New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-22
GREELEY,s MEMORY.
Tribute from the Bohemian Prince-Anec-
dOtes and Analysis of haracrer.
George Alfred Townsend, in Chicago tribune. /
GREELEY's PROBABLE FAME.

GREELET's PROBABLE PANE.
At this time there seems to he some or,
ganized effort to collect all that bears upon
| Horace GrCeleY's career, and the incident
of his death is still overshadowiug in this
capital.
A The ranks of great OL1ce Will always su
! persede the greatness Of greater men in
private station; and when other men passed
up to the presidency, the greater captain
| was subordinate and subject to power, and
so must stand relatively III superficial his
tory. To aim at the scepter and miss it,
| and then return to ones broom, has often
been the fate of the real kings of men, but
| posterity in bulk is a great gulled constitu-
| ency. 1t still believes that Washington g
behavior on the subject of the little
Ratchet was the making of him, and
leaves the past, generally speaking, to its
own jury and verdict. Greeley was a
beaten man for the presidency; he was am
bilious OF th8t Office because he considered
the place Of greater influence, usefulness
ana majesty than his own beLch; and so it
| might have been for q man Of his wide
knowledge wide acquaintance, and extra
ordinary popularity. He probably knew
this country from its seedlings and tradi-
tons OUT to its vaguely-revealed deserted
interior, more fully and recently than any
being among Us-s0ldier, or traveller, or
! head of Observation-Disclosures he was the
editor of the era, to whom all its
| vagrancy and exploit came earliest
he might well have mistaken himself
for a man Of administration also, and
! yearned TO cleanse the country of the OPP
pressiOns he knew to be, and to correct it
of errors which prevailed by their audacitv
or mems 0btuseness. But he lost that prize
of authority, and lapsed TO citizenship
| again, so that what is sometimes called the
| IltrD~ rH1rl1 II,
| country fills up and events multiply. To
his profession, however, he will always be
| dear, and the scholarship of history will
| often look beneath the visible currents of
| pageantry to rise his effigy.
| HIS ENCOURAGEMENT.
knew Mr. Greeley but little, and that
| chiefly as one of the first and most hearty
encouragers I ever had. Among his en-
dOwments for the gratitude Of his day and
generation, nothing stands out more nobIy
than his constant Endorsements of the better
efforts of the people. He was a gigantic
bull in the intellectual and commercial
stock narket-the editorial Vanderbilt
ready to bet that q thing would succeed
that it must pan out well; that it had
merit in it aud must go. ca ira might
have been his motto. The whole coun-
try is covered over with monuments
Of his faith. MoCormiok's reapers
buzz his praises as they shear the
harvest-felds. He told Mayor Joseph Med
dill to 60 to Chicago and wait there, and
this vindicates the wise advice to go
West" I met Adolph Sutro, the tunnel
maker of Nevada, the other day-a man
who is paying out from $4,000 to $50, 600 a
month in wages and who, it he succeeds,
will. have rev0lutioui2eu silver mining in
this country, and he said: "Ah. have lost
my friend! Everybody was laughing at me,
and IL Looked GaTly phao4 yrba
Greeley spent a whole day reading my
book. lie asked no questions what public
opinion had to say about it. He said
THAT is great project. and ] believe in
you"
1 can say, in like manner, that when re-
turned from long absence in Europe, and
moved into what was then that most I'M
charitable den, New York Journalism, Mr. |
Greeley read a Tather loose story of my |
composition, and sent ME word, through |
Charles Halpiue, to keep at the same bust |
ness. When | wrote for awhile upon the |
Tribune, and the majority OF the SQUADS |
around the office were profoundly moved |
at the temeIity of new man Venturing to |
appear there, Greeley gave my work his |
siguet more than once; and during the last |
campaign, wherein | never saw him nor ad |
dressed him, he picked out Of another paper
little song anonymously sent there by me,
and had very neatly spoiled me for life by |
convincing me that [ might have been a |
poet. There is nothing more refreshing
than the unsolicited COMMUNICATION Of the |
great upon the Ie8ser--the watchul mag
nanimity which ranges the whole field 10
say to the struggling vines and settings:
There is growth in you!' And, in won
dertul contrast TO Greeleys width and
warmth of encouragement where he lad
all the power was the stinted and par5im0-
NOUS welcome OF many Of the chaps around
him. To form a mutual admiration society
in the New York Tfi6u,V WAS second ma |.
turp, and, indeed, in small-fry newspaper
circles III New York generally. After the
war, the war correspondents came IN from
the field, and drowned out most of those
young chirps. The newspapers Of New
York city are generally furnished news and
opinions by people from other places.
HIS JUSTICE.
Mi Greeleys justice within his Office has
been impeached by people employed there.
He was man who refused to be bored
and, as the Tribune was often supplied with
people who followed the presumptions OF
the paper too literally, and wore their hair
Ong, and talked wise nonsense, Greeley
got, after awhile, to be on generally bad
Germs with his own young men. He avoided
there, and people who were
II gushing and sprOut-like nature.
How could he have gratifed the
vanity of such and filled the measure OF
lis great career3 But to masculine
beings who at9 strong meat, like Richard
on, Ripley, Reid and Meeker, he was a
colleague when ho chose to be; and, to the
,reat world Of attendants, the constituency
f the journal, he was patient AMI inquisi-
i've. Newspaper men are, as a general
ule, the best men to each other in the
World; generous, gregari0ns and bOJish; but
Il work ZINES 1t Is very practical school, :