This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...Response--The Spring Elections--The Democracy Weakens Perceptibly--Greeley Smiles upon the Movement. By this time the newspaper syndicate had been reinforced by several valuable allies. Horace Greeley himself had joined them for one. The way in which he became converted to their cause, through his own ambition ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...Response--The Spring Elections--The Democracy Weakens Perceptibly--Greeley Smiles upon the Movement. By this time the newspaper syndicate had been reinforced by several valuable allies. Horace Greeley himself had joined them for one. The way in which he became converted to their cause, through his own ambition to be President, will be told in that portion of this book which we have devoted to the personal history of Mr. Greeley. The fact must be mentioned here, however, that since the summer of 1871, when Greeley returned from the South, imbued with the idea that he was personally stronger there than any other public man, his Tribune had nothing favorable to say of Grant's Administration; and the vials of wrath which it had so carefully husbanded when Tammany needed denunciation, were emptied out upon the New York Custom House and upon the National Administralion, as the responsible guardian thereof. One or two journals, hitherto Democratic, also whispered that they could be counted upon, in whatever hazard, as partners in the formation of a new party under a name other than that which the ancient Democracy has so long abused. These journals were the Missouri Republican and the Louisville Courierjournal, the former of which, at any rate, had a record unquestionably and unvaryingly Democratic. THE DEMOCRATS PASSIVE. This promise of passivism on the part of the Democrats was soon acquiesced in by nearly all the influential papers of that party, including the World, of New York, and the Times, of Chicago; by several prominent politicians, also, though the Simon-pure old hunkers--wheelhorses of the party coach--were slow to give in their adherence, John Quincy Adams, Jr., who had served the Democrats once or twice by lending them the name of the...
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b/w Illustrations. Good. No Jacket. 8vo. First Edition, First Printing; dark brown embossed c w/some wear at top edge, bottom spine, in mylar protective wraps; ownr's name; 570 clean, unmarked pages...contains also Review of Grant's Administration; the Queer Record of Horace Greeley.
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