The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-12-13
HORACE GREELEY GRE LIE
The Last Days Of His Busy Lifs.la
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The Tribune furnishes the fol-
lowing account of Mr.. Greeley's
ILLNESS AND LAST HOURS:
So far as any of his associates
perceived, Greeley was in almost
as good health as usual, when, on
the day after election, he wrote the
card announcing his resumption
of the editorial charge of. the .Tri-
bune. His sleeplessness was
known to- have become greatly
worse, but for years he had suf-
fered more or less from this diff
Guilty, and as is now clear sufficient
allowance has not been made for
the intense strain upon him
| throughout the summer, especial
" during the last month of his
wife's illness. But it soon be-
came evident that his strength
was unequal to the hard task to
which he set himself. He wrote
only three or four careful articles,
no one of them half column in
length. The most notable, per-
haps, was that entitled stConclus-
IONS" wherein. he sun1med up his
views of the canvass. In all he
wrote less than three and q half
columns after his return, contrib
iuting to only four issues of the
paper. Two or three times he
handed his assistant short articles,
| saying, "There is an idea worth
using, but l haven't felt able to
work it out properly. You had
better put it in shape" sgus,
At last, on Tuesday, the 18th
inst, he abandoned the effort to
visit the office, and sent for the
family physician of Mr.. j. A.
johnson, the friend with whom he
was a guest, and in whose home
his wife had died. Every effort
was made to induce sleep, but he
grew steadily worse, until it be-
came evident that his case was
critical. -
On Wednesday night he failed
very rapidly. Thursday after
noon and evening he seemed some
what easier. During the night he
slept very uneasily, muttering sOc-
casionally, and frequently raising
his right hand. Toward morning
he was more unquiet, and between
s and 9 o'clock fell into a nearly
unconscious condition, which con
tinued with some intervals through
the day. He made occasional ex-
CARNATIONS, but many of them in
consequence of his extreme weak
ness and apparent inability to fin
ish what he had begun were unin.
telligible, About noon, however,
he said quite distinctly and with
some force-''I know that my Re-
deemer liveth." -", 4"
During the day he recognized
various people, his daughter many
times, the members of his house
hold at Chappaqua, Mr.. John r.
Stuart and Mr.. Reid. He had not
asked for water or been willing to
drink since his stay at DIR. Ch6ate's,
but during Friday he asked for it
frequently, and up to within half
an hour of the end he manifested
in various ways his consciousness
of what was going on around him,
and even answered in monosyl-
tables, and intelligently, questions
addressed to him. About $3.50
O'Clock he said, very distinctly,
at Is done" and beyond the brief
est answers to questions, this was
his last utterance. His youngest
daughter, Miss Gabrielle, was with
him throughout Thursday even
ing. Throughout Friday the elder
daughter, Miss. Ida, was in con-
slant attendance, as she had been
during the whole of his illness and
of Mrs. Greeley's before him.
Other members of his Chappaqua
household were present, with Mr..
and Mrs. John r. Stuart and q
few other friends. Nothing that
science OF affection could suggest
was wanting to ease the last hours.
The wintry nigat had fairly set in
when the inevitable hour came.
Without, sleighs were running, to
and fro, bearing to Chappaqua, the
nearest telegraph station, the lat
est bulletins, which the thousands
of anxious hearts in the great city
near by kept demanding. Within,
the daughter and a few others
stood near the dying man, who re-
manned conscious, and seemingly
rational and free from pain, though
now too weak to speak. In an ad,
Ijoining room sat one or two more
friends and the physician. Al
$3.50 o'clock they drew back in
reverent stiffness from the bed.
side. The great editor was gone
in peace after so many struggles
and after so much obloquy.