New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-07

Hgnt ana equal opportunities.
That he had nothing of intolerance OF
selfshness in his nature was proven by
the proverbial kindness of his nature and
the generosity Of his deeds. Chief among
| these last were the numerous acts OF
kindly Intervention in behalf of Southern
people after their subsection to the de-
crees of war. This integrity and kind
ness OF nature was reco gnized in his ILL
advised nomination and unhappy accept
ance of the candidacy of the South for the
Presidency. The slab that closed his
grave closed our lips for censure or COM
plant. We remember him only as the
great Republican Tribune of the American
people, who believed himself to be always
with the people and for the people in all
his motives.
Dropping the veil over this indiscreet
assent to the temptation which it would
have been the crowning glory of his life
to have put away, Horace Greeley will
stand upon the page Of biography as a
Republican who comes nearer the great
Republican model, Jefferson, than any
other has ever done. He advocated to
success the great principles of religious
freedom, popular education, unlimited
popular suffrage and universal popular
freedom.
The scafold which he built up, and by
whose agency he achieved an influence
over the American mind never equaled by
any organ of political opinion, was the
New York Tribune. To have commenced
this great structure with no other capital
than great native ability, and with no
other implement than composing stick;
to step from its elevated level to the plat
form of competition for the American
presidency, is an achievement that marks
a master mind and unimpeachable morals.
The edifice which Horace Greeley erect
ed at such toll and cost, has passed into
other hands We may suppose that the
managers who control the property may
have yielded to influences unhappily
not uncommon. They have chosen as a
substitute for Horace Greeley one who
has neither the earnest principle nor the
practical ability, nor the intimate and
Instructive knowledge of the American
people which distinguished his predeces-
SOr.
1t is an unfortunate substit ution. The
responsibilities Of the New York Tribune
are awful. It has built up the free soil
sentiment and educated the young SOL
diers Of the Union to emancipation.
All the consequences IF the Tribune
doctrines are upon us. With ability and
frmness this great problem can be solved
in the harmony and indu strial unity ofthe
two races. Opposite counsels may prolong
this unhappy controversy, and the New
York Tribune may find bloodsh and
disorder following the great doctrine Of
its life.
At this period, where should We have
expected to find the New York Tribune?
Undoubtedly susta lining the party and the
administration engaged in giving humane.
practical and patriotic effect to the doc
trines Of the Tribune. Where do we
actually find the New York Tribune: De-
serting the responsibility Of its position:
treating emancipation as an unfortunate
failure. and seeking to invoke the indig.
nation Of its opponents by assailing every
Republican now engaged in the effort
to make successful the predictions of
the Tribune. We can conceive no baser
abdication Of principles, no more ungrate-
full return for fidelity. than TO see the
present tenants of the New York Tribune
taking sides with the disunion Democracy
in denouncing the President and defaming
the Republicans Of the South for doing
just what the teachings Of the New York
Tribune have rendered indispensable to be
done.
If, however, we mistake not, the signs
of the hour indicate that the Republican
party. noting the apostacy of the Tribune,
will rely upon other organs to do justice
to its men and to its principles. The
tenant, then, who has procured admission
into the tenement upon false representa-
tons, and has let its apartments to uses
never tolerated by him who built it, will
be evicted, and the New York Tribune,
swept and garnished anew, will be dedi-
Gated again to the sacred worship of those
Republican principles to which its founder
and builder devoted his long, active and
able labcrs.
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