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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.
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 ...
New York Herald Tribune (New York City) (1924–1966) [369] New York Journal American (New York City) (1937–1966) [370] New York Ledger (New York City) 1851–1903; New York Morning News (New York City) (1844–46) [citation needed] New York Morning Telegraph (New York City, merged with Daily Racing Form) New-York Tribune (New York City ...
However, news came through of the defeat and setback for the Northern forces (see article Battle of Secessionville). Gunn visited the island soon after the battle and filed his report with the Tribune. A two-page copy also was pasted in his diary. [16] Gun returned to New York in September 1862 after visiting Fort Pulaski, St. Augustine, and ...
The Epoch Times – New York City; The Evening Tribune – Hornell; Finger Lakes Times – Geneva; The Ithaca Journal – Ithaca; The Journal News – White Plains; The Leader – Corning; The Leader-Herald – Gloversville; Lockport Union-Sun & Journal – Lockport; New York Daily News – New York City; New York Law Journal – New York State ...
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 ...
The 1861 New York state election was held on November 5. Of the nine statewide elective offices up for election, eight were carried by Union men, and one by a Democrat. The approximate party strength at this election, as gathered from the vote for Secretary of State and the short-term Canal Commissioner was: Democrats 190,000; Republicans 180,000; and War Democrats 117,000.
The New York Herald, December 8, 1862. The first issue of the paper was published by James Gordon Bennett Sr., on May 6, 1835. [1] The Herald distinguished itself from the partisan papers of the day by the policy that it published in its first issue: "We shall support no party—be the agent of no faction or coterie, and we care nothing for any election, or any candidate from president down to ...