The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-05-16
The Liberal Republican Candidates.

We presume that every one Will oeslIe lhAoi-
nation concerning the early life and history OF
the two men nominated for the highest offices
in the gift of the American people, and who
are Just now occupying so large share OF pub
lie attention. One remarkable feature of the
Cincinnati nomination is that both candidates
earned their reputation in journalistic life, and
hence the profession feels commendable pride
in placing before the public every incident
connected with their onward march to fame
and greatness. We append sketches of Horace
Greeley and Gratz Brown, as detailed by one OF
our exchanges:
HORACE GREELEY, OF NEW YORK.
Horace Greeley, who is probably tho best
known individual in America, was born on the
3rd of February, 1871, iii Amherst, N. d., ana an.
Is consequently sixty -one years OF age. bis
descent is Scotch Irish, and his ancestors were
members of that sturdy band who made famous
the siege of Londonderry.
9 The poverty of his fathers family reu9ceo
him at very early age, to the necessity OF Ia
bor;ng at the most arduous toll for the support
of his family. At eleven years of age ne per-
formed Journey of one hundred and twenty
five miles on foot with all his worldly gear in
small bundle thrown over his shoulder. Even
et this ACE he hired himself to the neighborlng
farmers to cut wood, clear up "new grounds,
5 end serve otherwise in the humble capacity OF
hired laborer. ,oo,
oped itself. He enjoyed the most meagre pos
sible opportunities for studying under lnstcue
.tors hut such as were afforded him were seized
with ayidity. At home, also, he pushed and
diversified his slender acquisitions by reading
by a fire of pine knots all the books he could
srather up in the neighborhood. In this way
5esoon becama,a kind of oracle among those
of his own age, and an authority OF no nttle
snote with the simple minded people OF the
neiehborhood. 1t would appear that he was no
dulIard in divining his destiny, as it appears
that he discovered fixed intention to become
8 printer before he reached his teens, and de-
voured any chance newspaper with sometnlng
of the ferocity with which DR.. Johnson Is SAID
to have swallowed books. After various vlcls-
situdes and alterations Of fortune from had TO
worse. and hard to harder, he finally realized
the art of settiug type, and finally started to
New York. He reached that city in his twen-
tieth wear with ten dollars in his pocket For
many weary days the awkward looking country
boy sought employment in vain: His advent
in New York is strikingly similar, in Its CIR,
cumstances of discouragement poverty ana
contempt to Dr. Franklin's first visit to Phlia-
delphia and the parallel continues as to the
objects which the two adventures proposed 10
themselves, their persistence IN effort, and the
prompt success which awaited them as soon as
their supercilious and.doubting employers gave
them an opportunity to display their capacity.
Horace engaged in this department of newpa-
per-making but q short time before he ven
tured. like Benjamin Franklin, to try the dex-
terity of his pen Will it be believed that one
of the first sheets to which he contributed was
a sporting paper, then as now, called the SPIRIT
of the Times :? Yet such is the fact, and while
Dlaying that gay role he also land very natu-
raliy) became q frequent haditue of theatres.
The latter, however, was matter OF business
as well as pleasure.
In 1888 MIR. Greeley became one of the orl-
ginators of the Morning Post, the first daily
paper ever published in the City OF New fork.
It is difficult to imagine the condition OF things
before the world realized the advantages of that
great moral and historical luminary, the daily
Dress. which now emits its light every morning
as fitting accompaniment of the sun as ne
rises upon the universe 1t has become almost
ne INDISPENSABLE as the means of illuminating
onr dwellings. But, sad to say, the Morning
Post this avant courier of the glorious array OF
dailies. soon ceased to exist, the public, it ap-
pears, not beiRg prepared torso venturous an
innovation. ~,
Greeley's next venture, made its appearance IN
1894 In this journal we find him engaged in
discussions which furnish extraordinary ex-
amples Of the consistency Of his convictions
and principles, for we find them paraphrased
in to.day's TJiSune. Almost with the first ap-
pearance of the NeW Yorker he began his at
tacks upon capital punishment; the colonial
ton of the negroes the evils of slavery; tenn
uerance reform, and protection to American
industry. ,...,
staff the talented and brilliant Henry j. hay
rnond, subsequently so widely known as the
same time edited the Jefersoaian and the Daily
WHO. In the famous Harrison campaign OF
1s4O. he made his best hit by publishing
sheet which rejoiced in the euphonious name
of the Log Cabin, and it is unnecessary to say
that he placed it on the side of Harrison and
the Wings.
tbronph whose columns he has made himself
recognized as the first journalist of America, II
not the world. Since then his history has
been that of the Tribune, and the latter mas
been identified with the revolutions of Amerl-
can politics. He has never wavered IN has ad-
herence to the principles he proposed tor him-
self or Others Commencing Wing, ne mas
stood firmly with that party through all Its
changes down to the present time. r Henry, en-
Clay was his especial favorite-his model OF a
Salesman. & Another distinguished son Of Ken,
tueky. John j. Crittenden, was the OBJECT OF
Ills warmest admiration. His opposition to
slavery I was not of very earnest character un-
Al tbe annexation of Texas, from which time
onward on var he never abated bis antipathly: and
earnest hostility until it was forever abolished.
His efforts in the cause of African freedom most
signally exceeded in persistence, zeal and sue
cess those of any other man in America. ;,
While member of Congress, being elected
in 1S4s, he signalized himself rather by his
zeal as working member in behalf OF his
fayorite measures than az an orator or deoater'