Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Horace Greeley or search for Horace Greeley in all documents.

Your search returned 3 results in 2 document sections:

Additional from the North. From our late Northern files, we make some extracts given below: Greeley's account of his' Teace Niggiations." [From the New York Tribune.] The telegraphic stories concerning Peace Conferences at Niagara Falls have a slender foundation in fact, but most of the details are very wide of the troth. The editor of this paper has taken part in and been privy to no further negotiations than were fully authorized and more than authorized. But these related solety to bringing the antagonists face to face, in amicable rather than belligerent attitude, with the view to the initiation of an effort for peace, to be prosecuted at Washington. The movement has had no immediate success. Of course, all reports that the writer has been engaged in proposing or receiving or discussing by pothecated terms or basis of peace, whether with accredited agents of the Richmond authorities or others, are utterly mistaken. He has never had the slightest authorizati
powder had been kept for a quarter of a century, could not have produced a greater sensation than the annunciation through the city press yesterday morning that the gentlemen whose names are printed at the head of this article had opened with Horace Greeley — of all other men in the world — a correspondence, requesting safe conducts to Washington, in the character of peace negotiators. The morning papers seem to have been taken entirely by surprise — so entirely that not one of them made a singbreath in horror. We are to sue at the footstool, and are to be spurned, as Lincoln spurns these self-made diplomatists! We protest against this degradation of our country. We protest against any propositions offered through such a channel as Greeley, with whom it would be a disgrace to a Southern free negro to negotiate. We protest against offering any terms to Abraham Lincoln, authorized or not authorized. Let him come to us when he grown tired of this war. It is his war. He made it, and<