Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-08-29
ANOTHER MORAL
From the New York Gazette.
HORACE GREELEY

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Is the best known man in America. His
name is as familiar in the courts Of Europe
AZ that Of Gladstons or Drouyn de Hugs.
He has been more talked of, and written
about, and csricatured, and lauded. and
slandered, than any other citizen OF the
J United States in this generation lie has
furnished themes for editorials in every re-
cognized language, and has figured so often
in Punch, Cturtrdri, and the Berlin and
/ Vienna comic weeklies, with his great head
and little nose, siercotypcd white hat and
white coat, that half OF Europe consider
him the drollest genius and most peculiar
great man in the modern Republic
Everybody knows the history of his
career-his struggles in his New Hampshire
home, his coming to New York poor
printer boy, his establishment OF the Tri-
bune, his subsequent course as politician
and journalist, his embarkatiOn i'm the anti
slavery cause, when its advocacy meant
social Ostracism and avOwed tanaticism
down tn the suppression of the rebellion,
and the perplexities of Reconstruction,
But very few have any knowledge OF
Horace Greeley, the actual man, dissocia-
ted from pictorial extravaganza and grOtcs-
tesque Illustration on dead walls and aniag-
onistic contemporaries. We very much
doubt if any celebrity Is so widely and I'M
iversally misunderstood; that the popular
conception ofany public character is so
entirely COMPOUNDED with the private indi-
yidual.
Seven sights of the people in the United
States believe Greeley subssts wholly on
bran bread; that his slovenly costume
mainly consists of white coat. and a
SLOUGH hat hung on the back of his head;
that he always wears boot on one foot
and shoe ON the other, and invariably
ties his cravat like a hangmans knot under
his left ear; that he is species of baby of
fifty five whom police carry across Broad
way, and 10 whose coat unchristain boys
pin papers, while he u wondering on the
street-cOrner who he Is, and mentally offer
ing rewards for the discovery of his re-
mains.
Horace Greeley is pre-eminenily a pub
lie man. He lives in print and on the ros-
trum; is monomanical on the subject of
work, and never quite satisfied when
wholly Withdrawn from the public eye.
1t is much harder for him to rest than to
work Though he complains often OF
WEAKNESS and fatigue and the countless
tasks he sets himself to do, he would be
wretched If he we've obliged to be quiet for
- CCh II W k6hc q lllllC IeCItd-
ton out Of town, he devOurs all the books
and papers and magazines he can find, and
would write letters to the Tribune and
Independent, and have something fresh
and interesting To say too, if he spent the
night at Astoria or Carmansville.
Mr. Greeley was married more than a
quarter of a century ago TO a young and
pretty New England woman, who was
teaching in North Carolina, where he ac-
cidentally encountered her in his travels =
He has been the father of three children
two girls and boy, the latter of whom
was particularly bright and gave extrordi
nary promise, but died in his early child
hood, leaving vacuity in his doting pa
rents heart that has never been filed. lie
had formed the brightest hopes of his boy
and under the bereavement his philosophy
for time gave way completely. His two
daughters, Gabrielle and Ida. aged respect
lively eight and eighteen, are clever an6
interesting, but eccentric and selfwilled
They are at present pupils at conven
near the city; the elder has nearly finished
her education.
Mr. Greeleys house Is at Chaffaqua
thirty six miles from the city, on the Har
lem railway, where he has a fancy farm
ola hundred acres, upon which he Ina.
spent most OF the money he has earned FOL
the last fifteen years. This farm is hi!
weakness, and yet he will talk to any one
about it for half day ifhe has leisure, ant
expatiae upon its merits as many men would
upon the beauty of a woman with whom
they had recently fallen in love. He is al
ways msking improvements at Chaffaqua,
orwhat he declares such, at least-digging
. ditching, planting, draining, sub-soiling
manuring, planning, and specializing upon
what will be best for the farm. He seems
to take more pride in huge turnip or car
rot Of his own raising than in his ablest
editorial or most convincing speech He
certainly ought to, for all his products have
been very expensive to him; palmer and
more practiced tillers of the soil estimate
that every potato and beet 10 raises costs
him aboutten dollars in gold. III. G. denies
this, however, and says the hundred acres