Hints Toward Reforms, in Lectures, Addresses, and Other Writings

by Horace Greeley

Excerpt from Hints Toward Reforms, in Lectures, Addresses, and Other Writings

I am tolerably case - hardened to the shafts of periodical wit, and shall receive any that may be in store for me with forti tude if not with complacency. I am quite aware that the Literary merits of this volume are inconsiderable indeed.

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436 pages, Hardcover

First published May 3, 2001

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Horace Greeley was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day."[1] Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as opposition to slavery and a host of reforms. Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U.S. presidential election. Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide. He is currently the only presidential candidate who has died during the electoral process.