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The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Ricket Bank Suspensions. (search)
Houston's Portrait of Greeley.
--Gen. Houston, in one of his political speeches, gave the following description of the editor of the New York Tribune, to whom this continent is indebted as much as to any other one man in if for the present convulsions and bloodshed.
"Horace is a most remarkable man; he is the whitest man in the world.
His skin is milk-white.
His hairs are white, and these are scattering.
He wears a white hat and a white coat, and I must be permitted to give it to you as my candid opinion, that his liver is of the same color."
This is a remarkable white man indeed, and as extremes meet and strong attractions are often begotten by contrasts, it is not wonderful that the blackest kind of Black Republication is the master passion of the Tribune Albino, a term which was originally applied by the Portuguese to white negroes on the coast of Africa, from which race we should conjecture Horace to be descended, but that he lacks some of their redeeming qualit
The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern War news. (search)