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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 11: the firm continues (search)
o differ in opinion from him on every subject, because they liked to hear him talk; and, one day, after a long debate, he exclaimed, Why, men, if I were to say that that black man there was black, you'd all swear he was white. He worked with all his former intensity and absorption. Often, such conversations as these took place in the office about the middle of the day: (H. G., looking up from his work)—Jonas, have I been to dinner? （Mr. Winchester）—You ought to know best. I don't knowZZZ (H. G.)—John, have I been to dinner? （John）—I believe not. Has he, Tom? To which Tom would reply no, or yes, according to his own recollection or John's wink; and if the office generally concurred in Tom's decision, Horace would either go to dinner or resume his work, in unsuspecting accordance therewith. It was about this time that he embraced the first of his two isms (he has never had but two). Graham arose and lectured, and mode a noise in the world, and obtained foll
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 21: editorial repartees. (search)
to existence, and from which have proceeded all the great, the brave, and the good that have ever lived—and place it in the same scale as the most stupid, ferocious and cowardly of the divisions into which the Creator has divided mankind, then they place themselves beyond the pale of all law, for they violate every law, divine and human. Ought not, we ask, our City authorities to make them understand this; to tell them that they prosecute their treasonable and beastly plans at their own pe<*>ZZZ? Such is the man, such the means, by which he seeks to bully Freemen out of the rights of Free Speech and Free Thought. There are those who cower before his threats and his ruffian appeals to mob violence—here is one who never will! All the powers of Land-jobbing and Slave-jobbing cannot drive us one inch from the ground we have assumed of determined and open hostility to this atrocious war, its contrivers and abettors. Let those who threaten us with assassination understand, once for