Part of it, however, was also personal: In 1862, the year before Lincoln delivered his Address, four members of the Patriot and Union's highest-ranking staff were arrested on suspicion of sedition and imprisoned for 16 days without a hearing. Pens were sharp and bitter. And the Patriot and Union was a Democratic publication. Part of its was good, old-fashioned partisan rancor: Papers back then were openly-institutionally-partisan.
"īut how did that infamous editorial come to be in the first place? How could people charged with writing the first rough draft of history get that draft so ridiculously wrong? It adds: "The Patriot-News regrets the error. "The world will little note nor long remember our emendation of this institution’s record," the paper notes-"but we must do as conscience demands." This week-150 years later, after the paper has come in for a mix of mockery and disbelief at having positioned itself so squarely on the wrong side of history-the the Patriot-News, the 2013 version of the Patriot and Union, is retracting that editorial. For the credit of the nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall be no more repeated or thought of. We pass over the silly remarks of the President.
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