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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, chapter 14 (search)
Log Cabin is all the better for being daubed with mud? A whig passing through the streets of Boston a few mornings ago, espied a custom-house officer gazing ruefully at a bulletin displaying the latest news of the Maine election. Ah! Mr.——taking your bitters this morning, I see. The way the loco scratched gravel was a pattern for sub-treasurers. One specimen paragraph from the department of political news will suffice to show the frenzy of those who wrote for it. A letter-writer at Utica, describing a mass meeting in that city, bursts upon his readers in this style: This has been the proudest, brightest day of my life! Never—no, never, have I before seen the people in their majesty! Never were the foundations of popular sentiment so broken up! The scene from early dawn to sunset, has been one of continued, increasing, bewildering enthusiasm. The hearts of twenty-five thousand Freemen have been overflowing with gratitude, and gladness, and joy. It has been a day of <
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 15: starts the Tribune. (search)
ained the spirit of the New Time. The eighth number gave fifteen songs from a new volume of Thomas Moore. Barnaby Rudge was published entire in the first volume. Mr. Raymond's notices of new books were a conspicuous and interesting feature. Still more so, were his clear and able sketches and reports of public lectures. In November, the Tribune gave a fair and courteous report of the Millerite Convention. About the same time, Mr. Greeley himself reported the celebrated McCleod trial at Utica, sending on from four to nine columns a day. Amazing was the industry of the editors. Single numbers of the Tribune contained eighty editorial paragraphs. Mr. Greeley's average day's work was three columns, equal to fifteen pages of foolscap: and the mere writing which an editor does, is not half his daily labor. In May, appeared a series of articles on Retrenchment and Reform in the City Government, a subject upon which the Tribune has since shed a considerable number of barrels of in