New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-11
A MANLY PROTEST AGAINST SCURRILOUs
PERSONALITY IN POLITICS.
From The Nelo- York Heral

The Nec- YORK Herald.
1t is scarcely week to-day since the first
nomination in the Presidential campaign was placed be-
fore the people by the Cincinnati Convention. and al
ready the pioneer candidate has been assaed by the
opposition press with personal vindetiveness that we
had hoped might be excluded from the present canvass
There IL nothing in the public or private record OF
Horace Greeeys life 10 warrant the scurTous attacks
that are daily made upon him by the partisan organs
whose hot wrath excited by the honor that has been
conferred upon him. Commencing life a compostor
he worked his way upward until he became the head OF
the leading political journal Of the country and the
purity Of his e the kindness OF his heart aud the sim
pcty of his have been honorable TO him as
his business success. Yet now that he is candidate
for the CHEST office in the gift Of the American people,
his virtues have suddenly become vices in the of his
enemies IL his assailants confined their abuse
to his eccentricites and .pecularites, their
personalities .would not be 80 offensive
and reprehensibe but their malignity induces
to bedaub him with the fouest oolOrs they Sc
ect city journal, edited by an alien Englishman,
who misunderstands the American people and has but
superficial knowledge OF American institutions takes
the lead In this style Of warfare and denounces Horace
Greeley traitor to the Union, secret consprator
with the Southern Rebels and associate OF Tammany
thieves Cockney British subject who worships the
enoe OF the Lord Mayor, cannot be supposed
TO comprehend or to appreciate the honorable ambition
OF every American to attain 10 the proud Office Of Pres-
dent OF the Republic and hence his sneers at Greeley ON
this ground are natural enough but the citizens OF me
since their boyhoOd viii scarcely indorse the En-
gsh editors Judgment when he declares that
Greeley IN his hbor1ous well.fought, and truly Amer
loan has schemed and plotted, slandered good
men and screened rascals outraged every principle OF
political Consistency and sDurned every obligation OF
1t has been said and truly said, that the English
people DO not understand the people Of the United
England on the Alabama question. Our COUSINS on the
other side or the Atlantic believed from the commence
ment OF the differences In regard 10 the Washington
Treaty that they had only to fme and buster and de-
clare their determination to withdraw from the Geneva
Conference 10 induce the Americans to abandon
their Case Discovering their error they straight
way altered their tone, and expressed their
willingness to allow the proceedings of the Con-
ference 10 continue. although reserving to them
selves the right to withdraw should the American claims
be pressed: Since the commencement Of the lobby,
enorts OF the persons interested In the settlement OF
direct damages and the deporabe vacations OF secre
tary FISH, they have again gathered bOidness and they
now declare mat Gen. Grant must certainly ABANDON
the American case be defeated by the people In the
Presidential election. These stupid blunders and
erroneous judgments OF tho sentiments OF the Amer
can .Peopie are IN great degree attrfbutape
the scurrilous personal attacks they accustomed
70 make upon administrations and individuals OF tho
opposite party COpperhead organs four years ago.
teemed WIN personal abuse OF Grant and with renee
tons upon his personal habits, and Engllshmen READ
these ISLANDERS and were too willing TO accept them as
truths we have reached another Presidential canvass
and the nrst candidate In the field is ridculed oarca
tured, reviled, and denounced now laughed little
better than fool and again branded associate OF
theVes VINO nas spurned every obligation OF pubic VII
tue IL IL no wonder that Foreigners totally nisunder
the light we cast upon each other.
we protest AZ tnls early stage OF the campaign agnet
tne Oh these personalities and a y,
by party without rec0ng upon It's own candidates
and for the honor OF the nation call upon Americans,
AT least 10 dlscountenance such mode political war
fare, however wei IL may suit the taste answer tue
purposes OF foreigners who have real sym
patty with the Republic. Horace Greeley Is true
type OF American nfe-a selfmade, honest hearted
energetic man, having his peculiarites and eccentrc
notions but all the more American that account III
he wears cOwhde boots, destitute OF polish, they nave
carried him brayey through honorable earesr marked