The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-18

sonal abuse and detraction of al
those who are opposed to him to
| secure his election. Perhaps il
should be said in defense of this
method of political warfare, that
Mr.. Greeley's partisans had no al
tentative, for as they had nothing to
say in his favor, the only path that
was left open to them was to resort
to the abuse of the other side. In
this path they haye walked and la
| bored with the zeal of martyrs and
the energy of pioneers, aud if they
do not achieve triumphant sue
cess, the fault will not be theirs.
This feature of the campaign is
the more remarkable because the
candidate of the Greeley party is
peculiarly open to this sort of per-
sonal attack. Mr.. Black, of Penn
sylvania, though he afterward az
cepted Mr.. Greeley as his candidate,
said at the opening ofthe campaign,
that a more unfit man for the
Presidency could not be found eth
er in this world or the two that
come after it. We doubt if this
struck nybody as an extravagant
statement of the case. There Is not
in the whole country any man
nearly so notorious as Mr.. Greeley,
and he is notorious, not for such ex-
cellencies and virtues as he may
have, but for his peculiarities, &C.
centricities and absurdities. ALI
these are remarkably salient and re-
markably tempting TO animadver-
sion and ridicule, and yet the for
bearance, and almost tenderness,
with which he has been treated by
his opponents is as remarkable as
his characteristics. Ii has been as
sumed that these were so well
known that it was only necessary to
point out to the common sense of
the country how manifestly disas-
trous it would be to put man. SO
unfortunately distinguished into
any position of trust or power.
How marked the contrast has
been on the other side it is hardly
necessary to point out. The cam
paisn on their part is remarkable
chiefly for being like the Trojan
hero, "inexhaustible in falsehood."
The Tribune's persistent adhesion
to a disg raceful forgery of it's own
we have exposed within the last
two or three days; the Worid is
pursuing the same course in regard
to Mr.. Dana, of Boston, while it
connot pretend to doubt the evil
dence that its first statement in re-
gard to that gentleman has not the
least foundation. The Tribune, of
Chicago brought Gp again n story
of q present of land to President
Grant by Mr.. Jones, for consider
alton, which very story that very
Tribune looked into a year or two
ago, and found to be utterly with
out foundation and all these papers
and all the other Greeley papers of
the country. have accepted as true,
and continue to publish as true, a
statement resting on purely er pdrte
and second hand testimony i'll re-
gard to direct but paltry bride
said to have been given TO Messrs.
Wilson, Colfax, Boutwell,, Blaine,
DAVIS, Elliot and others, most OF
whom would have been picked out
by anybody who knows anything of
our public men as peculiarly above
corruption, and every one of whom
has pronounced the story to be alb
solutely false.
And these are only samples of
the INSCRIPTIONS way in which the
campaign has been carried on by
papers and speakers on that side.
The disregard of truth and decencY,
on the part of some of these journ-
ais, has been absolutely heroic,
when we consider that all of them
may be supposed to look forward
to a time after the 7th of November.
For if their policy should not win,
how can they ever return to ways
of truth and soberness, surprising,
that is, that they have any chance
of returning to anything ?-N. Z.
Evening Post.