The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-12-12

ness mat accompanies the last stage or
disease, and during the day his extremi-
ties were cold and there was no pulse at
the wrist The action of the heart was
very intermittent and constantly dimin-
lshing in force. He had not asked for
water or been willing to drink since his
stay at DR.. Choa.e's, but during Friday he
asked for it frequently, and up to within
half an hour of the end he manifest
ed in various ways his conscious
ness of what was going on
around him, and even answered,
in monosyllables, and intelligently, ques-
lions addressed to him. About $3.50
o'clock he said, very distinctly, {" It is
DONE" and beyond the briefest answers
youngest daughter, Miss Gabrielle, was
with him through Thursday evening
Throughout Friday the elder daughter,
Miss Ida, was in constant attendance, as
she had been during the whole of his ill
ness and Of Mrs. Greeley's before him.
Other members of his Chappaqua house
hold were present, with Mr.. and Mrs
John r. Stuart and few other friends
Nothing that science or affection could
suggest was wanting to ease the last
hours. The wintry night had fairly set
in when the inevitable hour came
Without, sleighs were running to and
fro, bearing to Chappaqua, the nearest
telegraph station, the latest bulletins,
which the thousands of anxious hearts in
the great city near by kept demanding.
Within, the daughter and few others
stood near the dying man, who remained
conscious, and seemingly rational and
free from pain, though now too weak to
speak. In an adjoining room sat one or
two more friends and the physician. At
| $50 o'clock they drew back in reverent
stiffness from the bedside. The great
editor was gone in peace, after so many
| struggles, and after SO much obloquy."
| THE "TRIBUNE's" EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
| The Tribune for tomorrow says:
"The melancholy announcement of the
death of the editor and founder of the
Tribune, though for a few days it has
been expected by his family and intimate
friends, falls upon US with all the shock of
sudden calamity He had reached, in
deed, a high old age, but time had not
laid its whitening touch on him. His
of enormous labor. His mind was as
fresh and strong, and suggestive as in the
prime of life. His generous impulses
were unchilled by disheartening expert
ence. Through the trying campaign
which has just closed, his physical vigor,
| his tact, his intellectual activity, sur.
prised even those who knew him best,
and seemed to promise many years of use
| fulness. It is certain that no historyaof
the most critical period in our national
life can even 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 elevate human misery, and
leave the world little better than he
found it. That he had done this was the
consolation that frightened his last days
and assured him he had not lived in vain.
cit is not for US, in the first hour of oul
loss, to paint his character or catalogue
his virtues. Although for several months
we have missed the inspiration of his
presence and guidance of his wise coun.
| sci, his spirit has never ceased to animate
those chosen to continue his work, and
the close bond of sympathy between the
chief and his assistants has never been
broken. We leave 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 oppressed
whose wrongs he made his own"
THE "HERALD's" OBITUARY.
The New York Herald, in it's editorial
tomorrow, speaking of Horace Greeley,
says:
"From day to day, for a week past,
news of Mr.. Greeley's severe mental and
physical prestration have left this com
muAity and the country not wholly IN
prepared for his dissolution, and yet we
may say of him as the expiring Chief,
Red Jacket, said himself, that the news
of his death will come upon the people
in the stiffness of the wood. He has, in a
mistaken aspiration for higher usefulness
and power and glory, fallen sacrifice to
his political ambition. He had failed to
| appreciate the commanding position
| which he had secured as the leading
American Journalist, and leaving 1t to
pursue that of the Presidency, he derived
sustepance from a shadow. Greeley IS
Industrious and useful career is full of
encouragement to young men who, with
out capital or the influence of powerful
friends, have the battle of life before
them. He leaves an honest name behind
him, and the high reward of an encour-
aging example as an American Journalist
and a self-made man."
THE times" EDITORIAL
The Times for tomorrow, in an editori-
al ON Greeley's death, says:
'Mr. Greeley's loss to journalism is one
which cannot be replaced. The incidents
of his last sickness were peculiarly dis
CreSS1ng, ana, from all tnat we can learn,
his reverses during the late campaign
cannot alone account for them. Had he
been successful the probabilities are that
he would not have lived, SO overtaxed
was his strength and so utterly broken
down seems to have been his constitution
The labors and excitement of the canvass
were more than his body or mind could
bear
eve shall not attempt, at this moment,
to do justice to Mr.. Greeley. AS jour
nalist and public man, his life is a part.
of the history of the country during the
last thirty years, and the time has not yet
come when it can be impartially consid-
cred. 1t is certain that Greeley's name
will always be honored in connection
with the anti-slavery struggle, and with
many important measures which he
fought for with remarkable vigor, simply
because he believed they were right. Into
these subjects we will not now enter, for
the country is scarcely rid of the din and
turmoil of a memorable and unhappy
past. Historians will do justice to Gree
ley, and in the meanwhile his country
men will be strangely forgetful if they
fail to pay due tribute to his memory. He
has been before them for about genera
ton, and he has had their confidence in
many trying periods of our history. Let
us now remember only his virtues and his
genius"