New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-11

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and only instantaneous pan'kHing strengthen
bers of the opposite parties toward each other ard
there wa even bitterness and dlscods between mem.
bes OF the same party Mr Geey Was f os f,e as
easy and careless style OF costume, aud he sometimes
carried IL 10 almost the verge OF eccentrcity. 10
Courier ard Enquirer assailed him for his style Of
dress saying that It was not proper or rssPecta6e
paper especially, should dress In that way. General
Webb had recently beer parioned out Of states
81 lighting m'' duel " lie had been psrioned by
Governor seward. Mr.. Greeley raorted "our dress
Webb would have worn II seward had not pardoned
him. Naughter)
ALWAYS A THOROUGH AMERICAN.
There was one quality that always conspicuous
in Horace Greeley-and he let loose from t-and
that was his Americantsm. / cannot recall an IN
tellectua public man Of eminence In this
country who was so unmXed and so unqualified an
American as he. There was no foreign element In his
mind no foreign element in his thinking; trucking
20 any foreign idea and not snobbi'h inspiration IN
all his life or action; And this he maintained 70 inc
ton to which Mr.. Depew has alluded, and when
brought his long and aborloas Life ehr 70 van an
letting down at any time. And when heSr
hat IS 80 Teey Launched against the memory
Horace Greeley, and which depoes, either %i I'm SUI
Se or tc Win d NJ hs poSe spSers S into the paths d
political aspiration and made him dream that he could
sit in the seat of George Washlngon-when ~ near near
that criticism hear 1t without sympathy ana WITHOUT
respect. (Applanse - 8. .oo v,,o, oD,h,t,o, IN N.
minds Of intellectual men, gifted with power BY nature
trained for public duties by practices ana By iala ~,
evil that we suffer from the contrary, Is that there
Is too little of such ambition too little Of that hgl!
eRRard Which the People have to give TOO little Of that
readiness TO submit oneself to the most grave and ser
Gus duties which the people can impose. Nppiause'
ROSWELL G. HORR'S WORDS
The chairman next introduced Roswell G. Horr,
Of Michigan. who had assigned to him as a text
Horace Greecy's famous saying, Go West young
MANI Mr.. McElroy said, in presenting MI.
Horn to the audience:
There is probably no saying outside OF oot-
ONION which is better known than Mr.. Greeleys
Go West, young man. 1t is the subject that has
been assigned this evening to n distinguished he'
nublcan who is well able to handle it. Born in
Vermont, he took Mr.. Greeley's advice "eho !"
live in Michigan. was sent to Congress from Mich
igan, and every stump nearly In the Union, !"
season and out of season, he has upheld the Ko-
publican principles l have the great pleasure VI
introducing to YOU the Hon. Roswell u. Horn
Mr. Chairman: II you Will take strip running
around the world bounded the south by tile LON
degree OF north latitude and on the north Dy to oo,
degree of north latitude, You VIII ma thal Vi' oe.
of the worlds surface which comprises not 10 eAceoa
one-quarter OF its area, really covers the hoH'o VI
nearly all the great human achievements Oh the pa''
centuries Within this narrow belt will be found tne
Ida ~ tbe human race. 1t covers the Garden OF
pden Jerusalem smyrna and the great Valley OF tho
Nile. II not only embraces all there was OF ahciehs
Epypt but within these lines are Persia' caru'as,
Greece the Roman Empire, France, spain, Germany,
the bulk of the Russian Empire, Great Britain, all VI
the United states of America, also Japan and tho
Chinese Empire
7, Won will stand ON the banks Of the Euphrates,
which is given as one OF the boundary lines Oh Eueu
and Is somewhere the spot where the human ''o
e. o,d 70 have gotten its first start in this world ana
oo, toward the East you will find an unGroken area
NJ iand Stretching out over 5000 miles, "iue "to
distance toward the West from Jerusalem 10 tic az
antIc Ocean Is hardly 0ne-haf that NUMBER Vi h'''
The first emlgrant mentioned in the written history
n, the human family is said to have left the country
~ h,a h,r+h OF an early day. His name was Cain, and
hie record tells us that he moved East, not "es1'
whether he went simply in search OF wife or whetnes
no had learned that there no eXtad!uon treaty
between Eden and the land OF Nod Is not clearly e'
forth but it is distinctly stated that he travelled |"
The east of Eden. His example OF moving III 'n'
wrong direction however does not seem 10 nave oooA
generally followed.
1,ere must have BEEN even at that early day, sons
Horace Greeley familiar with the Aryan language WHO
went nm and down the highways and byways a4ons .'
banks of the Euphrates shouting to the passeISoy,
&C. ives, vounc man. We know this because We
soon find cities and empires sprnging up IN INC vs.
First came the long line Of Egyptian rulers roa
Rameses 10 NebuChadnezEar and with them .e -
who founded Babylon and built the Pyrahius. @
| were men who had Just moved West. Neo"' , -
must have been Western man, for you ie'hein'cr ~
~ - n r,nch for seven years Of his reign Then
followed Carthage, the home of Hanhoai' anu $50
| and the Roman Empire. You see Romnius anu hen'u
were simply two young men moving "ese. s,a .
founded an empire, laid out city ana no uouos -.
| thriving Western business In the SAFE Vi ooin0' ~.
Then followed the ancient GaulS, INC fi"iin'
Teutons and last Of all Great Britain, the iur'no9s
west of them ALL made up Of the people RON inc r.S'
who were striving TO get nearer the setuhg sun o
a time the Atlantic Ocean seemed TO place al ihP"S
sable barrier In the way Of this human Impulse 10 se'
further West. .
Tt,s now almost 400 years since Columbus crossed
that ocean and again made II possible for the nunA
family to obey what had now become eongenl'si w.
an inherited desire 10 go West
There can be little doubt that Columbus, too. -
ceived his arst inspiration from Horace Greeley
n, the Middle Ages who governed by the Impulse tAs
had been accommodating through the centuries ana per
haps having been taught lesson from the disaScrs "
the Crusaders who you know had always been attempt
ing to move East stood in the streets Of Genos ana
travelled up and down the valleys of spain shouting
with tbs religious fervor Of those days, go West
young man. Columbus simply went West, and In DO
ing so discovered the New World, the Western Hem-
snhere Thus again Il made possible for the i've
active portion OF the human family 10 move on N tho
direction that had always blessed the race What We
nov call tho East then the West. The New
England and Middle states were all settled by
people who were going West.
The Pilgrim Fathers, the Dutch who took possession
a, Navy Amsterdam where we are tonight the Quakcrs