The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-05-09
G. AND B.
THE LIFE OF HORACE GREELEY
AND OF b. GRAFT BROWN.
THE COMING MEN OF THE TINES
HORACE GREELEY.

HORACE GREELEY.
Horace Greeley was born at Amherst,
N. H., on February 3, 1911. His father,
Zscchcus Greeley, was farmer, and the
family is Of Scotch.Irish origin. Horace
is the oldest survivor Of seven children.
All his ancestors, as far as there exists any
remembrance, were farmers. He displayed
from early childhood an eager thirst after
knowledge, and before he was ten years of
age he had not only read his fathers slender
stock of books, but had also borrowed and
perused nearly every work within ten
miles of his home Many of these books
he studied by the light of pine knots. So
great was his craving for Information that
he resolved early in life to follow the pro-
fession of printer. Although his family
removed to West Haven, Vt, in 1921, and
young Horace had to assist his father for
five years in farming, he at the same time
studied constantly and carefully, and in
the spring of 1926 entered as an apprentice
the office of the Northern Spectator II
weekly paper, published in East Poultney,
| Rutland county, VI. In the office he
lsbored diligently to learn the art of print
ing, and soon became an assistant editor.
In June, 1880, Mr.. Greeley's apprentice
ship was brought to II sudden close by the
suspension of the Spectator His family,
meantime, had removed to Erie county Pa,
and after spending a few weeks with them
| he worked for short time MS iourneyman
printer in jamestown, also in Lodi, n. Y,
and subsequently for long period in Erie
Pa. His knowledge of statistics and of
party movements and leaders was even
then so extensive and accurate that he
soon became regarded as = high authority
upon those points.
During August, 1881, Mr.. Greeley camo
to New York city. His whole worldly
gear upon his arrival consisted of u suit Of
blue cotton jeans, two brown shirts, a chip
hat, a pair of brogues and less than five
dollars in money He speedily secured
employment as Il journeyman printer, and
continued working at Lis trade in various
offices till January ], 1888, when he COM
menced business for himself, entering into
partnership with Mr.. Francis Story
Greeley and Story were the printers of DIR.
Sheppard's Morning Post, the first penny
daily paper ever published in New York.
The journal however, failed in three
weeks, and after an existence Of six months
Mr. Greeeys nascent partnership was dis
of the arm. The New Yorker a weekly
journal, devoted 10 politics and literature,
was commenced on the 22d Of March, 1894,
with Mr.. Greeley as editor. Its circuls-
ton was very large for that PERIOD still,
owing to some defect in ITS business man.
agement, the paper barely supported itself
and Mr.. Greeley was obliged to add to the
slender income derived from that source
by engaging in other labors of similar
character. He supplied the Daily Wing
with leaders for some months, and for
year, in 1889, edited the 'Jeilersonan, IL
weekly paper published in Albany and
devoted to the interests Of the Wing party
During the heated campaign Of 1910 he
edited the Log Cabin, a weekly paper
established to promote the election of Will
liam II. Harrison to the presidency. On
, the 10th day of April, 1871, Mr.. Greeley
York Daily Tribune and in the following
b. autumn commenced tho Weekly Tribune,
merging the 'Log Cabin and New
Yorker therein. In lS4s Mr.. Greeley
was elected to congress to I'LL n vacancy,
q and served from December of that year
to March 4, ls49. His congressional ca.
=" reer was chiefly distinguished by his OPP
u position to the gross abuse of the mileage
d system. In 1850 he published volume Of
y lectures and essays, under the title Of
:. "Hints Toward Reform" and during the
" following year made voyage to Europe
% During MS stay in England he served hs
l. juryman at the Crystal Palace Exhibition
% and on his return published volume en-,
titled "Glimpses at Europe" In 1856 he
wrote and published '"History of the
Struggle for Slavery Extension and Re
Is strlction, from 1887 to 1856" In 1859 he
a Travelled overland to California, where he
received very cordial greeting, and wal
called upon to make number of public
= addresses upon politics, the Pacific Rail
# road, temperance and various other topics
L Just before the outbreak OF the civil war
i. and when the southern states were passing
their ordinances Of secession, Mr.. Greeley,
in common with other distinguished men,
}, advocated the.poicy Of permitting their
their departure in peace. Mr.. Greeley,
after the rebellion had been virtually
: crushed, became engaged in compiling o
: history of the late civil war, together with
: the causes which led TO it, and the work
was published under the title of Il "History
y of the American Conflict"
!, BENJAMIN CRATE BROWN.
Il The new aspirant for Vice President tia
honors was born in Lexington, KY, Ma,
> %, 1896. lie IL the namesake Of Benia
y min Gratz, a prominent and wealthy citi
h zen Of Fayette county, and the son o
Judge Mason Brown, Secretary of Stat
during q. r. Morehead's administration
in the "dark and bloody ground" Ill
s. graduated at the Transylvania Universit,
I'd in 1916, and at Yale college in lS47, stud
t. led law at Louisville and about twer "
!; two years ago he took up his residence il
" ST. Louis, Mo. He was then young mar
'g of sound education full of talent, enere
in and pluck, and possessed of all the quail
n. locations necessary to make "A stir in The
-, political arena, into which he Immediately
~ entered. Bold and confident in his DOW.
10 ers, with the nerve TO follow his own con-
q, yictions, no burst at once through the
D. trammels Of wing education, and soon
:, made himself felt rs one of tho leaders OF
. Old Billions body guard. He was mem.
% Der OF the Missouri Legislature from 1867
" TO 1865, and in 1867 no delivered a speech
/. in the Legislature which was the
=, initial movement In behalf Of emancipa
W ton in that State. A resolution had beer
a. offered to the effect that "the emancips
~ tion Of the slaves, held as property In thi
". state, would be not only imprsctlcable, bu
~ that any movement having such an objec
" In view, would DO iaexpedient, impolitis
70, unWiso and uniuut and ahOuld In tn