Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-21
HORACE GREELEY.

HORACE GREELEY.
The story of the life of Horace
Greeley, the nominee of the Cincinnati
Convention for President, is familiar to
all classes people-more so, perhaps,
than thai of any other public man. now
living, in the country. He was born
in New Hampshire, and is now few
months over siXty-one years of age.
When he was ten years old, his fathers
family moved to Vermont, and five
years afterward, he entered the Office
of the Spec ator at East Poultney, in
that State, as an apprentice to the art
of printing. He became an expert
compositor, il is said, and "trampled''
the country several years, working at
different points in New York and
Pennsylvania, finally reaching the city
of New York, in August 1881, without
change of shirts and with but few
dollars in his pocket. In 1888, he COM
menced, with partner, the printing of
the Morning Post, the first penny daily
ever published in the world. 1t failed
in a few weeks; and taking new part
nerS, he began the next year, the New
Yorker, weskly paper. While en-
gagged upon the New Yorker, he fur
nished leading articles for several other
papers, and during the campaign of
1910 edited the Log-Cabin, weekly
sheet established in Gen. Harrison's
interest. Finally, the 10th of April,
1S41, he began the publication of the
Daily Tribune, and in the autumn fol-
lowing, added a weekly edition. Since
then his name has been closely and
constantly identified with the Tribune,
of which he is still the nominal editor
Mr.. Greeley's literary work has
been very extensive and miscellaneous.
Besides newspaper Work-Of which he
has probably done more than any man
who ever lived-he has written and
published a volume of essays on re-
forms, sketch of travels Ill Europe, a
history of the slavery struggle, his
tory of the rebellion, work on political
economy, and volume of agricultural
papers.
Politically, Mr.. Greeley has had poor
success, in personal way. He has at
different times been a candidate for
yearly every office in the gift of the
people; but with the exception of three
months service in Congress, to fill va
cancy, he has never enjoyed the honors
or emoluments of official position; and
in all human probability never will
certainly not as President, on the NOM
ination of shat crowd" at Cincinnati.
B. GRATz BROWN
Hon. B. Gratz Brown, the nominee
of TIE Cincinnati. convention for Vice
President, was born in Lexington, KY,
and is now forty-six years of age. He
studied law in Kentucky, and soon
after attaining his majority, removed
to ST. Louis, and there commenced the
practice of his profession. He was
elected to the State Legislature of Mis-
souri'at the age of twenty-Six. When
he retired from the legislature he be-
came connected with the st. Louis
Democrat, and was its leading editor
from 1854 to 1859. He belonged to and
acted with the Democratic party up to
1857, when he joined the Republican
party, having supported Buchanan in
in the campaign of the previous year.
At the outbreak of the rebellion, he
raised Union regiment in Missouri,
and entered the field as its Colonel =
subsequently commanding brigade.
He took a prominent part in securing
the abolition of slavery in Missouri in
1854; and was United States Senator
from 1853 to 1867 Upon retiring from
the Senate, he "dropped out' of pol
itics, and remained in private life until
1871, when he was brought up for gov
ernor, and elected on the amnesty plat
form. To him, for more than any 9TH
er man, perhaps, belongs the credit (or
discredit) of originating the so-called
''liberaT' movement; and his nomina-
tion by the convention at Cincinnati is
a fit and proper recognition of his SER
vices i'm that behalf