In August, fearing a Democratic victory and acceptance of the Confederacy, Greeley engaged in a plot to get a new convention to nominate another candidate, with Lincoln withdrawing.
Instead of merely celebrating it as a victory for acceptance, one needs to ask why it took the Vatican so long, why it had given in to denialism for so many decades and why it, too, in this respect, had abandoned the world and the Armenians.
Themes of redemption, revenge, confirmation of love, victory, or acceptance are all common themes.
But he told the meeting convened by the US president, Barack Obama, in New York that the world might be heading towards a "moral victory" with growing acceptance "that it can never be right to kill in the name of God".
After his victory last year, Corbyn's acceptance speech was criticised for having little to say about reaching out to the country as a whole.
In Korea, we responded in June, 1950, with courage and a commitment, but we allowed the fearmongers among us to whittle that initial commitment to victory down to an acceptance of a humiliating stalemate.
After the nomination, Nixon held his hands in the air with two "v" signs of victory and delivered the acceptance speech he had been writing for the past two weeks.
Others, however, believe recent gay rights victories and greater societal acceptance have led to complacency.
Peter Schneider, a writer and astute observer of life here, said there was a growing acceptance that the victory of capitalism had never been as black-and-white as it appeared after Germans took hammers to the wall.
Barack Obama, whose hair is slightly grayer now, was elegant and majestic as he delivered a flawless acceptance speech; the victory was and is ours.
