AND

THE NEW YORK PRESS,

FOR

THIRTY YEARS.

PROGRESS OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM
FROM 1840 TO 1870.

With Portrait, Illustrations, and Appendix.

BY AUGUSTUS MAVERICK.

Published by Subscription only.

C

HARTFORD, CONN.:

A. S. HALE AND COMPANY.

1870.

9344.44
US, 15688.5

1870, Sept. 9.
Fine J Bone

$1.25

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1809, by

AUGUSTUS MAVERICK,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York.

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.

NEW YORK, December, 1869.

A. M.