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R. W. Griswold (search for this): chapter 3
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? 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 and gone to pommeling me. C. H. Hoffman, and R. W. Griswold]; at others the entire conduct has rested with him. A glance at the file of this journal will show what a capacity for work its editor had. Greeley's idea of what a man should do in the way of newspaper work in those days was thus set fo
S. J. Sylvester (search for this): chapter 3
il 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 cash at command. Through Sylvester, Story counted on being able to secure the printing of the weekly Bank-Note Reporter, and for SheparSylvester, Story counted on being able to secure the printing of the weekly Bank-Note Reporter, and for Shepard he had in view the printing of a one-cent daily newspaper, which Shepard had decided to establish. With this business in sight, Story proposed to Greeley that they open a printing-office of their own, and, not without misgivings, Greeley finally consented. Between them they could count up less than $200; but they secured $40 worth of type on six months credit, hired two rooms at No. 54 Liberty Street, and invested all their cash in the necessary equipment. Thence, on January 31, 1833, Dr.
J. S. Redfield (search for this): chapter 3
uary, 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 cash at command. Through Sylvester, Story counted on being able to secur
Park (search for this): chapter 3
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 Legislatures only to their own partizans. Not only was this the common practise, but shares in banks, or the right to subscribe to them, were parceled out to political bosses in the several counties. There was opposition to all banks in the agricultural counties, and the laboring classes were generally hostile to paper money. A meeting in the City Hall Park, in March, 1837, called to consider the high prices of the necessaries of life, adopted a report which said: There is another great cause of high prices, so monstrous in its nature that we could hardly credit its existence were it not continually before us-we mean the curse of Paper Money. Gold and silver are produced from the earth by labor; they are, or ought to be, earned from the producer by labor. No man nor combination can by Christian means collect a sufficiency of these metals to en
Irving (search for this): chapter 3
e [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 and gone to pommeling me. C. H. Hoffman, and R. W. Griswold]; at others the entire conduct has rested with him. A glance at the file of this journal will show what a capacity for work its editor had. Greeley's idea of what a man should do in the way of newspaper work in those days was thus set forth in a letter to B. F. Randolph, dated May 2, 1836: I want the whole concern, printing-office included,
Edward McGolrick (search for this): chapter 3
Chapter 2: first experiences in New York city-the New Yorker Looking for a job his first employment setting 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 views his straits for money Greeley soon satisfied himself with a stopping place, engaging a room and board for $2.50 a week with Edward McGolrick, who kept a grog-shop and boarding-house combined — a quiet, decent one-at No. 168 West Street; and after breakfast he started out to look for work. He was as persistent in this, in the face of discouragement, as he was in every duty. For two days he tramped the streets, visiting two-thirds of the printing-offices in the city, always receiving a No to his question, Do you want a hand? and incurring the accusation in one office of being a runaway apprentice. When Saturday night came he had satisfied himself that the city affor
Jonas Winchester (search for this): chapter 3
rgan, 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 paper of his own was carried out, and on March 22, 18
Harrison (search for this): chapter 3
ntiment. The two great questions with which Greeley's name was afterward so intimately associated — the tariff and slavery — were attracting little attention during the first years of the New Yorker, and their treatment by him at that time will be shown in later chapters. The great subject of public interest was the finances, State and national. The proposition to establish a United States Bank, the removal of the Federal deposits, the distribution of the public 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 Legislatures only to their own partiza
Park Benjamin (search for this): chapter 3
st 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 exerBenjamin 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 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 and gone to pommeling me. C. H. Hoffman, and R. W. Griswold]; at others the entire conduct has rested with him. A glance at the file of this journal will show what a capacity for work its editor had. Greeley's idea of what a man should do in the way of
W. T. Porter (search for this): chapter 3
employment. The idea of seeking work at the national capital occurred to him, but while he had employment he had treated himself to a suit of clothes --a second-hand suit of black, bought of a Chatham Street dealer, in which, he says, he found no wear and little warmth --and this had so depleted his capital that he had 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 i
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