Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-08
independent View of Schurz and
Greeley.

The Springfield Republican which is
an advocate of Greeley's election allows
its well-known correspondent ''Warring-
tom to speak as follows of Schurz and
Greeley:
Schurz probably does not hate Grant
or despise him so intensely as Sumner
does, and on the other hand he has IN
| questionably an intellectual contempt
for Greeley, and in his Utmost mind a
perfect knowledge that no good can
| come out of him, while Sumner has no
| such appreciation of the candidate. The
reason then, why Schurz plunges in and
Sumner hesitateS is because the latter
has sensitive conscience and the form
er little or no conscience. Sumner also
has a record and Schurz has not Sum
ner is a large part of the history of the
country; Schurz is a very small part,
| and by his espousal of Greeleyism he is
not likely to make it larger. For it is
| lust as certain as anything in the future
can be, that Carl Schurz cannot make
himself great, historical or useful,
though he may make himself
a very formidable character, by
allowing himself to support a man he
knows to be grossly unfit and to be dis
| gracefully corrupt, merely for the sake
| of DESTROYING a personal enemy or re-
moving bad administration. He pro-
badly thinks he shall be able to fulfil
| his agreement to be Independent. But
it is the first step that costs. If, when
! John COchrane called on him to an
| nounce the result Of the swindle of the
first of May. and when he saw the leer-
| ing face of Frank Blair on the platform
eXulting over the success of this latest
and most successful game of thimblerig
IN which his corrupt family has ever
| been engagel-if he had left the stage
and Immediately organized anew, as he
might, he would have become historical
and immortal He had not nerve nor
conscience enough for this. Now where
| is he? Formidable no doubt but shOrn
| of all moral strength. 1t is pitiable to
| see him accepting such trash, such inef-
| fable twaddle, as Greeley's letter on the
civil service, and deliberately setting his
subtlety at work to try and prove that it
| is worth something.
Greeley's abnormal egotism led him
| gradually to think that he was sort of
| guardian of the anti-DemOcratic party,
under whatever name it might assume.
| Of all his early reading he seemed, in
politics, to have remembered nothing
! but the speeches of Henry Clay and
Rollin G. Mallary. and in ethics, nothing
but Paleys EXpediency treatise. So he
| drifted till he became, by a perfectly
natural process, what he is-by habit a
| slip-shod and down-at-the-heel old fOgy,
and by egotism and calculation a
thorough believer in his fitness for the
presidency as for all minor offices, and
an Unsuitable seeker and intriguer for
them. No doubt he despises all women
as class, and all men, too; but if judi
ciously threatened he, will make his
newspaper treat them civily-till after
election.
GREELEY AND THE SECOND TERM
1t is the merest assumption to say that
| Greeley will want a second term if he
gets the first. 1t is a cardinal point in
his creed, advanced by him over 20 years
ago, and reiterated again and again, that
a second term is in direct antagonism
with the genius of our institutions. -
Syracuse Standard.
So was protection cardinal point in
Mr.. Greeley's creed for great many
years. But see how ready he was to
abandon it when tempted by the pros
pect of nomination for the presidency.
How can anybody calculate upon his
stability in thematter of a second term !?
Isn't it quite probable, and even posi-
BILE, that he will want to remit the ques-
ton of his denomination to the people
in their congressional districts, just as
President Grant has done? Everybody
knows that Greeley is always craving
for place and power, and that he has a
remarkable faculty of going back on his
own record. Troy Times.