Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — HORACE GREELEY. [ARTICLE]

HORACE GREELEY.

The Famous Editor Believed the North Should Have Paid for the Slaves. [Richmond (Va.) special.] The Rev. Dr. William Norwood, a prominent Episcopalian clergyman of this city, was the minister who performed the marriage ceremony on the occasion of the wedding of Horace Greeley, who was then an unknown young man, though giving promise of future prominence. Dr. Norwood was at the time rector of a church in North Carolina, and the future Mrs. Greeley was a school-teacher living, in the Same parish. When Mr. Greeley visited North Carolina rn his courting expeditions he and ©r. Norwood struck up an acquaintance which la-ted to the close of Greeley’s life. At the end of the war, when Greeley visited Richmond to go on Jefferson Davis’bail bond, he sought out Dr. Norwood, bis old friend, and discussedi the late war very earnestly with him, each trying to convince the other. The subject of this debate is made public today by Dr. Norwood. The point which caused their warmest expressions of differing opinion was Dr. Norwood’s assertion that the North was legally and morally bound to pay the South the full market value of the liberated Blaves. Greeley at first treated the proposition as monstrous, finally, however, saying: “I will think over the subject as you have presented it and see you before i leave Richmond, when I will let you know my conclusion. ” When Mr. Greeley returned later in the day, he said to his old friend; “Doctor, I have thought it over, and, after weighing the matter calmly, am convinced that the North ought to pay the South for the slaves.”