All this sort of talk, shaken in the face of the joyous band of brothers who were going on their way rejoicing, reminds us forcibly of John Bunyan's description of the poor old toothless giant, who in his palmy days used to lunch upon pilgrims, tearing their flesh and cracking their bones in the most comfortable way possible, but who now having sustained many a severe brush, was so crippled with rheumatism that he could only sit in the mouth of his cave, mumbling, "You will never mend till more of you are burned." Thank God for the day we live in, and for such men as Henry Wilson and his compeers of the 37th and 38th Congresses. They have at last put our American Union in that condition which old Solon gave as his ideal of true Democracy, namely: A STATE WHERE AN INJURY TO THE MEANEST MEMBER IS FELT AS AN INJURY TO THE WHOLE. [Illustration: Horace Greeley] 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 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 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.