Jace has stronger characteristics, bodily inenhan that powerful phate, fory: pions, Hu 1s, honest, indugirious, Lind headed, intelligent, htful and reasoning people, the Scotch-Irish. vigorous qualities of the Scotch Irish, have e't and deep traces upon the history of the United As if with some hereditary me hereditary-instinct, they CHAPTER VII. HORACE GREELEY. The Scotch-Irish Race in the United States-Mr. Greeley a Partly Reversed Specimen of it-His Birth and Boyhood-Learns to Read Books Upside DownHis Apprenticeship on a Newspaper-The Town Encyclopaedia--His Industry at his Trade-His First Experience of a Fugitive Slave Chase-His First Appearance in New York. The Work on the Polyglot Testament-Mr. Greeley as "the Ghost"-The First Cheap Daily Paper-The Firm of Greeley & Story -The New Yorker, the Jeffersonian and the Log Cabin-Mr. Greeley as Editor of the New Yorker-Beginning of The Tribune-Mr. Greeley's Theory of a Political Newspaper-His Love for The Tribune-The First Week of that Paper-The Attack of the Sun and its Result-Mr. McElrath's PartnershipMr. Greeley's Fourierism-" The Bloody Sixth "-The Cooper Libel SuitsMr. Greeley in Congress-He goes to Europe-His course in the RebellionHis Ambition and Qualifications for Office-The Key-Note of his Character. No race has stronger characteristics, bodily or mental, than that powerful, obstinate, fiery, pious, humorous, honest, industrious, hard-headed, intelligent, thoughtful and reasoning people, the Scotch-Irish. The vigorous qualities of the Scotch-Irish have left broad and deep traces upon the history of the United States. As if with some hereditary instinct, they settled along the great Allegheny ridge, principally from Pennsylvania to Georgia, in the fertile valleys and broader expanses of level land on either side, especially to the westward. In the healthy and genial air of these regions, renowned for the handsomest breed of men and women in the world, the ScotchIrish acted out with thorough freedom, all the vigorous and often violent impulses of their nature. They were pioneers, Indian-fighters, politicians, theologians; A |