Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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stful and happy home of hisretirement, he was the cordial, hospitable, unassuming, typical American,with a touch of courtliness in his address. Although somewhat deliberateand careful in his movements, he was a rapid, energetic walker on thestreet. He was up to the time of his decease applauded whenever he ap-peared in public, and his opinions were sought on all manner of currenttopics by men of all shades of political belief. Editors dropped in to takecounsel w itfa him, and whenever any great or stirring event occurred, a hostof nimble reporters started on the run for Twelfth Street, to see whichcould first learn what Thurlow Weed had to say about it. His reminis-cences and anecdotes of distinguished individuals with whom he had beenassociated, and his accounts of the historic scenes in which he had partici-pated, commanded the most universal and intense interest at all times andon all occasions. As an editor, Mr. Weed was never given to ponderous THURLOW WEEDS HOME IN NEW YORK CITY
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ENTRANCE HALL TO THURLO\V WEEDS HOME. \From a photograph by Miss Catharine Weed Barnes.\ leaders, but found his best weapon in the paragraph. Horace Greeleyused to say that he could find fifty men who could spin out column arti-cles with the greatest ease, where he scarcely found one who could write areally clever paragraph. In this style of writing Mr. Weed was perfect,and the light artillery of his caustic pen was more effective in party war-fare than the heavy column projectiles of the leader sort. His sarcasmwas cutting, and his extraordinary memory left politicians open to attackson matters they deemed long forgotten. His style was novel forty yearsago, and of course all the more attractive and successful. While the Dem-ocratic reader was carefully working out the pith of one of his opponentCroswells dismally long editorials, the Whig reader had stored away fortyfacts from Mr. Weeds budget of paragraphs. His temperament was ad-mirably adapted to his career. Had he been an office-

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