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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 5: sources of the Tribune's influence — Greeley's personality (search)
nd paper were associated, and they often labored with him on the subject. In minor points they met with some success, but when his mind was once made up, expediency was a futile argument with which to approach him. In a letter to Weed, dated February, 1842, after describing a sleepless night he had passed because of some of Weed's criticisms, he made this declaration of personal independence: You have pleased, on several occasions, to take me to task for differing from you, however relucture-field was a tempting one to him. In later years it used to be said in the office that the only way he could be induced to take a vacation was to start him off on a lecturing tour. His first attempt on the platform was made in New York in February, 1842, Letters of R. W. Griswold, p. 104. and he wrote soon after, asking his friend Griswold to get him an engagement in Philadelphia, saying, I know there are hardly a hundred persons in Philadelphia who know of me, but suggesting that he coul