Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-07-26
HORlCE aREEBEI AND JAKE THOMPSON.


HORACE aREEbEI AND JAKE THOMPSON.
The report Of Jacob NJ. Thompson TO J. ?.
Benjamin shows that At the time he was
planning the destruction and devastation Of
the Northern cities, while he was sending his
emissarios with Greek Orc TO desolato New
York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and other CEN
tres Of population, he, VIM. Colorado Jewett
. "a crazy adveuturer) and George N saun-
dep were In correspondence with Horace
Greeley, OF the New York Tribune. These
WORTHLESS met at Niagara Falls in the summer
Of 1854. Thompson, as he himself testihes,
was at this time paying out large sums Of
money 10 get up peace meetings at Spring
neld and Peoria and other places, all Of which,
he assures US, were q decided success, "the
multitude who attended seeming 10 be swayed
only by one leading idea" The plots and
intrlgues Of Thompson and his baud Of In
cendiATics and would-be murderen were 80
successful that the political yane OF the Tri-
bune Office, ever ready TO be turned BY every
breeze Of dlsloyAlty that swept the country,
readily fell Into their schemes and opened q
correspondence with them which every SEN
slble man at the time condemned Is the height
of folly, calculated only TO strengthen the
hands OF the enemy and 10 weaken our ar
mics In the field. So keeuIy was the disaster
which Mr.. Greeley brought upon our cause
fell by the statesmen who were battling
sgainst the gigantic treason Of these men and
their confederates that Mr.. Stanton proposed
TO Mr.. Lincoln to arrest Mr.. Greeley and send
him TO Fort Lafayette for holding reasonable
correspondence with The enemy.
The celebrated peace negotiations of Mr..
Greelev with Jewctt Thompson A. Co. ware
opeped about the 5th Of July. The entire
correspondenee Is now matter Of hlstory
and NAV DO found I'm full in McPhersou's HIS
tory of the rebellion. IL sboWs copclusIvelv
that from first 10 last Mr. Greeley was I'm tbIs
matter an oficious internoddler. and tbat
bis sHVrs IN ruH uHveuou we's GA Far
with his celebrated "on 10 hlohmond' aru-
cles' BY which the greatest calamity Oh mo
war was preciPi'a'eu. Du' unero ano'ner
point 70 the entIe eIsr' namely Jus 1S, scan
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Pa'ho', no pu' ~. 1'u ~ ~ ,Siao
PCsit,On ooioi0 sno TUuuu " s"u' " Sa'o nun,
would inevitably be heaPod upon him when
all the facts were known, persisted In shield
ing himself and in directing popular wrath
.. NJ III, 90 ~. .as,t-II,-.,,.- r..
Mr.. LlncOln's request, when the "negotia-
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weaken the Union cause, should be printed,
Mr.. Greeley steadily refused to accode.
Perhaps in no single act OF his life do the
wisdom, the patriotism, the patience and the
sagaeity OF our martyr President stand out
In more bright aud brilliant eolors, now that
history has told us the entire story, than In the
the part which nc played In this matter, for
the sake Oh tho public interest," and OF the
salvation oil the country, eonsenting to re-
,eelye tue orunt OF the storm that was so I'M
justly turned against him. while the honest
editor Of the Tribune Skulked In his Office
and accepted the praises that were layished
upon him for bis "dlsinterested patriotism '
Mr.. Lincoln felt Mr.. Greeleys injustice
keenlV and placed the entlre cnrraannndanco