... for real statesmanship or mental ability when compared with Clay, Webster, and Calhoun. During the entire period of Buchanan's administration the Tribune cultivated close relations with Seward, Collamer , Chase, Fessenden, Hale, Sunnier, Henry Wilson, and all the other rising men of the Republican party. A warm and devoted friendship grew up between them, with Dana as well as with Greeley. The pa...