The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-12-05
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l. w. MCCORD, PROPRIETOR
Death Of Mr. Greeley.

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We were not altogether unprcpar
cd for the announcement of Mr.
Greeley's death, but it is not the
less sad TO realize that one so pre-
eminently great and good, and who
had so recently displayed such vigOr
both Of mind and body, should so
suddenly be called from a sphere of
usefulness to the stiffness of death.
BY his recent sacrifices in behalf OF
Liberalism aud constitutional re-
forms, he had endeared himself to
the lovers of freedom in every land,
and made himself the conspicuous
center around which revolved the
hopes of the nation. The nation.
without regard to party, nourns the
death of her greatest editor, states
man and philosopher He leaves
an honore1 name, a noble life and
All encouraging example. His death
like his noble life, was placid and
serene.
Nothing that science or affection
could suggest was wanting to ease
the last hours. The wintry night
OF Friday, Nov. 29th, had fairly set
in when the inevitable hour came.
Without sieighs were running to and
fro bearing TO the nearest telegraph
station, the latest bulletins which
thousands OF anxious hearts in. the
great city neal by kept demanding.
Within, the daughter and a few
others stood near the dying man,
VINO remained conscious and seem
ingly rational and free from pain,
though now too weak to speak. In
the adjoining room sat one OF two
more friends and physicians. At
ten minutes before 7 o'clock the
watchers drew back in reverent
stiffness from the bedside. The
great editor was gone in peace, az
ter so many struggles in honor, after
SO much obloquy.
We subjoin a brief history OF his
life from the Banner.
AIr. Greeley was born at Amherst
New Hampshire, Feb. 3, 1911, and
was in his CID year. He was educa-
ted at the district school of Amherst,
and subsequently in Vermont, and in
1926, apprenticed himself to a news
paper Office in East Poultry, Yer
mont. In the fifth year of his
apprenticeship, the ne wspape
suspended, and the apprentice be
came his own master and jOurneyed
TO New York, where he obtained
employment in a printing-ofiice. He
afterwards was employed in tlla
Offices of the EVeniay Post, CONNER
ciaE AdOsyfiser and Spirit Of the Times
In 1888, in conjunction with a Mr.
Story, he started penny paper, the
New York Morning Post, which was
a short lived enterprise, though the
former was tolerably successful in
the conduct of a Job Printing office
lie afterwards became editor of the
Ae1g Yorker, published by Bennett q
Co. While editor Of this paper, in
1896, he was married to Mary Y.
Cheney, of Wsrrenton, North Caro-
lima, who died on the Both Of Oc-
tobcr. Pecuniary difficulties Of the
-NeU orksr compelled Mr.. Greeley
to seek a more profitable engage
ment on the Jsfersonian, a campaign
weekly, in 1888. In 1910 he started
a campaign weekly of his own, emit
tied the Log Cabin, which with the
NeO Yorker, was subsequently
merged in the New York Tribune
afterwards published by Greeley &
McElrath, as a Wing journal. In
1910 Mr., Greeley was elected to
Congress, and served his cOnstitu-
ency and his country faithfully for
one term, after which he resumed
his editorial lubors on the Tribune,
which he continued up to the time
OF his nomination last May, for
the Presidency, when he withdrew
temporarily from the editorship,
and again, soon after the late cleo
ton, resumed his editorial labors,
which his last illness compelled him,
almost Immediately, to abandon
With his political history all are
familiar. lie was a delegate to the
first Republican National Conven-
ton, and the Tribune has been a Re
publican journal Of great influence
and power from the birth Of that
party 10 the present time.