One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.

Harold Holzer
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  1. The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

  2. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

  3. Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

  4. At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

  5. I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

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