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 course in spite of all opposition. If any power wants to get possession of the Transvaal, he, and a good many more like him, must be first killed off; for he will fight to the death for what he thinks his rights.

Not very much doubt as to the bodily equipment of this God-fearing, but not man-fearing, Boer statesman.

"The Tribune has not been so great a road-maker in journalism as the Herald, but it also has followed a course of its own. The Herald was aiming to be a great mirror of the world's events; the Tribune aspired to be a moulder of sentiment, a power of public opinion as well as a newspaper.… Mr. Greeley was a superior journalist, a man of literary taste and ability, who soon drew to his paper some of the cleverest reporters, the best writers, and the ablest critics in the country. Thousands of people looked to it before expressing their own opinions upon the new theories in science and philosophy, upon books, art, and the drama, and accepted its judgment upon these matters as final. It also influenced the moral tone of its readers, and was more prominent than any other journal in the country in the interest and support it gave all movements of philanthropy and reform; one of the greatest objects of its life was to promote the good, and to put out, keep down, and reform the bad in all walks of life. Mr. Greeley was warmly interested in every movement that seemed likely to improve the condition and enlarge the opportunities of the toiling poor.

"But probably the most powerful of all the influences Mr. Greeley exerted was in politics. This began in the old log-cabin days, and lasted as long as he lived—longer, for the Tribune is still what he made it. At first a Whig, when the Whig party died out, the Tribune almost formed the Republican party, which it has stanchly supported ever since; it has been one of the longest and greatest advocates of the protective tariff that the country has ever had. In the Kansas war it was all Kansas"—in the war against slavery it was all anti-slavery. "If he was not always right on current questions, nor always free from the impetuosity which too often mars the efforts of reformers; he discussed those questions with a vigor and intelligence not often shown by the