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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 10 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 8: arrival in New York. (search)
s there are not many allusions of an autobiographical nature to this period. The following is, indeed, the only paragraph of the kind that seems worth quoting. It is valuable as throwing light upon the habit of his mind at this time:— Fourteen years ago, when the editor of the Tribune came to this city, there was published here a small daily paper entitled the Sentinel, devoted to the cause of what was called by its own supporters the Working Men's Party, and by its opponents the Fanny Wright Working Men. Of that party we have little personal knowledge, but at the head of the paper, among several good and many objectionable avowals of principle, was borne the following; Single Districts for the choice of each Senator and Member of Assembly. We gave this proposition some attention at the time, and came to the conclusion that it was alike sound and important. It mattered little to us that it was accompanied and surrounded by others that we could not assent to, and was prop
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 16: the Tribune and Fourierism. (search)
. We must devise a remedy and that remedy, I propose to show, is found in Association. H. J. Raymond. Nov. 23d. Heavens! Here we have one of the leading Whig presses of New York advocating the doctrine that no man can rightfully own land! Fanny Wright was of that opinion. The doctrine is erroneous and dangerous. If a man cannot rightfully own land, he cannot rightfully own anything which the land produces; that is, he cannot rightfully own anything at all. The blessed institution of proper Nov. 26th. Fudge! What I said was this: Society, having divested the majority of any right to the soil, is bound to compensate them by guaranteeing to each an opportunity of earning a subsistence by Labor. Your vulgar, clap-trap allusion to Fanny Wright does not surprise me. I shall neither desert nor deny a truth because she, or any one else, has proclaimed it. But to proceed. By association I mean a Social Order, which shall take the place of the present Township, to be composed of some hu