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Horace Greeley

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United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872)

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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. John S. Mosby

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. Source: Internet

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". Source: Internet

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!” Source: Internet

“Go west, young man,” the editor Horace Greeley supposedly exhorted when the West was still unsettled. Source: Internet

Grant's decisive re-election was achieved in the face of a split within the Republican Party that resulted in a third party of Liberal Republicans nominating Horace Greeley to oppose Grant. Source: Internet

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