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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 1: his early years and first employment as a compositor (search)
1855. That spring, before the family moved, Horace saw an advertisement, stating that an apprentice was wanted in the office of the Northern Spectator at East Poultney, Vt., and he at once applied for the place. In all his early applications for work his personal appearance was an obstacle to his success. His figure was tallef financial assistance in founding the New York Times, and long survived both Greeley and Raymond as controlling owner of the Times. Horace's experience in East Poultney was of the greatest educational value to him. There he first had access to a public library. He soon joined a debating club, of which the leading citizens of discussion, and aid in the work of a campaign. John Quincy Adams was President, Calhoun Vice-President, and Henry Clay Secretary of State when Greeley went to East Poultney, and public feeling was seething over the charge that there had been a corrupt bargain between Adams and Clay. In the national election of 1828 Calhoun was th
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 7: Greeley's part in the antislavery contest (search)
to the extension of slave territory, hoping for the gradual extinction of the institution where it was established. Greeley belonged to the second of these classes. In view of Greeley's inclination to associate himself actively with reforms, regardless of hostile criticism or the effect of such association on his personal welfare, it seems somewhat curious that we do not find him enrolled in the ranks of the early Abolitionists. He says that one of the incidents of his sojourn in East Poultney, Vt., which made a great impression on him, was the rescue of a slave who had fled there from New York State, and who, under the law of that State, was beholden to his master until he was twenty-eight years old. Our people hated injustice and oppression, was the only explanation he thought it necessary to give of their action. The early Abolitionists, too, were in sympathy with him on many subjects. E. Rogers, in the Herald of Freedom, said: Abolitionists are generally as crazy in regard
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 5: at Westhaven, Vermont. (search)
quency and pertinacity of which the busy inhabitants of cities can form little idea. Horace's last year in Westhaven (1825) wore slowly away. He —had exhausted the schools; he was impatient to be at the types, and he wearied his father with importunities to get him a place in a printing-office. But his father was loth to let him go, for two reasons: the boy was useful at home, and the cautious father feared he would not do well away from home; he was so gentle, so absent, so awkward, so little calculated to make his way with strangers. One day, the boy saw in the Northern Spectator, a weekly paper, published at East Poultney, eleven miles distant, an advertisement for an apprentice in the office of the Spectator itself. He showed it to his father, and wrung from him a reluctant consent to his applying for the place. I have n't got time to go and see about it, Horace; but if you have a mind to walk over to Poultney and see what you can do, why you may. Horace had a mind to
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 6: apprenticeship. (search)
6: apprenticeship. The village of East Poultney Horace applies for the place scene in thpectator stops the apprentice is Free. East Poultney is not, decidedly not, a place which a tras, print-ing office, or Patent melodeons. East Poultney, for example, is little more than a hamlets heightened, perhaps, by the fact that in East Poultney a pack of cards was regarded as a thing acs, was an important feature in the life of East Poultney. There happened to be among the residentsDuring the four years that Horace lived at East Poultney, he boarded for some time at the tavern, warmer's son, and we lived a few miles from East Poultney. On the day in question I was sent by my to sell a load of potatoes at the store in East Poultney, and bring back various commodities in excto him:— Little did the inhabitants of East Poultney, where Horace Greeley went to reside in Apn and now a highly-respectable merchant of East Poultney, who has marked with pride and pleasure ev[4 more...]