TO THE READER.

PREFACES are not to my taste :- perhaps not to yours.

I have tried to tell in a simple way the story of a life which had within it much that seemed to me worth the telling; and so this picture of my friend goes forth to his friends and mine.

A. M.

NEW YORK, December, 1869.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page.

No.
1. PORTRAIT.

2. How HENRY J. RAYMOND STUDIED IS Lessons As A School

Boy,

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3. THE GENESEE WESLEYAN SEMINARY IN LIMA,

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4. THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT in BURLINGTON,
5. Fac SIMILE OF THE NEw York TRIBUNE, April 10, 1811,

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6. THE Pilot Boat WM. J. ROMER IN THE ICE,

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7. PRESENT CONDITION OF THE RAYMOND HIOMESTEAD IN LIMA,

New York,

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8. Fac SIMILE OF THE New York Times, SEPTEMBER 18, 1851,

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9. First OFFICE OF TIE New York Times, 113 Nassau St., 1851,

95

10. SECOND OFFICE OF THE New YORK TIMES, CORNER NASSAU

142

AND BEEKMAN Sts., 1854-7, 11. The Building NOW OCCUPIED BY THE TIMES,

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i 2. Mr. Raymond's SANCTUM IN THE PRESENT Times Building, 193 13. RESIDENCE OF MR. RAYMOND, 12 Ninth St., New York, 205 14. Fac SIMILE OF MR. RAYMOND'S EDITORIAL Copy,

225 15. Fac SIMILE OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM MR. RAYMOND, 323

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Western New York Fifty Years ago — Birthplace and Parentage of Henry J. Raymond

- The Raymond Family - The Old Homestead in Lima Rov. Dr. Barnard's

Church – Early Years of Henry J. Raymond – Thirst for Knowledge – His

Teachers — The District School – Raymond a Reader at Three Years of Age -

A Speaker at Five - How he Studied A Picturesque Attitude – The Favorito

Cat - Raymond's Academio Course — Opening of the Geneseo Wesleyan Seminary

in Lima – His Schoolmato, Alexander Mann — Raymond Looking for Employ-

ment- Brief Experience in a Country Store — He Forsakes Trade - In Charge

of a District School — “Boarding Round” — Raymond a Poot at Sixteen - Ode

Written for the Fourth of July Celebration in Lima in 1836 — Raymond's Do-

parture for College

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CHAPTER II.

IN COLLEGE.

Raymond Prepared for College at Fifteen – His Father's Farm Mortgaged to Provide

Means — Raymond as a Collegian — The University of Vermont- - Incidents -

Mr. E. A. Stansbury's Rocollections — Henry Clay and Henry J Raymond —

Raymond's Graduation and Return to Lima .

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CHAPTER III.

ADRIFT.

Out of College and in Politios -

- "Tippecanoe and Tyler too ”. - Raymond as a Whig

Campaigner — Political Speeches in the Geneseo Valley – An Indignant Demo-
cratic Schoolmaster - Raymond again in Search of Employment - Determines to

try his Fortune in New York – Calls upon IIorace Greeley – Repulsed — Does

not Give Up - Studies Law - Advertises for a School - Gots a Foothold in

Groeley's New-Yorker — Greoloy finally Engages llim — Raymond Working for

Eight Dollars a Wook — Becomes a Writer of Pill Advortisements and a Nows-

paper Correspondent — Establishmont of the New York Tribune — Raymond Fast-

Anchored in Journalism

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CHAPTER IV.

ANCHORED.

The New York Tribune - Horace Grooley's Tribute to IIenry J. Raymond – A Mistake

Corrected Raymond's Work on the Tribune Signal Successes — Dr. Dionysius

Lardner's Lectures Sovere Illness of Raymond — Greeley Calls upon Him –

Raymond's Wretched Pay - Wbut he said to Greeley – Results of an Interview

in a Sick-room — Raymond as a Reporter - Thomas McElrath’s Reminiscences

Raymond Secodes from the Tribune

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CHAPTER V.

PROGRESS OF JOURNALISM IN NEW YORK

1840 TO 1830.

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Easy-Going Newspapers The Old “Blanket-Sheets" -- Editorial Duels and Horse-

whippings — Mr. W. C. Bryant's Reminiscences — The Courier and Enquirer —

The Journal of Commerce — The Eveniny Post — The Commercial Advertiser — The

Herald - How Bennett Startlod the City of New York The Sun - The Tribune

as a Cheap and Respectablo Paper – Fierce Rivalries - Old Methods of Getting

News — Sharp Practice — Pony Expresses — Stealing Locomotivo Engines –

Carrier-Pigeons-Setting Type on Board of Steamboats — How Raymond Reported

Webster's Speech — The Voyage of Monroe F. Gale across the Atlantic — The Pilot-

Boat William J. Romer in the Ice - Personalities – James Watson Webb's Ridi-

cule of Horace Greeley's Personal Appearanco - Greeley's Reply — The Tribune's

“Sliovegammon" Hoax – Burning of the Tribune Office — The Tide Changing . 36

CHAPTER VI.

PROGRESS OF JOURNALISM IN NEW YORK — (CONTINUED.)

Periods in Journalism – The Expansion of the Press and the Progress of Civilization

- Thu Pioneer followed by the Printer - Useless Papers Dead — Condition of the

New York Press Twenty Years Ago - How the Herald and the Tribune fell into

Disrepute – Henry J. Raymond Creating a New Era in Journalism — The Germ

of his Future Success

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CHAPTER VII.

AN OLD TAINT.

The Socialists Twenty-two Years Ago — Horace Greeley and Albert Brisbane - Tho

Tribune, the Future, and the Harbinger — Zealous Iconoclasts — The False Pro-

tences of Fourierism — Socialistic Failures — The Tribune in Disropute — Ray-

mond's Attacks upon Socialism — The Celebrated Discussion between Greeley and

Raymond — The Merits and Demerits of Socialism

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CHAPTER VIII.

RAYMOND AT TWENTY-EIGHT.

His Filial Devotion - Burning of the Homestead in Lima - Mr. Raymond's Letters

to his Parents and his Brother Samuel - His Visit to Lima — His Solicitude for

bis Father and Mother - A Touching Tribute

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CHAPTER IX.

RAYMOND'S ENTRANCE INTO POLITICAL LIFE.

Election to the New York Legislature in 1849 – A Good Beginning — Return to the

Courier and Enquirer — Re-election to the Legislature in 1830 — Remarks on

assuming the Speakership of the Assembly — Sudden End of the Session — An

Incident in Raymond's Life - Quarrel between Webb and Raymond — Departure

of Raymond for Europe - His First Impressions of the Old World - Letter from

London

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CHAPTER X.

FOUNDATION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Origin of the Times — Thurlow Weed's offer of the Albany Evening Journal to Raymond

and Jones — Failure of a Negotiation - Project of a New Whig Paper in New