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Horacc'G Greeley and the Press,

''r"cc Nrccicy and the Press.
Inc Committee on Reception il
vlted Horace Greeley to the Music
reSt'VM IN Boston, Arriving thcr
Dir Greeley was formally received
the city Reception Room, and imme
dIaleIy repaired to the Press Room
"lcre he was introduced to the new
paper correspondents who were pre-,
eht by especial request. After the il
~troductory exercises had conclude
Mr. Niles presented him to the part
IN general III the following terms:
LodteS and Gentlemen II have III
pleasure Of Introducing to you til
Hon. Horace Greeley, Of New York.
Mr., Greeley then took the platform
inside the superintendent private de
partment and addressed his friends /,
the following language;
REMARKS OF UNCLE uoRACE,
L0dteS md Gentlemen ofMe 1meytca,
IreSS 1t has fallen to my lot re-
Gently, as you are doubtless aware, t,
be placed before the public in a some
what conspicuous attitude. That is tC
say we who work for the press and
I'VE ny the press. work and live in tho
public sight and under public criticism
TO a greater degree than most people
and yet think to-day my position is q
little more exposed to cayil and dis.
arrangement than that Of most Of YOU 4;
II bas bcen said Of NE do not dep.
%recate, ! would not disarm criticism
Out 1t has been said Of me, and | take
IL as Il great Testimonial and c0mpli.
meHt, that while in the business that |
have pursued through life ! have shown
myself very fairly competent, very
fairly di!igent and successful vet If
were or should he invited into another
line Of life, into different and. if Won
higher responsibilities, / should
be found unequal to them. Well, ladies
and gentlemen, / cannot well expect to
have anything better said Vt me by my
friends, much less by my adyersarieS,
to say that | had done well that
which have had to do. Applause.
would seem 4 tolcrabIe safe deduc,
ION that one who has been doing well
his lite that which he has tried to
10, may possibly, may reasonably be
expected to 10 well something else il
ne were to IN lcrtake it, Some of my
;rIlIcs observe that though lormyscirI
personally am a toleIabIy honest and
especIabIe person, yet my associates
re not very desirnble--an unworthy
Laughter and applause. / am
for that, because my associates
Trough life have been mainly the zen.
lemcn and ladies | see about me ap-
whose acquaintance / made
lille engaged in the matter of pre-
airing information rorthcpublic press
nj II any ASSOCIATIONS were disagree.
bic, | can hardly houe to find better {
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4 the future life than those | have had. ,
trust this was not meant. ! trust it
."S not meant to say that such gen.
and Ladies' that | see before me-, t
not, on the whole, performed their t
DIRK and have discharged their re ,
possibilities with reasonable fidelity. +
nth human error, with human imper- ,
with human faults doubtless, !
sun with fair, reasonable human !
At all events, Ladies and d
.cntIemcn, with such as you my for y
me has been associated through life =,
such as you it will he associated "
the end; and if the world should say u
me in the end, che was Il good prin- o
+, a respectable publisher, and an s.
'nost editor" all my ambition will be c
tisiicd, Ladies and Gentlemen, :,
II TAX your attention no longer, APP "
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