While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Many small newspapers relied heavily on the reporting and editorials of the Tribune. Election of 1872

After supporting Ulysses Grant in the 1868 election Greeley broke from Grant and the Radicals. [dead link] He promoted all sorts of agrarian reforms including homestead laws.

presidential election. Grant's Republican administration he was the new Liberal Republican Party's candidate in the 1872 U.