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 Down�His Apprenticeship on a Newspaper�The Town Encyclopedia�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 Partnership�Mr. Greeley's Fourierism�"The Bloody Sixth"�The Cooper Libel Suits�Mr. Greeley in Congress�He Goes to Europe�His Course in the Rebellion�His Ambition and Qualifications for Office�The Key-Note of his Character. 293