Informing a Nation Horace Greeley Author:Edward Allen Horace Greeley's belief in the destiny of the United States became the guiding spirit of the New York Tribune, once the largest and most-powerful newspaper in the nation in the last half of the 1800s. His cry of "Go West, Young Man, and grow up with the country" became the impetus for pushing the frontier further and further west. He was among... more » the first to advocate labor's right to organize and women's rights. He helped nominate Abraham Lincoln for President and he himself ran against Grant for President.« less