Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-12-11
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The wires flashed throughout this
broad land and across tho whole At
lantic, on the morning of Friday last,
Nov. tho Goth, tho sad aud startling
intelligence conveyed in the above
four words, demonstrating in this case,
to no ordinary degree, tho uncertainty
of lifc and the mutabiity Of all things
earthly. Yesterday, as it were, the
subject Of this notice was in the bust
est period OF ono Of the busiest lives
on record, battling for the political
honors Of nation Of forty Millions
Ambitous--and what human being
who had played the rolo in lfo OF
Horace Greeley, would not bcY-he felt
that hc had earned a reward from his
fellow men above that they had render
ed him as Hthe leading journalist of the
age" and he boldly made his claim for
the highest political seat in the nation.
This claim was repudiatcd and the blow
fell upon sensitive mind with fatal
severity. The strong man bowed his
head and fecbly struggled on, but tho
busy career was iated to n startlingly
sudden culmination. Death d,with-
in brief day or two of his great polit-
ical defeat, robbed him Of her whose
wifely sympalhies, had she lived on,
might have been healing solacc TO
the vanquished and hoart.sore partner
of n thirty years pilgrimage on earth,
sometimes of sunshine and sometimes
of clouds. But it was not TO be. She
passed away just as tho political storm
burst in its fatal fury upon his devoted
head, and poor human nature was not
equal to the ordeal. That active hrain
could not carry all the grief piled
upon it. That hopeful heart had been
crushed Those extraordinary intel.
lectual faculties, which, whether for
good Or otherwise TO this nation, had
been exercised to a degree so unmis-
tahably influential in career of forty
years, were now suspended. His
mind, like the expiring candle, flick
cred in its socket its light grew dim,
and after brief struggle, with now
and then the shooting up of faint ray
giving momentary hope to the weep
ing ones about him and to !he outside
world, which, at time like this, baries
animosities, forgets human shorteom-
ings and remembers only virtues, that
hopc was, alsa to prove deceptive
the light went out tho strong man
of yesterday had been too severely
shocked body and mind had been
too fcarlully taxed; the ordeal was
far greater than human nature could
stand the life of that body, the light
of that soul passed away And ere
tho plaudits Of that multitude over
Horace Greeley's last speech have
died on the air, he sleeps his final
sleep; the active tailor is at rest; tho
busy life is over forever There is
much wo might say deprecatory Of the
political part Horace Greeley has so
long played, but we rorfor to lot that
topic pass. With the living Horace
Greeley we had ever bitter political
antagonism, but for the ashes Of Hor-
ace Greeley we have no feeling save
W. W. P.o.Su.'to's e'l,eIs "''u 'o'sle,,oo'
"o perisr 70 re'nc'noer nls stefnng
impusivo warmheartedness, bis desire
" " oe.lStG :. !: ~ "a .ne lu.ogfity OF mahEind'
sr''e VI . Jus i1tense ,. par.'lahsh'p, p,p Wh'cn
qualities Of his opponents. In the heat
Vi .ne conn'ce 'no ehoo'ons oi ms low
VI nature were olten Drought lnlo ac-
uo'', anu n,s worse polnts Vi char"ctcr
'nen vr0ug"S ont out we "ouiu ior-
get al 'h's' we prefer 70 remember
snn, tnepe was ~ h's ,naSe.up vas, yast
uea, o. Domocracy wn'cn ,i ne pimseii sen
hhoo6leness OF labor; in tho virtue of
economy in .he folly of fashion; in
an utter disregard of the Jeiittldng con.
venlionaIi,ies of life. Hc liked tho
sturdy occupation of tho agricullurist.
and as often as lis editorial duties
Dermiltpd nracticpd IL He belioved