The life of Horace Greeley, editor of "The New-York tribune" : from his birth to the present time . If any one wished to know the fullmeaning of the word country^ as distinguished from the word town^he need do no more than ascend the hill on which Horace GreeleyBaw the light, and look around. Yet, the voice of the city is heard even there; the opinions ofthe city influence there; for, observe, in the very room in whichour hero was born, on a table which stands where, in other days, abed stood, we recognize, among the heap of newspapers, the wel]-known heading of the Weekly Tribune. Such was th
The life of Horace Greeley, editor of "The New-York tribune" : from his birth to the present time . If any one wished to know the fullmeaning of the word country^ as distinguished from the word town^he need do no more than ascend the hill on which Horace GreeleyBaw the light, and look around. Yet, the voice of the city is heard even there; the opinions ofthe city influence there; for, observe, in the very room in whichour hero was born, on a table which stands where, in other days, abed stood, we recognize, among the heap of newspapers, the wel]-known heading of the Weekly Tribune. Such was the character of the region in which Horace Greeleypassed the greater part of the first seven years of his life. Hisfathers neighbors were all hard-working farmers—men who work-ed their own farms—who were nearly equal in wealth, and to whomthe idea of social inequality, founded upon an inequality in possess-ions, did not exist, even as an idea. Wealth and want were alikeunknown. It was a community of plain people, who had derivedall their book-knowledge from the district school, and depended. HORACE LEARNS TO READ. 3 upon the village newspaper for their knowledge of the world with-out. There were no heretics among them. All the people eithercordially embraced or undoubtingly assented to the faith calledOrthodox, and all of them attended, more or less regularly, thechurches in which that faith was expounded. The first great peril of his existence escaped, the boy grew apace,and passed through the minor and ordinary dangers of infancy with*out having his equanimity seriously disturbed. He was a quietand peaceable child, reports his father, and,though far from robust,suffered little from actual sickness. To say that Horace Greeley, from the earliest months of his exist-ence, manifested signs of extraordinary intelligence, is only to repeatwhat every biographer asserts of his hero, and every mother of herchild. Yet, common-place as it is, the truth must be told. HoraceGreeley cbi
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