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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 7: Greeley's part in the antislavery contest (search)
or let a railroad pass, but which will substantially abide forever. The Abolitionists, of whom Garrison was the leading exponent, were radicals of the most ultra type. Not only did they demand the i right to take the life of a man on any pretext, drawn by a committee of which he was chairman, Garrison wrote: It swept the whole surface of society, and upturned almost every existing institution onthey addressed, for the most part, readers who were already convinced, addressed few of these. Garrison's Liberator had only between 150 and 2,500 subscribers during its entire career, and the Nationpatory of Lincoln's declaration: I have been only the instrument. The logic and moral power of Garrison and the antislavery people of the country, and the army, have done all.--will not permit the ex. Greeley credited Douglas and Pierce with having made more Abolitionists in three months than Garrison and Phillips could have made in fifty years. The purpose of the slave power was rendered cleare
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 8: during the civil war (search)
of Lincoln and his official advisers, a constant inclination during the war to obtrude his advice and his services where they could only cause annoyance and do harm, and a weakness of judgment in essential matters-all of which seemed to justify Garrison in characterizing him as the worst of all counselors, the most unsteady of all leaders, the most pliant of all compromisers in times of great public emergency. To understand clearly Greeley's conduct during Lincoln's administration it is necer saw my prayer, and that this was merely used by him as an opportunity, an occasion, an excuse, for setting his own altered position-changed not at his volition, but by circumstances-fairly before the country. Owen Lovejoy, writing to William Lloyd Garrison in February, 1864, about the reported influence which induced Lincoln to issue the emancipation proclamation, said: Now, the fact is this, as I had it from his own lips: He had written the proclamation in the summer, as early as June, I t
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Index (search)
on, 91-93. Fillmore signs compromise bills, 160. Finances, Federal and State, Greeley on, in the New Yorker, 35-38. Fourierism, Greeley's belief in, 79-84; later views, 85; Fourier Association formed, 81. Foxes' seances, 90. Fremont campaign of 1856, 167; nominated for President in 1864, 199. Frye, W. H., 72,106. Fugitive slaves, 144; compromise act, 160-163. Fuller, Margaret, 72, 82; member of Greeley's family, 88: contributions to the Tribune, 88, 89. G. Garrison, William Lloyd, abolition views, 126,127; on Greeley, 171. Gay, Sidney Howard, 72, 187, 210. Greeley, Horace, landing in New York city, 2, 20; early farm experience, 3-5; his mother. 3, 10; education, 6-8; precocity, 7; views of college education, 8; attraction to the printer's trade, 9; personal appearance, 11, 12, 19, 22; first newspaper writing, 13; views on journalism, 15; interest in politics, 16; a protectionist when a boy, 16; amusements, 17; non-user of intoxicants and tobacco, 18; em