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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 126 12 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 39 1 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 36 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 26 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 12 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 11 1 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 8 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1862., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 6 0 Browse Search
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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, chapter 14 (search)
f 1840, which resulted in the election of General Harrison to the presidency, was, at bottom, the reof the struggle arose from the fact, that General Harrison, a man who had done something, was pittedms, the jokes, the universal excitement! General Harrison was sung into the presidential chair. Vat, and of National Reform, by the election of Harrison and Tyler, the restoration of purity to the gGen. Harrison, Anecdote of Gen. Harrison, General Harrison's Creed. Slanders on Gen. Harrison refutGen. Harrison refuted, Meeting of the Old Soldiers, &c. The first number had twenty-eight articles and paragraphs of hers contain an engraving or two, plans of General Harrison's battles, portraits of the candidates, o Log Cabin last week from which the banner of Harrison and Reform was displayed. While engaged in tof April 3d contained the intelligence of General Harrison's death; and, among a few others, the fol political revolution which has called William Henry Harrison to the Chief Magistracy of the Nation [4 more...]
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 15: starts the Tribune. (search)
partment of literary criticism, the fine arts, and general intelligence, by H. J. Raymond. Under its heading, the now paper bore, as a motto, the dying words of Harrison: I desire you to understand the Tribune principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. The omens were not propitious. The appallingly sudden death of General Harrison, the President of so many hopes, the first of the Presidents who had died in office, had cast a gloom over the whole country, and a prophetic doubt over the prospects of the Whig party. The editor watched the preparation of his first number all night, nervous and anxious, withdrawing stormy day, which witnessed the grand though mournful pageant whereby our city commemorated the blighting of a nation's hopes in the most untimely death of President Harrison, were not inaptly miniatured in his own prospects and fortunes. Having devoted the seven preceding years almost wholly to the establishment of a weekly com
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 19: the Tribune continues. (search)
bune, in fact, had become the leading Whig paper of the country. Horace Greeley had long set his heart upon the election of Henry Clay to the presidency; and for some special reasons besides the general one of his belief that the policy identified with the name of Henry Clay was the true policy of the government. Henry Clay was one of the heroes of his boyhood's admiration. Yet, in 1840 believing that Clay could not be elected, he had used his influence to promote the nomination of Gen. Harrison. Then came the death of the president, the apostasy of Tyler, and his pitiful attempts to secure a re-election. The annexation of Texas loomed up in the distance, and the repeal of the tariff of 1842. For these and other reasons, Horace Greeley was inflamed with a desire to behold once more the triumph of his party, and to see the long career of the eminent Kentuckian crowned with its suitable, its coveted reward. For this he labored as few men have ever labored for any but personal