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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 8: during the civil war (search)
the man who was wearing his heart out in the nation's behalf. Greeley's hostility to Lincoln did not cease with the action of the National Republican Convention. The summer of 1864 was a trying one to all loyal hearts, and when August closed Grant had met with a check before Petersburg, Sherman was supposed still to be out of Atlanta, and the Democratic National Convention had pronounced the war a failure, and called for a cessation of hostilities. Two days after this platform was adopted then connected with the New York Tribune--that President Lincoln paid a visit to Horace Greeley, at the Tribune office, of a most sacred nature and presumably of a most urgent and important character, somewhere about the time of the accession of Grant to the office of commander-in-chief of the army, arriving in the evening and leaving for the capital early in the morning, with few but themselves cognizant of the fact. The important events around Petersburg and Richmond followed shortly after
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 9: Greeley's presidential campaign-his death (search)
giving an outline of what the paper hoped for Grant's administration. There were to be economy an11 Republicans voting with the minority. President Grant, in his message in 1871, said: It may be , headed by B. Gratz Brown for Governor. President Grant sided with the Radicals, and in a letter that time Sumner was an outspoken opponent of Grant's renomination, and so bitter a critic that heto withhold from publication an arraignment of Grant which he prepared; he circulated it privately,n of the Greeley ticket, and a few days before Grant's renomination, Sumner made a bitter speech inapitol, I have to-day made the renomination of Grant impossible, and throughout the campaign he refons with Sumner would drive the latter back to Grant if Adams was nominated. That Adams was not a ty of 53,456 against him, and the majority for Grant in the whole country was 762,991. Many thiney, to elect Adams, it was necessary to defeat Grant, and that was as hard a task in civil as in mi[16 more...]
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Index (search)
t of the Times (newspaper), 24. Spiritualism, Greeley's views on, 89-91. Stage, Greeley's views on, 65. Story, Francis, 24. Sumner, Charles, quarrel with Grant, 230-232. Sun (newspaper), Tribune war with, 63. Sylvania enterprise, 82. Sylvester, S. J., 24. T. Tariff, Greeley's views on, 110-122; compromise o8; advocacy of the Maine law, 172; service to Seward, 174; on the right to secede, 184-187; office attacked by a mob, 187; Forward to Richmond cry, 188; hopes for Grant's administration, 214; causes of its later hostility, 215; on amnesty, 217; reports and comments during the Liberal Republican convention, 237-239; Greeley's withdNew York banking laws, 35; reports Liberal Republican platform, 239. Wilmot proviso, Greeley on, 158, 159. Wilson, Henry, on Greeley, 166,187. Winchester, Jonas, 26. Women's suffrage, Greeley on, 89. Wood, Fernando, proposed secession of New York city, 185. Y. Young, John Russell, on Grant's administration, 214.