GREELEY, HORACE, American journalist, was b. at Amherst, N. H., Feb. 3. 1811. His father was a farmer of small means: and Horace, after acquiring the rudiments of education at a common school, entered a printing•office as an apprentice, 1825, at Poultney, Vermont. On the completion of his apprenticeship, he worked for some time as a journeyman printer, and in 1834 commenced the New Yorker, a literary weekly paper, for which he wrote essays, poetry, and other articles. After one or two other essays at editorship, lie began in 1841 the _Yew York Tribune, of which lie has ever since been the leading editor. As Mr. Greeley had adopted, to some extent, the social theories of Fourier, he was joined by the most able writers of that school of socialism, and the paper is published as a joint-stock concern, being held in shares by its writers and others engaged in its publication. The Tribune has also been an earnest advocate of temperance, women's rights, the abolition of slavery and capital punishment, and other reforms, and is recognized as the organ of the extreme or radical republican party. In 1848 Mr. Greeley was elected to congress from one of the districts of New
York, for the short term, but failed in his congressional career by agitating an unwel come reform in the mileage'payments to members. In 1851 he visited Europe. and was chairman of one of the committees of the great exhibition. His aspirations to political position were defeated by the more conservative party leaders, and he, in turn, is sup posed to have secured the election of Mr. Lincoln, instead of Mr. Seward, in 1860. On the secession of several of the southern states from the union, Mr. Greeley at first advo cated their right to secede, in accordance with the principles of the iDeclaration of Independence; bUt when toe war beuiM, be became one of its IRMA zettlotts advocates, and is supposed to have caused the premature advance that resulted in the defeat of Bull's Rum 21, 1881. In 1872 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the presi deutship, and died the same year.
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