Known by the Company He Keeps, the End Draws Near for Horace Greeley

(GREELEY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN). [ANON.]. Mr. Greeley and the Reformers. [Caption title]. Narrow folio broadside, printed in two columns, 19" x 9". Near fine. [New York?: 1872]. $375.00

A radical Republican during the War, a supporter of Johnson's impeachment, by 1867 Greeley recommended a general amnesty and here, four or five years later, as he opposes Grant and seeks the nomination for President for himself, he is accused of bad judgment and bad friends, including General John Cochrane, a Tammany Republican of New York, plus numerous supporters from among the recent Confederate military corp.

The first column of the broadside attempts to demonstrate that the farther from New York one goes, the more appreciated is Greeley, but even as far away as Detroit, Greeley's choice of friends and his supporters are questioned--the second column is entirely from the Detroit Tribune.

This broadside is representative of the campaign. DAB concludes that, "In an exceptionally abusive campaign, Greeley was attacked as a traitor, a fool, an ignoramus, and a crank, and will pilloried in merciless cartoons by Nast to others..." Concerning his trouncing in the election at the hands of Grant, DAB concludes, "the wide popular feeling that his judgment of both men and policies was hopelessly weak." In less than two months, Greeley was insane, and died shortly thereafter. Only in death was he praised.