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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.
Harper and Brothers, New York and London, 1907.
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