...repute, and Greeley found encouragement in the advice of Whigs who thought the field for a cheap Whig daily a good one. Having decided on his venture, he obtained a loan of $1,000 from his friend James Coggeshall , to add to his own little capital, and promises of more, which he did not get. Then he printed in the Log Cabin of April 3, 1841, an announcement that on April 10 he would publish the first number o...