Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-08-06

In shameless Islander and -. ...siing defa-
mAtion on the psEf.. zoe organs and orators
thaf RrsNsya,ductlnp Horace Jlreeleys cam
naIsrn tho nreaept canvass has never beep sur-
paSsed in our political history. II caiumny
and MISREPRESENTATION can carry Preslden-
tial election Nj. Greeley will certainly be
elected, for in that particular Accomplishment
his immediate representatives, friends and
adherents have reached n degrees Of perfec-
ton that cannot be eauaIed.a Day after dAy
newspapers, that haVel hitherto enjoyed a
reputation for common deceucy, II not for
respectabllIty, attack Gen. Grant with a ma.
lightly aud a venom that Is q disgrace 10 our
civilization and our Christianity. The vi
buAs, that was once edited by the Hildreths,
the RipIeys, the Congdons, and the Fullers,
has become a literary sewer. through which is
disseminated all the political m alice and poison
OF the continent TheptinosIy revenues that
has drawn from tho Republican party are
used 10 willy and calumniste that perty and
turn II over into the hands Of lis hereditary
enemies. It's columns reek with abuse Of the
true and tried Republican leaders who will
not be dragged into the support Of lts ex-ed-
itoT; who win not prove traitors 70 the rause
byWhlch they have so CALAMITY stood Though
20 many years OF obloqny reproach and
bloody warfare. The soldier that conquered
the rebelllOn, that has written his name In
lmpoTiahAble history a. the savior OF his
country, Is denounced In language that Is
scarce applied 10 the yilest characters, while
the statesmen Of the republic who carried the
nation through the greatest revolution OF the
aNn anti gaHhs
down 10 pOsteTity with those OF the founders
OF our country, are treated like so rnALy
Wild animals that should be hunted down
and shot .....
The Liberal Republican orators and ehApl-
plons emulate their organs. There Is no
crime too great TO charge against the men
and party that they have abandoned Mr..
sumner has entered the lists In spirit OF
malevolence and bitterness that palms his
friends and shocks those who have followed
him In the past. The spectacle Of Charles
Sumner writing his name In history as the
slanderer OF the greatest soldier Of the age,
whose genius and whose sword wrought out
In the blood and the smoke OF hundred
battle-helds the grand problems and ideas
that the Massachusetts Senator had for
lifetime been contending for, Is certainly q
strange aud almost unAccOuntable event The
soldier OF fortune IRON the banks OF the
Rhine, who has been made oil that he Is by
the Republican party, who has been earessed
and fondled as no man has been caTessed,
made general OF our armies when be was
scarcely h'ted to be corporal senator
when his claims scarcely entitled him to
department clerkship, who after he had
failed rs Il newsgatherer for the Tribune In
this city, was giyeu the highest place that the
party could give him, has entered upon
the crusade Of calunny with q coarse
meas Of Misrepresentation that leaves
all his competitors In the same held 10
the distance. The TlptOns, the Fentons aud
the more Insignificant brood Of the COch-
ranes and the MeClures, come hating be-
hind these champion llbelers In the ratio Of
their more slender ability. OF them and
with them Is another man, from whom we
expected bettsr things, whose age and ex-
PerenCe should have kept him from the
Shiny paths which his younger associates
nave chosen 70 tread MI. BlAlT, OF Alchl-
gan, ID an old man, whose years in this world
cannot In the very nature OF things be very
long. Il Is sad 10 soc man like Mr.. Blair
At tho end OF . lie that has not been alto.
getheT without honor, and that has not GER |
!alnly been without reward, engaged In de-
'loerale iAihlncailon aud Islander oil men who |
nave not deserved snch treatment at hlA
hSnds' who have always treated HIN with
hindness and courtesy, as one gentleman