Grant Carries Jackson County By 27 Votes

GRANT, GREELEY

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 1/21/2008 at 14:39:36

JACKSON SENTINEL,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1872

OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE COUNTY

Ulysses S. Grant carried Jackson County by 27 votes over Horace Greeley. The presidential vote was Ulysses S. Grant- 1884 votes and Horace Greeley- 1857 votes.

JACKSON SENTINEL
DECEMBER 5, 1872

DEATH OF HORACE GREELEY

The sad news of the death of the great Liberal leader and philanthropist, honest old Horace Greeley, was received by all classes of our citizens with genuine feelings of sorrow. But one feeling, and that of unaffected regret, seemed to pervade the breasts of all-his late political friends and foes alike. All felt that a great and good man had departed, one whom the country could ill afford to spare. Whatever of prejudice may have been engendered by the asperities of the heated contest through which we have just passed, it all vanished as Death set his seal upon him, and Republican and Democrat, remembering nothing but the true-hearted, sincere lover of his country and his fellow men mingled their regrets together. Probably the death of no public man since that of Washington had created so profound a feeling of universal sorrow throughout the country and no eulogy can better portray the honest old patriot's worth than the simple announcement, "A Nation Mourns."