The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-22
.Aisons On Ever, ifl.ing.

I|s a,,esit Democrats
| and what Democrats Eifd abuIft BiT, Greeley.
There was little courtesy oil either side.
That ,yas dit time Hhsit both of them were
considerable fools. III they agree TO call II
quits, whose business isis? We hope the
Gittnt papers will keep up their quotations
from Tribune flies. ii man down in Ken
lucky votes for Henry Clay for President.
He says he prefers a live corpse to modern
style of politician. We prefer what Horace
Greeley wrote five, ten, twenty, two years
ago to all the Grant papers say nowadays.
II these "organs" had sense enough to carry
d horsc-ily through ali August dry, they
would sec that to the degree with which I'll.
G: and the Democracy once denounced ore
another are they now Oh good terms. To
show that as hard things were said by one as
the other, read these two extracts:
HORACE GREELEY ON DEMOCRACY.
20 decide between Grant and myself, / know
that their regard for what they must call
principle would induce ninc-tenths of them
TO vote against me. Why? ! am 4 decided
enemy Of that party, even in its most re-
Specialize aspects.
May it be written on my grave that was
never its follower [namely. of the Democratic
patyl. and lived and died in nothing its
debtor.
A DEMOCRAT on HORACE GREELEY.
He is feeble Of purpose, tremulous in judg-
mcnt. unstable and Inconsistent in Thought
mid decd, doing iiotireless things, telling
motivelcss ta!sehoods, friendly with man
one moment and unfrendly the next, ecccr-
;ric in dress, eccentric in eating and drink
h.. fl,f,1 nt,f,J
s-full of understandable idiosynclacics and
prcjudtes; apd awkward aflcctations I'M
certain OF religious opinions he IS oiie dag
praycrful and the next wildly blasphcmou> !.
one moment he is calm, the next furious.
The analysis of Greeley is by Oakley Hail.
We are sometimes challenged" to print
these things. Bless your feeble little souls,
we amt afraid to print anything this canvass,
and never were. It is only little ninny ham
mer-editors who think they make fine points
by suppreSsing anything. \ still lower
order of editorial calibre thinks it " slnart
and effective" to ring the clangts ON such
extracts. 10 our mind they bear as much
! relevancy to this taiiaign us Bismarck 5 war
oil tile Pope bears to the rcpaving of Hanson
Place We take pleasure in printing them,
however, as literary curiositcS. They
relate TO time when Greeley didn't
know what good fellows Democrats
were, and what ingram rascals Gerry loyal
Republicans always turn out to be; TO a
time when Democrats thought Horace Gree
ley was rloyen.looted and grew horns.
Things are different now We have all found
out That many of us have been mistaken
about each other; that abilities and purity of
life are too good to be the exclusive posses
sion of any party. This is country where
men can say foolish things and get over them.
| The Grant men don't take that advantage
which the country affords. They say foolish
things all the time, and among them is the
idea that Horace Greeley and the Democracy
don't like one another all the more just be-
cause they pulled in different directions for Il
gcncration.- brooklyn Eagle.