The Greeley Record
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Greeley Record: Showing the Opinions and Sentiments of Horace Greeley Why H. G. Became a Politician in his Childhood. "An eager, omniverous reader, especially of newspapers, from early childhood, I was an ardent politician when not half old enough to vote." - Recollections of a Busy Life. What H. G. Knows about Office-Seeking Politicians. "Incredible as it might seem, the fact is but too apparent, that there are men who aspire to be called Statesmen, whose love of country and regard for justice and truth are subordinate to their desire for political promotion and the leaves and fishes of office, and who do not scruple to put in jeopardy the Peace of the World, if they thereby promote their selfish and personal ends." - Tribune March 10, 1846. What H. G. Knows about Editorial Candidates. "It seems to us unwise in an Editor ever to allow his name to go before the public as a candidate for any party nomination. It is such an appalling consideration, that running for a prominent office puts you under obligation to so many thousand people, who feel that your gratitude can never equal their deserts, that we think an Editor, who is already indebted to so many thousands for taking his paper and inducing others to take it, should never voluntarily incur a further obligation. Life is too short for the discharge of such mountains of debt, and it were better to avoid contracting them." - Tribune, August 5, 1858. What H. G. Knows about greediness for Place and for Political Office. "It is indolence rather indolence than avarice; indolence of mind, more than of body - that makes the world so greedy in our day for place, and for political office." - Lecture, 1858. What H. G. Knew in 1854 about His continuous but unsuccessful aspirations for office since 1838, showing that in His opinion His running would have helped the ticket, and Helped His Paper. New York, Saturday Evening, Nov.11, 1854. Gov. Seward: The election is over, and its results sufficiently ascertained. It seems to me a fitting time to announce to you the dissolution of the political firm of Seward, Weed, and Greeley, by the withdrawal of the junior partner - said withdrawal to take effect on the morning after the first Tuesday in February next. And, as it may seem a great presumption in me to assume that any such firm exists, especially since the public was advised, rather more than a year ago, by an editorial rescript in The Evening Journal formally reading me out of the Whig party, that I was esteemed no longer either useful or ornamental in the concern, you will, I am sure, indulge me in some reminiscences which seem to befit the occasion. I was a poor young printer and Editor of a Literary Journal - a very active and bitter Whig in a small way, but not seeking to be known out of my own Ward Committee - when, after the great Political Revulsion of 1837, I was one day called to the City Hotel, where two strangers introduced themselves as Thurlow Weed and Lewis Benedict, of Albany. They told me that a cheap Campaign Paper of a peculiar stamp at Albany had been resolved on, and that I had been selected to edit it. The announcement might well be deemed flattering by one who had never even sought the notice of the great, and who was not known as a partisan writer; and I eagerly embraced their proposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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