Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-12-05
Horace Greeley Dead!
The Victim of ovcrwork,
Details OF the sad Event.

Octalls OF the SAD Event!
New YORK, Nov. ga reporter
who visited Tarrytown, where Mr..
Greeley was sal | to be staying,
could rot at first learn OF his
whereabouts, but was told by Mr.,
Stuart Mr. Greeley's frien3) that
Mr.. Greeley was secluded, and they
did not mean 10 let the public
know where he was. Stuart said
that he was dangerously sick, and
had symptoms of brain fever. Gle
may live ten days" he added,
''but doubt it." Subsequently
Mr. Greeley was found TO be
staying in the village. Around
him were number of bis friends,
including Samuel Sinclair, John
L. Cleveland, Mr.. Greeley's broth.
er-in.law, also his daughters.
Three physicians were there in
consultation They defiued bis
disease as an organic affection of
the BRAN, the resalt OF physical
prcstration consequent npon his
unremitting attendance at the bed
side of bis dying wife. This ac-
count adds that on the day before
yesterday ne lost his conscious
ness. His last coherent words
were: "The country is gone, the
Tribune is gone, and ! am gone"
The physicians say that he may
die within the next twelve hours,
although possibly he may last four
or five days. There is little hope,
however, that he will recover con-
sciousnes before he breathes his
last. His friends say that his
great physical system was pros
trated by superhuman strains in-
cident to the death of his wife and
the labors OF the campaign.
Nov. 90, z. Mr.. Greeley
died very quietly and without
psin at 10 minutes before Z this
evening. lie was conscious and
rational.
The Tribune says:
The melancholy announcement
of the death Of the editor and fOun-
der of the Tribune, though for
few days it has been expected by
his family and intimate friends,
tails upon US with all the shock of
n sudden calamity. He had
reached, indeed, a ripe old age, but
time had not laid its whitening
touch upon him. His splendid
constitution easily bore the strain
Of enormous labor. His mind
was ms fresh and strong and sug.
gestive as in the prime of lie.
His generous impulses were un-
chilled by his disheartening ex-
perience through the trying cam
paign which has just closed.
His physical vigor, his act, his
intellectual activity surprised
even those who knew him best,
and seemed to promise many years
of usefulness.
1t is certain that no history Of
the most critical period in our na-
tional life can ever be written in
which Horace Greeley shall not
be conspicuous figure, but the
noblest career in his eyes was
that which is given up to others
wants; the successful life was that
which is worn out in the conflict
with wrong and woe; the only
ambition worth following was the
ambition to alleviatehuman misery
and leave the world a little bet.
ter than he found it. That be had
done this, was the consolation
which frightened his last days,
and assured him that be had not
lived in vain.
II is not for us in the first hour Of
our loss to paint his character or
catalogue his virtues. Although
fol several months rye have missed
the inspiration Of his presence and
the guidance of his wise counsels,
his spirit has never ceased to ami
mate those chosen to continue his
works, and the close bond of SYM
patty between the chief and his
assistants has never been broken.
We leave his praises to the poor
whom be sucoored, to the iowly !
whom he lifted up, to the slave
whose back he saved from the lash,
to tie oppressed whose wrongs be
made his own.
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