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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 1: his early years and first employment as a compositor (search)
les A. Dana, published after his death. He always felt a responsibility for the kind of journal that he gave to his subscribers. I think that newspaper reading is worth all the schools in the country, he told a committee of the House of Commons, of which Cobden was a member, when invited, in London in 1851, to give his views on taxes on knowledge, and he was too honest to offer his readers anything less than the best that he could supply. Some advice to a country editor, written by him in 1860, could hardly be improved upon. His first principle laid down was that the subject of deepest interest to an average human being is himself; next to that, he is most concerned about his neighbor. He therefore told his correspondent that, if he would make up at least half his paper of local news, secured by a wide-awake, judicious correspondent in every village and township in your county, nobody in the county can long do without it. Make your paper a perfect mirror of everything done in you
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 3: Thurlow Weed's discovery-the Jeffersonian and the Log Cabin (search)
xt number, and caught my valise for Albany again. As a further illustration of his industry, we find this remark in his Busy Life: As my small [Albany] paper did not require all my time, I made condensed reports of the Assembly debates for the Evening Journal, and wrote some articles for its editorial columns. The political friendship-partnership, it has been called-thus begun between Weed and Greeley lasted until 1854, or, so far as Weed was concerned, until the nomination of Lincoln in 1860. Their usefulness as co-workers can not easily be overestimated. Weed was the cool, calculating, far-seeing politician, who would leave unsaid or undone what it was right to say or to do, if this would favor his party's success, and who worked for ends, without a constant criticism of means. Greeley was not nearly so far-seeing in political matters as he was credited with being, but he was desperately honest in his convictions, and eminently fitted to give them expression. As illustration
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 4: the founding of the New York Tribune (search)
ave out two to six columns of advertisements a day to make room for reading matter. In a dispute over the question of circulation with the Herald, the Tribune thus stated its own circulation on August 1, 1849: Daily, 13,330; weekly, 27,960; semi, 1,660; California edition, 1,920; European, 480. The circulation of the daily reached 45,000 before the war, and during the exciting times of that conflict it mounted to 90,000, while the weekly edition had 217,000 subscribers in some of the years between 1860 and 1872. The profits in 1859 were $86,000. Of its earnings in its first twenty-four years the sum of $382,000 was invested in real estate, and an average of $50,000 a year was divided among the stockholders. In 1850 Greeley gave an example of the consistency of his views on cooperation by making the Tribune a stock concern, on a valuation of $100,000, represented by 100 shares of stock, some 20 of which were sold to its editors, foremen, and assistants in the publication office.
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 7: Greeley's part in the antislavery contest (search)
their slaves ; and its agent there was indicted for getting up a club of the paper. Neither indictment ever came to trial. After the nomination of Fremont for President, in 1856, the Tribune conceded that the odds were greatly in favor of the Democrats, and in announcing his defeat it said, We have lost a battle. The Bunker Hill of the new struggle for freedom is past; the Saratoga and Yorktown are yet to be achieved. The great political events between the presidential years 1856 and 1860 were the Dred Scott decision in 1857, allowing slaveholders to take their slaves into the Territories; the Lecompton (Kan.) contest in Congress, and the Lincoln-Douglas debate in 1858, and John Brown's raid in Virginia in 1859. The Tribune held that Taney's decision was entitled to just so much moral weight as would be the judgment of a majority of those congregated in any Washington bar-room ; it fought for free Kansas, and of the John Brown incident it said: There will be enough to h
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 8: during the civil war (search)
as seems best without reference to the past. Seward did not even inform Weed of the contents of this letter, and Weed was ignorant of them until its publication, after Raymond, in a letter in the Times explaining Seward's defeat at Chicago in 1860, had hinted of it as supplying the motive for Greeley's opposition to Seward there. What Weed knew of the incident at the time from Seward was contained in the following letter: Has Greeley written to you, or do you see him nowadays? Just e the time ever has been (or soon will be) when, on a square issue, the Republicans could or can poll one hundred electoral votes. But let her drive. Weed's Autobiography, II, p. 255. Greeley attended the National Republican Convention of 1860 not as a delegate from his own State, but as the representative of an Oregon district that had asked him to serve. He went to Chicago declaring that his candidate was Edward Bates, of Missouri, a Virginian by birth, and a lifelong slaveholder! H
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Index (search)
nsas-Nebraska contest, 163, 165; early attitude toward Republican party, 166, 178; attack by Rust, 166; on Fremont's defeat, 167; Dred Scott decision, 168; Lecompton contest, 168; John Brown raid, 168; on office-holding editors, 171, 172, 175 ; desire for gubernatorial nomination, 172, 173, 176; advocacy of prohibition, 172; complaint to Seward, 173; letter dissolving the firm of Seward, Weed, and Greeley, 174-177; favors Douglas for Senator, 178; delegate to National Republican Convention of 1860, 179; preference for Bates, 179; reason for opposing Seward's nomination, 179, 183; Raymond's letter, 180-182; defeated for United States Senator, State Comptroller, and Congress, 182, 183; not a candidate for office under Lincoln, 184; justifies the right to secede, 184-187; Forward to Richmond cry, 188, 189; letter to Lincoln after Bull Run, 190; efforts for foreign mediation, 193-196; Prayer of Twenty Millions, 196-198; opposition to Lincoln's renomination, 199-201; proposed withdrawal of