new york tribune editor horace greeley. greeley's probably most famous for saying go west young, and he spent the week warning delegates that seward was too control to win the men thought it was all an act of vengeance since wheat and seward had refused to make greeley lieutenant governor of new york, giving the job instead to new york. ed henry, raymond greeley had a lot of influence with the republicans and his timely was another reason the lincoln miracle happened after the vote. greeley had the nerve to show at the new york headquarters where delegates cast him to face. seward's men, one reporter wrote, accused greeley of stabbing seward and say he shall be for it in less than a year. he was paid for it. the seward team got its revenge on greeley by blocking him from the u.s. senate, though, though, seward put on a good face, he was also devastated. thinking himself far superior to the ill educated inexperienced rail splitter before the november election, n invitedtedly to visit him in springfield and seward only condesc

horace greeley and i'm giving you the reverse as well as the inverse horace greeley for lieutenant governor of new york. when seward went to join the lincoln administration as, secretary of state greeley came very close to becoming the senator until they finally chose ira harris and the state legislature to replace seward. so it was common practice. it was a means i mean, you know, who was the founder of the york post in 1803? alexander hamilton, the spokesman for the federalist, though, who wrote articles under assumed names on the remote federal causes. so it was a long tradition in american politics to sync up newspapers and political organizations. how much was the patriot to the south? the governors? and yeah, it was it was it existed in the south as well there was less of a two party press in the south. there was a there was a vigorous whig and democratic press, the richmond whig, for example. but once secession happens, it's kind of a unicameral press effort. it's a pro-slavery press. and of course, there were no republican editors south of the mason-dixon line, but. of course. perha

media tv or images to reply in newspapers with own position like in the letter in a letter to horace greeley of herald. well, and i in addition to the conversations happening in the press, herald, i know you want to respond to that. i'd also you to speak about leaks, intentional and unintentional. okay. i just wanted to point out the those alleged letters, you know, made sure that the greeley was published in another newspaper while the letter in the mail because he was irritated at greeley for writing him to say, your policies are ridiculous when you're not using the opportunity to enlist black soldiers to fight to fight for the union. he was very tricky with with with public letters we heard we've heard steve inskeep talk about the warning letter that really that was that was a speech. i mean, that i'm sorry, the conkling that was a speech. that was and i think lincoln was going to go to springfield, illinois. he decided he wasn't. and and that occasioned a leak. we all say that conkling was told to very slowly be very dramatic wonderful things in that letter. some of you say you will not