1872 Horace Greeley CdV Candidate U. S. President vs. Ulysses S. Grant , Go West

Description: Antique Carte de Visite ( CdV ) Portrait of Horace Greeley 2 3/8" x 3 7/8" Printed on the back of the CdV : " Agents Wanted To Sell the Most Popular Pictures. Walter S. Calvert , Wholesale and Retail Dealer , 50 Bank Street , New London , Connecticut " This photograph was once owned by a person who did not want Greeley as president , apparently preferring Ulysses S. Grant . Handwritten on the back, in old pencil : " Horace Greeley , President of the U. S. , No No No " In 1872 Horace Greeley was a candidate for President of the United States. Horace Greeley ( 1811 - 1872) was an American author and statesman, and was the founder and editor of the New York Tribune , among the great newspapers of its time. In 1838 Greeley advised "any young man" about to start in the world, " Go to the West: there your capabilities are sure to be appreciated and your energy and industry rewarded." Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York. Greeley was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant. Good Condition ; as seen in the photos. 150 years old. Carefully Packed for Shipment to the Buyer. Have a Look at my listings of Old and Antique Items ------------ Biographical Information: Horace Greeley (1811-1872) Horace Greeley, the son of a New England farmer and day laborer, was born in Amherst , New Hampshire in February 1811. The economic struggles of his family meant that Greeley received only irregular schooling, which ended when he was fourteen. He then apprenticed to a newspaper editor in Vermont, and found employment as a printer in New York and Pennsylvania. Seeking to improve his prospects, he gathered his possessions and a small amount of money, and in 1831, set out for New York City. The twenty year old Greeley found various jobs, which provided some capital, and in 1834, he founded a weekly literary and news journal, the New Yorker. An omnivorous reader, eager to write as well as edit, Greeley contributed to the journal. It gained an increasing audience and gave him a wide reputation. However, it failed to make money, and Greeley supplemented his income by writing, especially in support of the Whig party. His connections with Thurlow Weed, William H. Seward, and other Whigs led, in 1 840, to his editorship of the campaign weekly, the Log Cabin. The paper's circulation rose to about 90,000, and contributed significantly both to William Henry Harrison's victory and Greeley's influence. Greeley also directly participated in the Whig campaign by giving speeches, sitting on committees, and helping to manage the state campaign. In April 1841, Greeley set himself on the path to national prominence and power when he launched the New York Tribune. The Tribune was multifaceted, devoting space to politics, social reform, literary and intellectual endeavors, and news. It was very much Greeley's personal vehicle. An egalitarian and idealist, Greeley espoused a variety of causes. He popularized the communitarian ideas of Fourier, and invested in a Fourier utopian community at Red Bank, New Jersey. He advocated the homestead principle of distributing free government land to settlers, attacked the exploitation of wage labor, denounced monopolies, and opposed capital punishment. Assisted by a talented and versatile staff, a number of whom were identified with the Transcendentalist movement, Greeley made the Tribune an enormous success. It merged with the Log Cabin and New Yorker, expanded its staff and circulation throughout the 1840s and 1850s, and by the eve of the Civil War had a total circulation of more than a quarter of a million. This number, however, vastly understated the paper's influence, as each copy often had more than one reader. The weekly Tribune was the preeminent journal in the rural North. Greeley opposed slavery as morally deficient and economically regressive, and during the 1850s, he supported the movement to prevent its extension. He opposed the Mexican War, approved the Wilmot Proviso, which called for the restriction of slavery in territories gained as a result of that war, and denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Greeley's free-soil sentiments brought him quickly into the Republican party's camp, and he attended the national organization meeting of the party at Pittsburgh in February 1856. He supported the Republican candidate in the presidential contest of 1856, and four years later, he attended the Republican national convention in Chicago. Initially supporting Edward Bates, he turned to Lincoln on the eve of the balloting. The secession crisis found Greeley strongly opposed to making concessions to slavery. He denounced the Crittenden proposals, and while he argued that succession should be allowed if a majority of southerners truly wanted it, he made clear his belief t hat the rebellion was, in fact, the work of an unscrupulous minority. Once war came, Greeley joined the radical antislavery faction of the Republican party and demanded the early end of slavery. He denounced more conservative Republicans, like Francis and Montgomery Blair, and criticized Lincoln for proceeding too cautiously to eradicate the institution. When Abraham Lincoln finally announced his Emancipation Proclamation , Greeley applauded the decision. During and after the Civil War , Greeley's political course proved highly controversial. His reluctance to support Lincoln's renomination in 1864 lost him some popular support, as did his premature efforts to bring about an armistice and peace negotiat ions. After the war, he joined the Congressional Radicals in supporting equality for the freedmen. The Tribune also advocated the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. At the same time, Greeley favored measures to restore relations with the South. In 1867, he recommended Jefferson Davis's release from prison, and he signed Davis's bond. He gradually grew disaffected with the Grant administration because of its corruption and indifference to civil service reform, and also because of its continued enforcement of Reconstruction measures in the South. While much admired, Greeley was also regarded as eccentric and odd, in both his personal appearance and his reformist ideas. His behavior during and after the war raised widespread doubts about his judgment. In 1872, the anti-Grant Liberal Republicans and the Democrats nominated Greeley to challenge Grant for the office of U. S. President. Greeley was attacked as a fool and a crank. So merciless was the assault that Greeley commented later that he sometimes wondered whether he was running for the presidency or the penitentiary. He suffered a tremendous defeat in the election, carrying only six border and southern states. During the period following the Civil War , Greeley's association with the Tribune underwent significant change. The era of personal editorship was ending, and as the Tribune increased in size, Greeley's influence diminished. Following his defeat in the election of 1872, Greeley found that control of the paper had passed out of his hands. Shocked by his electoral repudiation, the recent death of his wife, and the effective loss of his editorship, Greeley suffered a breakdown of both mind and body. He died on November 29, 1872. Despite the venom that had been spewed over him in the presidential campaign, Greeley's death was publicly mourned. Harper's Weekly, which had printed Thomas Nast cartoons mocking Creeley , wrote: "Since the assassination of Mr. Abraham Lincoln , the death of no American has been so sincerely deplored as that of Horace Greeley; and its tragical circumstances have given a peculiarly affectionate pathos to all that has been said of him." Henry Ward Beecher wrote in the Christian Union : " When Horace Greeley died, unjust and hard judgment of him died also". Harriett Beecher Stowe noted Greeley's eccentric dress : "That poor white hat! If, alas, it covered many weaknesses, it covered also much strength, much real kindness and benevolence, and much that the world will be better for". Greeley's view of freedom was based in the desire that all should have the opportunity to better themselves. According to his biographer, Erik S. Lunde : "a dedicated social reformer deeply sympathetic to the treatment of poor white males , slaves , free blacks , and white women , he still espoused the virtues of self-help and free enterprise". Van Deusen stated : "His genuine human sympathies, his moral fervor, even the exhibitionism that was a part of his makeup, made it inevitable that he should crusade for a better world. He did so with apostolic zeal." Nevertheless, Greeley's effectiveness as a reformer was undermined by his idiosyncrasies. According to Williams, he "must have looked like an apparition, a man of eccentric habits dressed in an old linen coat that made him look like a farmer who came into town for supplies". Van Deusen wrote, "Greeley's effectiveness as a crusader was limited by some of his traits and characteristics. Culturally deficient, he was to the end ignorant of his own limitations, and this ignorance was a great handicap." The Tribune remained under that name until 1924, when it merged with the New York Herald to become the New York Herald-Tribune, which was published until 1966. The name survived until 2013, when the International Herald-Tribune became the International New York Times. There is a statue of Greeley in City Hall Park in New York. A second statue of Greeley is located in Greeley Square in Midtown Manhattan. Greeley Square, at Broadway and 33rd Street, was named by the New York City Common Council in a vote after Greeley's death. Van Deusen concluded his biography of Greeley : " More significant still was the service that Greeley performed as a result of his faith in his country and his countrymen, his belief in infinite American progress. For all his faults and shortcomings, Greeley symbolized an America that, though often shortsighted and misled, was never suffocated by the wealth pouring from its farms and furnaces ... For through his faith in the American future, a faith expressed in his ceaseless efforts to make real the promise of America, he inspired others with hope and confidence, making them feel that their dreams also had the substance of realty. It is his faith, and theirs that has given him his place in American history. In that faith he still marches among us, scolding and benevolent, exhorting us to confidence and to victory in the great struggles of our own day."

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