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[29] 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,1 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

1 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.”

New York, D. Appleton and Company, March 1903.

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