Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-08
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HORACE GREELEY

The nominee for the head of the Gin
cinnati ticket is the queerest man in
America. lie has been in active, busy
life for half century, and has taken part
in controversies upon almost every imag-
Unable subject-tariff, politics in general,
religion, marriage and divorce, ETC., etc.,
and has been noted always for the novelty
of his views and the vigor with which he
presents them.
He was born of "poor but respectable
parents" III "cot' in the State of Yer
mont, on a cold, stormy day. the 18th of
February, 1911, which would make him
81 years old last February-younger, we
presume, than he has generally been sup
posed to be. His early life was spent in
continual buffetings with fortune, and he
knows what it is TO feel the pinchings of
gaunt poverty.
His educational advantages were limit
ed, and as consequence, he lacks the
polish of q thoroughly educated man. He
represents himself in his "Recollections of
Busy Life as having been sort of pro-
Dizzy in literary matters when quite
young. The first book he ever owned was
the Columbian Orator. and from this he,
perhaps, gathered the inspiration with
which he has so electrified assemblies of
! his countrymen, with "what he knows
about farming" The last year of his resi-
dence in New Hampshire some benevo-
| lehL ihuiNiuuais tnougnl tneS ulScOV-
! cred gold in the rough casket which
holds the soul of the immortal Horace
and proposed to defray his expenses at
| school. The project was communicated
to his parents, who, after mature delibera-
ton, declined it by saying that they would
give him such an education as they could
! afford and then stop. Horace speaking of
their decision says 81 do not remember
that had then any decided opinion or
wish IN the premises; but now have; and
from the bottom of my heart L thank nv
parents for their wise and manly decision.
Much MS have needed fuller, better ed
ucation, rejoice that am indebted for
schooling TO none but those of whom
had right to ask and expect it,"
one OF the important events in the his
tory OF Horace, was his abandonment OF
the use of tobacco at the age of five years.
de formed this resolution after having
smoked the "stump" Of cigar which
made him "the sickest mortal on the face
of the planet" He says that "that -haIt
inch OF cigar-stump will last me all my
lie, though its years should outnumbeI
Mathuseleh's." He has never since
"hankered" for the tweed"
He learned to love newspapers in child.
hood ana resolved to be printer. In 162C
Inc entered printing Office in Poultney
vermont, as an apprentice. He has been
connected with newspaper ever since
but OF late years he has turned his atten
tlon TO farming. astonishing the worlc
7 with his profound views, on deep pillow
ing and raising turnips. In 1871 he start
ed the tribune, an enterprise which re
Meets credit upon its founder, as we'll a.
upon the country, and is now one of tn,
greatest newspaper enterprises in the
world.
AS upon almost every other question
MI Greeley has also enlightened the world
WIN his religious views, in which hi.
Iloerality" Is displayed in high degree
de Is a niversallst, having attached him
sell 10 congregation of this faith and or
t ueI VI 1851 lie Isl Temperance man o
the strictest SOFT. believing strongly I'm IN,
views taken by Sylvester Graham