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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 9: Greeley's presidential campaign-his death (search)
the reformers was not this, but some sinful game on the part of the politicians which would defeat Adams and deprive the movement of all weight and significance. To Adams objection was made that he had not been identified with the Liberal movement; that he was cold-blooded, and would arouse no enthusiasm in the West, and that his relations with Sumner would drive the latter back to Grant if Adams was nominated. That Adams was not a practical politician was shown by the publication, on April 25, of a letter addressed by him to David A. Wells, in which he said: I do not want the nomination, and could only be induced to consider it by the circumstances under which it might possibly be made. If the call upon me were an unequivocal one, based upon confidence in my character, earned in public life, and a belief that I would carry out in practise the principles that I professed, then indeed would come a test of my courage in an emergency; but if I am to be negotiated for, and hav