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* GREEK RELIGION. 240 GREELEY. Eealencyklopiidie dcr hlassischcn Alterthumsivis- senschaft (Stuttgart, 1894 et seq. ), are also of high merit. A narrower field is covered by such works as Nagelsbach, Bomcrische Tlieologie (2d ed., Nuremberg, 1801), and yuclihoincrische Theologic (Nuremberg, 1857) ; Wide. Lakonische Kulte (Leipzig, 1893) ; and Farnell, Cults of the Greek States (London, 1896). The questions of primitive religious rites are treated by Mann- liardt, Wald- mid Fvld-KuUe (Berlin, 1875-77), and Frazer, The Golden Bough {:^e York, 1890), mentioned above. Of great importance, as treat- ing tlie subject from a new standpoint, is Usener, Gutternameii (Bonn, 1896), which is reviewed by Gildersleeve, in Atnerican JournnJ of Philologi/. x.wii. ( Baltimore, 1896). The representations of the gods in art are collected in the unfinished work of Overbeck. Griechisehe Kunsfiiiytholoriii- (Leipzig. 187.3-89), with a large folio athas of plates. See Greek Festival.s ; JIysteries ; and. for the treatment of a special phase of Greek religious life, Oracle.s. GREEK SLAVE, The. A well-known statue by Hiram Powers ( 1S43). One of the six dupli- cate copies of it in marble is in the Corcoran Gallery at Washington. GREEK VERSION. See Bible. GREEOjEY. a city and the county-seat of Weld County. Colo.. 52 miles north-northeast of Denver, on the Cache la Poudre River, and on the Union Pacific and the Colorado and Southern railroads (iIap: Colorado, El). It is the seat of a State normal school, and has a public li- brary, and Lincoln and Island Grove parks. The city is the centre of a fertile irrigated belt, and makes extensive shipments of potatoes, sheep and cattle, flour, wheat, etc. There are several lum- ber-yards, a flour-mill and elevator, a beet-sugar factory, etc. Settled in 1870. Greeley was incor- porated in the following year. The government is administered under a revised charter of 1880 which provides for a mayor, elected biennially, and a city council. The water-works are owned and operated by the municipality. Population, in 1890, 2395:" in 1900, 3023." The 'Greeley Colony,' named after Horace Greeley, was mainly composed of Xew England people. They were the first agricultural (irrigation) community in Colorado. Imbued with idealistic principles, they encountered with remarkable success, though not without many hardships and reverses, all the pioneer problems of the desert. GREELEY, Horace (1811-72), An eminent American journalist, born in Amherst, N. H., February .3, 1811, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father, Zaccheus Greeley, was a farmer whose unfertile acres kept him poor. Horace's early education was limited. In 1826 he entered the office of the Xorthein Spectator at East Poultney, Vt., and in 1830 he started out for himself as a journeyman printer, working at .James- town and Lodi, N. Y., and then at Erie. Pa. In August, 1831, he went to Xew York City, where, after doing journeyman work in several ofRces, he founded, .Tanuary 1. 1833. .with Francis V. Story and H. D. Shepard. the Horninq Post (said to have been the first two-cent daily ever pub- lished), which failed within three weeks, and which was succeeded in ilarch. 1834, by the 'New Yorker, confessedly the best literary paper in America at that time. Greeley also about this time contributed leading articles to the Daily Whig. In 1838-39 he also edited the Jeffersonian, a political weekly published at Albany, and in 1840 edited and published the Log Cabin, a weekly, in the interest of Harrison as a Presiden- tial candidate. These ventures prepared the way for the Daily Triljunc, of which Greeley was at first sole proprietor and publisher, as well as chief editor, and the first number of which ap- peared April 10, 1841, followed in the autumn by the Weekly Tribune, into which the iVejo Yorker and Log Cabin had been merged. The Weekly ultimately circulated widely throughout the Northern and Western Stales, and came to wield an influence unprecedented in the history of American journalism. Greeley thus becoming a recognized power in national as well as State politics. In December, 1848, Greelej- entered Congress, to fill a vacancy, and served until Jlarch 4, 1849. He was quick to discern and point out the evils and abuses of existing institutions, but he was neither a revolutionist nor an iconoclast. Though not in the strict sense of the word an abolitionist, he was an opponent of slavery, and foremost among those who sought to resist its extension to the territory acquired from Mexico. From 1850 to the end of the conflict, the Tribune, under his direction, did much to strengthen the anti- slavery sentiment of the Northern people, and to [irepare them for the great struggle that ensued. In this Greeley was ably assisted by an unusual corps of editorial workers, including Bay- ard Taylor, Charles A. Dana, James S. Pike, and George Ripley. In addition to its championship of the anti-slavery cause, the Tribune became prominent Hirough its advocacy of protection, and the extraordinary hold of the weekly edition upon the farming class was due in no small meas- ure to the attention which the interests of agri- culture received in its columns. It is said, by men who shared Greeley's confidence, that though he was too proud to be an applicant for any office, or to take any step to secure a nomina- tion, he yet felt very keenly the neglect of others to recognize his honorable claims for promotion upon the parties he ser'ed so faithfully and well. He was a delegate from Oregon to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1860. his own State refusing to send him. and was influential in bringing about the nomination of Lincoln in preference to Seward. When, after Lincoln's election, the South threatened to secede from the Union, lie declared that if a majority of the people of any State, after full and free discussion, should sincerely and deliberately vote to leave the Union, he was willing that they should with- draw. He held, however, that the votes actually taken at the South did not express the real con- victions of the majority, but were the result of terrorism and panic; and when the Civil War broke out, he lent his voice and influence to the support of the Government in its efi'orts to suppress the Rebellion by force. He had a keen sense of the horrors of a civil war. and was willing to adopt any reasonable and rational plan to avert them. The war once begun, he was in favor of its vigorous prosecution, and impatient with what seemed to him unreasonable slowness on the part of the Government. At times he was much discouraged, and disposed to think that, to avoid worse calamities, the war should be ended by some compromise short of the result most to be desired. It was this feeling