Year: 1872

The whole land is saddened by the intelligence


OF the death Of this distinguished man. and as the


tidings make the circuit Of the GLOBE under every


sky there will be many to deplore death which to
human ken seems so untimely. Mr.. Greeley had actu-


ally no enemies. There were those who condemned


or criticised or smiled at his theories and his


works, but the man was the centre of no great and


settled dislike The almost unanimity with which


his lifelong political foes, forgetting the sharp


conflict he had persistently waged against them,


came to his support in the late election cam


paign is a singular illustration of the truth


of our remark. There was much in him to win


the affection and esteem Of others. His life was


pure He was thoroughly alive to every appeal


OF charity and every claim that suffering or out


ragged humanity might prefer. He always cham


pioned decency and good order. His pen and


tongue never purposely countenanced wrong. Be-


sides this, he was frank and outspoken in his


judgments, whether OF praise or condemnation.


No man failed to know precisely where


Horace Greeley stood, or failed to comprehend


the pitn and persistence OF whatever war.


fare he waged 1t is as an editor and


controversialist that Mr.. Greeley is best known to


the world. Ardent and impulsive, ne early took


some OF the positions ne then assumed he


has chung with undated ardor and steadi
ness. His judgment has been most at fault


on social questions. but during the last few years


his opinions on these topics have been more closely
In accordance with those that are ordinarily ac-
cepted But upon the questions of Temperance
Protection and Slavery he has never departed from
his hrst convictions, and these during long and
busy life he has contended for with a force and
vigor, fertility OF resource and plenitude Of
Illustration never surpassed. And IL was precisely


here that Mr. Greeley was chiefly conspicuous
He was master OF the English language. No one
ever commanded choicer or richer dctiOn. He
was eminently forcible and pithy. His arguments
were strong compact and earnest, and his pungent
paragraphs were ever pervaded by flavor OF
geniality that gave them raciness and zest
II was Mr.. Greeley's desire and aim to
create great newspaper in all respects
fully abreast OF the great currents of
thought and influence. The claims OF politics had
thwarted and shackled this purpose but when


after the fatal 9Th OF November, he returned
to his old chair in the Tribune office, he


promised 'to give wider and steadier regard


TO the progress of science, industry and the


useful arts than partisan journal could d6,n
and, Sustained by generous public, he
would do his best to make the Tribune q
power In the broader field 10 now contem-
pates.n Undoubtedly In the future Mr.. Greeley


would have given such direction to his journal as
would have made 1t power in the new field he


proposed to occupy But right here, at the close OF
his busy and contentious career, and at the dawn
Of what he promised should be new life, he is cut
down long before his usefulness had ended and
when years OF industry and activity spread out be-
| fore him. AZ the age OF sixty-one, with con-
| sutution utterly uncontaminated w Indulgence,