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POrtratture of Horace Greeley by H
Late United states DemocraticlS Sen
ator...A Peculiar Analysis OF the
veteran Philosopher.
of late there has been good deal o.
portrait painting in the newspapers ano
periodicals of the day. Mr.. Greeley has
come in for his share. Generally he
has been we'll spoken of. Friend and
foe, IL indeed he has any foe other than
Thurlow Weed, unite to speak in gra'
cious terms even though not always
complimentary. Ex-senator James w
Wall, of New Jersey, Democrat, is
credited with the authorship of criti-
que in the August number OF the North
ern Monthly. The article is so readable
that we can not forbear making the
following quotations from it. We think
our readers generally will read 1t with
interest ii not with zest:
There is a story to the effect that Mr..
Seward once described Horace Greeley
as a great man, so full of genius and
mower that if he had common sense he
would be dangerous. The errant ten
denotes OF Mr.. Greeley's mind have
been so remarkably illustrated during
the past five or six years, that Mr.. Sew
ards epigram has point. a great inan
and great fool, combined in one per-
son, certainly presents an incongruous
picture, which has the effect of carica-
lure; and perhaps it is proper, in de-
scribing Mr.. Greeley, to adopt the mild
euphemism of "a great child" The
conjunction of childish mot child-like)
qualities with great mental capacity is
the key TO his character, and 1t is sin
gular that, IN the numerous biographies
which have been published, this view
has never been expressed.
Every reader of American newspa-
pers has seen, at intervals, ridiculous
caricatures OF Mr.. Greeley-burlesque
of the kind to which all public men are
subjected, and which possess some de-
gree OF humOr or aPpositeness. The
caricaturist aims to bring out the lead
Ing traits of the man; in excess, II is
true, but the sslience is not successful
unless it is readily and generally recog-
uized as significant. The caricatures
OF Horace Greeley invariably represent
him as an overgrown child. His cailow
simplicity of look and manner at once
strike the artist as peculiar to himself.
Physically, these characteristics are
very palpable. There is the looseness
of the bony structure which belongs to
lmmaturlty. The flesh is tiabby, like a
child's. The features lack the strong
outline of manlinesB. The eye is soft
and wavering, and has none of that
mandatory energy which fires the look
of maturity. The gait is loose and
shambling-aJ falling along, instead OF
a deliberate progress. If such body
be typical of the mind which inhsbits
may readily understand how easily
such a man might become the victim of
his own ponderosity. and merely stag
ger along the road of thought, accord
ing as one faculty or another Temporal
rily moved him by its activity. In fact,
the human being is far more of ma
chine than most are willing to admit.
Nor is it enough to say the body affects
the mind. 1t is its purpose TO represent
the indwelling soul. Men have to
learn of each other through the body;
they also Judge by the body. As Swe-
dsnborR expressesit, there is Il "corres-
pondence" between the two.
Horace Greeley grew up rapidly to
nearly six feet in height, at an early
age. This hasty growth of the skele-
ton left the organic development lagg-
ing behind. Naturally of a nervous
temperament, and OF large brain, his
mental activity served to still further
exhaust his store of vitality, and there
by retard physical maturity. There is
some analogy between this impetuous
growth of his body and the operations
OF his mind. he generaliZes and theo-
riZes, freely and largely but is very
slow in filling out the practical details
OF a plan. He skeletoniZes but never
completes. Now, the organic develop
ment of a man is that which gives him
both his passive and active powers
endurance as well as strength. Gree
ley's peevishness, nervousness, cowar-
dice, are due chiefly to his immAturity.
His nerves never had proper mascu-
line covering. When boy of eleven,
he was thrown into an agony of terror
by the delusion that he saw VOLTS
eyes shining in the dark by the road
side, and he allowed two girls to escort
him home. He could not bear the sigh
OF blood; consequently he disliked
hunting, and stopped his ears while
others fred the guns.
His inability to control the bodily
Impulses extended to its desires as well
as Its fears, its pleasures as well as its
palms. His mental life, indeed, usual.
" absorbed his attention, often TO utteI
iorgetfulness of physical wants; but
when the appetites We're given rein,
they would take the bit in their teeth al
once, and run away with propriety,
Both in childhood and in adult wears
Mr.. Greeley is described as eating with
the yoraCity OF famished man. When
there is no work pressing him he sleeps
with equal facility, and regardless o
time or place. In fine, the physical life
of Mr.. Greeley is characterized by the
twin faults OF childish impatience o.
pain and childish eaRerness for gratifi
cation. The only reason he is not mort
sensual Is because the body, with him
Is a beast hard ridden, and rarely turn
ed out to feed, His early liking fol
childish food, and his later advocacy o
IL, is consistent with his own physical
immaturity. or late years, and indeed
for all his life, except TWO or three year!
spent at a boarding-house kept on thG
plan OF Sylvester Graham-the apostle
of bran bread-Mr. Greeley has eater
more or less meat. With mature years
he has probably felt the need OF it, and
learned to like it But in 1855 he
wrote that 1t was "stilI his deliber.
ATE Judgment that in the temperate
and torrid zones, where a great abun.
dance aud variety of vegetable food is
easily procured, diet which includes
no flesh meat is preferable II were
TO live leisurely, as L should choose,
would say, Give me the best produc.
uons of grains. of fruits, with abun.
dance Of milk, cream, ETC., and let ms
never again see animal hesh presented