I forgot to mention that Marx frequently wrote for the New York Tribune for nearly a decade and Dana met Marx in Cologne, Germany, in 1848. From there they began a meaningful media partnership. Dana was put in the position of Assistant Secretary of War and it was Dana who persuaded Lincoln to place Ulysses Grant as Commanding General of the Union Army. After the War, Dana purchased the newspaper The Sun and used it as his powerful press propaganda machine to churn out article after article uplifting Grant as a Civil War hero and influence the public to vote for him in 1868.

Marx's connections to the Republicans of the North is interesting, to say the least.