It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork as human freedom. ~Horace Greeley For those of you who dont know who Greeley is: Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery. The New York Tribune (which he founded and edited) was the most influential U.S. newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and established Greeleys 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 in favor of a host of reforms ranging from vegetarianism to socialism. Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grants Republican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Partys candidate in the 1872 U.S. presidential election. Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide. He is the only presidential candidate to have died prior to the counting of electoral votes.
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