courier-enquirer

Updated: May 24, 2025

In an era remarkable for strong editors in the New-York Press, embracing Raymond of the Times, the elder Bennett of the Herald, Watson Webb of the Courier-Enquirer, William Cullen Bryant of the Evening Post, with Thurlow Weed and Edwin Crosswell in the rival journals at Albany, Mr. Greeley easily surpassed them all. His mind was original, creative, incessantly active.

James Gillespie Blaine - Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 : From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860