Rahway NJ in 1860....

NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, May 16, 1860.

* Rahway New Jersey - Early Arizona - loads of interesting reading throughout this issue - great & unique gift idea

This 8 page newspaper has original news of the day with advertisements. Some of the headlines in this issue include: "Fire at Rahway, N.J" "Arizona News" "The Chicago Convention" "The Post Office Defalcation" "Marine Affairs" and much more. Minor margin wear,otherwise in good nice condition.

 

Historical Background: The New York Tribune was established by Horace Greeley in 1841 and was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States. The Tribune was created by Greeley with the hopes of providing a straightforward, trustworthy media source in an era when newspapers such as the New York Sun and New York Herald thrived on sensationalism. Although considered the least partisan of the leading newspapers, the Tribune did reflect some of Horace Greeley's idealist views. His journal had Karl Marx (and Friedrich Engels) as European correspondant in the early 1850s.[1]

During the American Civil War (18611865) the Tribune was a radicalRepublican newspaper, which supported abolition and subjection of the Confederacy instead of negotiated peace. During the first few months of the war, the Tribune's "on to Richmond" slogan pressured Union general Irvin McDowell into advancing on Richmond before his army was ready, resulting in the disaster of the First Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861. After the failure of the Peninsular Campaign in the spring of 1862, the Tribune pressured PresidentAbraham Lincoln into instating John Pope as commander of the Army of Virginia.

Following Greeley's defeat for the presidency of the United States in 1872, Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Herald, assumed control of the Tribune. Greeley checked into Dr. Choates Sanitarium where he died a few weeks later. Under Reid's son Ogden Mills Reid the paper acquired the New York Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune, which continued to be run by Ogden M. Reid until his death in 1947.

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