The New York herald., 1872-05-24
GREELEYANA
An Inside Interview with the Chap
Paqua Philosopher.

| MEMBER Oi the press was introduced to the
| Usage Of Chappaqua"- at the Astor House the
| other day by the urbane General Cochrane. The
venerable Sage rose, took the hand of the press
man. looked pleasantly into his face, the philoso-
piers eyes moistened, his frame trembled, and
| then, with q sudden burst, his heart openedl
| Through the chasm the press man saw the win
dows OF the great mans soul, and gancing
thiough one or the lower panes, what did he
Dehoiai The 'blockheads" of the Union League
were pecking away at the reputation of the "later
FRANKLIN" while the Saae, stripped to the hn@
was Iatt' =, Il - -,
...ng ny, right An" ' At nis assai,ants
frolessof Longfelow was reading what the great
farmer knew about farming to the listening ears
OF William Cullen Bryant. pig ironmonger of
pennsylvania and domestic callco-monger Of
massachusetts were in close commune with free
| trader from Ohio; Grahamite was hobnob-
| hing with Fulton Market butchers; q
New England temperance teetotaller had the
| ear OF German lager beer merchant;
Jefferson Davis was bang out the ship of state;
General Bob TOombs had his arm around the neck
OF William Lloyd Garrison; one of the old Fourerite
phalansterians was button-hong straitlaced
Scotch Presbyterian; the statue of the elder
Franklin was clasped in fearful embrace
by the Lincoln statue in Union square;
Sambo was lying cunningly in a corner, show
suspiciousy; woman's rights advocate was CO.
quoting with the editor of Fenian organ; an ex-
Tammany Ringmaster was singing "Oh that will be
JOYFUL" with q member of the Reform Committee OF
Seventy; and, In brief, there cergymen, farm.
ers, politicians, merchants, mechanics manufac-
turers, editors, poets prosets Heratti dilettantt
backwoodsmen and backsders, blue stock
ings and silk stockings, runled shirts and
SG'lS culOttes, and so on and so on, mnglIng ana
| commngling, waltzing and poking and nirting all
together, with grand Illuminated picture OF the
White House in the distance and the great Horace
himself in swallow-tail coat doing the honors Of
his first reception.
This all that the member of the press
saw from his momentary gance-no doubt much
more remained behnd-but While he was still gaz-
| ing at and rejecting upon the wonderful phantas-
| magoria the lips of the philosopher moved, he
gently released the press mans hand reseated
himself on the SOFA, leaned backward with more
than ordinary grace, and gushingly said-Nothng
Greeley and tho Dcmocracy-Suppose
Greeley, Failing to Get the Demo-
cratic Nomination, Should Withdraw,
What Thcn9
| [FrOm the Mobile Register (lemocratic) May 1871
Should the Democratic National Convention in
July make straight-out nomination, and should
Mr. Greeley then Withdrawals he has SO emphati-
cally pledged himself to do-the fight would be
straight out one between Grantsm and democracy.
We do not propose here to discuss the issues OF this
contest. II were premature to do SO, because such
issue has not yet been made and because it perhaps
will not be made. The democracy may perhaps
consider their best interests-as citizens as indi-
viduals and as party hoping for future-sub-
served by permitting democrats to vote for the
liberal republican nominees. The Convention Of
Ju1 mn tba Cncip = r.
may waive discussion Of the whole subject, simply
announcing Its principles and Issuing an address to
the people, calling upon them to perfect their party
organization for State service and urging them to
vote for President s their Judgment and instinct Of
selfpreservation may dictate.
In either Of these cases it were bootess to make
calculations upon the last contingency occurring
in this article-a singe-handed fight between the
two old parties. But even this far ahead It may
not be premature for the democratic party-from
its leaders to its rank and fe-to weigh well and
calmly the question whether or not Grant would
permit q count of the Southern vote. 1t has been
universally conceded that the whole structure of
Ku KluX laws and Enforcement acts was reared to
rights, within the States what Grantism did in
1868 to nuy twenty-three electoral votes Grant
may repeat in 1872. We must bear in mind that
the party that bound and gagged our sisters then
were only brigands in prospect. Lustng for plum
der ana thirsting Il for blood they were not yet
not yet led by the arrogant and sto.id autocrat,
who now has double debt of vengeance to pay
those who gave encouragement to his own rebel
lious vassals at Cincinnati.
Miscellaneous Notes About Greeley and
the Campaign.
IF some democrats cannot swallow Greeley they
must admit that he swings saucy swallow tailed
coat.
Some OF Greeley's devotees propose to add a new
chaDter In the Scriptlres-seThe n rho An0StIa
Horace"
The Democratic State Convention in Maine will be
held in Bangor, June IS. 1t will endorse Greeley,
no doubt.
william A. Richardson, Of Illinois, goes for Gree
ley. He says it Is w-a-r to the knife against
Grant.
The Cooperstown (N. Y, Justice Nelson's resi-
dence) Fleemdn's Journal (democratic don't
wish to be set down for Greeley until
he receives the Baltimore endorsement.
The same paper states that In private converse
tion with Mr.. Greeley he found fault with the
cool manner in which his nomination had been re-
ceived by the democratic press and leading poll
ticans of this State, and considered the action of
the Rochester Convention wise and friendly. He
thought the great body of voters in New York city
were warmly in his favor, and that South and West
there was growing favorable feeling among re-
publicans. Summing the whole matter up in few
words" continues the Journal, ut now looks as
though Mr.. Greeley would most probably be nomi-
mated at Baltimore and electedn
A democratic paper AYERS that the "Horace
Greeley Grand March' will be supplemented in
November by the "Sat River Promenade.u
The Nashville Republican Banner is well satisfied
with the Greeley outlook as it learns 1t through
private sources from Washington.
The Wilmington (N. ca Star says it was not ex-
would endorse Greeley and Brown out and out. 1t
did very well as far as it went. The star twnkles
for Greeley.
The Alexandria VA Gazette (democratic) says
(;reeley's letter accepting the Presidential nomina
ton expresses sentiments which will be approved
OF by the conservatives of the country, and those
who desire to see change in the administration Of