Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-05-04

'hankered" for the "weed."
lie learned to love newspapers in child
hood and resolved to be printer. In 1926
he entered printing office in Poultney,
Vermont, as an apprentice He has been
connected with a newspaper ever since,
but of late years he has turned his atten-
ton to farming, astonishing the world
with his profound views, on deep plow-
ing and raising turnips. In 1871 he start
ed the Tribune, an enterprise which re-
fleets credit upon its founder, as well as
upon the country, and is now one of the
greatest newspaper enterprises in the
world.
AS upon almost every other question,
Mr.. Greeley has also enlightened the world
with his religious views, in which his
''liberality" is displayed in high degree.
He is a Universalist, having attached him
selfto congregation of this faith and or.
der in 1881, He is Temperance man of
the strictest sort, believing strongly in the
views taken. by Sylvester Graham,
in whose bill of fare, tea, cof-
fee, tobacco, beer gin, &C., were
excluded, and bread made of unbolted
meal prescribed, with grudging use of
animal flesh with a very little salt. He
was at one time so enthusiastic on the
subject that he became an inmate of a
boarding house run on this plan. In poll
tics he was Wing until the demise of
| that party, and has been thick-and-
thin tariff man ever since, Away advo-
eating the protective system with zeal and
earnestness, He is the author of work
on Political Economy, which is devoted
to defense of the doctrine of Protection.
! He astonished his friends and the coun-
try in general soon after the commence
ment of the late war, by advocating poll
cy-(that of letting the South depart in
peace (which would have resulted in a
certain disruption of the government. He
again astonished them by his attempted
treaty of peace" with the notorious rebel
| Thompson in Canada, while Grant was
laundering away at Richmond He again
asst 0nished his friends in 1864, two days af
ter the Democratic Convention had met
in Chicago, and proclaimed the war fail
ure by writing to the Governors of the
loyal States, three months after Lincoln's
nomination as follows:
New YORK, Sept 2, 1864.
Your ExCELLENCY The undersigned have
| been requested by body of influential Union
lists to communicate with the loyal Governors
for the purpose of eiciting replies to the folew-
ing queries:
l. In your judgment, is the reelection of Mr..
! Lincoln probability
| 2. In your judgment, can your State be carried
| for Mr.. Lincoln
! 8. In your judgment, do the interest of the
| Union party, and so of the country, require the
| substitution of another candidate in place of
Mr.. Lincoln? ...-....
In making these queries we give no opinion
| of our own and request yours only for the most
private and confidential use.
Yours truly, HORACE GREELEY,
Editor Of the Tribune, land two otkers.)
He opposed Mr.. Lincoln's election as
bitterly as he has the election of President
Grant. He got up sensation in 1865 by
dofing his white hat and grey coat and
going all the way to Richmond to bail
jeff. Davis. He astonished everybody last
summer by taking trip through the
South, eulogizing rebel generals, and bid
| ding high for the help of the South to as
sist him into the White House.
He was an ardent supporter of the pres
ent administration until less than year
ago, when he opened up his batteries, and
has since been firing promiscuously into
| the house of his former friends, regardless
of results. If he could be elected he would
fairly die with joy, but will take defeat
with as much resignation as any man
living, He has been beaten so often that
he has got used to it.
GOVERNOR GRAFT BROWN.
Of the Liberal candidate for Vice Presi-
dent we CLEAN the following facts concern
ing his early life:
Governor Brown was born in Frankfort.
Kentucky, about forty-six years ago. and
has quite political lineage on both pater-
nal and maternal Sides His father was
the late Judge Mason Brown, of Frank
fort, lawyer and jurist of note, and the
son of John Brown, the first person ever
chosen Senator in Congress from Ken
lucky, position he filled for three success.
sive terms. Jesse Bledsoe, his maternal
from Kentucky. He is kinsman of the
Prestons, Breckinridges, Blairs, Mellow
ellis, BentOns and other well known fami-
lies, whose members have been prominent
in National and State affairs since the
formation of the Government
Governor Brown graduated at Yale Col
lege in lS47, and after studying law re-
moved to st. Louis, Missouri.
He became one of the editors of the
Missouri Democrat, and was prominent
actor in the free soil movement.
On one occasion, in personal rencontre
with prominent pro-slavery politician,
Governor Brown was shot through the
knee, and so severely injured that he yet
suffers from its effects.
Mr.. Brown commanded a regiment of
of militia in Missouri in 1861 and with
Gen. Lyon aided in the capture of Camp
Jackson.
During the first year of the war he COM
napded regiment of volunteers, but be-