Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-01-27
NUMBER 4.
GREELEY AND THE PRESIDENCY.

utmost neutrality-suspicious. rs an
editor, and the members of the profession
in all countries, and the people who read
the English language, have great admi-
ration for his ability, his industry, his
honesty and his devotion to principle;
bat while this is all true, it does not ne
ccssariy follow that even the readers of
the ItTbHRc, numbered by the hundreds
of thousands, are ready to approve of the
eccentricitics OF the white coated philoso-
pher or to accept his dicta rs correct and
obligatory law. Mr.. Greeley, rs a pion-
Ger Republican, fighting the battles Of
" bleeding Kansas won the esteem of
the moro progressive portion of his coun-
trymeu, but when he stultilicd himself
and his principles by becoming one of
the sureties of Jcn. Davis, he was viewed
not with disgust but with pity. As the
champion of "lrce homes for free settlers"
he performed valuable service to the
people, but rs the valiant warrior shout
ing ut the top of his voice "On to Rich
mond,' he merely made himself ridcu-
lous. AS n friend of economy, rctrench-
ment and civil service reform, he has
been doing good work for the nation,
but as an apologist for Oakley Hall, the
Mayor of the city of New York. he has
been ailording aid and comfort to the
very enemies whom he has SO often and
SO severely denounced.
Mr.. Greeley opposes the re denomination
of General Grant, and he has been look
ing around for some available man to
receive the Republican nomination in on
position to the hero of Vicksburg and the
Wilderness. He says that he will be
willing to support Chase, Trumbull, Sum
nor, jacob ID. Cox, or Graft Brown, and
he urges "a combination of the intelli-
gont and patriotic Republicans of tho
nation to save the Republic from being
continued under n rulo that is already ON
the verge OF despotism" Mr.. Greeley
says nothing gabout the successful financial
policy of the Administration, and of the
fact that our credit is bottcr with the cap
italists of the world than it ever has been
before he says nothing about the man
ngemont of foreign affairs that has settled
difficult and delicate questions of diplom-
aoy IN manner very honorable to our
Government he says nothing about tho
maintenance of the authority of the Gov
ernmcnt in rcbollious districts, and wise
policy that has been adopted in interior
affairs, the reduction of the army to
peace footing, and the cutting down Of
expenses in all the departments of the
service. Mr.. Greeley lorgcts all Of these
facts and remembering only his personal
hostility to Senator Conkling and Col
lector Murphy hoarmigns himself against
an Administration that has given peace
and prosperity to almost the entire coun-
try.
Mr.. Greeley, with all his wcl-earned
fame, will never be leader of the party.
While saIc, wise and practical in most of
his ideas, there are certain occasions when
he darts off on tnngcnts with more than
lightning speed. He sometimes forgets
principles and remembers only mon, over
looks facts and notices individuals. If he
had succeed in controlling Mr.. Lincoln,
William ii. Seward would never have
been Secretary of State, and if his ideas
had been carried out, we would hayo
halted in the middle of the war to treat
for peace with the rebels. His services to
the party and the country will never be
forgotten, and his appointment to some
position congenial to his tastes and fitted
for his pcculi0rabiIity- the Postmas-
ter Generalship, for instance--w would be
hailed with pleasure by many thousands
Of our people but as President maker,
in league with many Of the mon who
were arraycd in arms against the nation
during a long and dreadful war, oven
man like Horace Greeley will nil to
make single regiment desert the ranks
or dishonor the standard Of the Rcpubii-
can party PdilCj0 Rcc0rdcr.