The book The Life And Public Career of Hon. Horace Greeley was written by author Cornell, William Mason, 1802-1895 Here you can read free online of The Life And Public Career of Hon. Horace Greeley book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Life And Public Career of Hon. Horace Greeley a good or bad book?
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Greeley did not first introduce the mileage question to the House. This was done by lion. Wil- liam Sawyer of Ohio. He had been annoyed by an article published in " The Tribune " on his habit of eating a luncheon in the House behind the speaker's chair. He was further grieved by the introduction of Mr. Greeley's bill, though that stated correctly the difference between his mileage as charged and what it would be if computed by the most direct routes. There was a blunder in the case of his neare...st Whig neighbor, Hon. Robert C. Schenck, whose overcharge was not made as much as it should be. Schenck arose, and offered to swap with his colleague if that would afford him any satisfaction. It afforded none. It has already been stated that Mr. Greeley did not favor Gen. Taylor's nomination ; and had he not chanced to attend a Whig meeting in Yauxhall Gar- den, where he was loudly called for, and where he made the following speech, he probably would not have been nominated for Congress, which would have saved him some rencounters with others on that floor : — " I trust, fellow-citizens, I shall never be afraid nor ashamed to meet a Whig assemblage, and express my sentiments on the political questions of the day ; and, although I have had no intimation till now that my presence here was expected or desired, I am the more 172 LITE OF HOEACE GEEELEY.
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