The life of Horace Greeley, editor of "The New-York tribune" : from his birth to the present time . ll fight her battle neither withlead nor steel—much less with gold. Their trust is in the might of Opinion—in the resistless power of Truth where Discussion is untrammeled and Com-mercial Intercourse constant—in the growing Humanity of our age—in thodeepening sense of Common Brotherhood—in the swelling hiss of Christen-dom and the just benignity of God. In the earnest faith that these must sooneradicate a wrong so gigantic and so palpable as Christian Slavery, they se-renely await the auspicious


The life of Horace Greeley, editor of "The New-York tribune" : from his birth to the present time . ll fight her battle neither withlead nor steel—much less with gold. Their trust is in the might of Opinion—in the resistless power of Truth where Discussion is untrammeled and Com-mercial Intercourse constant—in the growing Humanity of our age—in thodeepening sense of Common Brotherhood—in the swelling hiss of Christen-dom and the just benignity of God. In the earnest faith that these must sooneradicate a wrong so gigantic and so palpable as Christian Slavery, they se-renely await the auspicious hour which must surely come. • Requesting you, Mr. , not to suppress my name in case you see fit to reply to this, and to be assured that I write no letter that I am ashamedof, I remain, Yours, so-so, * Horace Greeley. And here, ciosing the last volume of the Tribune, the reader isinvited to a survey of the place whence it was issued, to glance atthe routine of the daily press, to witness the scene in which ourhero has labored so long. The Tribune building remains to be [MR. GREELEY AND MR. DANA IN THE EDITORIAL ROOMS. 1 CHAPTER XXVI. DAY AND NIGHT IN THE TRIBUNE OFFICE. Che streets before daybreak—Waking the newsboys—Morning scene in the press-room—The Compositors room—The four Phalanxes—The Tribune Directory—A lull inthe Tribune office—A glance at the paper—The advertisements—Telegraphic mar-vels—Marine Intelligence—New Publications—Letters from the people—Editorialarticles—The editorial Rooms—The Sanctum Sanctorum—Solon Robinson—Bay-ard Taylor—William Henry Fry—George Ripley—Charles A. Dana—F. J. Ottarson—George M. Snow—Enter Horace Greeley—His Preliminary botheration—Thecomposing-room in the evening—The editors at work—Mr. Greeleys manner ofwriting—Midnight—Three oclock in Iho morning—The carriers. We are in the streets, walking from tlie regions where money isspent towards those narrow an


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