ADDEND A.

NEWSPAPERS have postscripts. Why should not books have addenda? Fresh news is constantly pouring into newspaper offices. Fresh facts are as continually pressing upon book publishers.

One of our leading journalists, Horace Greeley, was the candidate of one of the great political parties of the nation, in 1872, for the office of President of the United States. On the 15th of May he issued a card, stating this fact, and withdrawing from the editorial management of the New York Tribune. That card will be found on pages 569-70. Well, after a spirited contest, the election took place on the 5th of November. Over six millions of votes were polled. Horace Greeley received nearly one half of this immense number, but Ulysses S. Grant was elected President. This important national result was thus characteristically and semi-officially announced in the Tribune of the 7th of November:

A CARD.

The undersigned resumes the editorship of The Tribune, which he relinquished on embarking in another line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be his endeavor to make this a thoroughly independent journal, treating all parties and political movements with judicial fairness and candor, but courting the favor and deprecating the wrath of no one.

If he can hereafter say any thing that will tend to heartily unite the whole American People on the broad platform of Universal Amnesty and Impartial Suffrage, he will gladly do so. For the present, however, he can best commend that consummation by silence and forbearance. The victors in our late struggle can hardly fail to take the whole subject of Southern rights and wrongs into early and earnest consideration, and to them, for the present, he remits it.

Since he will never again be a candidate for any office, and is not in full accord with either of the great parties which have hitherto divided the country, he will be able and will endeavor to give wider and steadier regard to the progress of Science, Industry, and the Useful Arts than a partisan journal can do; and he will not be provoked to indulgence in those bitter personalities which are the recognized bane of journalism. Sustained by a generous public, he will do his best to make The Tribune a power in the broader field it now contemplates, as, when Human Freedom was imperiled, it was in the arena of political partisanship. Respectfully, HORACE GREELEY.

NEW YORK, November 6, 1872.

These intentions, now so painfully recorded-this new departure in political journalism-we all regret to say, were not destined to be carried out by the respected writer of this card. With the saddest of all domestic afflictions added to the most impressively terrible political excitement of our era, the depressed and perturbed brain, overtasked and strained by forty years of constant labor and

friction, submitted to Providence, and on Friday evening, the 29th of November, 1872, Horace Greeley ceased to be of this world, and with his death a great journalist passed away.

Since the 18th of June, 1869, three of our leading editors have died: Henry J. Raymond, James Gordon Bennett, and Horace Greeley. They made their mark on this epoch. They made journalism in this country a profession, each in his own way, and after his own style. They established three great newspapers. One founded the Independent Press; the other two were among the last of the active, influential party editors that have flourished in the United States since September 17, 1789. With the death of the founder of the Tribune, party journalism pure and simple, managed by accomplished and experienced editors, inaugurated by Jefferson and Hamilton, aided by such writers as Fenno, Bache, Duane, Freneau, Coleman, Cheetham, Ritchie, and Croswell, has ceased to exist, and Independent Journalism becomes a fact impressed on the minds of the people; and it is not likely that any other class can hereafter prosper in this country, and be a power in the United States.

Horace Greeley was an editor clearly of the political school. He was educated in the Log Cabin, his primary school, to the Tribune— his Harvard College of journalism. His fixed views on public matters made him a leading party editor. It would have been difficult for him, had he lived, to keep pace with the new class of papers without the infusion of fresher, younger, more unbiased intellects. Henry J. Raymond was a pupil of the Tribune school, and, with all his efforts to the contrary, he found it impossible to remain out of the political field. Still, these two journalists were more or less independent, even as party organs, because they soared above the mere politicians that controlled the primary elections and nominating conventions of the land. James Gordon Bennett, although a partisan editor for twelve or fifteen years, was never a politician. He never wanted political office, and would never accept of any nomination. He always looked upon the Press as superior to Party. Hence the success of the Herald as an independent journal. This success, together with the shabby treatment that Horace Greeley always received from the politicians, as shown so clearly and plaintively in his public card dissolving the partnership of Seward, Weed & Co., would have made the Tribune a more independent paper in spite of the life-long tastes of its founder.

But all this now belongs to the past. Only two or three of the old party editors remain in active life. James Watson Webb, Francis P. Blair, and Thurlow Weed have retired from the ranks of journalism. Charles Gordon Greene, of the Boston Post, James Brooks, of the New York Express, and William Cullen Bryant, of the New

York Evening Post, are still at work. All the others known to fame have passed from this world; and we have endeavored, in our poor way, to enroll their names on the pages of history.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

There have been changes in the offices of two other newspapers, sketches of which are given in the preceding pages.

Ist. It is announced that R. Barnwell Rhett, Jr., formerly of the Charleston (S. C.) Mercury, has become chief editor of the New Orleans Picayune, which paper, it appears, is no longer owned by one man, but by an association of shareholders.

2d. The St. Louis Republican, for a long time a blanket sheet in size and folio in form, has been changed to the quarto form, after the style of the leading journals of New York City. Also, that the Republican is to be located in a splendid new building erected especially for its use, and will be printed on three kinds of pressesHoe's, Bullock's, and Walter's—the latter the invention of the principal proprietor of the London Times.

That we may keep pace with the subjects of our sketches, it may be fair to state that any further additions to our facts will be given in second and third editions.

Journalism before the British Parlia- Aurora, Philadelphia, 153, 175, 182, 187, 191, 210,