The Irish standard., 1897-10-23
FOUNDER0FTHE NEW YORK SUN
A True Friend of Ireland and an
Enemy of Britain.
LAST OF WAR JOURNALISTS
A Man of Remarkable Personality
in Newspaperdom.

Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun. died last Sunday afternoon
at his home in Glen Cove, Long Island.
or crrhoss of the liver, at the age OF
IS years. He was the last OF the great
Journalists of the civil war, his con-
tcmporaries. James Gordon Bennett,
Henry Raymond and Horace Greeley
having passed away many years before
him. Being the friend of ireland on
all occasions he deserves Il biography
In these columns. 'Fhe following
sketch has been written by one who
knew him we'll:
Charles Anderson Dana was born
at llinselale, ~ H., Aug. 8, 1919.
HIS boyhood was spent in Buff
falo, N. ", where he worked in
store until he was eighteen years old.
He prepared himself for college, enter
Ing Harvard in 1899 hut after two
years, Il serious trouble with his eye
sight compelled him to leave. He was
afterwards given his bachelors and
masters degree by that institution.
In 1912 he became a member of the
Brook Farm Association for Agricul-
ture and Education, being associated
with George and Sophia Ripley George
William Curtis. Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Theodore Parker, William Henry
Claiming, John Sullivan Dwight, Mar.
gilret Fuller and other philosophers
more or less directly concerned in the
remarkable attempt to realize at Rox-
bury high ideal of social and intel
lcctual life. His earliest newspaper
experience was gained in the man.
agcmcm of the Harbingcr. which was
devoted to social reforms and general
literature. After about two years of
editorial work on Eizur Wright's Bos-
ton Chonotypc. u daily newspaper, Mr.,
Dana Joined the staff of the New York
Tribune In lSi7. The next year ho
sEent eight months in Europe. On
returning he became ono OF the pro-
prictors and the managing editor of
the Tribune, n post Which he held
until April /, 1862 The paper was
at that time the leading organ OF the
nti-savery movement. The great
struggle OF Greeley and Dana was not
10 much to overthrow slavery as
against the further spread Of the In
stitution over unoccupicd territory and
the acquisition of slavc-holding coun-
tries outside Of the Union. In 1861
Mr.. Dana went to Albany to advance
the cause of Mr.. Greeley as u candi-
date for the United States senate, and
nearly succeeded in nominating him.
Mr.. Dana resigned after fifteen years.
service on the Tribune, because OF a
disagreement with Mr.. Greeley in re-
gard to tho proper conduct of mill
tary operations in the South. He was
at once employed by Secretary Stanton
In special work OF Importance for
the war department. and in 1863 was
appointed assistant secretary OF war,
which office he held until after the
surrender Of Lee. lie was brought
into close personal relations with Mr..
Stanton and Mr.. Lincoln. At the time
when Gen. Grants character and prob
titles, Mr. Dana's confidence in Grants
military ability probably did much
to defeat the powerful effort then
making to break down the rising conf
mandcr. Mr.. Dana was in the saddle
at the front much of tho time during
tho campaigns of Northern Mississippi
and Vicksburg, the rescue of Chatta-
nooga and the marches and battle OF
Virginia in 1864 and 1866 For a
short time after the war he was editor
of the Chicago Republican. Returning
to New York, he organized tho Sum
stock company in 1867. The first num-
l,er of the Sun appeared Jan. 27, 1868,
and from that time to within few
days of his death MIR. Dana was solely
responsible for It's conduct His criti-
cisms Of civil maladmonistration during
Gen. Grants terms as president led to
notable attempt on the part of that
administration in July, 1873, to take
him from New York on charge OF
libel to he tried without jury in a
Washington police court Application
was made to the United States district
court in New York for warrant Of
removal, but In a memorable decision
Judge Batchford, afterwards a Justice
OF the supreme court Of the United
states, refused the warrant holding the
proposed form of trial to be uncon-
.titpti0nal. Mr.. Dana; first book was
a volume cf stories translated from the
Gelr;an, entitled "1'he Black Art" In