The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-07

In his "Recollcctions Of a Busy Life, Mr.. Gree
ley gives q very interesting account of his early
struggles as journalist After sketch Of the
career of several short-ived political sheets With
which he was connected as editor or publisher he
proceeds to tell us
HOW THE TRIBUNE WAS Established.
On the 10th day of April, lS41-a day of most
unreasonable chill, and slcet, and snow-l issued
the first number of the New York Tribune. 1t was
small sheet, for it WAS to be retailed for cent
and not much OF newspaper could be afforded
for that price, even in those spe:le-paylnG times
| had been melted to this enterprise by several
Wing friends, who deemed cheap daily, address
ed more especially to the laborng class, eminently
needed in our city whore the only two cheap jour-
nals then and still eXistng-Ihe Sun and The
Herald-were in decided, though unayowed ana
therefore moro effective, sympathy and animation
with the Democratic party. Two or three had
promised pecuniary a:d ii it should be needed;
ONLY one ever wade good that promise, by loaning
me $1,000, which was duly and gratefully repaid,
principal and interest
HIS VIEWS ABOUT JOURNALIST
NJ leading IDEA was tie establishment Of
journal removed alike from servile partisanshp On
the one hand, and from gagged, mlnclng neutrai-
" on the other. Party spirit is so fierce and in
tolerent in this country that the editor OF non
partisan sheet is restrained from saying what he
thinks and feels the most vital, imminent top
CT Republican journal is generally expected to
praise or blame, like or dislike, culo3ize Oh con-
demn in precise accordance with tho views and
interest oiits party. believed there was happy
medium between these eztremes-a pos.uoa irc9l
which q journalist might openly and heartily Gd-
vocatc the principles and comm nd the measures
of that party to which his convictions allied him,
yet dissent frankly i4om its course on particular
question and even denourco its canadates II they
we're shown to be deficient in capacity or (tar
worse) in integrity, 7 felt that journal thus
loyal to its guiding convictions, yet ready 70 eH-
pose and condemn unworthy conduct or lnrideItal
| error on tile par. Of men attacned TO ITS party,
| must be far more e!Iec!lve even pa1t!'Wise Ili"n
though il might always be counted. OF 10 applaud
or reprobcte bless or curse, as the party's preI-
! dice, or immediate interest might seem to pre-
scribe. Especially by the Whigs-who we're rather
the loosely aggregated mainly undlsc:piined oppo-
| a party themseres-ld d I feel that such journal
was consciously needed and should be fairly sus.
! tained
SLENDER CAPITAL.
Aal been ten wears i'll New York, was thirty
wears old, IN luli health and vieor, dAd worth,
! presume, abcu. $1,000 half OF 1t IN printing
| materias. 3. The Jeffersonian, and still more the
Log Cabin, had made nae avorably known to many
| thousands OF those who werc most nkelv 10 tahe
such q paper as | proposed TO make the tribune;
while the New-Y orher had given me some literary
standing and the reputation OF useful and we'll
III
was in bettcr position to undertake the estab-
.ishmont Of daily newspaper than the great mass
OF those who try i and fail, most Who make the
venture DO and must. presume, the new jour
nails in Engsh) since started IN this city number
no. less than one huri,lled, whereof barely two
the Times and the Word-can be fairly said to be
still living; all the World is mausoleum wherein
the remains os the Evening Star the American,
| and the Courier ana Enquirer, lie lnurned; these
having long aGo swallowed sundrv Of their prede-
cessors. Yet several OF those which have mean
time lived their little hour and passed away, were
conducted By men CT decided ability ard ring ex,
perienca, and were backed br pecuniary capital
at least twenty times greater than the tearfny
inadequate sum wGeNeon started the Tribune.
WHAT he TIMES OF RAYMOND.
On the intellectual side, my venture was not ST
rash as It seemed. Ny own fifteen years' dovoio L
to rewspaper-making, in al its phases, was wortl
far more than will be generally suppossd and
had already secured first assistan, 10 Mr. Henry