Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-22
Another appeal for greeley

In the way OF appeals TO Greeley voters little
the best thing yet comes from James NJ. Scovel
of New Jersey. He is the member of the "na-
tionaf liberal committee" for New Jersey, whose
remarkable Disqualification for being nation
al representative of any honorable party were 50
conspicuous that some of the chief party organs
felt constrained to protest against his appoint
ment. Their protests were UNDECIDED, however,
probably for the reason that the same qualities
which unified him for any honorable position
made his choice TO represent the Greeley party
in New Jersey peculiarly appropriate. Mr..
Scovel, so far as we hear, has not been very
successful in guiding the political tendencies OF
his own state, but for failure in that respect, few
of his associates have earned the right to re-
proach him. In making appeals, when he gives
his whole attention to it, we are convinced that
be has few superiors. Even the reckless lervor
of Ethan Allen and the undiscipinGd polysyla-
bles Of John Cochrane, are less impressive than
| ScovePs swelling rhetoric Some gems from
his collection are perhaps worth looking at.
they may not be real stones, and their cutting
does not show the highest skill but they are
passable limitations, and if not inspected too
article. Here is one of them:
"In Horace Greeley we present to the Ameri-
can people statesman VINO would scorn to do
mean act or 10 consummate a wrong to make
himself president. He represents no ways that
are dark. Horace Greeley represents sincerity
in craftsmanship, and in character what Mat
thew Arnold calls Sweetness and light" He is
sunshine and strength, with an eye like Apollo
that "lendS brightness, and never yet knew
shadow defeat WOuld AFFECT
but supplemented philosopher and patriot less
than il would affect any friend he has in
America. His services TO the world and TO the
unwTitten laws Of humanity have already made
him immortal. For forty years this pure aud
noble man has been in the very forefront of the
hottest battles tor freedom to ALL for purity and
decency, for justice and for fair play in Ameri-
can politics"
1t is really objectionable in Mr.. Greeley's adj
mirers to have left us till this time in ignorance
OF the fact that he has an eve like Apollo. A
| seasonable announcement of the discovery
might have had who knows what effect on
| the canvass in Pennsylvania. His hat and
coat, boots and trowsers, have had due at
tention and no doubt, influenced as many
voters as they could reasonably have been eX-
pected of them. 1t Is possible that, but for the
eccentricities Of his costume, Georgia could not
have been carried for him, and the adverse ma
iority in Pennsylvania might have exceeded one
hundred thousand. Why, when every element
of success ought to have been made useful, were
all but the few favored intimates of the "grand
philosopher and patriot left to suppose that
his eyes were not different from those of ordinary
mortals, when in fact one Of them at least is like
Apollo?" This, we SUSPECT, is the great mis-
take of the campaign.
Mr.. Scovel, though sangune of success, is
mildly reproaehful towards those who profess
to cooperate with him in New Jersey. They
need there, he says, "more concert in action be-
tween the liberal element and the democracy;
little more consideration for those who have I'M
selfshly flung themselves into this fight" mean
| ing of course James NJ. Scovel and his like, if
New Jersey unfortunately has other sons like
him. From this momentary yielding to a
| natural weakness the appellant RECEIVERS i'm
mediately and exchanges the plaintive accents
of reproach for what, in the fguraliye Ian.
euage OF the stump, we may call the bugle
tones of assured victory. ''Men of New Jer-
sey !" he exclaims, "stand by your colors from
this day till the evening of the 9th of November.
With New Hampshire and Illinois, Connecticut
and Indiana keeping step with the Empire
State; with gallant New Jersey and united
south we will crown Gods modest work, an
honest man, and that man Horace Greeley, with
the presidential laurel