Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1872 — Death of Horace Greeley. [ARTICLE]

Death of Horace Greeley.

At ft Christian statesman Colfax wears the belt.— Rochest.r Union Spy. ' 11l other words, Mr. Colfax isa bully Christian — Plymouth Republican. Although entree, truthful. Both editors of the Rensselaer Union have got the epizootic very bad. Rtnaniflon Journal. « It is said long eared animals J never have that malady; the Journal man is sale from attack. A new article of feminine adornment is a solid metal ring, opening on hinges, to be worn as u, girdle.— Elkhart Obtenar. Yes, them’s the kind of things our sheriff has on exhibition in his office. Used oh wrists and ankles. The President’s Message was delivered to Congress last Monday. — Like its predecessors from the same source, it is terse, graphic con--cise, plain, clear an l to the point, •so that any who read it can at a glance comprehend the -meaning.: — We ■shall try and give the full text in our next issue and, therefore, shall not mutilate it by attempting to give a condensed outline of the subjects treatfed in it.

The nineteenth annual meeting of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association will be held in Logan sport December 31, 1872, ami-January .1, 2 and 3, 1873. Mr. S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, is to open the discussion upon the proposition “When and where shall we hold county Institutes, looking to questions of economy, ability and attendance.” And Mr. J. 11. Snoddy, of Remington, will open discussion upon the subject of “Incentives.” A Remington gentleman writes to us» as follows: ~ “Go for” our botch printer, DeForest; he don’t know enough to eat ling.— Count the typographical and grammatical errors iii a single issue, and tell him of them. We all set him down as a goose, almost wholly unac? quainted with his business. Can. not spend time to count those errors; life is too precious, too short. But we do most earnestly \Hsh that some man could be induced to take charge PI the , Journal who has ability to make it a •respectable paper. It is now not. only a disgrace to the profession but a gross misrepresentation of the intelligence and enterprise of the people who support it with their patronage.

It would seem that Mr. Charles Sumner was possessed of a devouring hatred of the American people, or, more particularly, those who served in the army for the suppression of the rebellion, their sympathizers and friends. The telegraph reports that last Monday he made himself offensively conspicuous by introducing a resolution in the United States Senate to strike the names of the battles in which regiments participated in the late war From regimental colors, and lists of battles in which each regiment participated from the army register. It is said the proposition was received with universal surprise, and strong marks of disapprobation were manifested by members Of both political parties. It would have been as honorable and as shining an evidence of superior statesmanship to have offered a resolution defacing every tablet «on every tombstone in the land; and the soulless wretch, who would make* a proposition of this kind to Con-; grass—though a ghoul—would be j as deserving of the respect of de- j cent, patriotic people as the fallen j Lucifer of Massachusetts.

Mr. Horace Greeley died la t st Friday evening, ten minutes before seven o’clock. \ His death was caused from nervous prostration, brought on by sorrow \ over the Recent death of Mrs Greeley added to the excitement and disappointment of the political campaign just closed, producing acute insanity, rapidly followed by death. He died in a private lunatic asylum. Mr- Greeley was horn in Amherst New Hampshire, February 3d, 1-811, and was the third of a family of coven children. He was educated in the district schools of the time, commencing to attend them when bnt three ycarß of age. At the age <ef fifteen he was apprenticed by himself to Amos Bliss, proprietor of the Northern Spectator, at East , Poultuey, Vermont, for forty dollars a year and board. Here he; learned the art of setting type.! Four years afterwards, in June 1 1830, at the age of nineteen, he left East Poultuey to seek his for-) tune in the worldj tramping about.. tor a year, he arrived in New York pn the 18th day of and obtained employment in the

printing offices of that city as a journeyman for fourteen months. ! January Ist, 1833 the firm of Greeley & Story commenced pub.ishiug the Morning Pool, the first penny ' daily newspaper tn New York. In 1834, the firm oJT Greeley «fc Co. Started the AW Yorker with Mi. Greeley as editor-in-chief. This paper lived seven years. ln ! 1840, Mr. Greeley became conspicuous as a political editor. On the 2nd day of May of that year, the' Log Cabin appeared in advocacy of j Harrison and Tyler. It was an nn mense success and Horace Greeley’s reputation was established over the United States. Oil the 10 th day of April 1841, the Tribunt made j its appearance*-ami absorbed the AW Yorker and Log Colin. In 1848 Mr. Greeley was elected to a seat in Congress made vacant by the death of a member. He was elected for one session of three months only. Mr. Greeley was a man of great influence with the generation which preceded the one ill at. caine in.iuuitrol of national affairs, at the break-, ing out of the rebellion, but his political course since 1860 has i grieved arid estranged thousands who had been educated to regard him as infallible on all questions pertaining to statesmanship.