The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-05
Horace CreeIey's Monument.

The monumental bust, erected Mt Green
wood bv the printers TO the memory
of Horace GREELEY, was dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies yesterday IL
was proper that lis fellow craftsmen should
raise this mcmcnto over the grave Of the
dead journalist. Mr.. GREELEY started
as q printer. II was through the means of
types that he won his fame, and the trade
to which he was Appended not only ush-
cred him into the profession of journal
ism. but also left its mark on his char
acter. When the printers honor the
memory of HORACE GREELEY they
celebrate in the person of one of Their
craft the dignity of an art which has con-
fcTred great blessings on mankind aud
contributed some great men to history.
Nj. GREELEY once wrote that the Trib-
iu,c was the monument he had himself
erected TO his memory. and that with that
he would be satisfied. But men cannot
forcsee what will happen after they are
dead. The Institutions they found with
honor may be perverted to base uses, and
what they regard with pride and hope
may be 50 defaced by their successors as to
make II happy fortune for the dead that
death has taken them away. Ii is not
always possible for II man 10 entail his
ideas and his character, though he may
hand down 10 his postCrity his material
possessions.
Mr.. GREELEY suffered MORALLY from the
blow to his pride and ambition struck
by ms disastrous Presidential canvas.
lie felt that he had made n bnnder.
that ho was of ms gearing, that the
Journal in which his lie was centred
was seriously damaged, that he had
been betrayed by his friends and assist
ants. Doubtless, in his mental aud phys
ical depression. he exaggerated his mis-
fortune, and made difficulties which he
might have conquered seem almost
iusurmountablC. liut he was oyer
whclmed 10y the calamity, utterly dstrilst-
iu OF those who had couuselled him to
abandon the security of his editorial place
fJl the dangers and uncertainties Of an
experiment. and LA made him n subordi-
nate IN the paper he had ruled, ana who
gave c> idcnoc that they intended to keep
| him 80. IloRAcr GREELEYs death was the
saddc-t which has ever occurred among
/ our public men.
50 far as any imurCs. he left on il was
concerned, the Tribuic is now no monu-
nent 10 Mr. GREELEY. Not only has it
! passed under the control Of JAY GOULD a
person antagonistic 10 him in character
and motive hut it has also become the
scrvitOr of ideas and policies he despised.
1t is the organ Of Philsliuism in society.
the purveyOr of weakness aud diet
| tantcism in literature, the time ser
Yer in politics, and the lackcy of
wealth and conventonalty. II lags in
the rear of all movements that look
| TO the progress of men, sets up fee
| BILE little barriers to thought and gives
hospitality only to ideas which will not
ruflie the rcpOso of a sham responsibility. II
is used to augment the wealth ofJAYGoULD
the stock jobbcr, and to smooth the path
Of toadyism to the patronage of the rich
and the prosperous. The aim Of its pres
ent conductors has been to obliterate all
traces of Mr.. GREELEY from the Tribune
and they certainly have succeed
al. Unfortunately for the paper, they
have not been able to flnd any substitute
for bis brains. 4 few of the old writers
| remain about the establishment, but they
arc ike ghosts fiji ting around graveyard.
They have had to part with their intcl-
| lcctual life, to bury their convictions, aud
| 10 say what they don't mean, or only halt
what they think. They are M unhappy
| timOTOus company, lending such AID n,
they can to make tho Tribluc II harmless
sheet, which shall by no bold word offend
| the scnslblIIies Of people who fcar for The