New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-07-11
From the Rochester Democrat
GreeleyIsiN MS ExpOMmded by the
UhlOM.


UhiOM.
The Rochester onion of last evening saws
Horace Greeley-homely but honest and viz
tuous, intellectually great among the great
/ est, his face beaming with benevolence and
his heart beating time to universal amnesty
Tor rcpentant rebels, and universal love for
all, is pretty good Presidential candidate for
an American citizen to vote for.
There are some things which, if ever true,
are always true. Of such are the descrp-
tons the Union has given of Horace Greeley
from time to time; and which we shall insist
are true, until il recants. 1t said of him DC
tober 9, 1869:
The naming of Horace Greeley for comp
troller of the State of New York is the most
laughable farce OF the season. OF all public
| Offices, that pertaining to financial affairs is
the one for which Mr.. Greeley is not only the
least fitted, but for which he is wholly UNI
fitted, So deficient is he in this respect that
were it not for his partners and friends who
take care of his business he would be PEN
niess Bohemian to-day. AS a political theo-
rst and newspaper writer Mr.. Greeley is es-
teemed as able and wise by those who agree
with him; but as financer it is no dlsre-
spect TO him to say that he approaches the
foolish.
If Mr.. Greeley was too "foolish" to serve
the State of New York as comptroller, is he
any wiser now? And ought he to be Presi-
dent of a country having such extensive COM
mercial and business interests as the United
Stateso
Said the Union October %, 1869:
Horace Greeley has just put forth letter
addressed to Hon. Samuel j. Tillen, Chair
man of the Democratic State Committee,
which is characterized by the egotism, men,
dacity, and stupidity which combine to make
up the essential features of the character of
the Radical candidate for comptroller.
Is il not charitable to suppose that Mr.. Gree
ley is insane?
In the course of his diatribe Mr.. Greeley
takes occasion to lug in the name of Hon. A.
Oakley Hall, mayor of New York and for
mer Wing associate, whom he hates so in
tensely that he never lets an occasion pass
to attack him. Mr.. Hall pays his attentions
to Greeley in readable note which we print
elsewhere, in which he offers to prove the
Radical candidate for comptroller before a
legal commission, or before the people in
joint discussion upon the stump.
Oakley Hall now supports Greeley heartily.
Yet he made the challcge referred to by the
Union, in the following terms:
A man who so supremacy believes in him.
self as Greeley does cannot very well believe
in any other man nor accept any alien crit
icism. What, therefore, you will ask, is the
use of answering II. c.? WHY simply to
expose him. The prophet Matthias was,
years ago, tried for the mere object of ex-
posing his impostures. You must keep on
arraigning this ''profit' '-seeking philosopher
at the bar of public opinion for the purpose
OF saving people from accepting his self
deiusions. l will engage to prove Horace
Greeleya mOnomaniac before any commission
Of s,nn in, DO oIxlx
posed OF st. Lawrence Radicals. His incon-
sstencies during the war his vituperations
of men OF all creeds and politics for quarter
OF century back; his forgiving the enemy
OF yesterday or abusing the friend of last week
whenever he wished thereby to gain q point
his everyday antics before ike Fourth avenue
barber shop; his smirk of satisfaction when
he steps on or off the stage wherever "ladies
are present." at a lecture or 4" fair opening :"
his ungrateful treatment of John Scholcraft.
Weed, M'Elrath, and a dozen others who
befrlended his poverty; his particularly in
searching after old Catharine street costumes.
whereby he attracts as much public notice as
the corset man on Broadway; his greed for
office, whether it be Congress or register,
delegate or Senator, railway director or
cOmptrOller-all of these well known and
widely appreciated (eccentricites his little
circle call them) Greeleyisms can only be ex.
planned upon the vanity, mOnomania hypoth-
esis.
Some other time we may give Mr.: Greeley's
opinion of Hall, but not now for we must
continue to Gull from the Union. Isaac Butts,
in the issue of October %, 1869, spoke OF
Greeley's " frequent and strange metamor-
phoses " " so shockingly at variance with the
creed he, as a candidate for office, now pro-
fesses." We wonder what Butts thinks now i?
Said the Union, October 81, 1869 .1
Greeley and the New York Tribune are
VIGOROUSLY the advocates and supporters of
mOnOpolies and moneyed powers Of every
grade and character. The public debt dig
archy, the national bank swindle, the Penn
sylvania iron and coal extortioners, the New
England manufacturing plunderers are
championed by Greeley and the New York
Tribune, because each and all own the man
and the paper"
Greeley says that in the present canvass
he would not have any one vote for him in
ignorance of the fact that he is protection
list; or, as the Union would put it, is
"owned by the monOpolists. Who, then,
has changed? 1t must be the Union!
The Union also denounced Mr.. Greeley for
his completely in $25 900, 900 land grants,
system which he still favors and for his
proposition to sell the canals to the "soulless
monopolies " owned by Vanderbilt. Mr..
Greeley has not changed-has our neighbor
And why does it wish to put this . tool of
monopolists " in the Presidential chair Does
it scent the spoils; and think to outstrip the
Tammany and Brooklyn rings, the Southern
scrip spectators and the western land-grab-
bers in the race! Evidently, it must.