New Orleans Republican., 1872-11-30
O4ath Of Horace 0reeGsgo

Greeley is dead. The wires that aaahe3
this news last night appealed 30 eenti-
mems in the breast of every American who
loves his country and his countrymen, His
main idea vas connection Vith printing
Office, and in all the cities ne visited after
leaving, in the American fashion, the pater-
gal roof, this idea was Uppermost. In New
York, where he arrived attep he had
reached al age overlapping from youth to
maturity, he devoted his frss energies to
the establishment Of q paper. Two Of those
lie founded are nov remembered. He estab-
Iished the Nes7 garkss, and in 1842 the
ITb6W'1c, and from that period qhe history
Of Horace Greeley is the history oP the
gSj5ume, though the time has gone by when
the Ideas Of the man will Gsl0y the Opinions
OF 6he leading newspaper.
Horace Greeley first save the aisH4 81
Amherst, New Hampshire. Ho derived dis
ambitioD and iaclinings fren dis mother,
and it was one Of the most touching Incl.
dents OF his Latter day life that in the high
tide OF hia hoSors and prosperity ehc
.rea: and Noted man, Eho Ieft her
side bog ?orty-iys sears before
should take oh She garments Of g
ohiid again and lay his experiences
before his mother. He Iers the roof SO the
age 0f fifteen to seek his fortune in tile
world and work his vav to eminauoe. @Re
vas a boy 1n bookbinder'S shop iO Boston,
g typo in Philadelphia, printer IL New
York. and through these Suceassiye stages
he Qassed winning friends and unmukins
eEemies. Thirty five years ago he vas a
noted man in New York, and since that
time has filled larger space In the zyorlds
eye until aOv SheB sis Aouse ;e az every
liz.
The eoUntpy has 0? late been full Of sflese
incidents of has boyhood and approneice-
chip. Men have come to che GuEfaoa in
svery city TO relate some experience OF his
kindness Of heart and good natuve, and to
laugh heartily over his eecentrieities, for
bis vas q portrais easily reeoguizaar tbs
genius in. the man being bus the Srowsh OF
peculiarity in the boy, and both being Ogr
Of ordinary keeping.
Born the son OF New Rampshirc parents,
his earliest associations were hardened BIZ
She life OF q farm boy, ghjie the eoftcning
influence OF d mothers love first ncurish8d
his young ambition and taught bis eyes to
turh @lae where than to the mothers yOot
that his genius might develop. kie 8om'
AeDced his career. like Franklin, With 3
stick and bundle. travelling out into the
world with great heart anf brighter
future: he ended It. stricken down
in the double weight Of grief and disap-
pointment. His marked characteristic was
tenacity. His Lesser traits were irresolutlon
and Faoiilation, but these were only the
labor. which delivered his purpose, and
when once be had concluded, his face
was neVeS set she other way, hut BE in
yariably toiled OH to the end, wherever IL
led him. He vas % type of that rigid New
England stock thab have ses she stamp Of
their individuality upon ePery branch Of
AmericaR institutions and Aave shed
lustro on tho GaericaR name. He
always struggled to be tiSh& 5Eis
Eorst enemies and his best friends we're
both alike in according him honesty; and
though isIns fell from him Us he advanced
in his career, they left him Qurer than
when he lent hiIR8elf to eheiP Illusion.
Brajny men such as he die as in asleep, the
intellect seems to slurnber flasher than she
bodys but when the lamp Of life burned
low, then hIokered, and 3hen went out, it
left behind glorious memory, which ell
yet create q greater stip in the worIa than
when at che heishs Of its iILuminatipa