting aside the issues Of the
past and earnestly uniting to carry forward the
great work before them.