Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-11-01
Horace Greeley.
A STORY FOR CHILDREN.
From the Seneca Falls Courier. !

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See how sad he looks. He is a very
great man. He was once poor editor
An editor is man who lives on what
other men owe him, until he starves to
death. Mr.. Greeley did not starve because
he ate so much Graham bread. Do you
love Graham bread? Sometimes Mr..
Greeley would write pieces for the New
York Tribune. He belonged to the New
York Tribune, or the New York Tribune
belonged to him, and l have forgotten
which. The Tribune had a great many
subscribers. A subscriber is person
who takes paper and says he is very
much pleased with it, and he tells every
body else that he ought to subscribe" I"
After he had subscribed" about seven
years, the editor writes to him and asks
him to let him have So. 80 two dollars
and fifty cents), and then the subscriber
writes back to the editor and tells him
not to send him his old paper any more,
for there is nothing in it, and then the
poor editor goes and starves some more.
Now l will tell you about Mr. Greeley.
He used to wrap up strawberry plants
and beets and things in his paper, and
send them to his subscribers. His paper
was mot an Organ," so you see it would
hold great many strawberry plants. Mr.
Greeley had heard that any poor boy
might be President of the United States,
and have plenty of money, and buy Alas
ka diamonds and st. Domingoes and
things, so he used to set and think how
he might become President. Then he
would scratch his head. He did not have
any hair on his head, like you and I, SO
he soon made his head very sore, and peo-
pie used to call him the Great Sore Head,
and then Mr.. Greeley would say, "You
lie, you villain, you lie!" There was a
great many men who itched all over in
spots to be President, or Governor, or
constable, or something else beside what
God intended them to be. These men
were all very sorry when they saw Mr.
Greeley's head, and they said let us make
him President, and maybe his poor head
will get well. So they all got together,
without regard to country, creed or col
or, politics or religion" and they called
themselves Democratic Republicans, "
which is Greek word, and means, "any-
thing to get at the Treasury" The Trea-
sury is large building in Washington,
where all the gold of the United States is
kept until there is corner in Wall street.
You don't know what corner is, my
children, and | will not make you unhap-
py by telling you.
Well, as l was saying, all the people
got together in place called Cincinnati,
where they pack agreat deal of pork, and
they all agreed that Mr.. Greeley was a
good man because he did not have any
religion, and that he was great man be
cause he did not have any politics, and
would make a good President, as he
would not have any of those things to
bother him. So they told him to dress
himself up nice, and black his boots, and
go and swing around the circle" You
love to swing, do you not, children? Mr..
Greeley was like child in a great many
things. He loved to play about the gar
den amongst the rhubarb, and cabbage,
and guanO, etc., and catch Democrats in
his large white hat. A Democrat is a
fowl that eats crow until it is gorged, and
is then easily caught by Mr.. Greeley.
But, alas, it made MI Greeley very sick
to swing, and made all those wicked men
sick that told him to go and swing" 4"
and they all wept and said, Don't you
remember how sick it make old Mr..
Johnson to swing around the circle?'"
But Mr.. Greeley said, "You are always
saddest when l swing" and went on
swinging, and his head got sorer all the
time, and he got raving crazy, and his
friends did not know whether he was
Horace Greeley or Daniel Pratt OF
George Francis Train My children,
the moral of this sad story is, if any good
little boy wants to be President of these
United States, he must never "swing
around the circle"
A STRAYED- our