Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-08-03

may like each others / have nothing
further to say.p And she withdrew
1t was nearly three months before
Tom Martin-happy fellcw!-led the
blooming Mrs. Cooke. 70 the altar.
She looked prsttier Ind sweeter than
ever, and everybody present declared
that no one living could ever have ia
ken her foI q widow. -
Tie Nations" Objections to
Greeley ts
as - lggls
!. Now what bearing fas this on
Greeley Do we mean to compare .sHon-
est Horace, ,tc :. Bill Tweed' and TON
Fields p BY TO means. We have
already dcne full, Justice to the good
there is in Grc,ley's character and
career. In the position which he has
occupied for thirty years, it is net
possible for any man TO bclittle or
degrade him. He has played lead.
Ing part In; one of the greatest PIN
anthrrric movements of the age: he
has founded great newpaper, possess.
ing enormous influence, and has
indu;ed a large body of his country
nen to admire and love him. But his
election to the Presidency would mono
the less, in our opinion, be the triumph
of the combined forces of corruption
and folly. Our firm belief is that
there is not q political knave in the
Union who has tailed to get what he
wants from Grant who is not at this
moment g working for Greeley. heart
and soul. aud for obvious reasons.
There are probably not ten per cent.
of bis supporters VINO expect good
government from him on, his sown
motion. What they look for at his
hands are facilities for attaining their
own ends through Some one or other
OF his many weaknesses. That woth-
less men would surround him, intiu-
cnoe, deceive and use him. is legiti.
mate deduction from his whole career,
which worthless men have not been
slow in drawing. That he would take
into his councils men of mark. and
weight and character, is 4 presumption
which that same career goes far to
rebut. His vanity aiii love of flattery,
bis confidence in his own opinions,
and his child-liEe brutality in assert.
ing them, would disinuline him to
draw about Fin, those who would
consider themselves, aud whom he
would suspect of considering them.
selves, bis superiors or, il he did,
would make it well nigh. impossible
for them tg net, harmoniously with
him. With lsis habits of mind aud
opinion OF the value of his own ideas,
J, it is difficult to conceive Of his allow.
ing'his Judgment to be affected by
what any man in the nation could
say, to him ois. any public question.
What confusion and uncertainty this
would foresbadOw one eau hardly
conjnre.. up without recalling the
multitude of wild, startling and utter
~ absurd .opinipus which he has,
during the past thirty years. upheld
with greatest. yehemence., But the
strvrgest objections in him is that he
lis,, es a Presiaential candidate, the
final 9ttempt Of that large class OF
\ quacks,. oharIatans, ignoramnses and
scptlEentaiists who are engaged in
every civilized country to-day in try
Ing 70 gncstitute "the heart for the
Ihead--or, in other words, 70 make
singing, weeping and wailing de- lin
: politics the, work of memory and
ludgment-to get possession Of the
Govesnment Of the United States
Ihey nave surceeded IN running one
Great aud noble nation their fondest
desire ana proudest hope Is now te
; rum tnis, Iney attain, their ends by
steauy war ON nearly all the methods
, pract'cees principles ami IDEAS which
nave faIssa man from the 1condit'o,
81 = nakea ssssge % that Ola civilized
ci.zen OF o tree state. They have nc