New York, April 24, 1850.
Dear Sir:
Will you write me some letters? You are writing such
abominably bad ones for the Boston Courier that I fancy you are putting
all your unreason into these, and can give me some of the pure juice. Try!
What I want is a daily letter (when there is any thing to
say) on the doings of Congress, commenting on any thing spicy or interesting,
and letting the readers make the right comments, rather than see that you are
making them. Then I should like a dispatch in the evening, if any thing comes
out, especially if any appointments shall have been acted on in executive. You
know how to get them.
Well, are you ready to do me $10, $15, or $20 worth of work
(you to value it) for a while, until it shall please you to come away or I can
send some one on to Washington? If yes, please set about it and send me word.
If not, condescend to say so. What I am after is news.
Yours,
Horace Greeley.
James S. Pike,
Esq.
SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the
Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850
to 1860, p. 41
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