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Title: Abraham Lincoln's contemporaries
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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Lincoln Memorial Album—Immortelles.
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: SCHUYLER CO LbAX. /&7 EDITORS THAT I HAVE KNOWN. 565 the bellicose utterances of the Evening Post were from the moretrenchant pens of his associates, William Leggett, Parke Godwin,and John Bigelow. Yet his influence was often far-reaching and effective. In 1866the Evening Post had given its voice in behalf of President Johnsonand the proposed new Union party. Its oldest and stanchest pa-trons began to discontinue their subscriptions. Mr. Bryant, leavinghis summer home, came to the rescue. He indited a leading article,a model of precision and fitness for the purpose, which placed thepaper again in accord with its friends. Though often called a radical, he leaned decidedly toward conser-vative sentiments. He was a Unitarian, but disliked TheodoreParker. He hated slavery, but never affiliated with abolitionists, andhad little regard for Charles Sumner. He voted with the Republi-cans, even favoring the election of General Hayes for his partys sake,though somewhat reluctantly, but heabrahamlincolnscsclinc

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