Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

CHAPTER VII.--HORACE GREELEY.

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The Scotch-Irish Race in the United States--Mr. Greeley a Partly Reversed Specimen of it--His Birth and Boyhood--Learns to Read Books Upside Down--His Apprenticeship on a Newspaper-- The Town Encyclopedia--His Industry at his Trade--His First Experience of a Fugitive Slave Chase--His First Appearance in New York--The Work on the Polyglot Testament--Mr. Greeley as "The Ghost"--The First Cheap Daily Paper--The Firm of Greeley & Story--The New Yorker, the Jeffersonian and the Log Cabin--Mr. Greeley as Editor of the New Yorker--Beginning of The Tribune--Mr. Greeley's Theory of a Political Newspaper-- His Love for The Tribune--The First Week of that Paper--The Attack of the Sun and its Result--Mr. McElrath's Partnership --Mr. Greeley's Fourierism--"The Bloody Sixth"--The Cooper Libel Suits--Mr. Greeley in Congress--He Goes to Europe-- His Course in the Rebellion--His Ambition and Qualifications for Office--The Key-Note of his Character. 293