On August 20, 1862, an open letter from Horace Greeley to President Lincoln entitled; “The Prayer of the Twenty Millions” appeared in the New York Tribune. On August 22, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln’s response to Greeley was published in the New York Times.
Horace Greeley was a man with influence during the Civil War. Greeley was an abolitionist and the founder of the New York Tribune. The New York Tribune was critical of President Lincoln.