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In the Hope That the American People May Soon Be Not Merely United but Reconciled — I Am Yours, Horace Greeley 1872 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the red-bearded zealot who seizedIn the Hope That the American People May Soon Be Not Merely United but Reconciled I Am Yours, Horace Greeley 1872 a closing valediction from the Tribune editor's doomed Liberal Republican run against Grant, signed in the exhausted cadence of a man who believed the war's wounds could still be talked closed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional