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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