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DEATH OF HORACE GREELEY.
What the Tribune and Herald Say
of Mr. lreeley's Death.

| what che Tribune and Herald Say
of Mr. Greeley's Death.
NEW YoRK, November S0.-Horace Greeley
died conscious and peacefully at $3.50 pm
yesterday. MA ~.
The Tribune Of this morning says: 1.-THE
melancholy announcement of the death of thu
editor and founder of the Tribune. though fol
| 4 few days Il has boon expected by his famil,
aud intimate friends. falls upon us with al
the shock of sudden calamity. He had
reached, indeed. a ripe old age. bat time hAd
mot laid its whitening touch upSn him. Hi'
splendid constitution easily bore the strain Of
enormous labor his mind was as fresh and
strong snd suggestive as in the prime OF
| life. His generous impulses were unchilled
by disheartcning experience through tho Try
ing campaign which has just closed. His
physical yigor, his tact. his intellectual activ-
ity, surprised even those who knew him best,
and seemed TO promise many years of useinl'
ness. II is certain that no history of the
most critical period in our national life can
ever be written in which Horace Greeley shall
not be conspicuous figure. but the noblest
career, in his eyes. was that which is given
up to others wants. The successful life was
that which is worn out in conflict with wrong
and woe; the only ambition worth following
was the ambition to alleviate human misery
and leave the world little better than he
found it. That he had done this. was
the consolation which Frightened his
last days and assured him that he had
not lived in vain. It is not for US. in the first
hour Of our loss. to paint his character or cata-
logue his virtues. Although for several
months VIC have missed the inspiration of his
presence and the guidance of his wise counsel.
his spirit has never ceased to animate those
chosen to continue his works. and the close
bond of sympathy between the chief and his
assistants has never been broken. We love
his praises to the poor. whom he succored; to
the lowly, whom he lifted up; to the slave.
whose back he saved from the lash; TO the OPP
whose wrongs he made his own"
The New York Herald. in its editorial this
speaking of Horace Greeley, says:
- From day to day for week past news of
Mr.. Greeley's severe mental and physical
prostration. have left this community and the
country not wholly unprepared forhis dissolu-
ton: and yet we may say Of him as the expir-
ing chief Red Jacket said of himself. that the
news of his death will come upon his people
like the sound of the fall of giant pine in
the stiffness Of the woods. He has. in a mis-
taken aspiration for a higher field of useful
ness and power and glory. fallen sacrifice to
his political ambition"
WASHINGTON. November S0.-Frequent in
quiries we're made yesterday by all classes in
to Horace Greeley's health. and much
sympathy was expressed in his behalf.
A report of his death being in circulation |
early last evening. and it having reached the |
President ,Ihe and his family, as token Of re-
spect, did not attend the reception of the di-
plomatic corps, given by the Secretary of
State, and to which he was invited, but sent
note explaining the cause of their absence,