The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-12
PARRY MATERIALS,

Man is not more wonderful and fear
fully formed, in all the intricate diversties
of his material makeup, than is a political
party in a great, populous and powerful,
country like our own; and, generally, the
materials of which it is composed deter
mine in very great measure its chances
of success. For party must be made up
Of such consistent and thoroughly coherent
particles that when they severally unite into
one mass they will not only form moving
body with an aggregate tendency in given
direction, but the body itselfmust beableto
stand the strain that is put upon it, and
meet the collisions and shocks Of party
conflict without splintering or breaking up
into fragments-a condition of things more
likely to result in disaster to newly -formed
party than to any solid organization
against which it may be directed.
The " Greeley party for it is idle to
talk of any other political organization as
actually existing at the present time and
acting against the great Republican party
is made up Of the most discordant and
thoroughly antagonistic orces that could
possibly be brought together. There is es-
sentially nothing in the movement TO at
tract adherents. The repulsive force, in
nine cases in ten, is as likely to predomi-
nate as the attractive force is to overcome
and master. His hackers are at best
motley and spotted crowd-men who have
waited a long time for " something to turn
up, and who are impatient for the. evil
dences they want Of a rising tide in the
popular favor. The first sign of defeat
disheaftens them-breaks their spirit and
leads them to despair Of any further sue
cess. They can constitute, in no sense of
the word, representative body Of the
great American Republic. 1t is to all in
tents aud purposes Greeley or iadiyidual
party, and can have no more nationality
about it than the name of its leader can
popularity inspire. And Mr.. Greeley's
name is the most unfortunate one that
could possibly have been hit upon to inspire
popular enthusiasm or anything approach
ing it in national politics. He is unfortu-
nate in the fearful political record which
his name presents. All the bitter and
mercilessy scathing things he has ever said
of the representative men Of the country
those upon whose individual support he
must now depend for success-are laid up
against him in such shape as to be more
enduring than brass. What he has said of
Virginia and. Virginia planters can be re-
produced in the columns of thousand
journals day, and read by every man in.
the State between sun and sun. There is
no hiding his malignant light under BUSH
Ell. BY giving it display in the Tribune
only for that unfortunate "once," it finds
its way to every fire-side in the land, and
everybody can read in it the malignant
character ofHorace Greeley heart. Were
fer particularly in this connection to the ex-
tract quoted by the Hon. r. W. Hughes in
his letter to the Fredericksburg meeting
last week, taken from the Tribune of May
18th 1864. A man who could either pen,
or publish when penned, such transcend
ant libel upon Virginia statesmen and states
manship, ought never to expect any true son
of Virginia to do more for him, any where
or under any circumstances, than indignant
~ 10 spit an his face. A man that could
say of Virginia that she was settled by
gentlemen Of very dubious standing at home
-theves, sharpers, swash-bucklers, AL
satians-ylat Dean Swift with his nsnal