...u insist on it; and, lifting his cane, he smashed the brandy bottle on the sideboard. And thus ended the long connection of the New York Tribune with the whig party. In the summer of 1852, Horace Greeley performed the melancholy duty of finishing Sargent's Life of Henry Clay. He added little, however, to Mr. Sargent's narrative, except the proceedings of Congress on the occasion of Mr. Clay's death...