New-York tribune., 1872-08-03
gUE CRANT BOOK CONCERN.

The Grant Editorial and Pamphlet Mill in
Washington continues, VIC suppose under the
superintendence of DR.. Grants Private Secre-
tary. TO grind ont leading articles for the
country press and dirty little pamphlets for
country readers. A correspondent in Vermont
sends us a specimen of the cheap publications
of Grants Book Concern, the most beautifully
written and shabbily printed document which
we have even this year encountered. Our
friend informs us that the Postmaster OF his
village is engaged in circulating these sweet
productions which are, no doubt, franked to
him for that purpose. We must say that the
managers of the mill in Washington seem to
have an idea that any kind of chaff will go
down with the honest farmers of Vermont.
Think Of the agony Of an ordinary man try
ing to digest the following with which this
precious pamphlet opens
"sudden changes Of opinion always excte,dstrust
less they accompanied by adequate and ap
parent that the metamorphOsis is at once explained
When surrounding circumstances are the same, and
where no logical sufficient be perceived for
revolution in lifelong action and sentiment there
naturally arises suspicion of hidden, mercenary,
selfish or dishonorabe motives II the conversion, be-
sides being sudden and logically nexpllcabe, cal
cuated to subserve ambitious ends and aspirations,
while a continuance in the former sentiments would
not of honest conviction and high minded sin
cery in the premises would almost, quite, amount to
certainty"
We condole with Mr.. Greeley upon being in
a state of metamorphosis," accompanied by
"adequate and apparent causes" If he were
in a metamorphosis accompanied by inadequate
and recOndite causes, we suppose that he would
be past praying for. 1t must be terrible thus
to be battered by such broadside of many of
the hardest words in the English language;
nor can it be pleasant to be charged, though
only by d paid pamphleteer, with "hidden,
selfish, mercenary, and dishonOrable motives"
Of course the motives of this robust and ready
writer are perfectly pure and ingenious. He
does MT expect the noble dog! to get so much
as q thrice picked bone for all this barking
He is just the person, you see to talk about
"honest conviction and highminded sincerity"
and also about illogical or sufficient reason
The truth is, he is great writer Nobody
but great writer could talk as he does of
Mr.. Greeley hurld headlOng flaming from the
ethereal sky, with hideous ruin and combus-
ton dire, to bottomless perdition! Nobody
but q great writer could have said of him
that living he shall forfeit fair renown, and
dOubly dying, shall go down to the vile dust
whence he sprung, unwept unhonored, and
unsung! Nobody but great writer could
have compared the Liberal candidate TO
green-eyed monster and a contemplate and
ridiculous green-eyed monster into the bar
gain. Nobody but great writer could have
called Mr.. Greeley "the bland, Chinese-look
ing cat of Chappaqua :" or charged him with
I'D in ohotro ba
cravings of midsummer Madness
The fact is, as this gentleman goes on he
gets more and more elevated and incompre
hensible 1t is not, he says, "within the realms
"of probability" that the country will vote
for Mr.. Greeley; and whyl Because "a grand
nation inspires grand deeds; an illuminated
continent induces a wider mental vision and
"more expansive thought" And what would
be the consequences of Mr.. Greeley's electioni
We can hardly transcribe our doom without q
shake of apprehension "All that we may
"have-all that we may expect to be-in fact
"the future Of the world depends upon this
" issue-for if the dark pail of anarchy, con-
fusion and subdivision" [dark pail of subdivis-
ion is good] with their jealousies and their
" standing armies should settle upon the
" American continent, tyranny, oppression, and
" mental and moral darkness would settle like
"a Polar midnight upon the entire globe !"
Goodness gracious, you don't say soi
If Grant documents are to be distributed by
Grant Postmasters, having previously been
franked by Grant members of Congress, we
submit that the Ready Writing Club in Wash
ington ought to furnish something better than
stuff like this. 70 make respectable Post
master circulate it, especially when his Office
is small and his pay meager, is TO reduce him
considerably below the level Of slavery. Or