Greeley
Speech parts
1. Greeley - Noun
2. Greeley - Proper noun
Meaning
United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872)
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Examples
Now while I think as badly of slavery as Horace Greeley did I am not ashamed that my family were slaveholders. It was our inheritance.
Believing his mission impractical, he sailed back to Washington.sfnsfn In July 1864, New York publisher Horace Greeley sent word to Lincoln that there were Southern peace emissaries in Canada.
Baker, 321 Within a week of her death, her New York editor Horace Greeley suggested to Emerson that a biography of Fuller, to be called Margaret and Her Friends, be prepared quickly "before the interest excited by her sad decease has passed away".
As late as 1870, when Julius Chambers sought a job at the Tribune and told Horace Greeley he'd just graduated from Cornell, the editor growled: “I'd damned sight rather you had graduated at a printer's case!”
Greeley reported to Lincoln that the emissaries lacked accreditation by Davis, but were confident they could bring both sides together.
“Go west, young man,” the editor Horace Greeley supposedly exhorted when the West was still unsettled.