New York, April 27, 1850.
Friend Pike:
Thank you for yours of yesterday, especially for your decision to draw on us
for expenses. I prefer to have it that way. “Business is business,” and I want
to hire you — that is, just as much of your time as you choose to sell me. The Tribune
is able to pay, and I would rather pay you than owe you.
I don't care to use your letters for telegraphic despatches,
รก la Express;
but you can often hear an inkling of the forthcoming Galphin report, the
Compromise bill, the Committee on Old Bullion, etc., etc., which I will thank
you to send by telegraph rather than the slower way. Bear in mind that expense
is no object in the matter of early advices. I don't expect you to run round
prying after such things, but they will fall in your way. Our Collector's
confirmation or rejection is a matter of much interest here. Please indorse
your letters conspicuously “Editors' Mail.”
Yours,
Horace Greeley.
J. 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. 48
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