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HENRY JARVIS RAYMOND (1820-1869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 933 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY JARVIS RAYMOND (1820-1869)  ,
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American journalist, was born near the
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village of
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Lima, Livingston county, New York, on the 24th of
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January 182o . He graduated from the university of
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Vermont in 1840 . After assisting Horace Greeley (q.v.) in the conduct of more than one newspaper, Raymond in 1851 formed the
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firm of Raymond, Jones & Co., and the first issue of the New York Times appeared on the 18th of September 1851; of this journal Raymond was editor and chief proprietor until his
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death . Raymond was a member of the New York Assembly in 185o and 1851, and in the latter
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year was
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speaker . He supported the views of the radical anti-
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slavery wing of the Whig party in the North . His nomination over Greeley on the Whig ticket for
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lieutenant-governor in 1854 led to the dissolution of the famous
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political " firm " of Seward, Weed and Greeley . Raymond was elected, and served in 1854-56 . He took a prominent
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part in the formation of the Republican party, and drafted the famous " Address to the
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People " adopted by the Republican convention which met in Pittsburg on the 22nd of
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February 1856 . In 1862 he was again a member, and speaker, of the New York Assembly . During the
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Civil War he supported Lincoln's policy in general, though deprecating his delays, and he was among the first to urge the adoption of a broad and liberal attitude in dealing with the people of the South . In 1865 he was a delegate to the
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National Republican Convention, and was made a member, and chairman, of the Republican National Committee . He was a member of the National House of Representatives in 1865-67, and on the 22nd of December 1865 he ably attacked Thaddeus Stevens's theory of the " dead " states, and, agreeing with the President, argued that the states were never out of the Union, inasmuch as the ordinances of
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secession were null .

In consequence of this, of his prominence in the Loyalist (or National Union) Convention at

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Philadelphia in August 1866, and of his authorship of the " Address and Declaration of Principles," issued by the convention, he lost favour with his party . He was removed from the chairmanship of the Re-publican National Committee in 1866, and in 1867 his nomination as minister to Austria, which he had already refused, was rejected by the Senate . He retired from public
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life in 1867 and devoted his time to newspaper
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work until his death in New York city on the 18th of
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June 186g . Raymond was an able and polished public speaker; one of his best known speeches was a greeting to Kossuth, whose cause he warmly defended . But his
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great work was in elevating the style and general tone of American journalism . He published several books, including a biography of President Lincoln—The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln (1865), which in substance originally appeared as A
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History of the Administration of President Lincoln (1864) . See Augustus Maverick, Henry J . Raymond and the New York Press for
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Thirty Years (
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Hartford, Conn., 1870) ; and " Extracts from the Journal of Henry J . Raymond," edited by his son, Henry H . Raymond, in Scribners' Monthly, vols. xix. and xx . (New York, 1879-80) .

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