[OttawaFreeper]

The author should also remember the Times being that great deal sympathetic to the South during the Civil War and that in turn very reflective of attitudes in New York City at the time as many business interests there depended upon the slavery based economy for trade in and out of New York Harbor.

[DiogenesLamp]

The author should also remember the Times being that great deal sympathetic to the South during the Civil War and that in turn very reflective of attitudes in New York City at the time as many business interests there depended upon the slavery based economy for trade in and out of New York Harbor.

This is exactly correct. All federal laws of the era were intended to protect New York and north eastern business interests, same then as it is now today.

[Pelham]

Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune was the largest circulation NYC daily of that era. It was essentially the official paper of the Whigs and the Republican party.