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James Watson Webb (1802-1884)
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June 4, 2014 9:40 am
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Abraham Lincoln & New York
James Watson Webb (1802-1884)
Webb was a colorful editor in a city with a colorful newspaper tradition. “It is part of our national history that editors of that era took themselves and one another seriously. The pen was a lance, the sheet a shield, behind which they…”
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