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Sketch Of Hon. Horace Greeley.
Horace Greeley was born at Amherst

Horace Greeley was born at Amherst,
New Hampshire, February Sd, 1911 !;
was the son of poor farmer, who
removed to Vermont in 1921. He at
tended common school; evinced great
fondness for reading, and learned the
art of printing at Poultney, Vermont,
In lS26-'3O. After he had worked few
months as u printer in Erie, Pennsylva-
MIA, he went to New York city in 1881,
where he worked at his trade. In 1888,
in company with Francis Story, he COM
menced the Morning Post, the first
penny daily ever established, and which
was soon discontinued. In March, 1884,
he founded the New Yorker, literary
weekly, neutral in politics, of which he
was editor. This. his earliest literary
venture, lived seven years, but was far
from being,a pecuniary success. It was
succeededHby the Jeffersonian, which
in 1S4l was changed to the Log Cabin,
and became the Whig organ in New
York of the great Harrison and Tyler
campaign. The ability with which he
conducted this paper gave him the germ,
fof his reptaation as q political writer,
WHICH has grown and Increased until
now he stands at the head Of the political
press Of the country, its acknowledged
Chief. @2 -sl y
The New York Tribune was Mr.. Gree
ley's next undertake ing, and its success
has been the crowning glory Of respect
able journalism in the United States.
Mr.. Greeley in the Tribune advocated
Clay's election in l844;. and of course
opposed tile admission of Texas, on the
ground that it would extend the area of
slavery. After the defeat of Clay, he
assumed a more decidedly hostile attitude
to slavery, and was soon ranked by the
South with the abolitionists, although
he never admitted anything more than
the free-soil principles of that growing
faction. As member of Congress In
$3.50, he opposed the abuses OF the
mileage system. Still a consistent
Whig, though Of the sternest free-soil
proclivities, he supported General Win,
field Scott in 1852. This, was the last
effort the old Whig, party made as a
party. In 1855 he became almost the
father of the Republican party by being
one of the earliest advocates of the cleo
ton Of John G. Fremont.
In 1860 he led off for Abraham Lin
coin, and was instrumental in his, nomi-
nation at Chicago and thesdefeat of, VIM.
HI. Seward. His biographer, in the Die
tionary of Great Men, closes lis sketch
of Mr.. Greeley's careeras follows: "He
favored universal amnesty and universal
suffrage at the end of the civil war, aud
offered himself as bail for Mr.. Jefferson
Dayisin May, 1857" .gIa5.4 :,
He has gained special distinction by
Ibis efforts towards the emancipation. of
labor, endeavoring to free it from igno7
rance, vice, servitude and poverty. He
is a Jealous champion of protection, and
is always first in the front rank Of social,
industrial, and political reformers.
Among the best known works he has:
published under his own name are his
}"Histoiy of the Great Conflict" very
fair narrative of the late war; Reml-
niscences of a Busy. Life,", being his
own strange eyentful story; very val
liable work upon agriculture, and an
other upon political; economy. His
industry and energy are untiring,; and
his honesty altogether incorruptible and
above Observation-Disclosures Enquirer.