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Show Horace Greeley's Life a Failure Senator Depew Says the Great Editor So Regarded It Pa thetic Scene at the Close of a Most Brilliant Career, When His Great Heart Broke. The character and career of Amos J. Cummings were not formed In the parsonage, par-sonage, nor in the counting room, nor in the association with his friends, the compositors, nor with the adventurers same platform, and both of us knew that he was to be beaten. We went back to his home, and he was jeered upon the train and at the depot when we arrived. We went into his study. in Nicaragua, nor with his comrades in the army. They were built by the overmastering influence of two men of extraordinary genius, whom he worshiped Oi '' Greeley, th other CfiatT .A. oalm. No proper'appreciation of the life and services, of the ability and character, char-acter, of Horace Greeley has ever been written. There was a time and at that time Cummings was with him when there came every day from the Tribune1 ofllce a paper with those editorials edi-torials written by that pen which influenced in-fluenced the judgment of millions, which controlled the action of parties which was littered with those famous caricatures of Nast, representing him as the embodiment of all that was eyll or vile In expression or practice In life. Mr. Greeley glanced them over fvr a moment, and the said: "My life is a failure. I never have sought to accumulate a fortune. I never have cared for fame, but I did want to leave a monument of what I had done for .my fellow-men, in lifting them up and in doing away with the curse of slavery and the curse of rum, but here I am, at the close of this campaign, so represented to mv countrymen that the slave will and dominated the legislation of the eountry. I have seen many a deathbed in my life; I have seen life go out under conditions con-ditions that were sad or sweet, hopeful hope-ful or despairing. I never but once saw a man die of broken heart, and never do I wish to see such a' tragedy again. I made a speech with Mr. Greeley in his Presidential campaign. Just before be-fore its close. We spoke from the always look upon me as having been one of his owners, and reform will look upon me as a fraud." Then, his head falling upon his desk, he broke into uncontrollable sobs. I sent for his family. The brain that had done such splendid work snapped. The next morning he was taken to an asylum, where he died. His heart literally broke. From a : speech by Chauncey M. Depew in the Senate. ' j |