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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)
s columns, his associates, to the day of his death, took no unimportant part in the making of the paper. In his first chief assistant, Raymond, he secured one of the ablest journalists of the day — a man who recognized the value of news, who knew how to select capable subordinates, and how best to direct their efforts. Among other contributors and editorial assistants to whom the Tribune was indebted were Margaret Fuller, Bayard Taylor, George William Curtis, Edmund Quincy ( Byles ), William Henry Frye, Hildreth, the historian, and Charles T. Congdon. Charles A. Dana joined the staff in 1847, and remained with it, a larger part of the time as managing editor, until 1862. George Ripley began writing for it in 1861, and, outliving Greeley, gave to its literary columns for twenty years a reputation that was unrivaled. Sidney Howard Gay, who was so conscientious an abolitionist that he abandoned his plan of becoming a lawyer because he could not take the oath to sustain the Federal Co
raska contest, 163-165; Greeley favors for Senator, 178. Dred Scott decision, 168. E. Evening Post, 111, 1.5 note. Express news-gathering, 73-76. F. Farming, Greeley on, 91-93. Fillmore signs compromise bills, 160. Finances, Federal and State, Greeley on, in the New Yorker, 35-38. Fourierism, Greeley's belief in, 79-84; later views, 85; Fourier Association formed, 81. Foxes' seances, 90. Fremont campaign of 1856, 167; nominated for President in 1864, 199. Frye, W. H., 72,106. Fugitive slaves, 144; compromise act, 160-163. Fuller, Margaret, 72, 82; member of Greeley's family, 88: contributions to the Tribune, 88, 89. G. Garrison, William Lloyd, abolition views, 126,127; on Greeley, 171. Gay, Sidney Howard, 72, 187, 210. Greeley, Horace, landing in New York city, 2, 20; early farm experience, 3-5; his mother. 3, 10; education, 6-8; precocity, 7; views of college education, 8; attraction to the printer's trade, 9; personal appearance, 11,