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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7654 (October 18, 1865)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08726.34 Author/Creator: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Newspaper Date: 18 October 1865 Pagination: 8 p. : newspaper Height: 52 cm, Width: 39.7 cm Order a Copy

Discusses President Andrew Johnson's involvement in various aspects of reconstruction. Addresses the responsibility of the Judiciary, not the Executive, in bringing former President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis to trial. Includes a full report on the beauty of Yosemite, written by an unspecified correspondent accompanied by Fred MacCrellish, publisher of the Alta California newspaper in San Francisco, William Ashburner of the State Geological Survey, and Frederic Law Olmsted, architect of Central Park and Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission. Contains a report that declares "the press of Texas does not approve of negro suffrage." Includes a report on labor movement in both the North and South. Contains a missing corner on page seven.

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Ashburner, William, fl. 1865
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
MacCrellish, Fred, fl. 1865
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

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