Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-13
THE RELIGIOUS PRESS ON Mr..
GREELEY.

1t is not the party papers alone that
cr1ticise Mr.. Greeley. Some of the sever
est articles upon him are from the indie
pendent and religious press. The Inde-
pendent, to whose columns, Mr.. Greeley
has often contributed, says:
Gas . journalist, Mr.. Greeley has been
eminently successful. This 10 the field on
which he has won all his victories, and with
it he should be content. His best position is
that Of = member Of minority party, watch
ing and criticising the majority, while having
no political responsibility for the measures
that may be adopted. As a leader, standard
bearer, wise and sagacious counselor, the
recosd of his life supplies abundant reasons
for believing that he would be signal failure
He has already committed 20 many plumbers
that even his warmest admirers trust his judy
ment with caution. The crotchety structure
of his mind, his vacillation of purpose, except
when made persistent by passion, his tenden-
cy TO extremes, his lack of courage and firm
ness, the violent character of his predjudces,
the facility with which he may be deceived in
his estimate of men and measures, and the
general uncertainty Of his mental move.
msnts-facts that have become proverbial in
the history Of Mr.. Greeley, especially since
his course during and after the late war-pre-
eminently disqualify him for the complicated
and responsible duties of the President of
the United States"
The Morning Star of Dover, New Hamp-
shire, has the following in relation to the Gin
cinnati convention and Mr.. Greeley:
B, OF the new movement just launched at
Cincinnati, we have this to say Personal re-
sentiment, greed Of Office and unsatisfied am
bition have not lacked q hand in it. The re-
publican managers have laid themselves I'M
der suspicion by refusing to 60 into or wait
for the regular Convention Of the party and
seeking to shape that properly. The platform
is in the main genuinely republican, while the
address, is utterly extravagant in its charges of
corruption, and is rehash of the democratic
and Ku-Klux rhetoric used for years in assail-
ing the republicans and the North generally.
me movement has been petted and pushed
from the frat, by those who aided secession,
and not few Of these men, still disloyal at
near, openly exult over it new. Calling for
omcial purity and reform in the civil service,
and bewailing plots and bargains in their
speeches, these leaders have not shown any
special terror of high places, nor any costly
zeal In helping the President in his efforts to
secure better system for making appoint
ments and II any National Convention has
eAnio,ted more or worse plotting and trading
IN order to carry certain projects of the man,
agels, we 90 not know of it. The motely
crowd Of politicians, great and small, that
composed the Convention, the real antago.
nisms that were only half hidden by enforced
| silence, and the timid and ludicrous attempts
to soothe and cajole the radical free traders
of Missouri on the one hand, and the extreme
protectionists Of New York and Pennsylvania
on the other, by agreeing that the platform
should cay nothing against or for either prin-
ciple, and BY giving the larger constituency
the nominee for the FIRST. place on the. ticket,
and the smaller constituency the nominee for
the second, all this shows how much more
low compromises had to do with the work Of