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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

— Horace Greeley

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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

Greeley on Lincoln (1893)

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.

The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.

My leading idea was the establishment of a journal removed alike from servile partisanship on the one hand and from gagged, mincing neutrality on the other.

I accept your nomination in the confident trust that the masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.

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