New-York tribune., 1872-10-15
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Could tho confusion Of moral ideas further got
WHAT MR.. SUMNER THINKS OF THE CAM
PAIGN

Mr. Moncure D. Conway writes from Lon
don letter to The Cincinnati Commercial in which he
gives some interesting particulars of conversation
With Senator Sgmner. 50 far from not cordially IN
dorstr TO nomination Of M Greeley, Nh. Sumner said
he regarded the selection emnently good one. Tie
report continues;
has placed in opposition to ono Of the most ignorant
men t2t ever held oficc the United States, man OF
established literary Teputauon-a man whose whole IN
uen career has been achieved by the unaided powers
of MS intellect and the honesty Of his character Inc
nomination has placed in opposition TO merely seIEsh,
COMMONPLACE person, a whose history Is q salenI
feature ot tie time and is Characteristic OF the
by men who ought to honor hun are such as
he Cir summer believed would be bitterly cpened by
iaTy IaoIraiui tnat Frederick Douglass should bring
f1,sef 10 s We do moi object TO Horace Greeley, the
Anu slavery man, but 10 Horace Greeley who does not
6ect t"Ve IofS .sd the senator warmly seen
Frederick DOUGLASS recently, and regret that nave
not : ior 1 would have face to face asked nm now nc
c01i 0are TO inter an accusation Of that kind against
mn Mo 9l Tor more On GO quarter Of century de
Tended the equal rels OF hls race. boinavI Gnsy1
ODDS | would have asked him IL he in all his lie had
ever L.d % doubt OF what Horace Greeieys mln1 Nas
from dag day about the rghls OF ms oI3les9cidi
race" with reference TO his friend hcndeI
Phnlips 10y whose sue NT. M smner sSolte ten
derly as he always has done througn .tt an tne
differences that have separated them. IN hQ,lIns Gs
did more note the sOlolly OF ChIles ouoi Ia, Ia ~
ter than t he should sin adhere TO the E@Dl' lau 50
long marled in earlier years ~ NasnAs o.-neEer ~
cTitiCse man whose aims nc 1stItou go 5H @ alu
sincere, however severely lA@t otleI nan an SI s Ine %
Crftcssd Lin, " Wien was urged 10 Ibdu MI bdI-
risOu's letter reviewing my auJIoaVefy record Oe-
cued, simply saying t1dt ! respected MI GdrIisOhs
ouf3iayely record TOO much To DC Wiling 10 eau any
thing Chat would ms he mo nOnOr nm less As Tor my
sut5lavcrv record, I cannot stand without nursing
n may as wen fall" with rd 10 the terrible dangers
o M ucgfaes threatened Dy nc election OF MI greeley
senator sumner sad was al a loss 10 comprehend
now anv man coguiZlut OF the state OF the country
coud Tor q moment credit anything SO utterly absurd
TnV hard things have said Of me South but this is
TIE first mo that they had been soIemuy held up as
alton II idiots aud surely Il would De nOthhs snort
of idocy which would lead the Soutn TO nope 10 70,
slsotate any feature OF Slavery, OF any claim served
from it, much less 10 uy ana 10 thdL Dy the hep Ol
Horace Greeley! " Mr. Greeley" sald MI sumner,
has no doubt rendered IimseH open TO cilclsn on
vsrOus U0iuts tbOugh every one or these nave D5eu
SIS exaggerated. e has been Tor near gen
eTarou i'm the thick Of every Important struggle h6
bas had 10 co. like a with n3l, laying ABOUT NM
and mas Sometimes mt friend rs well as zoe lHB
TpIRTNE has handled NE wish seventy several times.
ant here was % mau editing great and powerful
journal lie must comment upon public affairs at tAe
moment. and deal with them as they appear. Othef
1eoUe bring TO crticise those articles tue long aIer-
k10Sy edpe Ihs light OF subsequent events; they are
vie affer inc fact where the editor writing IN MS
Ofce at midnight had TO BE- wise before the fact Such
a life rs that Is DO estimated in It's general DRIFT It's
purpose as a whole, the principles Whcn nave animated
H. should Ike % know what any man can una III tAe
life Horace Greeley 70 base charge tnat lie cOuo,
under any circumstances, cOnniVe at any wrong 10 lo
Negroes OF the southern states