Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-27
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49,. 'fGAL TO THE TRIBUNE.
Fnrs "a a vapor; popularity an accident;
-. : take Eings; the only earthly certainty
rgeay bring forth; while those who cheer 20
Gay viii often curse tomorrow; and yet I
cherish The hope that the journal ! projected
and established WILL live and flourish long az
ter shall have mOuidered into forgotten
dust, being guided by larger wisdom, more
not by a more uTfaltersnq readiness to EN-
/ brace and defend Il at Whatever cost; and
| that the stone which covers my ashes may
scription, Founder OF The Neao York IT.
b1tae.'
The above are among the truest and
the tenderest words ever put on paper
by Horace Greeley. By them he gives
expression to the experiences Of q life
that has become famous. He disre-
gsrded the curses Of those TO whose
schemes be had refused to lend himself
He had weighed at their true value
fame, popularity and riches, and had
only the request tOprefer that the childof
his brain, the creation of his thought,
sustained and nurtured by him through
thirty years Of trials, such as only
working and struggling journalists can
appreciate, should be credited to him;
that ,ipon his tomb might be inscrib d
Founder Of the New York Tribune"
This was worthy life so unselfsh, so
pure, and so thoroughly expended in
good work cOnscientiOusly done for
his fellow-men. This was fame enough
for him. Riches he cared nothing for;
popularity he had tested; he only de-
sired that the future should know him
as the Founder Of the New York T-i6-
lgae.n His wish has been complied with.
The Tribune, of the twenty-third instant,
comes to US with this inscription under
it, editorial heading. placed there by his
loving co-laborers, who have, as viii be
seen by a dispatch elsewhere, succeeded
ia accomplishing their purpose, and |
will now devote themselves to the task |
baqueathed to them BY Horace Greeley.
WhiteIaw Reid, and his co-laborers,
whom Greeley desired should continue
his work, have at last possessed them
selves Of the fifty shares Of stock bought
8 few days since by Mr.. Orion with a
view to making Vice-President Colfax
editor-in-chief, and securing the Tribune
for Grant. The great journal viii not
support the administration, save as it is
true to the Republic and the people.
G7eeley's policy Of peace and reeonciia-
ton viii guide it. In the words of the
able editorial announcing the gratifying
news
The Tribune is to be nobOdy's official
advocate. It has no excuses to offer for
the Louisiana crime; it denOunces the
Credit Mobilier scandal, and abhOrs the
Of the Civil Service. When
Republican leaders are guilty of Op-
preston, fraud, bribery, or any other
Species Of wrong or folly, we shall not
spare them because they are Repub-
leans. No party sympStRies are strong
enough to overcome our independence
or muzzle our honest utterance.
This is good solid ground to stand
upon. While surrendering no jOt or
little Of the Democracy which has al
Ways characterized it, the APPEAL will
always be found by the side of its able
on these points, and we
FilI follow it in the course mapped out /
or by its laalented founder. We shall I
sndeavor TO make the APPEAL "a J
rank and fearless newspaper, devoted I
q the best interests Of the whole cOun-
~; spending its energies and resources &
RELY in the collection of news; keep '
ng its readers informed of the course Of i
vents, the currents Of opinion at home 3
nd abroad, the progress Of science and
he useful arts; speaking its mind free
Y on all questions Of public concern; s
neutrality in politics as the re- ?
Ige Of the weak-minGed and the timid, o
at keeping its independence as the il
est title to honor and usefulness" We L
Whitelaw Reid upon the 81
Ieeess Of his energy, indOmitable per- a
everance and courage; for Rumor cred b
5 him with the generslship Of the Op- o
osition TO Sinclair, who should now d
az his head and retire 10 the oblivion d
tof which Greeley and the Tribune 81
fled him. While protesting loyalty n
, the memory Of the old wheel-horse Il
.urnslist who made him, he was en-
aavoring TO sell cut to those whose Z
-ineipal care it would have been to
ave effaced the work Of Greeley, and n
JADE it impossible for any, even the
Osest reader, to see in the Tribune of
olfax and Orion any resemblance, even
mote, to that OF the later Franklin,
no was as much greater than the first +;
, the present is superior to the age in D,
hich "Poor Richard hourished as a "
reap philosopher. .- d