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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 4: the founding of the New York Tribune (search)
Benjamin laughed, and replied: Greeley, you are the bigger fool of the two. Don't you see that those soedolagers of yours only serve to advertise him? The general public has no memory. If you want to make a man prominent in New York city abuse him. The public will forget in a few days all you said of him, and will merely remember his name. To this Mr. Greeley replied, I think you are right, and I won't bother with the hog in the future. The Tribune from that time dropped Bennett.-(G. H. Benjamin, in New York Evening Post.) During its first year the Tribune published a letter on the trial of the suit for libel brought by J. Fenimore Cooper against Thurlow Weed, in which the novelist secured a verdict of $400. The writer of this letter remarked: The value of Mr. Cooper's character, therefore, has been judicially ascertained. It is worth exactly $400. This led Cooper to sue Greeley for libel, and the trial took place in Saratoga, in December, 1842. Greeley argued his own ca