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1837 AD (search for this): chapter 3
eater than those of the miscreant himself. He was an opponent of the spoils system, characterizing political removals (in 1837) as calculated to corrupt and demoralize the public sentiment. The two great questions with which Greeley's name was afan 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 gritself, taking precedence of all other claims. At the time of the suspension of payments by the New York city banks, in 1837, the New Yorker defended them warmly, charging the troubles to the Northwest, and on the day of the suspension it offered ried, he thought that he was worth $5,000, and that he could safely count on an income of $1,000 a year. But the panic of 1837 came, and his books began to show a weekly loss of $100. He had given notes for his white paper, and he had used up some t
1840 AD (search for this): chapter 3
tes 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 195,838,073 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 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, with a scanty education and a vulgar turn of mind. When John (afterward Lord) Campbell eked out his income in London, in the first years of the nineteenth century, by reporting parliamentary debates, the calling was so discreditable that he concealed his avocation from his fellow law students. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes let it be understood that it would have hurt him professionally had it been known that he was a literary man w
1869 AD (search for this): chapter 3
umber 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 brighter halo o'er thee throws- Thy fame, thy soul alike have spurned the clod- Rest thee in God. But Greeley never considered himself a poet, and when, in 1869, Robert Bonner proposed to print a volume of poems not to be found in Dana's Household Handbook of Poetry, Greeley sent him a letter saying: Be good enough-you must-to exclude me from your new poetic Pantheon. I have no business therein — no right and no desire to be installed there. I am no poet, never was (in expression), and never shall be. The reader of to-day, who had only a file of the New Yorker for his literary entertainment, would find it both interesting and instructive. The
January 31st, 1833 AD (search for this): chapter 3
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. Shepard's Morning Post was issued. Finding no encouragement for his one-cent scheme, he had fixed the price from the start at two cents; but as cheapness was to be the one quality that would induce people to buy a paper of which Greeley says, it had no editors, no reporters worth naming, 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 & S
July 29th, 1835 AD (search for this): chapter 3
and subscriptions paid in advance. Earnest appeals to the delinquents appeared in the paper: Friends of the New Yorker! Patrons! We appeal to you, not for charity, but for justice. Whoever among you is in our debt, no matter how small the sum, is guilty of a moral wrong in withholding the payment. We bitterly need it. We have a right to expect it. Greeley had a horror of debt, but he felt that he must keep up the struggle. One loan of $500 saved him from bankruptcy, and he would sometimes pay $5 for the use of $500 over Sunday. Greeley wrote to a friend on July 29, 1835: I paid off everybody to-night, had $10 left, and have $350 to raise on Monday. Borrowing places all sucked dry. I shall raise it, however. If any one would have taken my business and my debts off my hands, upon my giving him my note for $2,000, I would have jumped at the chance, he said in later years, and tried to work out the debt by typesetting, if nothing better offered. Something better offered.
April, 1841 AD (search for this): chapter 3
rged 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 those who have thus spread out the loathsome details of this most damning deed [a murder] are tenfold greater than those of the miscreant himself. He was an opponent of the spoils system, characterizing political removals (in 1837) as calculated to corrupt
1841 AD (search for this): chapter 3
headedness in business matters, and may have been guided by an ambition to edit a creditable literary journal rather than by any careful estimate of its possible financial success. Greeley planned to combine in his New Yorker literature, politics, statistics, and general intelligence. His success in making a good paper of his initial venture was a sufficient 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
July, 1833 AD (search for this): chapter 3
ery-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 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 Her
June 1st (search for this): chapter 3
orporation be empowered to issue notes to the amount of two-thirds the value of its completed enterprise, these notes to constitute a special lien on the work itself, taking precedence of all other claims. At the time of the suspension of payments by the New York city banks, in 1837, the New Yorker defended them warmly, charging the troubles to the Northwest, and on the day of the suspension it offered three-per-cent premium on every New York city bill mailed to our address before the first of June. Considering the editor's financial status at that time, this was a good deal like Daniel Webster's offer to pay the national debt. In February, 1838, as a means of obviating the necessity of both a National Bank and State banks, the New Yorker proposed the issue of $100,000,000 in Treasury notes, by the Federal Government, bearing one-per-cent interest, receivable for all dues, and redeemable in public lands at cash prices. The Subtreasury scheme it constantly opposed. From these ex
1828 AD (search for this): chapter 3
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 195,838,073 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, with a scanty education and a vulgar turn of mind. When John (afterward Lord) Campbell eked erstood that it would have hurt him professionally had it been known that he was a literary man when he began writing. Of the literary taste of New York city in 1828, a writer in the Picture of New York said: Most of the periodical works attempted in this city have proved abortive in a few years. The population is so nearly co
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