Horace Greeley, Founder And Editor of the New York Tribune
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. . . Only when it sought to involve us in a com- mon effort, a common responsibility, with its upholders and champions, did it force us into an attitude of active, determined an- tagonism." While he could not withhold from the Abolitionists "a certain measure of sympa- thy for their great and good object," he failed to see how they were assisting to secure the end in view — ^how the conversion of all the people of Vermont to Abolitionism would overthrow slavery in Georgia. Hence, "con- 128 The... Antislavery Contest servative by instinct, by tradition, and dis- inclined to reject or leave undone the prac- tical good within reach, while straining after the ideal good that was clearly unattainable, I clung fondly to the Whig party, and depre- cated the Abolition, or third, party in politics, as calculated fatally to weaken the only great national organization which was likely to op- pose an effective resistance to the persist- ent exactions and aggressions of the slave power." But before this was written, Gree- ley had witnessed the death of the Whig party, because it did not make its resistance effective, and had read, if not written, in the Tribune (November 24, 1847) : "As to the ' Abolition party, its movements and fulmina- tions have doubtless had the evil effect ob- served by Mr.
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