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A Guide to the Horace Greeley Collection Greeley, Horace. 7669-a

A Guide to the Horace Greeley Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7669-a


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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
7669-a
Title
Horace Greeley Collection [ca. 1869]
Extent
1 item
Creator
Location
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Horace Greeley Collection, Accession 7669-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Purchase 1994 December 5

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • John T. Hoffman
  • Ulysses S. Grant
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Cuba
  • North America
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Item Listing

Manuscript
  • "Greeley's Platform" consisting of six pages of resolutions, with the paragraphs numbered and later re-numbered in red; labelled on the verso.
    [ca. 1869]
    AMs, 6 p.

    [Addresses the following topics: the rule of President Ulysses S. Grant , fraudulent voting by "repeaters" and aliens, the bill of John T. Hoffman to preserve the rights of legal voters, the Tammany Society , the Fifteenth Amendment, payment of the national debt resulting from the Civil War, and the opportunity for "a glorious constellation of confederated Republics" in North America , especially Cuba . ]

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