The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-06

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certain Hiram Fuller, afterward a bla-
tant but not dangerous Seeessionist in
London. He imagined his little sheet
to be the most important journal in the
city, and was in the habit Of asking his
acquuitanees Have you read the
Mirror today" At an editorial din
ner, he addressed this question to Mr..
Greeley, in my presence. The latter,
with an indeseribable drawl, utmost a
whine, replied: :" Why mol never
buy the 1li,Tor I'm afraid Of exhaust
ing the edition r
We, who know best-perhaps who
only lnow-how lofty, consistent and
utterly rlnselfsh were Mr.. Greeley's as
pirations with regard to the Tribune,
know also. from innumerable incidents
of our long intercourse with him, how
many sound, noble and steadfast traits
of his character have escaped public
observation. 1t is, perhaps, question
Of taste how much of this may now be
related yet it seems to me that since
Death, 10y paralizing Islander and false
hood, has set his life in clearer proper
tions before the world, the conceptions.
might also, with propriety, be cleared
away There are many, in addition to
his associates in the TEibttne-especial-
" many noble, earnest-minded women,
whose purer impulses few men were
better qualified to honor than he
whose "reminiscences of his ways and
and words would add to the fidelity of
historical portrait.
Let ne say, once far all-and am
almost ashamed to mention subject
so triyial-that, whatever might have
been his carelessness in regard to GER
! tain conyentionalities of society, Horace
Greeley was by nature a gentleman.
He lacked the peculiar talent for tying
q cravat elegantly he sometimes drew
up his trowsers to prevent them from
being covered with mud he preferred
a soft-felt hat to the hideous fashiona-
bic stoye-pipe but, when he entered
un assembly of ladies and gentlemen,
the best, the most intelligent, the most
refined, came to him by natural at
traction Never in all his life was he
guilty Of an act SO boorish and vulgar
as that of those who misrepresented his
dress and manners during the recent
campaign.
In his last letter to me, written on
the 18th OF August, 1872, he says 81
feel sure that, while my election would
pacify the country as it should be
paeifed, my nomination and canvass,
even though unsuccessful, tends to the
same end. D."
Herein he expressed the simple basis
OF his ambition. Those who accuse
him Of having bailed jeff Davis solely
with view to this latter candidacy
have had their conception so confused
by the study of the typical American
politician that they are quite incapable
of comprehending an action inspired by
humane and Christian motives. con-
TESS, viewing the campaign at this dis
lance, separated from the temporary
excitemcuts to which we must char1ta-
bly, allow their full influence, nothing
in my own experience of our politics
has so shocked me as the swift forgetful-
ness of all Mr. Greeley's former SER
vices, the infamous attempts to defile
his past aspirations, the conscienceless
efforts to misrepresent him to the Amer
lean people, which have characterized
his political opponents. The silence o
Islander IN the presence of death is not
enough to atone for such injuries. Ii
our people appreciate Horace Greeley's
character, honor his memory, are CRATE
fvl for his honest services to them. they
can only prove it by learning to combat
opinions, without dragging those who
hold them through the mire of vulgar
dispersion. Honor TO the dead is not
equivalent to justice to the living. II
Horace Greeley yearned, with all the
force of his nature, for any one thing, il
was for the simplest recognition of hi.
honest aims. He never mistoOk the
popular curiosity for fame he never
craved that fame which is n burden tc
its possessor but during forty tireless
sleepless years of labor his proud
sensitive soul sought everywhere 70,
J the signs that his work was understood
/, though never asking, never betraying it
yeuning.
If my proposition for collection o
1 personal "reminiscences from those win,
knew him best should not seem appro
l pirate, allow me, at least, to add m,
slight testimony to the virtues, tn
q strength, and the consistency of charae
r 4er of our revered Friend. have give
only few incidents out of the memo
ries to conflict with the impression Q
{ of his sweet and noble humanity whic
. have here endeavored to reproduce.