The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-12-19
FOR THE JOURNAL.
HORACE GREELEY.
THE LIFE, CHARACTER AND DEATH OF THE
GREAT OURNALIST-1MPRESSlN AND
DISTINGUISHED OBSEQrIES.

The wires Of the great metropolis have
been employed the last week in publishing
to the world the death Of Horace .Grceie4'.
the greatest Of American journalists. That
heart must, indeed, be as hard as alamaynt
that has not received with emotions Of nn-
fGiShtd- sorrow, lic tilnYs Of the death OF
this remarkable man who has for thirty
years cxcricd al influence felt to the most re-
mote corners of our broad realm. The cIr-
cumstanccs Of the death nf Mr.. Greeley his
having been brought so prominently before
I the political world, as the leader of a great
party in the campaign inst ended, and his
having departed from the pains. responsibility
ty and glory Of his cventful life, at a period
SO nearly succeeding chat Of his defeat at the
ballet -box--all unite to increase the almost
universally Of tile grief experienced by the
event of his death. but a few short months
ago, James Gordon Bennett left forever a
country, impoverished by his death. and
now, Greeley too, has gone, leaving place
which can never 10 illed again. 1t is hard,
indeed, to realis. IN. fact that the politician
whose name stood So prominently in thous-
ands Of Journals, as the standard bearer of
the great Liberal Party and whose praises
and virtues weresung by so many, is, now
.insehsble, alike to the plaudits Of an ADM
ring country, and to the calumnics heaped
upon him by unprincipled and unfeelng foes
Horace Greeley, the son ofHaccheus Gree
ley, was born at Amherst, n. H., February
3, 1911. In his earliest years he evinced Il
great propensity for study, and soon read all
the books attainabo in his ncighborhood.
At an early period of his life he entered the
the printing office Of the Northern Spectator,
published at East Poultney, Vt, as print
cr. where he remained from 1926 to 1880.
For short time after this, he travelled as 4
iourneyman printer, and then went to New
York, where, in partnership with another,
he published the first penny paper in the
world Shortly subsequently, he gave hls
time and labor to the editing and publishing
of the Nev Yorker, which failed in few
years. About the year 1910 Mr.. Greeley 5
great career as an editor commenced. About
this time he contributed to the Log CABIN:
weekly journal, established to promote the
election of Gen. Harrison to the Presiden :
cy, then having very wide circulation. in
the earliest years Of his manhood, Mr.. Gree
ley's knowledge Of political statistics and OF
party movements and their leaders, made
him an oracle onssuch subjects. In 1911
he issued the New York Doiiy 1rib"nc, with
which he has always been identified. The first
issue appeared April 10, l@l1, and in the
following autumn he published ihc Weekly
T,ibuuc Mr.. Greeley affirmed that he was
more proud ofthc appcllation Of the founder
of the Tribunc than Of any other name could
be given him, and to it he owes his reputation
tt now numbers thousands and thousands OF
subscribers. and the marked ability Of Mr.
(,reeley's editorials. with its li@nicd, chaStc
literature, has made it mighty power IL
the land. The leading paper in America, II
is also the greatest journal Of the day. When
the administration Of the affairs of State wa:
placed inc hands of the Republican Party
the Tribune was its organ, and: through it
columns Mr.. Greeley combined and consoli
dated the clements first known under tht
name of the Republican Party.
Mr.. Greeley was married, in 1886, tt
Miss Cheney, of Warrenton, N. {. He wa
very happy in his social relations, as remark
able concord and unity existed between huS
band and wife, and'the death of the latter
but few weeks since, brought down tn
gray hairs of the old man in sorrow to tn
grave.
In 1913 Mr. Greeley was elected to fiji
vacant term in Congress, and while ther
he raised his voice against the abuses OF tn
mileage system, and devoted his powers O
mind and body to the laborcr and bondsmer
Mr.. Grccley's religious creed was that q
!. the Unitarian Restorationists, who bclicv
that the soul, when separated from the bod,
= attains at once its full happiness, and th'
those who have lived lives ofwickedness mu
undergo discipline before an entrance
d given to the abode Of the good.
i Mr. Groeley's character was one Of /
n markabIc purity, and free from anything
J. a vicious or corrupting nature. His temp
wat quick and irascible. and his bitterness
3" opposition to anything hostile to his ido
and views was marked as trait of his Gina
acter, as his great eccentricity. for the sal
of which, those who knew him, overlookc
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