The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-03-08

q grave, taclturn man of large frame
ana powerful intellect. When the World
fell into financial straits and threw re-
ligion overheard, about 1868, Mr..
opaulding took a place upon the edi-
torlal staff of the Times, under Henry
j.. Raymond, whose first assistant
then was; and there he showed himself
TO DE the boldest master of political in
vectlye ever known on the American
press To recruit his health he made
voyage to New Orleans, but on an eX-
curslon up the Mississippi his boat met
with ill-luck. and he was cast on de-
serted bank of land, where he almost
to death The first fkneW of
his return to New York was at very
late hour of one night, when, being on
duty in the editorial quarters of the
Times whistle up the pipe from
the publication Office, and message
that Mr.. Spaulding had uttered my
name, hurried me downstairs. l found
him PROSTATE on his back upon the
stone flooring, evidently struck by pa
ralysis, and entirely unconscious. In a
few moments he caught my voice, and
began stammering out Latin words,
disjonted quotations from Virgil,
Horace and his other favorite authors,
occasionally pressing his head with his
hands and breaking into sort of wild
laugh. 1t was after midnight by the
city 6all clock when | left his side,
hasteaed over to the old New York hos.
pital, then in Broadway, rang up the
young doctor in charge, who agreed to
take him in, returned to the Times with
strether, called down four compost.
tors, wlo lifted the PROSTATE man from
the foo, and accompanied them back
to the hspital. where l saw him placed
safely UPON a cot under a doctors
charge. / 1t was half an hour of the
time for sping to press when got back
to the edtor's sanctum. If the edi.
torial columns of next days Times were
short or otherwise imperfect, the reason
is now for he first time told. Though
Mr.. Spauldhg was over fifty years old
he had beenmarried but a few months
before, and in the morning | tele
graphed to hs young wife, then in one
of the township the Hudson River, who
appeared at the hospital in very few
hours. She ttnded him devotedly dur
ing the days IL which he could not be
removed from the cot, and then had
him taken to her fathers country home.
where he sool afterward bowed his
head in death In this tragical way
ended the life If the first editor of the
New York World, man of great soul
and honest purpose.
Even more tngical was the closing
scene, in June, 1869, of the life of Hen
ry j. Raymond himself, the distin-
guished founder and editor of the New
York Times. Hehad been at the Times
Office on the afternoon of the night in
which he was found dead, and inquired
for me; but | happened to be engaged
elsewhere in q work which he had put
upon me, writing a criticism of Wool
sey's reform Against Nature" then
just published. leaving word that he
desired to see me as soon as possible,
he left the Office in his usual CHEEKY
mood, took dinner at his house on Ninth
Street, and then went to political
meeting. But little is known of his
subsequent movements until after mid
night of that day (June 1S), when his
wife, who was drawn downstairs by
hearing noise, found him lying deat
st the door of his house. In the midst
Of great career il the press and il
politics, his life ended in tragedy
never yet cleared up. In the very early
years of my manhood, Mr.. Raymond
had given me my first opportunity OF
the press by inviting me to his paper
and during the ten years that preceded
included, and followed the great wa
for abolition Cor from 1859 to 1869
when l was his daily associate, HI
proved himself to be the most amiablt
of men, as he was one of the most &C
complished editors.
But set out to tell, with the fewes
words, the tragedies of score of New
York editors of my acquaintance.
The tragedy of the death in mad
house of Horace Greeley, the founde
and editor of the New York Tribune
who has not been shocked by the stor,
of it?
The tragedy of the death of the ven
cradle poet, William Cullen Bryant
editor OF the Evening Post, who fell be
fore my eyes under a sunstroke in tn
Central Park five years ago, is familiar
to the reader.
How suddenly and Unexpectedly, il
the summer of last year, death strucl
my associate, William. 0. Bartlett, o
the Sun, man of great mind and grea
heart.
The tragedy of the death last Sep
TENDER of the jovial Hugh j. Hastings
the editor of the Commercial AdvertiSer
of this city,was caused through q shocl
which he got when his carriage cam
in collision with an express wagon.
How suddenly and grievously in De
cember last fell William 7. Clarke
editor of the New York Star, the goo
and talented man, who had so Otter
thought it his duty to assail me for tn
deeds that did under the highest sens
of duty.
The managing editor of the Ney
York Herald during nearly the Who'll
of the life of the elder Bennett was Nj
Hudson, who came to tragical end
the Massachusetts town of Concord,
few years ago, through being crushe
by railway train.
Time fails me to tell of the Jesse
lights of the Herald, Ned Sey
mour and Mills of the Times, Adams {
the Sun, and how many others. Whs
line of tragedies of the sanctum is Ell
rolled before my eyes!-tragedies whic
have shocked my spirit every yea
since first | stood, as STRIPPING, With
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