Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-29
EsTABLIsHED 1910.


driveling idiocy uplifted-the saddesi
spectacle mankind may contemplate
If physical decay supervene, men beal
It, snd view it as they would
the disruption Of curious and val
uable mechanism bit inefable
sadness Is excited when we wit
ness the utter prostration OF god
Ike genius. Next after the dethrone-
ment Of the Intellect Of the Universe is
the overthrow Of this, perhaps the fore
most Intellect of the country. Men may
reconstruct temples and arches and pal
aces overthrown, but there is hopeless
ness and pitiable helplessness when the
brain and nerves lose capacity for ae-
ton. and the giant becomes helplessly
inert, huge, repulsive and only animate.
Life itself is to be deplored, snd only
adds poignancy 10 the grief Of those who
once loved the man, or with wondering
ewes admired the brilliant corruscations
Of his genius. Greeley's intellect worked
with terrific force. It's msssivemeehan-
ism never stood stiH. The most vigorous
sentences, having muscles Of steel, and
penetrated with fires Of immortal
genius, were constantly evolved,
through q quarter Of a century,
from the massive machinery that
never rested beneath the skull
Of the amazing thinker and writer Of the
Tribune. Some grain Of sand, some ter
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ment Of an ennobling ambition has un-
hinged the cunning, polished mechan-
ism that moved with such perfec. pre-
cision and steadiness, and was SO evenly
balanced that the slightest shock,
when it was greatly worn, was fatal to
ali its parts. II Is the saddest spectacle
a nation ever contemplated when the
first and proudest Of its inteIlects is thus
humiliated, and, living, is yet dead-a
worse than moving ghastly corpse,
from which mankind turns away.in ab-
solute horror. Greeley, it win be learned,
mas died because his brain and
nerves and thinking faculties have been
overaxed. It is such a collapse as fol- |
lowed the extinction Of the fires Of Con-
federate pstriotism-sudden, complete,
overwhelming, and ss natural as it was
complete.
Our dispatches OF last night thus tell |
the story:
NEW YoRK, November 2s.-FrOm /
accounts published to-day it appears /
that Horace Greeley is in 3 most alarm /
ing condition. A reporter who visited 4
TarrytOwn, where Mr.. Greeley was said 4
10 be- staying, could not at first learn Of
his whereabouts, but was told by Mr..
Stewart, Mr.. Greeley's friend, that Mr..
Greeley was secluded and they did not
mean 10 let the public know where be
was. Stewart said he was dangerously
sick-had symptoms of brain fever. '' He
may live ten days" he added, but
doubt it." Subsequently Mr.. Gree
Iey was found 10 be staying in
the village. Around him were a
number of his friends, including
Samuel Sinclair, and John F. Cleve- !,
land, Mr.. Greeley's brSther-in-law, /.
and also his daughter. Three physicians !
were there in consultation. They de- +.
fined his disease as organic. The affec- :
ton Of the brain is the result Of physi- :
cal prUstratiOn consequent upon his un- /;
remirring attendance at the bedside Of
his dying wife. This account adds that
ON day before yesterday he lost his con-
sciOusness. His last coherent words:
The country Is gone, the Tribune is
gone, and / am gOnew Physicians say
he may die within the next twelve -
hours, although he may last four or 1
five days. There is little hope, howev-
s7, that he viii recover consciousness
before he breathes his last. His friends
say that his great physical powers were
lrostrated by superhuman strains
Incident 70 the death of his wife
md the labOrs Of the campaign. The
World says that within the past two
isys Greeley was examined by two ex- =
lerts, one Of them the head of a we'll y y
Known asylum; that verdict as 70 his :,
condition being very unfsvOrable. The !,
Orm Of mental alienation manifested by =
aim is said 70 be self-reproach and agony =
IF mind at what he deemed a great mis- = =
AXE. Editorially It mas the following: =
q We are deeply panied to-day 70 record =
hat in the last thirty hours Mr.. Gree :
ey's condition has changed greatly for = >
be worse. Throughout yesterday he re- y
NAMED nearly all the time unconscious. =
q a council Of physicians Of the city, !"
MY one was without hope, but all re- -,
sried the case as critical and alarm -
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