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The New-York Tribune (from 1914: New York Tribune) was an American newspaper founded in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley. It bore the moniker New-York Daily Tribune from 1842 to 1866 before returning to its original name. [1] From the 1840s through the 1860s it was the dominant newspaper first of the American Whig Party, then of the Republican Party.
[7] New York political offices, including the mayor, were historically held by Democrats before the war, but the election of Abraham Lincoln as president had demonstrated the rise in Republican political power nationally. Newly elected New York City Republican Mayor George Opdyke was mired in profiteering scandals in the months leading up to ...
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune.Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a ...
New York Age (New York City) New York Courier and Enquirer (1834, New York City) [367] New York Daily Column (New York City, late 1960s) [citation needed] New York Daily Mirror (New York City) (1924-1963) [368] New York Evening Journal (New York City) 1896–1937; New York Herald (New York City) 1835-1924; New York Herald Tribune (New York City ...
Horace Greeley publishes an editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty Millions", in the New York Tribune, in which he urges President Abraham Lincoln to make abolition of slavery an official aim of the Union war effort. August 28–30 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run – Confederate forces inflict a crushing defeat on Union General John ...
The New York Times also noted that more arrests could be forthcoming. [10] In addition to the rioters, the superintendent of police for Brooklyn charged that some of his own officers had acted with negligence during the riot, [ 11 ] though following testimony from the factory owners that defended the officers' actions, these charges were ...
The Civil War in the United States is a collection of articles on the American Civil War by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, written between 1861 and 1862 for the New-York Tribune and Die Presse of Vienna, and correspondence between Marx and Engels between 1860 and 1866.
Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862.