More today about Lundberg's book on Greeley. On pp. 64-65, he is discussing Greeley's opposition to the war with Mexico. "When the issue became apparent, Greeley was sure [in 1847] that a long-silenced Southern majority would overthrow Calhoun and his cabal." Greeley formed three critical views at about this time, while opposing war with Mexico. First, that the aristocratic planters who owned most of the south's slaves were a powerful conspiratorial force, extending themselves not just west but north. Second, that a unified "north" had to be called into existence by the force of his own paper and such allies as could be mustered, to oppose this force (to oppose those he would soon start calling the Slave Power). Third, that the downtrodden southern whites, who owned few or no slaves, would before long join forces with the North and overthrow their social superiors in that region. One great theme of Lundberg's book is that Greeley was wildly mistaken...