Whig Congressmen recommending the paper to their constituents.
The _Log Cabin_ was the foundation of the _Tribune_, and thenceforth
until his death Mr. Greeley was well known at the National Capital.
He was a man of intense convictions and indomitable industry, and
he wielded an incisive, ready pen, which went straight to the point
without circumlocution or needless use of words. Although he was
a somewhat erratic champion of Fourierism, vegetarianism, temperance,
anti-hanging, and abolition, there was a "method in his madness,"
and his heretical views were evidently the honest convictions of
his heart. Often egotistical, dogmatic, and personal, no one could
question his uprightness and thorough devotion to the noblest
principles of progressive civilization. Inspired by that true
philanthropy that loves all mankind equally and every one of his
neighbors better than himself, he was often victimized by those
whose stories he believed and to whom he loaned his hard-earned
savings. The breath of slander did not sully his reputation, and
he never engaged in lobbying at Washington for money, although
friendship several times prompted him to advocate appropriations
for questionable jobs--the renewal of patents which were monopolies,
and the election of Public Printers who were notoriously corrupt.

Mr. Clay "sulked in his tent" until August, when he went to Nashville
and addressed a Whig Convention. "Look," said he, in conclusion,
"at the position of Tennessee and Kentucky. They stood side by
side, their sons fought side by side, at New Orleans. Kentuckians
and Tennesseans now fight another and a different kind of battle.
But they are fighting now, as then, a band of mercenaries, the
cohorts of power. They are fighting a band of office-holders, who
call General Harrison a coward, an imbecile, an old woman!

"Yes, General Harrison is called a coward, but he fought more
battles than any other General during the last war and never
sustained a defeat. He is no statesman, and yet he has filled more
civil offices of trust and importance than almost any other man in
the Union."

A man in the crowd here cried out, "Tell us of Van Buren's battles!"

"Ah!" said Mr. Clay, "I will have to use my colleague's language
and tell you of Mr. Van Buren's '_three_ great battles!' He says,
that he fought General Commerce and conquered him; that he fought
General Currency and conquered him, and that, with his Cuban allies,
he fought