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Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
d not money enough to pay his way to Washington. In the following January, however, he found work in the office of the Spirit of the Times, which had just been started by W. T. Porter and James Howe, two newcomers from the country, with scant capital. This enterprise was a discouraging one from the start, but, while Greeley found it difficult to collect his wages, he also found opportunity to show his skill in writing articles for the paper, thus keeping in practise what he had learned in Vermont. Later in the year he secured employment in the office of J. S. Redfield, afterward a prominent publisher, and remained there until he was induced to join a fellow printer in setting up a printing establishment of their own. That experiment came about in this way: Francis Story, the foreman of the Spirit of the Times composing-room, numbered among his acquaintances S. J. Sylvester, a leading seller of lottery tickets, and Dr. H. D. Shepard, a medical student, who had about $1,500 in ca
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
no correspondents, and no exchanges even, it was a certain failure, and it died when two weeks and a half old. The one-cent Sun came nine months later, and came to stay. The firm of Greeley & Story lost about $50 through Dr. Shepard, but this did not bankrupt them. A purchaser was found for some of the Morning Post's equipment, the Bank-Note Reporter gave them a little income, and they secured the printing of a triweekly paper called the Constitutionalist, whose local habitation was in Delaware, and which was the organ of the lottery interest. Lottery-ticket selling was a reputable business in those days, and Greeley not only printed the dealers' organ, but was a contributor to it, one of his articles being a defense of lotteries when an outcry arose against them because of the suicide of a young man who had lost all his property in tickets. When his assistance was not required in his own shop, Greeley would work as a substitute compositor in a newspaper office near by, and he w
Europe (search for this): chapter 3
e being printed as a serial (appearing also in the Tribune)-and increased space was devoted to book reviews. In an article contesting an argument that the best British writers of the day were superior to the best American writers, the editor thus expressed his opinion of Disraeli: Himself an open libertine in life, we regard his works as among the most monstrously absurd, and at the same time abominably pernicious, of the distorted and depraved pictures of fashionable description in European high life that we ever unsuccessfully attempted to endure to the end. Greeley contributed to the New Yorker and to other periodicals of the day a number of poems over his initials. They were of varied merit, some of them showing quite as much of the poetic fire as do current poetical contributions of our own day. A single quotation — the last of some verses On the Death of William Wirt-must suffice: Then take thy long repose Beneath the shelter of the deep green sod; Death but a brighte
Burlington (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
icient proof of his editorial ability. What the New Yorker was he made it almost unaided. In his farewell address to his subscribers, in 1841, when the paper was merged with the Weekly Tribune, he said: The editorial charge of the New Yorker has from the first devolved on him who now addresses its readers. At times he has been aided in the literary department by gentlemen of decided talent and eminence [including Park Benjamin, Henry J. Raymond, in a letter to R. W. Griswold, from Burlington, Vt., October 31, 1839, said: I am sorry Benjamin has left the New Yorker. If he had exerted himself but a little he could have made that infinitely the best weekly in the United States. Who will Greeley associate with him? I hope (but do not expect) that he will get one to fill B.'s place. The Sentinel here a few weeks since undertook to use up Benjamin instanter on account of his critique of Irving. I gave it a decent rap for it in the Free Press, and since that they have let B. alone
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g up in business sources of income how the New Yorker was started early journalism in the United States scope of the New paper Greeley as a poet subjects of editorial discussion financial viewe, in 1835, wrote: The number of periodicals and occasional publications which appear in the United States actually surpasses belief. There is scarcely a hamlet which has not its own newspaper. The number of newspapers and periodicals in the United States in 1828 was estimated at 863, with an annual issue of over 68,000,000, while the census of 1840 showed 1,403, with a yearly issue of 195,8 of society are rarely led to engage in these undertakings ; and that the journalists of the United States are usually placed in a very humble position, with a scanty education and a vulgar turn of me had exerted himself but a little he could have made that infinitely the best weekly in the United States. Who will Greeley associate with him? I hope (but do not expect) that he will get one to f
East River (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
e days, and Greeley not only printed the dealers' organ, but was a contributor to it, one of his articles being a defense of lotteries when an outcry arose against them because of the suicide of a young man who had lost all his property in tickets. When his assistance was not required in his own shop, Greeley would work as a substitute compositor in a newspaper office near by, and he was making fair if slow progress in the world, when, in July, 1833, Story was drowned while bathing in the East River. His place in the firm was taken by Jonas Winchester, and the business continued so prosperously that in 1834 Greeley had the courage to think seriously of starting a newspaper of which he should be the editor. That he had made something of a mark in the local newspaper world is shown by the fact that he was at this time invited by James Gordon Bennett to become interested with him in starting a daily paper to be called the New York Herald. This offer was declined, but the idea of a pa
Atlantic Ocean (search for this): chapter 3
se of assisting in the concentration of the true safeguard against invasion — the muskets of our citizen soldiers ; proposed the formation of associations in the city to enforce the law against houses of ill-fame; and, when rents were advanced downtown, urged the building of railroads from the Exchange, the park, and the Battery to the Harlem River, in order to make the upper part of the island accessible; opposed the forcible removal of the Creeks and Cherokees from their homes in the southern Atlantic States; and, while maintaining that the United States Government was right in its claim regarding the northeastern boundary, deprecated war and proposed arbitration. Greeley's view of clean journalism was well set forth in an article in April, 1841, in which he condemned the spreading of details of crime before newspaper readers, saying: We weigh well our words when we say that the moral guilt incurred, and the violent hurt inflicted upon social order and individual happiness by tho
Harlem River (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ture of the Treasury surplus (in 1836) on armaments and fortifications, believing that a railroad from Portland to New Orleans would serve the better purpose of assisting in the concentration of the true safeguard against invasion — the muskets of our citizen soldiers ; proposed the formation of associations in the city to enforce the law against houses of ill-fame; and, when rents were advanced downtown, urged the building of railroads from the Exchange, the park, and the Battery to the Harlem River, in order to make the upper part of the island accessible; opposed the forcible removal of the Creeks and Cherokees from their homes in the southern Atlantic States; and, while maintaining that the United States Government was right in its claim regarding the northeastern boundary, deprecated war and proposed arbitration. Greeley's view of clean journalism was well set forth in an article in April, 1841, in which he condemned the spreading of details of crime before newspaper readers,
New York State (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
not its own newspaper. The number of newspapers and periodicals in the United States in 1828 was estimated at 863, with an annual issue of over 68,000,000, while the census of 1840 showed 1,403, with a yearly issue of 195,838,073 copies. New York State reported 161 in 1828, and 245 in 1840. But he found that the most distinguished classes of society are rarely led to engage in these undertakings ; and that the journalists of the United States are usually placed in a very humble position, wublic funds among the States, Harrison's defeat by Van Buren, the expansion of the paper currency by the issues of the many new banks throughout the country, and the panic of 1837, all came within the scope of the New Yorker's editorials. In New York State, before the year 1838, bank charters were granted only as the Legislature thought fit. Accustomed as we are to the spoils system of to-day, says Horace White, it sounds oddly to read that bank charters were granted by Whig and Democratic Legi
Horace Greeley (search for this): chapter 3
on financial views his straits for money Greeley soon satisfied himself with a stopping place,eet, where a compositor was wanted, and there Greeley betook himself on Monday morning so early tharform it. When the proprietor came in and saw Greeley at work, he inquired, Did you hire that d-d fith this business in sight, Story proposed to Greeley that they open a printing-office of their owng was a reputable business in those days, and Greeley not only printed the dealers' organ, but was olized by the newspapers of the day. Whether Greeley had gaged the literary taste of New York by tccessfully attempted to endure to the end. Greeley contributed to the New Yorker and to other pe, deprecated war and proposed arbitration. Greeley's view of clean journalism was well set fortharly, as well as a late, characteristic of Horace Greeley. Beginning with less than a dozen subsces pay $5 for the use of $500 over Sunday. Greeley wrote to a friend on July 29, 1835: I paid of[16 more...]
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