It were well that they should be reproduced now at a time when the laxity of wedlock and the wicked facilities for divorce are working such peril to our domestic life.
John Bright once said: "Horace Greeley is the greatest of living editors." He once told me that he had written editorials for a dozen papers at one time.

He also told me that while he was preparing his history of the "American Conflict" he was in the habit of writing three columns of editorials every day.

His articles were freighted with great power, for he was one of the strongest writers of the English language on this continent.

They were always brimful of thought, for Mr.Greeley seldom wrote on any subject which he had not thoroughly mastered.
Speaking of a certain popular orator, who afterwards went as our minister to China, he said to me: "Mr.B .-- -- is a pretty man, a very pretty man, but he does not _study_, and no man ever can have permanent power in this country unless he _studies_" Mr.Greeley prided himself upon his accuracy as an editor, but one day, when writing an editorial, in which he denounced some political misdemeanor in the County of Chatauqua, by a slip of his pen he wrote the name of the adjoining county Cattaraugus.

The next morning when he saw it in the paper he went up into the composing room in a perfect rage and called out, "Who put that Cattaraugus ?" The printers all gathered around him amused at his anger until one of them pulling down from the hook the original editorial showed him the word "Cattaraugus" "Uncle Horace," when he saw the word, with a most inexpressible meekness, drawled out: "Will some one please to kick me down those stairs ?" He abominated mendicancy and, although his native goodness of heart often led him to give to the hundreds who came to him for pecuniary aid, he one day said to me: "Since I have lived in New York I have given away money enough to set up a merchant in business, and I sometimes doubt whether I have done more good or harm by the operation.