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"There was an interlude upon domestic life, 'where alone the true man could be revealed, which was full of beauty. "He came in to-day to see . He flouts the idea of 'that preacher, Horace Greeley, being put up as candidate for president. 'If it had been Charles Francis Adams, now, we should all have voted for him.
Had the wishes of Greeley and others prevailed, had Douglas been adopted by the Illinois Republicans, the party would have found itself in a fatal dilemma, No sooner was the campaign closed than Douglas, having entered on his tour through the South, began making speeches, apparently designed to pave his way to a nomination for President by the next Democratic National Convention.
Faced with Grant as the strong Republican nominee, they too nominated Horace Greeley with B. Gratz Brown as his running mate, hoping by this coalition to achieve victory.
The expenses for the first week of the Tribune's existence were $525, and its income $92. Greeley was thirty years old, full of health and vigour, pluck and determination. He never knew when he was defeated, and when events knocked him down, he quietly got up again. In seven weeks the Tribune had a circulation of 11,000.
In November, 1861, Lincoln says of Greeley: "His backing is as good as that of an army of one hundred thousand men." There could be no question of the earnest loyalty of Horace Greeley. Under his management, the New York Tribune had become a great force in the community. The paper represented perhaps more nearly than any paper in the country the purpose and the policy of the new Republican party.
He proposed the scheme to a struggling, ambitious young printer and journalist, beginning to be known in Nassau Street, named Horace Greeley. I have heard Mr. Greeley relate the interview. "Bennett came to me," he said, "as I was standing at the case setting type, and putting his hand in his pocket pulled out a handful of money.
On the second of September, three New York editors, Greeley for The Tribune, Parke Godwin for The Post, and Tilton for The Independent, were busily concocting a circular letter to Governors of the States with a view to saving the conspiracy. But other men were at work in a different fashion, that same day.
The danger was imminent, the crisis alarming, and the excitement very great. I longed to be in Washington, so I wrote to Horace Greeley, who answered that he would pay me five dollars a column for letters. It was said that this was the first time a woman had been engaged in that capacity.
I only came here on business six years ago, but the memory of Starr sort of clings like it was a good thing to keep alive." "How beautifully you put it!" Greeley was thinking how well the government had stocked this dangerous spy with facts, and so he did not observe the tears in her eyes. "There was a little church he built himself is it still standing?
Greeley and the New York men joined hands with the North American Phalanx, an association founded at Red Bank, New Jersey, and lent their influence and means to its development. Mr.
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