Mr. Horace Greeley died on Saturday. Originally a com- positor,
he started the Tribune in 1811, and in thirty years made it one of the most important papers, and himself possible candi- date for the Presidency. He was the antithesis of Mr. Gordon Bennett, who merged himself in his paper, while the Tribune was merely Mr. Greeley in print. He was not an able man in the ordinary sense of the word, being viewy, inordinately credulous about new "jams," and very vain ; but he was very lucid, very detached, and possessed a keen sense of humour. The rebuke to a man who called himself self-made, "that God then was relieved of a great responsibility," was, we believe, originally his, as was certainly this hit at the morals of the age. A city missionary asked him for a subscription "to help in saving a few souls." Horace was a Universalist and lavishly liberal, but he turned round on the astounded applicant with a fierce rejoinder, "Get out, Sir ! There arn't half the men damned now-a-days that ought to be." He was, we believe, per- fectly honest, though his mania for Protection rose occasionally so high that Free-traders attributed it to personal interest in certain protected interests. He could, however, make himself believe anything, Protection, or the moderation of the Democratic party included.
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