, 1872-08-08
A Remarkable Candidate.

IL CduHoS Do tOo S1iouSiy IeAeM-
bered that we never had before Presi-
dental candidate whose whole life. pri-
vate and public, whose very inmost
soul has been completely laid bare to
the sunlight of public gaze. We had
oth,r candidates powerful. because they
were unknown. Their lnsignifcance
was their strength. No such candidate
stands before the country in Horace
Greeley. For more than thirty years
his name has been known to the peo-
pie. For mere than thirty-tive years
thousands have read each day what he
thought about all questions of the day.
expressed in language SO clear, so strong,
so unmistakable, that none but fools
ould fail to understand what he meant.
He has lectured on whatever subject
he chose from Maine to California, not
avoiding detour to Texas, Louisiana
and Tennessee. Holding no public
Office with no patronage to use and no
favors to bestow, he has become SO eel
ebrated that thousands have p,ade pill
grimages merely to see him, so that they
could remember it as an important event
in their lives, ard could tell their friends.
their neighbors and their children, that
they had seen Horace Greeley. More
than this, he has excelled the courag
and frankness of Rousseau, in his
Confessions or Franklin, in his au-
photography, and told with wonderful
truth and attractiveness his &c Recollec-
tions of Busy Life" If he had lived
in crostal house, aud his body had
been only transparent case in which
his soul was exposed, he could scarcely
have been better known to his country
men and to many who learned to ad-
mine him across the water. Rousseau s
Confessions" were written in defiance
of decency or morality. Franklin's S
life was legacy to posterity. Horace
Greeley has boldly set down all his
mistakes, failures and successes, SO that
the young men who are commencing
their course. while he is grandly round
ing off i'll honor of a well spent life,
may be taught and varied. How ma
ny other men would dare to do this? ?
Yet how nobly he passes through these
ordeals, and because he is well known,
because he has shown himself SO truth
| full. so brave, SO unselfish, so loving to
his fellow-men, whether they honored
or reviled him SO reverencing justice
and right that the advocacy Of these
were dearar to him than office, or
wealth, or honors-because of all these
things, he becomes the spontaneous
candidate of the people-smashing all
states and triumphing over all rings by
the almighty strength which reposes on
sure foundation of love and confidence.
Yet how this notoriety of character,
this mountainously voluminous record
of his differences will expose him to the
malicious and lying attacks of his oppo-
nents! Who could have written some
thing everv day for forty years, publish
ing without time for afterthought or
revision. and not say something which
he himself light soon wish unsaid, or
at least would see that other forms of
words would have better defined ex-
actly what he meant to say? 1t will be
well for every one carefully to set this
important guard in his mind at the be-
ginning Of this campaign, SO that when
those garbled collections of what Mr..
Greeley said on some occasions begin
to appear-as they surely will appear
it may be remembered in justification,
or explanation. or apology--if neces-
sary--that Mr.. Greeley has said more
things than any other man, and frankly
acknowledges now, as every great mind
dares to do. that he has learned some
better ways of thinking than he hon.
estly entertained when he was younger.
more hopeful and more enthusiastic.
Apropos of this, Governor Pease. of
Texas, said good thing on the cars
coming from Cincinnati: