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Title: The life of Horace Greeley, editor of "The New-York tribune" : from his birth to the present time
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Parton, James, 1822-1891
Subjects: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 Journalists Politicians
Publisher: Boston : J.R. Osgood and Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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proved Aifection, and when sooneror later the hour of mortal agony shall come, let my last gaze be fixed on eyesthat will not forget me when I am gone, and let my ashes repose in that con-genial soil which, however I may there be esteemed or hated, is still My owngreen land forever ! Neptune was more gracious to the voyager on his homeward thanhe had been on his outward passage. The skies were clearer, the•winds more favorable and gentler. A few days, not intolerably dis-agreeable, landed him on the shores of Manhattan. The ship reachedthe wharf about six oclock in the morning, cheating the expectantmorning papers of their foreign news, which the editor of the Tri-bune had already made up for publication on board the steamer.However, he had no sooner got on shore than he rushed away tothe office, bent on getting out an extra in advance of all contempo-raries. The compositors were all abs-^.nt, of course; but boys wereforthwith dispatched to summon them from bed and breakfast. Mean-
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RECENTLY. 341 /rLile, tiie impetuous Editor-in-Oliief proceeded with Ms own Tiaruhto set the matter in type, and continued to assist till tlie form waaready to be lowered away to the press-room in the basement. Inan hour or two the streets resounded with the cry, Extra Try-bune; yival of the BaUic. Then^ but not till then, Horace Gree-ley might have been seen in a corner of an omnibus, going slowlyip town, towards his residence in Nineteenth street. CHAPTER XXV. RECENTLY. O Deliverance from Party—A Private Platform—Last Interview with Henry Clay—HoraceGreeley a Farmer—He irrigates and drains—His Advice to a Young Man—TheDaily Times—A costly Mistake—The Isms of the Tribune—The Tribune g«»t3Glory—The Tribune in Parliament—Proposed Nomination for Governor—His Life•written—A Judges Daughter for Sale. DuEiNG the first eight or nine volumes of the Tribune, the historyof that newspaper and the life of Horace Greeley were one and thesame thing. But the time has p

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