Note 2 — Chapter XIV · WHIG FAILURE RESTORES TAMMANY TO POWER 1838-1840
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Ibid., February 17, 1838. James Parton, in his biography of Horace Greeley, attributes the latter’s conversion and life-long devotion to Socialist principles in large part to the frightful sufferings which he witnessed in New York City, in the Winter of 1838.