It is strange enough that the man who wrote as a dictator of public opinion in the Tribune on the 9th of November could write two days later the letter to Seward, dissolving the political firm of Seward, Weed, and Greeley.
This statement highlights the contradictions in Greeley's political actions and his abrupt decision to dissolve a significant political alliance.
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Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
Public sentiment generally sustained the Administration in such action, but many persons, including conservative Republicans, frequently questioned the right or justice of such procedure.
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people, until he fancies himself commissioned by heaven to liberate them.
Let us agree to put contentions aside and complete our task.
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