Show although there fire fk few persons in ailiese united clates ato read tile tho newspapers who aro are unfamiliar i with tile iho eccentric genius nominated by the alio disse lt flod ia anna far tile pre presidency at cincinnati yesterday there are who ulic art are rd fd with some f the F jilts ib fa h ls Is lire mr i I 1 ajr G grioley rr y wa was s horn barti nt at amberst in now new hampshire hire february 3 1911 until the age ga of fourteen he ha attended a common in hii natko stale Stata A about bout flint time his arr parents nt having removed to tile ilia sasto of vermont boraca ho had early thowana robare rand iress s s forc aarns in c raw newspapers papers and had bad resolved to lc be a printer endeavored to find end employment BS as ao an op prentice in a printing rinn line office in Whit whitehall chall but without success ile he ard applied at ilia of the llie Nort northern bern ype crater clator vermont plierre his ser services eorvino vicos wore were accepted and where lia he remained until 1830 when tho the paper discontinued and he be returned to work on ilia his fathers farm during the foll following ovOng year lid he went to new york city lie ho obtained d employment BS As a journeyman printer and extracted tt a precarious preci rious living by imbuing bing around various offices for tire tho neat eighteen months in 1831 1834 in connection with ith jonas winchester lie he aasted iho elio new Is cw yorker a journal of f literature and general intelligence and its Si after struggling on for far several years the tha journal was abandoned during its existence mr greeley published several political campaign papers paper tile the constitution tho the find and tire log cabin in he commenced ilia iho publication of the iho new york tribune in 1818 lie he wa chosen to fill a vacancy in the thirtieth Con congles gres and served emd through the short term preceding president Prot tailors inauguration in 1831 ho be visited europe europea and was chosen chairman of one of tile the jonos jarles ot at tire tho worlds bair j air nc ile gave gare an of his travels in a series of letters to tire tribune iiii in were afteme afterward ard collected into a volume llo he has also published a collection or of hiis his addresses essays ethun ler der tire the title of hints inta toward reforms lie made a trip across the continent to CAN loreita before tho the railroad was projected and that white plug hat of his was tile tho butt of many jokes among the drivers lie ile made mada I 1 himself vory tory notor notorious ioas during tire tho commencement I 1 of yf the isle into civil war as a member ot of the peace commission and if our memory serves us tight right it was lie he ali who said better let fet the south gou h go than to haic bloodshed lie ile however altered his mind and nd afterward shouted on to tj richmond lich mond ali tut to th an et of bailing JOT jeff da baits is lie is indebted for bs rity ablong an long the chivalry of tile the south ile ho is the author odthe of alie american conflict and what I 1 know about Farni farming ing and would no doubt it no to writs write a tameon tome on four years inthis in tin white house 11 nis his nomination i las enli pro evoked surprise nil over the union where the telegraph uttered the news and so far the W nor of the iho dispatches is to aird but bat this is an ago age of wonders cis and even aven mray may accomplish a ta iracle and get ft a sit in the national capital |