The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-07-06
Horace Greeley in Partnership with
Tweed.

About one year since, April %, 1871 Mr..
Greeley entered into the following copart-
nership with William NJ. Tweed, viz
STATE OF New YORK, CITY AND CoUN-
Sands. Moses H. Grinnell, HORACE
GREELEY, Samuel W. Barnard, William
NJ Tweed, Henry G. Holly, Henry Hol-
dredge, Courtlandt Paine, Jr, and AL
bert S. Yeaston, all of the said city, coun-
ty, and State, do hereby certify that we
desire to form company, pursuant to the
provisions of an act of the Legislature of the
State of New York, passed February II,
1913, entitled IAN act to authorize the
formation of corporations for manufactur-
ing, mining, mechanical, or chemical pur-
poses," and of the several acts of the said
Legislature amending and extending the
provisions of said "act." That the cor
perate name of the said company is to be
1.-THE Tobacco Manufacturers Associa-
ton That the object for which said
company is to be formed are for manufac-
turing tobacco and cigars by machinery
and otherwise, and for manufacturing ma
chinery and utensils for the purpose of
manufacturing tobacco and cigars, and for
purchasing all the proper stock, tobacco,
materials, utensils, and machinery, for the
purpose of manufacturing tobacco, cigars,
untensils and machinery, and also for the
further purpose of selling the tobacco,
cigars, utensils and machinery so to be
manufactured as aforesaid. That the
amount of the capital stock of said COM
pany is to be one hundred and seventy-fiy
thousand dollars. That the term of the
existence of said company is to be fifty
years. That the number of shares of
which said capital stock is to consist is to
be seventeen hundred and fifty. That the
number of the trustees who shall manage
the concern of said company for the first
year is nine, and the names of such trustees
are Nathaniel Sands, Moses H. Grinnell,
Horace Greeley, Samuel w. Barnard, VIM.
NJ. Tweed, Henry c. Hooly, Henry Hol-
dredge, CORTLAND Palmer, Jr., and Albert
S. Meaton, and that the operations of said
company are to be carried on in the City,
County, and State of New York.
In this analysis of Mr.. Greeley's real
character, a persual of the foregoing docu-
ment is very valuable.
1t gives clear insight into his ideas of
the Importance of consistency; of harmony
been preaching for twenty years in public
and private, against the evils of tobacco
chewing, snuffing and smoking, and yet,
on the 25th day of April, A. D. 1871, he
enters into a copartnership "to manufac-
ture and sell tobacco and CIGARS so as to
make it easy for people to disregard his
advice. This is as consistent as for tenn
perence lecture to engage in distilling
whisky and in its sale at the street corners.
This copartnership with Tweed, entered
into above year since, indicates some
thing of Mr.. Greeley's capacity in the
selection of men for high trusts. 1t is not
probable that he would be more careful or
more successful in the selection of men for
the public service than in his private bust
ness. A man so easily deceived in matters
relating to his private affairs, is surely not
the most attractive champion of civil SER
vice reform.
Washington Chronicle