The New York herald., 1872-12-01
From the New York Times.)
MIR. Greeley,s Death.

evening, and there Is not man in any part
of the country who will not receive the news
with sorrow. Mr.. Greeley has made great
mark in American history, and his loss in
journalism IL one which cannot be replaced.
When people spoke OF the Tribune they meant Mr..
Greeley for he was the life and soul OF that journal
without him it is an empty shell. We present
elsewhere fair review of Mr.. Greeley's life. His
name and reputation no longer in any
danger. Full justice will be done to him. and il
he fell into errors-as who has not s-they will
not be remembered now. The incidents OF his
last sickness peculiarly distressing, and from
all that we can learn, his reverses during the late
campaign cannot alone account for them. Had
he been successful the probabilities are that
he would not have lived SO overtaxed was his
to have been his constitution The labors
and excitement OF the canvass were more than his
body or mind could bear. DR.. Hammond one OF
the most distinguished surgeons in the land told a
reporter, on Thursday, that he had heard "Mr.
Greeley became demented even before the elec-
tion." 1t would seem incredible that his
friends should have Kept this fact from the
public knowledge, If we did not know that they
concealed the equally important fact OF his
is only too characteristic of the utter
A Mr. GreeIeys rienas have is displayed T'in In
reference to HIM for months past. The
lot Of the surviving children Of the great
few weeks they have lost both their parents.
Sorrow has descended upon them as in q whirl.
wind. One Of them at least has beeh called upon
to pass through trials, in the course OF young lie,
such as are sometimes spared even those who sur
vive the allotted span Of three score years and
ten. To this faithful daughter, afflicted far beyond
her strength and years, the heart OF the American
people will 60 out in earnest sympathy; and they
her heavy sorrows she win fnd consolation in
those immortaa promises which alone can render
the burdens Of this world tolerable.
Although most OF US have been accustomed to
speak OF Mr. Greeley as an old man, vet If esti-
mate his life by the standard which often prevails
saying saying that Nj. e1 Greeey's e life Ss''nea came m
to premature close. II medical men are
right IN the opinion that smoking is Injurious
tends to shorten life, surely the absence OF those
habits in Mr.. Greeley should have tended to pro.
Mr. Greeley ire was mucs younger sSan many 1nay
men whose names are associated with
his own. in American political history, or
the whole or portion Of his career. Mr.. Seward
| lived to the age OF seventy-one and Mr.. Thurlow
vs H ne ss ssnS Henry
| Clay, to whom Mr.. Greeley was devotedly
attached, was seventy.nve. "old Ben. wade'
Mr.. Chase Is sixty-four and Mr. Sumner is only Mr.
| Greeley's age. The late James Gordon Bennett
was SeVe0ty-One Wneu nc uleu ana martin van
OF New York is Older than Mr.. Greeley
| by thirteen years. II We look to other
| countries, and turn to the men who have led
/ very active and hard-working lives. we find the
comparison equally striking M. Thiers is seventy
Lord s sd 10 the age Of
present Premier Of England, Mr.. Gladstone, ia
sixty-three, and his great opponent, Mr. Dis
raeli is sixty-seven six years Mr.. Greeleys enor
/ Palmerston lived to the age OF eighty ty.one,
and the present Chancellor OF the Exchequer,
i Robert Lowe, Is only Mr. Greeley's age, aud Is cx
pected to do great deal OF hard night work, tc
say nothing Of his incessant attention ia
ofiice duties during the day. Mr. Greeley, then
cannot properly be described as an old man
We cannot but think that his life might have
been spared many years but for the terrible
| strain upon his constitution which the recent cam
paign occasioned We fear we only express the
simple truth when we say that Mr.. Greeley died OF
.'beral repuDlicanism" There Is little reason fol
those who admired or loved him to respect the phan
| tom OF that m0nstr0us fraud which deceived Mr..
Greeley's hetter iudGmaat aAa TO which VIII al