From Pink Lemonade To Salt River: Horace Greeley's Utopia and the Death of the Whig Party

Journalism History | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, combined his beliefs in abolitionism, the free-soil movement, and a high protective tariff with Fourierism, a nineteenth-century Utopian theory, to create a destabilizing effect on the second-party system, contributing to the formation of the Republican Party. This article illustrates Tribune partisanship in the 1840s and 1850s with references to editorials, Whig campaign documents, the correspondence of Greeley and associates William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed, and Association Discussed, a controversial series of exchanges with New York Times ...

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