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ductors of political journals in his day. A high moral purpose was at the bottom of every form of political and social activity to which he lent his support; and few men, especially such a strong partisan, have ever enjoyed in a higher degree than himself the respect and confidence of his political opponents.
"The Weekly Tribune has always been of even greater importance than the daily edition. From the first its contents have been clean, interesting, instructive, and of first-class literary merit. It established the club-system now used by many publishers; and by many clever schemes pushed its circulation into almost every Republican family in the country.
"Author of Recollections of a Busy Life, a well-known lecturer on social and political reforms, and on agricultural and manufacturing interests, in this way, and in the columns of the Tribune, he did more than almost any other man of his time to promote the development of the great interests of the people.
"Defeated as Liberal Republican candidate for President in 1872, bitterly accused by old friends, severe illness, and the death of his wife made his last days very sad. But 'when it was too late his countrymen awoke to an expression of how they admired and loved him.' Few in the world have been greater in journalism, 'one whose name will live long after many writers and statesmen of greater pretensions are forgotten.'"—One Hundred Famous Americans.
Coupled with marked intellectual force, his face had such an innocent, child-like expression that many thought him a soft, muscleless man. But listen to what he did—as told by himself—and see if that roomy, hearty body was not made of good material—better, indeed, than the bodies of ninety-five out of every hundred indoor men in our land to-day:
In his Recollections of a Busy Life (page 76), Mr. Greeley says: "It was on this visit that I made my best day's walk—from Fredonia, New York (in 1830), through Maysville and Mina to my father's, which can hardly be less than forty miles now, and by the zigzags we then made must have been considerably farther. I
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