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Lawrence, Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
rticle telling the British how to invade and conquer the South. No report can do justice to his venom. I will try to keep such articles out of the Tribune hereafter. Old Badger was sitting in the Senate all day yesterday. He must be tickled to death at the prospect of Pike's return to this city. I trust you have a supplement to-day. Thank Carey in my name for that article on Bowen. Also whoever did the Joe Bonaparte, though it used up so much room. On May 20th he wrote from Lawrence, Kansas, transmitting a speech which he had delivered at Ossawatomie, and giving an account of his riding from place to place, shaking hands with everybody, including a lot of political half-breeds and twaddlers. According to this statement there was considerable malignity in his speech, some of which will seem funny to some folks and not so funny to others. In Kansas, where its every shot will hit somebody, I know it will do good, and I promise not to write out another this side of San Franc
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ters from which I have quoted throw a flood of light upon the character of Horace Greeley, and to the critical reader foreshadow the melancholy end which finally overtook him. The fight against slavery continued throughout the year. The friends of freedom, under the advice of the Tribune, were now sending Sharp's rifles, as well as men to use them, into Kansas. The assault on Senator Sumner at his seat in the Senate by Preston S. Brooks, a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina, was denounced as the culmination of Southern intolerance, and an outrage upon free speech and free thought. Sumner was far from being a popular man, but this act seemed to fill the entire North with a sense of danger that it had not hitherto felt. Its immediate effect was to intensify as well as to diversify the struggle. Fremont, The Pathfinder, an amiable but weak man without political experience, was nominated by the Republicans in opposition to Buchanan, the Democratic candidate,
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
some worthless politician; now expressing his willingness to give up Washington whenever Dana might think it best, then desiring to stay longer; now asking for Pike to relieve him, then declaring, I mean to be extra good this year, and rather doubtful as to the next. Finally, on April 11, 1856, in almost his last letter from Washington, he explains most of his troubles as follows: My heart does not break easily, but these mail features are hard to bear. On Tuesday, Henry Waldron, of Michigan, made a glorious speech. He is one of our best men; never spoke before, and probably will not again. I sat down and wrote a telegraphic despatch about it, then a letter. Wednesday's paper came and no despatch. I wrote one of inquiry to you, and took it down to the office, when lo! they owned up that they had mislaid and failed to send the despatch till next morning! So the milk in that cocoanut was accounted for. Well, says I, the next paper will bring along my letter, anyhow ; but
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
d have been alarmed, but your total condemnation quite reassures me. I notice that Garrison, Parker Pillsbury, S. S. Foster, and other disunionists hold the same language. It is alarming thus to see all the Damphools against us. Our course and our candidate need no other indorsements. On October 4th he declared: The political prospect brightens constantly. In this State it is hard to tell how big the majority will be. I bet on fifty thousand over both Fillmore and Buchanan . ... Pennsylvania, week after next, will go by from thirty to forty thousand against Buchanan. . . . The tide is rising with a rush, as it does in the Bay of Fundy. ... The Democrats are terrified and demoralized. . . . My impression now is that every free state will vote for Fremont. Pike, First Blows of the Civil War. And yet, with all this confidence and enthusiasm, Dana was mistaken. He had worked as he had never worked before, but in vain. He had planted seed plentifully, but the season was too
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
iends not only in one party, but in all parties, or we can learn nothing . . . Now don't you see I can't get into Democratic caucuses? I must learn what they do from somebody, and if we pick a quarrel with all opponents personally what chance have we for news? You remember the Grand Vizier who knocked in the head the Sultan's proposal to exterminate the infidel dogs with this sensible demur, If we kill all the Rajahs, what shall we do for the capitation tax? He added: Abusing Clayton [of Delaware] so savagely is shying a stone at our own crockery. I wouldn't do it if it were provoked, but this was unprovoked. It is a train that don't stop in front of the Tribune office. Greeley thought it bad policy to exasperate the Southerners by saying they wouldn't let Pierce make war with England, or to charge the Roman Catholics with the slaveholders as being opposed to reading the Bible. The next day he begged Dana's pardon for scolding about the omission of his letters, and turned up
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
and the cause of freedom, a great captain as yet entirely unknown was destined to come forth from the body of the people, and lead them through four years of a bloody conflict to a victory greater than any that the most ardent Free-soiler had ever yet dared to hope for. Meanwhile, Dana and his friends of the Tribune were not cast down. They accepted defeat with a fair degree of resignation, and turned their attention again to the advocacy of a railroad to the Pacific, a bounty to the New England cod-fishermen, and fair treatment to the nonunion locomotive drivers. A timely word was said in favor of finding a competent man to carry on the work of making the Central Park. A sound and scientific currency was advocated as against the Democratic outcry for hard money ; the Dred Scott decision was denounced as the severest blow ever inflicted upon the free States; the people of St. Louis were praised for electing an antislavery municipal ticket, and when the panic of October, 1857, w
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
thing they did was allowed to go unchallenged. Every sentiment they uttered was tested by the Constitution as well as by the eternal principles of justice. Benjamin was unsparingly denounced for his plea in the Senate in behalf of slavery as the necessary condition of labor in the tropics as well as in the Southern States. He was mercilessly excoriated for favoring the annexation of Cuba in the interest of that barbaric and aggressive institution. The killing of Senator Broderick, of California, by the fire-eater, Judge Terry, was held up to the country as a murder under the forms of the duel, in the interest, if not at the dictation, of the pro-slavery party. The insanity of John Brown, who was hanged for his futile raid against slavery in Virginia, was confidently charged to the same account. In short, the wickedness, the wastefulness, and the barbarity of human slavery were constantly set forth in the columns of the Tribune. Every incident connected with it in fact, or whic
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ive institution. The killing of Senator Broderick, of California, by the fire-eater, Judge Terry, was held up to the country as a murder under the forms of the duel, in the interest, if not at the dictation, of the pro-slavery party. The insanity of John Brown, who was hanged for his futile raid against slavery in Virginia, was confidently charged to the same account. In short, the wickedness, the wastefulness, and the barbarity of human slavery were constantly set forth in the columns of the Tribune. Every incident connected with it in fact, or which could be connected with it by inference, was reported, analyzed, and held up for the execration of its readers. The German settlers of Missouri and Texas were praised for their opposition to slavery and for their unanimous adherence to the party of freedom. Of all that sturdy and industrious race, the Tribune declared that only two, and they broken-down noblemen who try to preserve a shabby gentility, had ever become slave-holders.
Europe (search for this): chapter 10
Chapter 9: Dana's influence in the tribune Correspondence with Greeley continues fight against slavery Fremont nominated for president continued agitation in behalf of free Kansas death of Senator Benton leadership of the tribune John Brown's raid That Dana, although only managing editor, was all powerful in the actual control of the Tribune during most of the year, and especially so during the winter of 1855-56, is shown by the fact that Greeley was absent in Europe, the West, and in Washington much of the time. It is still more fully shown, however, by Greeley's letters to Dana, which were published many years afterwards in the Sun. They are full of interest, for the light they throw not only upon current politics, but also upon the troubles of running a great newspaper in those days. They abound in wit, humor, and pathos, and ought to be published in some permanent and accessible form; but as the limits of this narrative will not permit me to give them in full
Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 10
country. Their actions were questioned, their speeches were analyzed, and their motives were impugned. Nothing they did was allowed to go unchallenged. Every sentiment they uttered was tested by the Constitution as well as by the eternal principles of justice. Benjamin was unsparingly denounced for his plea in the Senate in behalf of slavery as the necessary condition of labor in the tropics as well as in the Southern States. He was mercilessly excoriated for favoring the annexation of Cuba in the interest of that barbaric and aggressive institution. The killing of Senator Broderick, of California, by the fire-eater, Judge Terry, was held up to the country as a murder under the forms of the duel, in the interest, if not at the dictation, of the pro-slavery party. The insanity of John Brown, who was hanged for his futile raid against slavery in Virginia, was confidently charged to the same account. In short, the wickedness, the wastefulness, and the barbarity of human slavery
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