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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Preface (search)
Preface
Horace Greeley is remembered by the men of his own day as a great editor and a somewhat eccentric genius.
While we like to hear about a man's personal characteristics, in studying his biography the lessons of a life like Greeley's are to be found in his works.
When a gawky country lad, with a limited education and n's career there must be material for useful study.
And the place to study Horace Greeley is in his newspapers.
He made these newspapers; he gave them their charact ar-reaching results.
This is especially true of the slavery question; because Greeley was not an early Abolitionist-not an Abolitionist at all, in the technical sen dence; what wonder, too, if it should have thrown off his balance a man like Mr. Greeley, whose head was not strong, whose education was imperfect, and whose self-co ce had been fortified by a brave and successful struggle with adversity.
Of Greeley's honesty and purity of motive there was never any question.
In his days of
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 1 : his early years and first employment as a compositor (search)
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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 2 : first experiences in New York city -the New Yorker (search)
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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 3 : Thurlow Weed 's discovery-the Jeffersonian and the Log Cabin (search)
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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 4 : the founding of the New York Tribune (search)
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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 5 : sources of the Tribune 's influence — Greeley 's personality (search)
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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 6 : the tariff question (search)
Chapter 6: the tariff question
Greeley's early sympathies
legislation between 1832 and
desire to try the issue four years later
Greeley's sympathies were always in favor of a protec arrison elevated to the presidency a man whom Greeley in later years characterized as an imbittered t to Washington in December, 1841, convinced Greeley that Tyler was treacherously coqueting with L focoism with a view to his own renomination.
Greeley made a trip in 1842 through parts of New Engl ers.
This opinion was certainly in line with Greeley's recommendation.
From that time to the da e dispensed with.
A series of 24 essays by Greeley, designed to elucidate the science of politic an easy chair.
It was in this campaign that Greeley won his position as the leading Whig expounde nd defender of the doctrine of protection.
Greeley accepted the election of Polk as a personal d ays thought, have secured Clay's election.
Greeley did not ignore, in the next few years, the g
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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)
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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 8 : during the civil war (search)
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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 9 : Greeley 's presidential campaign-his death (search)
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