Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — HORACE GREELEY. [ARTICLE]

HORACE GREELEY.

The Famous Editor Believed the North Should Have Paid lor 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 on his courting expeditions he and Dr. Norwood struck up an acquaintance which lasted 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, his old friend, and discussed 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 slaves. 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 bis 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.” Ebenezer —“And are you sure, Sarah, you don’t love me? I have been persistent, I know, but I wanted your love. Don’t you think you’ll miss me?” Sarah —“I don’t know. I see so much of you that I don’t know whether I’d miss you or not. Give me a fair trial, and stay away a month, won’t you?” Ebenezer (bitterly) —“A month! Might as well call it a year!” Sarah—- “ Well, let’s call.it a year, then.” “ Not exactly the square thing—The “cartwheel” silver dollar. Always attending to the panes of others —A glazier. ■