Posted on 10/04/2020 6:48:20 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Round us a shield and bright as molten silver the moon uprose last evening about 7 o'clock, touching the cupola of the City Hall with right and throwing out into delicate relief the foliage and branches of the Park trees, as your Reporter hastened from the TIMES Office to Broadway, on his way to view the Wide-Awakes. Even at that early hour, the Park itself and all the sidewalks were densely crowded, the stages and carriages having to slowly crawl up the centre of the street through dense fringes of excited and expectant humanity. Windows and stoops were packed with curious faces; all the corners displayed mass-meetings in embryo -- fresh accessions constantly thronging up from the side streets to swell the numbers or supply the places of those lucky ones who had managed to push their way into the main upward-drifts of the palpitating current. Stepping into a stage and driving up towards Union-square as fast as the many human obstructions would allow us, the scene became more animated and brilliant each moment, as we approached the main centre of attraction. Broadway never more thoroughly displayed its Metropolitan character -- all ranks and varieties of men, women and children being collected and merged together behind its curbstone lines on either hand. Here and there some earnest Republican, not having the fear of Southern excommunication in his heart, had lighted up the entire front of his store with a prodigal display of wax-candles in tin sconces -- the provisions of his policy of insurance being set at naught for this one night. But other store-fronts were dark and dismal, more especially those desirous of figuring in such "white lists" as the enterprising Mr. HAMBLETON, of Georgia, was in the habit of publishing at fifty dollars per name.
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Henry Raymond who founded the Times in 1851 was a leading Republican who was even elected to Congress as one. This was Raymond’s newspaper as one can see from the front page.
Newspapers were partisan quite often for one party or another in a very open way like cable news channels are nowadays.
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