The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-06

tested by the President of the society proves
him totally unfit for his charitable position.
The Board were willing to retire from the
Greeley contest, but when their President
heard that Miss Greeley was Catholic ne
manfully persisted in maintaining the society's
claim. Now the fact is, Miss Greeley is not
Catholic, never having been baptized into the
church. Every effort, however, has been
made to prove her one and to thereby make
it appear unwise for her to be given the
guardianship of her sister, to whom she is
devoted and who is devoted to her. MIR.
Greeley, OF his own free will, placed his elder
daughter in the Convent of the Sacred Heart,
school which her sister has also attended,
although this has been ignored by impartial
lawyers. Neither girl is Catholic but,
assuming them to be such, we should like to
know why the President of the Children Aid
Society persists in demanding pound of
flesh, the right to which he would waive were
the Misses Greeley avowed members Of
Church savory to Presbyterian nostrils? We
thought this free country and the days of
the Inauisition over. We thank the President
of o charitable society for bringing us to our
senses
Mr.. Williams witnesses persist in declar-
Ing MIR. Greeley hopelessly insane. Now, is
1T not possible to prove temporary alteration
of the mind on the part of some of these wit
nesses? Mr. Alvin johnson would have us
believe his dear friend mad in September!
Please remember, readers of the HERALD, that
many Of Mr.. Greeley's most memorable
speeches speeches that have excited the ad-
miration Of two continents delivered in
October. when, according to Mr.. Alvin John
son, the brain that conceived them was in
capable of coherent thought! This looks
like insanity, does it not? 'sThe will of
1872" states Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, ''was written
by Mr.. Greeley of his own motion. Miss
Greeley never saw it-never heard of it until
pulse Of man who found his estate impaired
to assure to his orphan children all he had to
bestow; and when he wrote it, and for some
days afterwards, he was in such mental condi-
ton as to be writing editorials for the Tribune,
which any Of us who are left would
BAuuly give OuI IASuO uuAuS W 10 dDlc W
equal" MIR. Reid but reiterates what we have
affirmed again and again; but as Mr.. Reid
and ourselves are not the Childrens Aid So
ciety, are not executors of the will of 1871,
are not counsel for that will, are in no way in
debted to the estate, and do not pretend to
be SO devoted to the memory of Horace
Greeley as to persecute bis :. daughters out Of
their peace and property, we think Messrs.
Manning and Storrs are correct in assuming
that the attacks upon them which have ap-
peared in the papers shave been written for
the purpose of making public opinion" Were
it in our power we would make public opinion
so strong as to force justice out of law when,
on Monday next, the Surrogate Court of
Westchester county busies itself for the last
time with the wills of Horace Greeley Then
we shall bid farewell to Mr.. Isaiah T. Will
liams. "a good man struggling with adver-
sity is q spectacle for things in general"
exclaimed Charles Dickens, in his inimitable
reading of that paragon Of teachers, Wackford
Squeers. He was right Like Squeers, Mr..
Williams is good man. He has been string
Cling with the adversely visited by destiny
upon two defenceless orphan girls He is
now a spectacle for things in general, and as a
spectacle we leave him to his own conscience.