New-York tribune., 1872-09-11
POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The Springfield Republican says: When tho
most distinguished OF American Senators leaves tho
country for foreign trip at the Imperative command
his physicians The Seio-Harsn Palladium says that Mr.
Charles Sumner has sneakeG Off 20 Europe in disgust At
the failure OF his efforts TO bring over bis wards" 10
the support Of the Greeley Democracy and The Hart
with the words, He fires another shot and runs"
Next to the Hindoo that held up his arm TO
heaven 30 years. be classed the ongsuferng
people Of watertown, in this State Senator Conklng
on the 2d inst blew those Congress breezes so familiar
to ireGuoners OF the Capitol and 10 Is recorded by tho
faithful organ that the people listened" 20 him. This
M asIaciou' % & lie bo d ~ , s ttSn 30 csndd
and listen TO the eloquence OF the Senator"
A Boston paper is responsible for the fol-
lowing remark Among the other Reiormers who now
20 for Greeley may be counted all the members OF
Buchanan's Cabinet" Possibly It's remarkable enter.
prise has enabled IL 10 make known declaration in
favor of Greeley from the Customhonse. suJTreasury
PostOce, and Pension Oihce candidate Tor Governor
OF this state who OF Buchanan's Secretaries of
the Treasury. Although such declaration has been
feared by Derals, 10 has not yet come 10 light
but it Is doubtful II anything worse has happened 10
him than to be called "reformer' by The Boston
Journal
1t is time for the biographers of Mr.. Greeley
10 revise work in the light OF recent dscosures
Following facts from The Boston Post which Mr.
Parton Will be panied to read: "The ice having been
broken by the demonstration that Horace Greeley w
original secessonst It is now coming out that he was
active negro trader before the war, and hat since
that event. he been extensively connected with ku-
Hlux operations. IL will probably be shown before long
that it was he who committed the Nathan murder and
tnat he at the bottom OF the conspiracy for burning
the Northern cities and disseminating the smallpox
through the Union armies. There nothing Ike Presi
dental candidacy Tor giving man Information hreSpoCs
to his own history"
There is hardly anything about one who pro-
fesses Liberal principles which should be sacred at least
from public malice, that Grant paper will not 10
found to expand upon and delight in. His family, his
friends his alngs anything aud everything are eagerly
seized upon. No better example Of this kitchen door
Journalism can wen be given than the following extract
from The Hartford EreninG Post concerning Mr. sum
1t is thought and certainly hoped he viii return
In better health after the election HIS own chances lOr
reelection in 1875 will be improved by little Judlclous
absence and sickness combining 20 recall former aD
10 Europe In another case OF sickness hcn caused
by fighting In the Republican ranks instead or as now,
by excitement resulting from fighting against the parry
from personal pque and for bad and losing cause.
Senator Summers intended speech has called
forth much angry reply from the Grant press that
heir assertions OF Ks weakness have the favor OF IN
consistency The Boston Transcript is particularly con
temptuous over IT, and takes occasion to comment on
'de state Of the Senator'S health in way that, while
hardly up 70 the Administration style Of personal at
tack ia very SseH for polite alusOn 10 political Op
OF senator sumner certainly the weakest OF his recent
political efforts, as eampalgn eoe1nen' e n vi" Horsc wn
Greeley IL is painfully labored from the negnhns-s
condition of the author but mainly tine incon.
gruOus position he occupies when eaeavoring 10 recon
mend Horace Greeley TO Republican support
The peoples tight in Pennsylvania against
the Cameron Harran thieves still ably led by the IN
dependent Republican journals OF the hardened and
chief Of this gang, who now moves to his
Waterloo Te Philadelphia Press says" The vulgar oath
of this hoary headed rickster, that mans ayilabl-
ty places OF trust and honor in Pennsylvania should
be recognized without his consent and approval is but
the natural expression OF arrogance iosterod Dy NO
OF unpublished political sins. For many years the
detesttOn OF Simon Cameron by the people OF this state
has been earnest general that there probably
few election districts in 10 where he could have secured
election the meanest office by. the popular Voe
Notwithstanding this, he has managed, by means as
notorious disgeputaDle To Eeep himself IN
place. infect only own State, nut the ma
tion measure with the poison OF his iuGuitous cH'
ample."