Word: greeleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union without freeing any slave, I would do it?if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it?and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Lincoln penned those lines in a letter to Greeley...
Vexed while traveling by certain citizens of Erie, Pa., Greeley broke forth in the Tribune; "Let Erie be avoided by all travelers until grass shall grow in her streets and until her piemen in despair shall move to some other city...
...Horace Greeley was a onetime schoolmistress who never learned to keep house. A contemporary thus described her: "Mrs. Greeley was a woman rather below the medium size, thin, with dark hair and eyes. She had thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly?not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall...
Horace, a lifelong Republican, was nominated for President of the United States in 1872 by the Democrats. On Oct. 30 of that year Mrs. Greeley died. On Nov. 5 Ulysses S. Grant "won 286 electoral votes to Greeley's 66. On Nov. 7, the Tribune announced: "The undersigned resumes the editorship of the Tribune, which he relinquished on embarking on another line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be his endeavor to make this a thoroughly independent journal, treating all parties and political movements with judicial fairness and candor, but counting the favor and deprecating the wrath...
...HORACB GREELEY ?Don C. Seitz?Bobbs, Merrill...