Horace Greeley died on November 29, 1872, and his funeral on December 4 was attended by a large gathering of national, state, and local leaders, including President Ulysses S. Grant and Chief Justice Salmon Chase. One of the eulogies was delivered by Nast's editor, George William Curtis. Nast, however, found himself the object of another round of editorial abuse for having allegedly added to Mr. Greeley's woes and accelerated his demise. Not all the final reviews, however, were negative. Among his papers, Nast preserved an unidentified, undated clipping from a Boston newspaper, circa mid-November 1872. It called him the equal of the great 18th-century British illustrator William Hogarth, singling out the American cartoonist's "amazing fertility" combined with "his brilliant execution." At the modest age of 32, Thomas Nast had reached the pinnacle of his career.