The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-03

/ murder renders 1t necessary to make separate
Investigation and decision in each case.
+ Very respectfully, 49, -,.r -. 80, .,,a
\ pg Attorney. General
| Greeley and Gl.-Ats & -:
4 The advocates of President Grants re-eiee-
ton cannot successfully refute the charge that
their: candidate is wholly unfit to fiji the Presi-
\ dental Office; but they endcaTor to Offset IL by
declaring Horace Greeley unsuitable, and not
fit to be trusted in any position requiring ad-
| ministratiye ability. The allegation is very
extraordinary when Mr.. Greeley's career is
considered. If he, instead of General Grant,
/ had received the nomination of the Philadei-
phia Convention, we should haVe,a very differ
ent story from the Radical, orators and editors
| Had such an event. occurred, we should now
| hear and read from these same orators and edl-
tors how Mr. Greeley commenced the publica-
tion of the New York Tribune in l84l, without
partner or business associate, with but SIX hum
dred subscribers. and cash capital of thou
sand dollars, and, by his indomitable energy,
skill, industry, and administrative talent, made
it one ofithe greatest if not the most influential
and lucrative public journals in the United
States. The New York Tribune has been be-
fore the public for thirty zone years. and its ap-
probation is shown in the patronage it has at
tained. When Mr.. Greeley's nomination tor
the first Office in the gift of the nation caused
him to retire from his editorial duties he was
at the head of one of the most powerful and
widely-circulated papers in the world, the sue
cess of which was incontestbly due to his In
tellectual superiority and administrative talent.
Not only Horace Greeley brought the III
5une from nothing to it's present status, but tor
quarter of a century he has exercised greater
influence over Northern sentiments than any
other man or any other fifty men. a citizen
of such rare intelligence and business habits, II
honest and patriotic could hardly falI TO MAKE
good President The history and eminent
success of the Tribune fatty contradict the &C
cusation that there is anything unstable or
wayerinp in its former editors character. AS
Senator Sumner justly observed in his last
speech before leaving for Europe, mot to put
faith in Horace Greeley isto act not only with
out, evidence, but against evidence so manifest
and constant,in unbroken continuity as to seem
like q law of nature AS well distrust the sun
in its appointed course"
IF Greeley, is elected we shall have for the
next four years, a competent, wise and honest
chief Magistrate. The corruptions bred by
Grantism will vanish before him as unwhole-
some exhalations before the sun, and where
all is corruption and dishonesty now, will be
straightforward dealing then.
The contrast between the two candidates Tor
the Presidency is as striking as between the
parties they represent. Radicalism and Lloer-
alism are not more dissimllar than Horace
Greeley and U. S. Grant. We have already
given briefly an estimate Of the character and
qualifications of the one. With the character
and qualifications of the other the people are
pretty we'll acquainted. President Grant has
been nearly four years in Office, and yet he has
learned nothing of craftsmanship, and does not
even 30 much SIS comprehend the nature OF our
Government. We have no idea that the pre-
sent incumbent at all comprehends what the
duties and responsibilities of the, Presidential
Office are He seems to be possessed OF vague
sort of notion that the nation is great militia
ry camp. and that he is called upon to rule it
accordingly. Of narrow and contracted mind,
and all the education he has ever received haV-
| ing been of q purely military character, he has
no conception of government that ls not ar
bitrary.
The time of war has passed, and that of re-
Cancellation and peace come. Seven years ago
the civil war ceased, and surely it is time that
hostilities should cease. The results OF the
war are fully appreciated and acknowledged
by the South. Grant and his followers insist
upon keeping the war issues before the people;
The victory which has long ago been acquiesced
in with all Its results they constantly Haunt IN
the faces of the yanquished. This certainly is
not calculated to bring about econciliation, for
fraternal feeling is not germinated by the reit-
Grafton of ancient feuds. The wounds OF the
mind as well as of the body, require the skill
fhl touch of the healer's hand. Gentle treat
ment will 20 great deal further toward effect.
ind cure than the caustics constantly applied
by the GRANTEES. -
We have said that there is world of differ
ence between the two candidates for the Presi-
dency. II is so. Greeley is an active, indus
triols, selfdenying and energetic man. who
has succeeded in pretty much everything ne
has undertaken. Grant, on the other hand, is
an ignorant and selfindulgent person, whose
ideas of government are derived from the camp,
and who is rendered greatly more dangerous
than he would otherwise be because of the sim
lister influences brought to bear on him. Gree
lev would spend the time that Grant devotes TO
pleasure seeking in assiduous labor for the ma
tional welfare. During his term OF oifce exc
cutiye business at Washington Will occupy the
Presidents time instead OF ldleness, pleasure
excursions and loiterings by the sea. Greeley
will consider it his first duty to keep pnpllc
affairs straight, while the present incumbent
leaves public affairs to keep themselves straight.
To decry Horace Greeley's administrative
ability in favor of Ulysses S. Grant is one OF
the most absurd of all absurd things. Grant
has no other idea of politics than to advance
his own interest and that of his relatives and
friends. He is in all respects wanting IN the
qualifications of President. Greeley, on the
other hand, is man alike OF sense ana pa
triotism.
We want religion that goes into the fami:
" and keeps the husband from being spiteful
When dinner is late, and keeps the dinner from
being late-keeps the wife from frettin1g when
he tracks the newly washed floor with his mud, !.