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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, chapter 14 (search)
ured in from the valleys and rushed down from the mountains. The city has been vocal with eloquence, with music, and with acclamations. Demonstrations of strength, and emblems of victory, and harbingers of prosperity are all around us, cheering and animating, and assuring a people who are finally and effectually aroused. I will not now attempt to describe the procession of the people. Suffice it to say that there was an ocean of them! The procession was over five miles long. * * * Governor Seward and Lieut. Gov. Bradish were unanimously nominated by resolution for re-election. The result was communicated to the people assembled in mass in Chancery Square, whose response to the nomination was spontaneous, loud, deep and resounding. The profusion of the presidential mansion was one of the standing topics of those who wished to eject its occupant. In one number of the Log-Cabin is a speech, delivered in the House of Representatives by a member of the opposition, in which the
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 21: editorial repartees. (search)
or thought to bestow on the matter. That he ever affected eccentricity is most untrue; and certainly no costume he ever appeared in would create such a sensation in Broadway as that James Watson Webb would have worn but for the clemency of Governor Seward. Heaven grant our assailant may never hang with such weight on another Whig Executive! We drop him. Colonel Webb had been sentenced to two years imprisonment for fighting a duel. Governor Seward pardoned him before he had served one dGovernor Seward pardoned him before he had served one day of his term. Provocation. A charge of infidelity, in the Express. Reply. The editor of the Tribune has never been anything else than a believer in the Christian Religion, and has for many years been a member of a Christian Church. He never wrote or uttered a syllable in favor of Infidelity. But truth is lost on the Express, which can never forgive us the Infidelity of circulating a good many more copies, Daily and Weekly, than are taken of that paper. Provocation. Le