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

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

Philadelphia in See also:August 1866, and of his authorship of the " Address and See also: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 See also:minister to See also:Austria, which he had already refused, was rejected by the See also:Senate . He retired from public See also:life in 1867 and devoted his See also:time to newspaper See also:work until his death in New York See also:city on the 18th of See also:June 186g . Raymond was an able and polished public speaker; one of his best known speeches was a greeting to See also:Kossuth, whose cause he warmly defended . But his See also:great work was in elevating the See also:style and general See also:tone of American journalism . He published several books, including a See also:biography of President Lincoln—The Life and Public Services of See also:Abraham Lincoln (1865), which in substance originally appeared as A See also:History of the See also:Administration of President Lincoln (1864) . See See also:Augustus Maverick, See also:Henry J . Raymond and the New York See also:Press for See also:Thirty Years (See also:Hartford, See also: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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