Horace Greeley Quotes
He cannot conceive of a tempest outside a teapot.
Referring to Wendell Phillips, the reformer and abolitionist:
Horace Greeley, 1811-1872, Newspaper Editor & Candidate for the Liberal Republican Presidential nomination (Defeated by Grant), Quoted in Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition, Vintage 1948
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At the time McCarthy made this statement he was suffering from an advanced state of alcoholism. He was censured. See {619921}.
This was the worst storm that hit the East Coast that anyone could remember. Despite the Governor’s shock, he and the other East Coast Governors together with the Federal and local governments performed magnificently keeping the fatalities very low considering the ferocity of the storm and the tens of millions of people affected.
Horace Greeley 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 landslide.
