New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-15
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1872

one, exclaimed, "Who in h-ll fixed up
! Vermont last night :" adding, with almost
| tears in his ewes $4,000 more majority than
there are voters IN the State" Looking up
at me, he screamed, "Was it you ?" Before
| | had time to answer he turned to Stockton
| and said, WHO was in charge last night 7'
| to which Stockton replied, II was, sir" Mr.
! Greeley, without saying another word,
marched off to his room, but | do not think
| that Stockton, who was one of the best and
| strongest writers On the paper, particularly
| on reconstruction, ever recovered the old
| mans good opinion. | never was asked to
make up another election table in the Irt-
| bttne Office. His recollection of names and
| dates was wonderful, and we had tradi
| ton in the office that he remembered the
| initials of every man who ever ran fol-
| sheriff in every county in the country.
Mr.. Greeley could never acquire sufficient
! facility to dictate an article or even q pri-
| vate letter to a sterOgrapher. He tried to
! do it when ne was writing the ''American
| Conflict but his secretary, Mr.. N. D
| Urner, who wrote the celebrated report OF
| the burning OF Barnum's Mus um, told me
that he could write long hand faster than
| Mr.. Greeley could speak, and that all OF the
| first volume Of the Conflict" was written
| in that way. Mr. Greeley, however, I'M
| agined that he was doing an enormous
amount of work, and that Urner had taken
| the entire book in short hand, while the
! fact is that Ire took little more than one-halt
| of it. Mr.. Greeley rarely recognized any
| of the men who worked on the paper out
| side the office, excepting his two or three
immediate heutenants. l remember Has
sard, who had been an editorial writer on
the paper writer on the american Cgc}O-
| pnedia, and who is now one of the principal
editors of the Tribune, coming into the
| office one morning very indignant He
said that he had met Mr.. Greeley in
the ears and saiUted him. Mr.. Greeley
looked at him in wondering sort Of way
as much as to ask who he was. aassard
declared that he would never speak to him
again. When Mr. Greeley bailed JEFF Davis
there was a good deal of excitement in the
Tribune establishment and some of the
stockholders were by no means satisfied
with his action III the matter. His cele-
brated letter to George w. Blunt and
others, and the threat of q party in the
Union League club to 8Xpel him, and the
possible effect of his unpopular action on
the paper were for about two weeks subjects
of the Iiyliest interest and discussion in the
office Mr.. Greeley was not in the least
agitated, and seemed not to care straw
about the entire affair The Tribune lost
about fifteen hundred subs cribers, but it
gained more than twenty-five hundred.
The first Of its new readers was Roger A.
Pryor. | waR sent mp to the club house to
report what took place on the night the
resolution of expulsion came up, but no one
was admitted excepting members Of the
club. Two or three friends of Mr.. Greeley
who were inside, however, came out and
enabled NE to make report. If l remem-
Der Alright now it was decided not to print
ANYTHING at all about it, excepting an edi
torial telegraph announcing the result.
Mr.. Greeley never held communication
with anv one in the Office about the DaDer
excepting through the managing editor.
He alone knew whether Mr. Greeley was
pleased or displeased, what he wanted done
or what he wanted not done. His instruc-
tons were always brief, and he generally
wrote every morning a criticism of the
paper. ] have one of his brief notes before
me now, written when Mr. Young was man
aging editor threads; Have an editorial
on Grants letter to Isaac N. Morris, of
Illinois, including the letter. Greeley" 1t
has been asserted in the late campaign that
Mr.. Greeley was not responsible for the
course of the Tribune during the impeach-
ment trial Of Andrew Johnson, and that
he wrote none of the articles on that sub
ject. was connected with the Washington
Office Of the Tribune at the time, and have
now on my table the manuscript OF an edi-
tOrial which he wrote, and which was tele-
graphed 10 the paper in regard to the vote,
which ezplodes that story. Mr.. Greeley
was always held in the highest esteem in
the office, and by none more so than by the
printers. The manuscript of his articles
about l062-I; and for aUght | know after,
but certainly at that time, was always pre-
served by the proofreaders and given away
to curiosity hunters. l have known men to
come to the office and buy it, which is
hardly surprising, considering the fun that
has been Mdde OF his writing all over the
country.
was once thanked by Mr. Greeley while
was . reporter. and the occasion Of Il vag