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“What I Know about Horace Greeley”

Topic:
The Liberal Republican Movement
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
Date:
January 20, 1872, p. 52
 
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By late 1871, it seemed increasingly likely that a group of Republican liberals would oppose President Ulysses S. Grant’s reelection for a variety of reasons.  Although the liberals had supported the Reconstruction policies of congressional Republicans in the late 1860s, most opposed continued federal intervention in the South after the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment in March 1870.  Republican liberals also criticized what they considered to be the Grant administration’s expansionist, bellicose foreign policy.  Although liberals themselves, cartoonist Thomas Nast and editor George William Curtis of Harper’s Weekly did not join the anti-Grant movement because of their personal loyalty to the president and their disagreement with administration critics’ stance that the federal government had no further role to play in protecting civil rights in the South.

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