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Shepard (search for this): chapter 4
age would carry ten votes against the bank to one gained for it by Webster's eloquence-viz., that our Government was endangered by the circumstance that a large amount of the stock of the United States Bank was owned in Europe, and that the bank was designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Weed has been severely criticized for the defeat of Clay in the National Convention of 1839. Clay received early assurance that Weed was warmly and zealously in favor of his election, and Shepard, in his Martin Van Buren, says that the slaughter of Henry Clay had been effected by the now formidable Whig politicians of New York, cunningly marshaled by Thurlow Weed. Weed did work against the election of Clay delegates to the convention, but he did so because he foresaw that Clay would probably be defeated at the polls, and that there was a good chance of Harrison's election; and he proved himself a wise friend of Clay by urging him, in the campaign of 1844, to write no letters, advi
Silas Wright (search for this): chapter 4
o Greeley their first meeting the Jeffersonian and the Log Cabin their character and features Greeley's industry poor business management last of the New Yorker Up in Albany another man who was at that time editing a newspaper had a fight on his hands, not so desperately against overdue notes as against a most powerful political opposition. That man was Thurlow Weed, and his opposition, known as The Albany Regency, included such leaders as Martin Van Buren, William L. Marcy, and Silas Wright. Weed had founded the Albany Evening Journal in March, 1830, and for several years had not only written all its editorial articles, but had reported the legislative proceedings, selected the miscellany, collected the local news, read the proofs, and sometimes made up the forms for the press. His fight in the first presidential campaign after his paper was founded (in 1832) ended in the loss of the State and the nation by his candidate, Henry Clay, and Marcy defeated Seward for Governor
Thurlow Weed (search for this): chapter 4
Van Buren, William L. Marcy, and Silas Wright. Weed had founded the Albany Evening Journal in Marchf the 128 members of the Assembly voted for. Weed and his associates in the Whig party leadershipipment. In looking about for an editor, says Weed in his autobiography, it occurred to me that thouth was Horace Greeley. Greeley accompanied Weed and a member of the Whig State Committee, who wed and Greeley lasted until 1854, or, so far as Weed was concerned, until the nomination of Lincoln as co-workers can not easily be overestimated. Weed was the cool, calculating, far-seeing politiciaion to be President would have been gratified. Weed personally favored a United States Bank, but h would be a weak candidate, he would not follow Weed in his views of expediency. Thus we find him s what he considered vagaries in the Tribune. Weed says that he found Greeley in the early years onumber, the words and music of a campaign song (Weed thought the music unnecessary), and used illust[13 more...]
Lewis Gaylord Clark (search for this): chapter 4
rly letters to Weed: I think you take the wrong view of the political bearing of this matter, though I act without reference to that (the italics are his), and Weed was powerless to repress Greeley's advocacy of what he considered vagaries in the Tribune. Weed says that he found Greeley in the early years of their acquaintance, when they were most intimate, unselfish, conscientious, public-spirited, and patriotic. He had no habits or taste but for work-steady, indomitable work. Lewis Gaylord Clark, in the Knickerbocker, said of Greeley: A man careless, it may be, of the style of his dress, preferring comfort to fashion, but yet of scrupulous cleanliness in person and habiliments always; possessing a benevolent heart, and clothed with charity as with a garment ; frank and fearless in the expression of his opinions, whether such opinions are to be praised or execrated; of infatigable industry, and unpretending, kindly manners-this is Horace Greeley. The young man was at that t
Martin Buren (search for this): chapter 4
ime editing a newspaper had a fight on his hands, not so desperately against overdue notes as against a most powerful political opposition. That man was Thurlow Weed, and his opposition, known as The Albany Regency, included such leaders as Martin Van Buren, William L. Marcy, and Silas Wright. Weed had founded the Albany Evening Journal in March, 1830, and for several years had not only written all its editorial articles, but had reported the legislative proceedings, selected the miscellany, c rich richer and the poor poorer. Weed has been severely criticized for the defeat of Clay in the National Convention of 1839. Clay received early assurance that Weed was warmly and zealously in favor of his election, and Shepard, in his Martin Van Buren, says that the slaughter of Henry Clay had been effected by the now formidable Whig politicians of New York, cunningly marshaled by Thurlow Weed. Weed did work against the election of Clay delegates to the convention, but he did so because
Abraham Lincoln (search for this): chapter 4
-of my next number, and caught my valise for Albany again. As a further illustration of his industry, we find this remark in his Busy Life: As my small [Albany] paper did not require all my time, I made condensed reports of the Assembly debates for the Evening Journal, and wrote some articles for its editorial columns. The political friendship-partnership, it has been called-thus begun between Weed and Greeley lasted until 1854, or, so far as Weed was concerned, until the nomination of Lincoln in 1860. Their usefulness as co-workers can not easily be overestimated. Weed was the cool, calculating, far-seeing politician, who would leave unsaid or undone what it was right to say or to do, if this would favor his party's success, and who worked for ends, without a constant criticism of means. Greeley was not nearly so far-seeing in political matters as he was credited with being, but he was desperately honest in his convictions, and eminently fitted to give them expression. As il
Martin Van Buren (search for this): chapter 4
in shaping the fortunes of parties and candidates the history of the United States has proved in later years. On President Van Buren was laid the responsibility for the long list of business failures, the monetary evils, and the commercial stagnation. What constitutional or legal justification can Mr. Van Buren offer to the people of the United States for having brought upon them all their present difficulties? was the language of a remonstrance drawn up by a committee of New York city mery liable to impeachment. The Log Cabin announced that it would not print articles assailing the private character of Mr. Van Buren, or any of his supporters, but in doing so it gave this keen thrust: We do not think it at all material to the present contest to prove Mr. Van Buren a slippery lawyer, dishonest as a man, or incorrect in private life. We have no warfare with him as an individual. As election day approached, the paper's efforts in behalf of its ticket became more and more earne
William H. Seward (search for this): chapter 4
Marcy, and Silas Wright. Weed had founded the Albany Evening Journal in March, 1830, and for several years had not only written all its editorial articles, but had reported the legislative proceedings, selected the miscellany, collected the local news, read the proofs, and sometimes made up the forms for the press. His fight in the first presidential campaign after his paper was founded (in 1832) ended in the loss of the State and the nation by his candidate, Henry Clay, and Marcy defeated Seward for Governor the year following. The Whig party, as the National Republicans had come to be called, was stunned by these defeats, and when Harrison ran against Van Buren in 1836, Van Buren carried forty-two of the fifty-six counties of New York State, Massachusetts wasted her vote on Webster, and Van Buren carried New England and had a popular majority over his three opponents. But the Whigs were now to have as an ally the influence most potent, perhaps, in the politics of a republic — a
R. W. Griswold (search for this): chapter 4
in New York city. He had taken as practical an interest in political meetings as his time would allow, and had so far overcome the feeling of ridicule with which his first appearance had been greeted, that he had been offered (and declined) a place on the city Assembly ticket. His pen, too, was in demand, and for editorial contributions to, and for a time the practical supervision of, the Daily Whig, a short-lived journal, he received a salary of $12 a week. Greeley, in a letter to R. W. Griswold dated March 18, 1839, said: I think better of my new pet, the Whig. I write the editorial for that, and edit it generally. Don't you think it better than formerly? If not, it's wretched bad, that's a fact. It is rather gaining in patronage. The first number of the Jeffersonian was issued on February 17, 1838, with Horace Greeley's name as editor under the title. Its prospectus announced its purpose to be to supply a notorious and vital deficiency-to furnish counties and neighbor
Henry Clay (search for this): chapter 4
n the loss of the State and the nation by his candidate, Henry Clay, and Marcy defeated Seward for Governor the year followirer. Weed has been severely criticized for the defeat of Clay in the National Convention of 1839. Clay received early asClay received early assurance that Weed was warmly and zealously in favor of his election, and Shepard, in his Martin Van Buren, says that the slaughter of Henry Clay had been effected by the now formidable Whig politicians of New York, cunningly marshaled by Thurlow Weed. Weed did work against the election of Clay delegates to the convention, but he did so because he foresaw that Clay woulClay would probably be defeated at the polls, and that there was a good chance of Harrison's election; and he proved himself a wise friend of Clay by urging him, in the campaign of 1844, to write no letters, advice that was disregarded with disastrous consnces. Greeley who, as he expressed it, profoundly loved Henry Clay, and looked for his nomination, defended Weed in this ma
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