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Lincoln and Greeley
Horace Greeley, of the New York Tribune, had been urging
Lincoln "On to Richmond" before the Battle of Bull Run on July
21st 1861. After the battle, Greeley's tone changed dramatically.
"This is my seventh sleepless night—yours, too, doubtless, yet I
think I shall not die, because I have no right to die," Greeley writes
President Lincoln on this day in, 1861. "Can the Rebels be
beaten, after all that has occurred, and in view of the actual state
of feeling caused by our late awful disaster?....And if they cannot
be beaten—if our recent disaster's fatal—do not feat to sacrifice
yourself to your country. If the Rebels are not to be beaten...then
every drop of blood henceforth shed in this quarrel will be
wantonly, wickedly shed...."
Horace Greeley, of the New York Tribune, had been urging
Lincoln "On to Richmond" before the Battle of Bull Run on July
21st 1861. After the battle, Greeley's tone changed dramatically.
"This is my seventh sleepless night—yours, too, doubtless, yet I
think I shall not die, because I have no right to die," Greeley writes
President Lincoln on this day in, 1861. "Can the Rebels be
beaten, after all that has occurred, and in view of the actual state
of feeling caused by our late awful disaster?....And if they cannot
be beaten—if our recent disaster's fatal—do not feat to sacrifice
yourself to your country. If the Rebels are not to be beaten...then
every drop of blood henceforth shed in this quarrel will be
wantonly, wickedly shed...."