The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-06-27

Baltimore, as are the most prominen
Democratic leading men. Where, then
is Greeley's strength? ? 1t is certainly no
portentious in the North, and will not be
unless the Blair family, by the same
manipulations, treacheries and conspira
cies with affected the nomination at Gin
cinnati, can force him upon the Baltimore
convention. In that case, will any con-
siderable number of Republicans follow
him into the Democratic camp? Only
misguided, disappointed and recrean,
Republicans can do SO. Their number
we feel sure. will be small. The great
Republican party itself, is too devoted to
its principles, too well acquainted with
the needs and situation of the country,
too much animated with intelligence,
too sensible that liberty and reform, can
only be maintained by its own success.
too patriotic. and too progressive, to be
led into any fools chase, after Horace
Greeley.
Ever since he obtained reputation and
prominence as partisan and pungent
editor Of the Log Cabin, in 1915, it has
been patent to all who knew, and to all
who critically observed him, that he es-
pecially lacked the qualifications necessa-
~ for an able and successful leader. The
Harrison campaign was managed by
shrewed and sagacious men like Seward
and Weed. They made use of Greeley to
great advantage, and as a writer he Gid
efficient execution. He was handled SO
adroitly that he fancied he was the di-
recting and leading mind, and wished to
establish triumvirate with Seward and
Weed. They saw he was very we'll as a
writer, but would be rulnous as aleader
Others saw it too, and greedy and anx-
ious as Greeley has always been for Office,
neither Wings nor Republicans ever
ecutive positions. IF he now and then
received nomination, he invariably ran
behind his party ticket, and the circula-
ton and popularity of the Tribune never
could give him respectable currency as
a candidate. The frequent disappoint-
ments he suffered in his aspirations for
office led him to dissolve the firm of
Seward Weed and Greeley, and since
then, like Barkis, he has always been
willing, always unsuccessful, except in
serving out month or two of somebody
else's term in Congress. where in that
short period he made himself thoroughly
odious and obnoxious to men Of all par
ties without exception or distinction.
He has repeatedly shown himsefa mar
plot, and Notwithstanding his Chinese
physiopnomy, so ''childike and bland"
he has exhibited stupid obstinacy fully
During Lincoln's celebrated canvass
with Douglass, and during the legislative
contest which followed it, Greeley was
quite as much for the latter as the form
er. He electioneered for Lincoln about
as he did for the Republicans in Con-
necticut last spring. Afterwards, at the
Convention in Chicago, where Lincoln
was first nominated, and where the COM
petition was between such men as Lin
coin, Seward and Chase, was our Chi
nese sage, running over with apparent
simplicity, and ne too, had his candidate.
He pressed his candidate With " ways
that were dark and tricks that are vain, -
He probably swore "good mouth filing
oaths.' y and manifested his great knowl-
edge of men, his exquisite discrimination
of character, and his profound conception
of craftsmanship, by repudiating Lin
coin and Seward. and men of that cali
bre, and advocating man that no one
else ever dreamed of for President
Edward Bates. Mr.. Lincoln was per-
petually annoyed and worried by this
same Chinese politician, during all his
administration. at one time, it would
be his needless son to Richmond" at
another, his cowardly counsel to make
degrading and suicidal concessions, and
at another by prosecuting insane negotia
tions in Canada.
As early as November 9. 1860, he de-
monstrated how safe and judicious it
would have been to have entrusted the
guidance of these United States to his
sagacity and wisdom. In the Tribune of
that date ho says
"And now, if the Cotton States con-
sidered the value of Union debatable,
we maintain their perfect right to discuss
it. Nay, we hold with JEFFERSON to
the inalienable right Of communities
to alter or abolish forms of government
that have become oppressive and injur-
ious; and, If the Cotton States shall de
eide that they can do better out of the
Union than IN 1t, we insist on letting
them go in peace. The right to cecede
may be revolutionary one, bat it ex-
lists nevertheless and we do not see how
one party has right to do what another
party has right to prevent, We must
ever resist the asserted right of any
State to remain in the Union. and nullify
or defy the laws thereof; to withdraw
from the Union is quite another thing
Aud. whenever considerable section of
our Union shall deliberately resolve to
go out, we shall resist all coercive meas
ures designed to keep it in. We hope
never to live in Republic whereof one
section is pinned to the residue by bayo-
nets"
On the 18th of December, 1860, the
Chappaqua jurist, patriot and philan-
thropis.. evinced his acumen by telling
achdt he kne,o about the Declaration OF
Independence He says:
eve have repeatedly asked those who
dissent from our view of this matter to