the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery,
I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to
save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I
could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if
I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I
could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do
that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I
believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear
because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do
less whenever I believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall
do more when I shall believe doing more will help the cause."--_Lincoln's
Works_, Vol. 2, p. 227.]

Thus did Greeley devote his great powers to force Lincoln into
emancipation. It is impossible, even at this distance of time, to turn
the pages of his ponderous volumes without feeling the matchless force
of his energy, the strength of his masterly array of facts, his biting
sarcasm, his bold assumptions, and his clear, unadorned style. There
is about it all an impassioned conviction, as if he spoke because he
could not keep silent, making it impossible to avoid the belief that
the whole soul and conscience of the writer were in his work. Day
after day, with kaleidoscopic change, he marshalled arguments, facts,
and historical parallels, bearing down the reader's judgment as he
swept away like a great torrent the criticisms of himself and the
arguments of his opponents. Nothing apparently could withstand his
onslaught on slavery. With one dash of his pen he forged sentences
that, lance-like, found their way into every joint of the monster's
armour.

Greeley's criticism of the President and the army, however, gave his
enemies vantage ground for renewed attacks. Ever since he suggested,
at the beginning of hostilities, that the _Herald_ did not care which
flag floated over its office, James Gordon Bennett, possessing the
genuine newspaper genius, had daily evinced a deep, personal dislike
of the _Tribune's_ editor, and throughout the discussion of
emancipation, the _Herald_, in bitter editorials, kept its columns in
a glow, tantalising the _Tribune_ with a persistency that recalls
Cheetham's attacks upon Aaron Burr. The strategical advantage lay with
the _Herald_, since the initiative belonged to the _Tribune_, but the
latter had with it the preponderating sen