Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-16

profanity which are the most distinguish
ing characteristic of his mature years,
which are Indeed surpassed only by his
renowned trick of making his latest news
paper popular with the farming classes
by palming off upon them waggish recipes
for the making of beet sugar out of late
autumn hay, and the shoeing of cows
feet to make them give buttermilk. If
the cows do not comply, it is simply
proof positive that they are bought by
British gold. When but twenty years
old, Dod's employer was sold out worse
than Trumbull or Davis; but be had
learned so much about polical statistics
that anybody who ever differed from him
was set down by the finger of public
scorn as born idiot and condemned Ito
be pronounced very quick fool.
Meanwhile his surviving ancestors, to-
wit, his paternal and maternal relatives,
were residing in Erie, Pa; and bod,
being out of employment, paid them a
brief but profitable visit; for it was at
this time he committed to memory the
tonnage in the Erie Canal since 1926, with
the annual variations in tolls, the names
of all vessels that passed through, the
number of bushels carrying capacity of
each, and the profit and loss accounts of
their owners. He also suggested, while
tarrying in the locality, a model for a
canal-boat, which, when completed and
set afloat in the canal, persisted in keep
ing bottom up. He explained to heaven
defying scoffers that this was all right,
because then the grain was likely to be
wet only on one side. But the Canal
Board, being packed with purchasable
minions, never adopted the model. Going
successfully to jamestown and Lodi, in
York State, he worked as a journeyman
composition, adding more expletives to
his already rich repertoire than
gold to his pocket, and in
1881 he started for New York,
dollars, and no trunk not even a walk
ing-stick. After two years frugal labor
in type-setting, he and a Mr.. Story need
we say it was not an ancestor of the late
supporter of the Liberal Free-Trade
movement in Chicago y started little
enterprise of their own, and did the print
ing of the Morning Post, the first penny
daily paper in the United States. Like
the previous undertaking with which he
was connected failed, so failed this; and
in 1884 Mr.. Greeley, outgrowing the name
of bod, became the editor of the Weekly
NeU Yorker. Its great excellence lay in
it's political statistics. 1t lived seven
years, and, like its editor, spent more than
was compelled to earn the honest bread
of home industry by writing editorials
for the Daily Wig, the JefersOnidR, and
the Log Cabin. twas his connection with
the last which gave him his amazing
knowledge of navigation. In 1S41 he
was enabled to consolidate all these peri
odicals into the Daily Tribune
His political life began, strictly speak
ing, in 1S4S, when he was elected to fill a
vacancy in Congress; he remained there
little more than year, devoting himself
chiefly to the improvement of bean-poles,
and introducing resolutions to compel
the Mississippi to avoid snags. The lat
ter would have succeeded had not the in
fernal spirit of treason been rampant in
both houses. He is the author of several
volumes not much spoken of outside the
columns of the New York Tribune, to-
wit: "Hints Toward Reforms" pub
llshed in 1850; "Glances at Europe"
written after his return from visit to
the Continent in 1851, when he
found the effete despotisms groyeling in
ignorance on all agricultural subjects; a
History of Slavery from 1877 to 1856"
and in later life, biography of the re-
bellion, and What / Know About Farm
ing.
The three greatest events of his life are
his advocacy of peaceable secession for
the Southern States in 1861; his bailing
Jefferson Davis in 1865; and his nomina-
ton, by way of a joke, at the Cincinnati
Free-Trade Convention in 1S72.-Chtcago
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