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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)
and Phillips could have made in fifty years. The purpose of the slave power was rendered clearer, and the Northern determination to resist it was strengthened. The Tribune's files are a sufficient demonstration of the part it took in the formation of the new Northern sentiment, and Greeley's willingness to accept the compromise measures when they were in process of formation increased his authority when he interpreted the actual result. Now Whigs like Greeley and Seward, Free-soilers like Sumner and Chase, Abolitionists like Owen Lovejoy and Giddings, and Democrats like Trumbull and Blair saw a common ground on which they could fight under the same banner; and on this ground the foundation of the new Republican party was laid in 1854. Henry Wilson says: At the outset, Mr. Greeley was hopeless, and seemed disinclined to enter upon the contest. So often defeated by Northern defection therein, he distrusted Congress, nor had he faith that the people would reverse the verdict of
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 9: Greeley's presidential campaign-his death (search)
ri Forerunnings of the Cincinnati convention Sumner's influence the demand for tariff reform Gre time, and he held intimate relations with Charles Sumner, whose quarrel with President Grant was a or and the President, beginning, perhaps, when Sumner was obliged, on constitutional grounds, to oppy was under discussion, and the President gave Sumner the chief credit for the defeat of that measuray that Texas had been annexed as a State, and Sumner again led the opposition, selecting words thatnd, in accordance with the President's wishes, Sumner was dropped as chairman. From that time SumSumner was an outspoken opponent of Grant's renomination, and so bitter a critic that he was persuaded t, and a few days before Grant's renomination, Sumner made a bitter speech in the Senate, of which hnt authority that the published statement that Sumner expected that he would be nominated for Presidsiasm in the West, and that his relations with Sumner would drive the latter back to Grant if Adams
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Index (search)
ool, 14; country, 15, 58; office-holding editors, 171, 172. K. Kansas--Nebraska question, 163-165. Kuklux, Greeley on, 226. L. Lectures, Greeley's, 95-97; early lecture field, 95. Liberal Republican movement, origin of, 226-229; Sumner's part, 230-232; how tariff question involved, 232-234; Cincinnati convention, 234-244; platform, 239; balloting, 242-244; Greeley's nomination, 244; early dissolution of the movement, 246, 247. Lincoln, Abraham, Greeley's preference for Dougl68; John Brown raid, 168; emancipation proclamation, 196-198. Socialism, Greeley's views, 79-86. Spirit 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 of 1833, 110-113; Tyler's position, 113, 114; the leading p