William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune

[52] ticket became more and more earnest, and it closed the campaign with an appeal to “Freemen!” “Americans!” in which it said: “The hour of deliverance has come. . . . Press on to the polls. Speak to your friends and your neighbors. Implore the doubtful and hesitating to give one vote now for their country, and as many as they please hereafter for their party.” Harrison received 234 of the 294 electoral votes, and no one will dispute Greeley's modest remark, “I judge that there were not many who had done more effective work in the canvass than I. ”

The Log Cabin was a remarkable success in one respect from the start. An edition of 30,000 of the first number was exhausted before the close of the week, and 10,000 more did not satisfy the demand. Later editions of 80,000 were printed, that being the limit, not of the demand, but of the editor's press-room facilities. Greeley had, when the publication of the Log Cabin was begun, taken one of his many partners in the firm of Horace Greeley & Co., which published the New Yorker, but the new partner was so alarmed by the rush of subscribers, in connection with the low subscription price, that he soon retired. An extra number of the Log Cabin was issued on November 9, giving the election