Horace Greeley

Forty-eight years before American women gained the right to vote, the pioneering women's rights activist cast a vote in the presidential election between Ulysses S.

Grant and Horace Greeley.

Anthony, who showed up to vote along with 14 other women, was arrested two weeks later.

In her federal court case, She unsuccessfully argued that the 14th Amendment gave her the right to vote as a citizen of the United States.

Yes, Father.

And don't forget Wendell Phillips and Horace Greeley.

No, Father.

Martin, I've been thinking.

but...

And John Brown is one man who's worked harder for that than anyone else.

He's accomplished more than Garrison, Phillips, Greeley, and myself combined.

My place is at his side, whether there be action or not.

He assured the grieving Charles Livermore that if anyone could make contact with Estelle's spirit, it would be Kate Fox.

A relationship was established and Charles and Kate started meeting regularly, sometimes in the Livermore's New York home and sometimes in the residence of Horace Greeley, the famous founder of the New York Tribune newspaper, who had become a patron of the Fox sisters.

At their first few meetings, Livermore heard the loud knocking sounds that the Fox sisters had become famous for.

He witnessed a heavy table levitate off the floor.

This was largely thanks to a group of spiritualists who formed the influential New York Circle in 1851.

This group purported to be a scientifically-minded organization who were interested in understanding the root causes of paranormal activity.

One of the most high-profile members of this group was the famous newspaper publisher and progressive politician Horace Greeley.

By 1850, Greeley's New York Tribune was one of the most popular newspapers in the city, and Greeley was well-known as a politically outspoken reformer and anti-slavery advocate.

Very soon after the close of the Civil War, some of them began to protest vigorously against the policies and conduct of their leaders.

In 1872, the dissenters, calling themselves liberal Republicans, broke away altogether, nominated a candidate of their own, Horace Greeley, and put forward a platform indicting the Republican president fiercely enough to please the most uncompromising Democrat.

They accused Grant of using the powers and opportunities of his high office for the promotion of personal ends.

They charged him with retaining notoriously corrupt and unworthy men in places of power and responsibility.

They alleged that the Republican Party kept alive the passions and resentments of the late Civil War to use them for their own advantage, and employed the public service of the government as a machinery of corruption and personal influence.

it was not apparent however from the ensuing election that any considerable number of republicans accepted the views of the liberals greeley though endorsed by the democrats was utterly routed and died of a broken heart the lesson of his discomfiture seemed to be that independent action was futile So at least it was regarded by most men of the rising generation, like Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Theodore Roosevelt of New York.

Profiting by the experience of Greeley, they insisted in season and out that reformers who desired to rid the party of abuses should remain loyal to it and do their work on the inside.

The Mugwumps and Cleveland Democracy in 1884 Though aided by Republican dissensions, the Democrats were slow in making headway against the political current.

Pointing to a piece of bread from which he had just eaten his dinner, he said, Unless you can live cheaper than I can, you cannot starve me out.

it was so that he proved the wisdom of edmund burke saying that he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill our antagonist is our helper the poor and friendless lad george peabody weary footsore and hungry called at a tavern in concord new hampshire and asked to be allowed to saw wood for lodging and breakfast yet he put in work for everything he ever received and outmatched the poverty of early days gideon lee could not even get shoes to wear in winter when a boy but he went to work barefoot in the snow he made a bargain with himself to work sixteen hours a day he fulfilled it to the letter and when from interruption he lost time he robbed himself of sleep to make it up he became a wealthy merchant of new york mayor of the city and a member of congress commercial courage the business affairs of a gentleman named roos were once in a complicated condition owing to his conflicting interests in various states and he was thrown into prison while confined he wrote on the walls of his cell i am forty years of age this day when i am fifty i shall be worth half a million and by the time i am sixty i shall be worth a million dollars he lived to accumulate more than three million dollars the ruin which overtakes so many merchants says whipple is due not so much to their lack of business talent as to their lack of business nerve cyrus w field had retired from business with a large fortune when he became possessed with the idea that by means of a cable laid upon the bottom of the atlantic ocean telegraphic communication could be established between europe and america he plunged into the undertaking with all the force of his being it was an incredibly hard contest the forests of newfoundland the lobby in congress the unskilled handling of brakes on his agamemnon cable a second and a third breaking of the cable at sea the cessation of the current in a well-laid cable the snapping of a superior cable on the great eastern all these availed not to foil the iron will of field whose final triumph was that of mental energy in the application of science four new york journalists to horace greeley the founder of the tribune i need not allude his story is or ought to be in every school book James Brooks, once the editor and proprietor of the Daily Express and later an eminent congressman, began life as a clerk in a store in Maine, and when twenty-one received for his pay a hog's head of New England rum.

He was so eager to go to college that he started for Waterville with his trunk on his back, and when he was graduated he was so poor and plucky that he carried his trunk on his back to the station as he went home.

when james gordon bennett was forty years old he collected all his property three hundred dollars and in a cellar with a board upon two barrels for a desk himself his own typesetter office-boy publisher newsboy clerk editor proof-reader and printer's devil he started the new york herald he did this after many attempts and defeats in trying to follow the routine instead of doing his own way never was any man's early career a better illustration of wendell phillips dictum what is defeat nothing but education nothing but the first steps to something better thurlow weed who was a journalist for fifty-seven years strong sensible genial tactful and of magnificent physique who did so much to shape public policy in the empire state tells a most romantic story of his boyhood i cannot ascertain how much schooling i got at catskill probably less than a year certainly not a year and a half and this was when i was not more than five or six years old i felt a necessity at an early age of trying to do something for my own support my first employment was in sugar-making an occupation to which i became much attached i now look with great pleasure upon the days and nights passed in the sap-bush the want of shoes which as the snow was deep was no small privation was the only drawback upon my happiness i used however to tie pieces of an old rag carpet around my feet and got along pretty well chopping wood and gathering up sap but when the spring advanced and bare ground appeared in spots i threw off the old carpet encumbrance and did my work barefoot there is much leisure time for boys who are making maple sugar i devoted this time to reading when i could obtain books but the farmers of that period had few or no books save their bibles i borrowed books whenever and wherever i could i heard that a neighbour three miles off had borrowed from a still more distant neighbour a book of great interest i started off barefoot in the snow to obtain the treasure there were spots of bare ground upon which i would stop to warm my feet and there were also along the road occasional lengths of log fence from which the snow had melted and upon which it was a luxury to walk the book was at home and the good people consented upon my promise that it should be neither torn nor soiled to lend it to me in returning with the prize i was too happy to think of the snow or my naked feet candles were then among the luxuries not the necessaries of life if boys instead of going to bed after dark wanted to read they supplied themselves with pine knots by the light of which in a horizontal position they pursued their studies in this manner with my body in the sugar-house and my head out of doors where the fat pine was blazing i read with intense interest the book i had borrowed a history of the french revolution weed's next earning was in an iron foundry at onondaga my business was after a casting to temper and prepare the moulding dogs myself this was night and day work we ate salt pork and rye and indian bread three times a day and slept on straw in bunks i liked the excitement of a furnace life when he went to the albany argus to learn the printing business he worked from five in the morning till nine at night from humblest beginnings the more difficulties one has to encounter within and without the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be horace bushnell the story of weed and of greeley is not an uncommon one in america some of the most eminent men on the globe have struggled with poverty in early life and triumphed over it The astronomer Kepler, whose name can never die, was kept in constant anxieties, and he told fortunes by astrology for a livelihood, saying that astrology, as the daughter of astronomy, ought to keep her mother.

They moved to New York City where their public seances attracted a bunch of celebrities at the time.

And this publisher, Horace Greeley, he became like a mentor for them.

So they were moving now into like higher social circles.

Now it's kind of like becoming a status thing to get to be rubbing elbows with these like famous mediums.

It is scarcely possible to close a chapter upon American prose writers without referring to at least one of the great editors who have done so much to mold American public opinion.

To James Gordon Bennett and Charles A. Dana, only passing reference need be made, but Horace Greeley deserves more extended treatment.

Early in the last century, on a rocky little farm in New Hampshire, lived a man by the name of Zacchaeus Greeley, a good neighbor but a bad manager, so bad that in 1820, when his son Horace was nine years old, the farm was seized by the sheriff and sold for debt.

The proceeds of the sale did not pay the debt, and so, in order to escape arrest, for they imprisoned people for debt in those days, Zacchaeus Greeley fled across the border into Vermont, where his family soon joined him.

Indeed, he counseled peaceful separation rather than war, as did many others, but he was later a staunch supporter of President Lincoln's policy.

We have also spoken of the fact that when Grant was renominated for president in 1872, a large section of the party, believing him incompetent, broke away from the party and named a candidate of their own.

The party they formed was called the Liberal Republican, and their candidate was Horace Greeley.

They managed to secure for him the support of the Democratic Convention, which placed him at the head of the Democratic ticket, but they could not secure the support of the Democrats themselves, who could not forget that Greeley had been fighting them all his life, and the result was that he was overwhelmingly defeated.

In theory, folks designed this stuff to avoid delays or harsh conditions, but sometimes reality decided differently.

As the Erie War escalated in 1853 and tracks were torn up, Horace Greeley, a famous New York newspaper editor of the day, described rail passengers walking seven miles from Harbor Creek to Erie in the snow.

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