The Lincoln County herald., 1872-12-04

. pert Workman, while ne availed hlmtel
q Of the peculiar facilities foe intellect tua
Q Improvement which printing Office eye
" affords. He became tho beet workms
4 in the Office, and sometimes rendered iu
J. portant assistance in editing the paper.
. IN June, 1880, shen he was ip hi
twentisth year, his apprenticeship wa
suddenly terminated by the discontinu
. ance Of the Northern Spectator" 40,
t the breaking up Of the establishment .
i East Pultssy. His Knowledge Of politi
cal statistics, of party movements ant
their leaders, was SO extensive, tha
young as he was, ho was regarded as al
, authority in such matters. His parents
were now residing in Erie county, Penn
sylvannia. After spending few weeks
with them, he worked asa journeyuar
for short time in jamestown aud Lodi
New York, and subsequently for a some
what longer period at Erie, penusy ylvania
In August, 1881, be went to New
York city with scanty wardrobe. and
oely $40 in his pocket, in quest Of EN- :
ployment, which be soon ob,alnei. lie
worked as journeyman IN several ditferen,
Offices till Jan..l 1888, when he com
menced the printing business for him
self, entering into partnership with Mr..
Francis Story. The firm Of Greeley &
Story were the printers of DR.. Sheppard's S
informing Post" the first penny daily
ever published in the world This paper
failed, however, in less than three weeks,
and the firm of Greeley & Story, at the
expiration Of six months, was dissolved
by the death Of the junior partner. MIR.
Greeley afterward took for his partner.
Mr.. Jones Winchester and Mr.. f. Sib
bett, and tho business was continued
under the name of Greeley & Co. The
New Yorker a weekly paper, of which
MIR. Greeley was the editor, was com
menced by this firm on the 22d of March,
1881 1t was a political, literary aud
family newspaper, and in the department.
OF political statistics, especially, it was
regarded by all parties as au authority.
Its circulation for that period was exten.
sive, but owing to some defects in its
business arrangements it was not prof
table to the proprietors, though it was
continued for seven years. The slencer
income from the New Yorker" forced
Mr.. Greeley to engage in other abors.
He supplied the Daily Whig' with its
leading editorials for some months and
for ole year, in 1888 0, edited the "Jef.
iersonian,' weekly political Journal
published in Albany and devoted to the
interests Of the Wing party.
In 1S40 he edited the LOG Cabin"
weekly journal establahed to promote
the interests of William II Harrison,
then candidate for the presidency.
This i,urnal obtained a very wide circu
latiou and exercised an important in
fuencc.
On the l0h day Of April, ls41, Mr..
Greeley commenced the publication of
the daily Tribune. In the following
autumn the weekly Tribune was issued,
the New Yorker and Log Cabin being
merged therein, and with these journals
his name has since been identified. Iu
ls43 Mr.. Greeley was elected to congress
to fill vacancy, and served IN that body
from December l, Of thu. year to March
4, lS49, distinguishing himself chiefly
by his opposition to the abuse of the
mileage system. As an editor and
lecturer he has labored zealousy to
promote the welfare of the aboring
classes. In 1850 volume of his lee
lures and essays was published under the
title Of Hints Towards Reforms" In
1851 he made voyage across the
Atlantic, and during his stay iu England
served as one Of the jurywen IN the
Crystal Palace exhibition. After his
return he published volume entitled
"Gancss at Europe" In 1856 be pub
lished "History Of the Struggle for
Slavery Extension or Restriction in the
United States from 1887 to 1856" In
1883 he made a visit to California, trav.
elling thither by way of Kansas, Pixies
Peak and Utah. During this California
tour Mr. Greeley was everywhere we'll
received and at many points he addressed
throngs of people on the topics of
politics, the Pacific railroad, Temperance,
and the like. On his return to the East,
he found the country agitated by the
stormy political convulsons preceding
and subsequent to the election of Mr..
Lincoln to the presidency, Mr.. Greeley
espoused the Union cause but depre
Gated resort to armed force During
the continuance of the struggle, while
supporting the government in its meas
ures for the suppression of armed resis
tance to its authority, yet he left no op
portunity unimproved in showing his
great anxiety for restoration of peace
full relations between tho people of the
contending sections. 1t was to promote
this object, that Mr.. Greeley proposed
the famous Niagara conference" of
1861. Although the meeting of dis,
tinguished civilians on that occasion was
not productive of the good results which
its promoters hoped to see, yet it served
to show the adherence with which at least
one Of the acters regarded a state of
warefare. He was the first prominent
Republican to plead for a general am
nesty to all who had engaged in hostil.
tias oua nj st tho 0ovoen~ont H;o Iohors