...d editor, John M. Daniel, who saw him frequently during the summer of 1849, he was sour of nature, capricious, selfish, a misanthrope, possessing little moral sense. In the view of Lowell's friend, C. F. Briggs , with whom he was associated for several months in 1845 as co-editor of the , he was badly made up, a characterless character, and utterly deficient of high motive. And Horace Greeley was disturbed...