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When Abraham Lincoln was serving as a congressman in 1848, he and Horace Greeley first met. Greeley was an abolitionist and the editor of the later to be pro-Republican New York City newspaper, the New York Tribune. Later the Tribune would become involved in Abraham Lincoln's political career.The Tribune was a nationally read newspaper and at time, Greeley and Lincoln would agree or disagree on various important issues such as slavery. This was important when Lincoln won the US presidency. As an abolitionist, Greeley had influence with Radical Republicans, with whom Lincoln needed for support.

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