1865 JEFFERSON DAVIS & HORACE GREELEY. Rare Carte de Visite Celebrating an Iconic Moment in Reconstruction Preaching Tone up the public mind

Tone up the public mind

Benjamin Broomhall

African Civilization and the Cotton Trade

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1865 JEFFERSON DAVIS & HORACE GREELEY. Rare Carte de Visite Celebrating an Iconic Moment in Reconstruction Preaching Tone up the public mindHorace Greeley, one of the "Secret Six" who funded John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry, was, needless to say, a radical abolitionist, pro Civil War, and had no tolerance for the Confederacy. That said, he was for the just treatment of all men. When Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederacy, had been captured and held for over a year in Richmond without even the beginning of a trial, Greeley took to the press to demand that Davis either be