The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-17
Horace Greeley.

Among the thousands of items going
the rounds of the press in reference to
Mr.. Greeley, we select the following as
coming from a source far more worthy
OF consideration than the usual chat Of
irresponsible newspaper correspondents:
Mr.. Dana had better oppOrtunjties of
knowing Mr. Greeley than almost anv
other man, and the sagaeious and ali
oOserVant assistant doubtless empIoved
nuch oil MS time in trying to unravel
the strange enigma of the Greeley brain
ana purposes. It must also be Temem-
bered that Mr.. Dana was the originator
of the Greeley nomination for the Presi-
dency, and was the most able and visi-
liant editor connected with that phase Of
Republican enterprise and ambition.
Mr. Dana denies that Mr.. Greeley was
a philanthropist, and asserts that Mr..
Greeley always hOOted the idea of be-
ing one. The basis of all Mr.. Greelev's
philanthrophy was, according to Mr..
Dana, the promotion of the Tribune and
the concentration of free labor against
slave labor.
He says Mr.. Greeley was an abolition
list, not because he liked the nOgrO, for
he disliked him, but that he felt that
men like himself-self-made could
never reach position as long as the So
called aristocracy of the South controlled
public affairs. In other words, Mr..
Greeley was determined to break down
slavery ut all cost, in order to prepou-
derate the North in the councils and
benefits of the Union.
Mr.. Dana says Mr.. Greeley was n
Fourierite, Brisbanite, and q Graham
breadite, but as he had no mental ten
acity to tenets, he gave them up after
they had sufficiently amused him.
The Tribune soon gained the reputa-
tiop of being the origin of every sort Of
ism and fanatic hobby.
Farther on Mr.. Dana says that ~
moral unsteadiness diminished his
(Greeley's) power. The miseries of his
shildhood had left their trace in n quer-
Ulous, lamentable, hopeless tone of feel
ing, into which he fell upon any little
misfortune or disappointment, and as
he grew older he began to lack hope"
This, then, is the secret of his death,
for he who blanched at the route OF Bull
Run, was overwhelmed by that greater
route which came to him personally in
I November last.
/ Mr.. Dana, who was in the Tribune Of
/ flee at the time, says that Mr.. Greeley
abstained from taking any part in the
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the fight to be waged by other writer's
in the columns of the Tribune. He also
says that Mr.. Greeley was an advocate
of the Temperance cause, not for hope
of curing intempeTance or reclaiming
drunkards, whom he hated personally,
but because he saw in the movement
political hygiene, calculated to promote
the wealth and happiness of the COM
munity, "and the views,n according to
Mr.. Dana, "were similar in respect Of
every reform and every philanthropic
cause which he advOcatel.n
Mr.. Dana confirms the general belief
in Mr.. Greeley's hatred of Mr.. Lincoln.
and asserts farther that Mr. Lincoln
knew it, and always looked upon Mr..
Greeley as 'fOe.n
That Mr.. Greeley was generous to his
friends Mr.. Dana declares with empha-
sis and by citation of Illustrations He
would have died a rich man had he been
a less Open-handed one.
The article concludes with 4 striking
/ parallel between the founders of three
| great newspapers in the country, Ben
nett, Raymond and Greeley, placing Mr..
| Greeley at the head of the list rs a Wig
orOus writer of political newspaper
leaders. And singular enough, the
deaths of these three men We're accom-
panied by strange circumstances Of
/ pathos.
Mr.. Bennett died without a relative
by kindred side, comparatively deserted
in his extremity; Mr. Raymond, after
midnight, was found dead in his hall
way, and Mr.. Greeley, sadder than all,
went to his final account from the desc
lateness Of private mad-house.-N y
Arglts.