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you; I have no further wish but to glide out of the newspaper world as quietly and as speedily as possible, join my family in Europe, and, if possible, stay there quite a time—long enough to cool my fevered brain and renovate my overtasked energies. All I ask is that we shall be counted even on the morning after the first Tuesday in February, as aforesaid, and that I may thereafter take such course as seems best without reference to the past.
"You have done me acts of valued kindness in the line of your profession; let me close with the assurance that these will ever be gratefully remembered by,
"Yours,
"Horace Greeley."
APPENDIX—NOTE E
Growth of Newspapers from 1776 to 1840
| States | 1776 | 1810 | 1828 | 1840 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | .... | .... | 29 | 36 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | 32 | 78 | 91 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | 12 | 17 | 27 |
| Vermont | .... | 14 | 21 | 30 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | 7 | 24 | 16 |
| Connecticut | 4 | 11 | 33 | 33 |
| New York | 4 | 66 | 161 | 245 |
| New Jersey | .... | 8 | 22 | 33 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | 72 | 185 | 187 |
| Delaware | .... | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Maryland | 2 | 21 | 37 | 45 |
| District of Columbia | .... | 6 | 9 | 14 |
| Virginia | 2 | 23 | 34 | 51 |
| North Carolina | 2 | 10 | 20 | 27 |
| South Carolina | 3 | 10 | 16 | 17 |
| Georgia | 1 | 13 | 18 | 34 |
| Florida | .... | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| Alabama | .... | .... | 10 | 28 |
| Mississippi | .... | 4 | 6 | 30 |
| Louisiana | .... | 10 | 9 | 34 |
| Tennessee | .... | 6 | 8 | 46 |
| Kentucky | .... | 17 | 23 | 38 |
| Ohio | .... | 14 | 66 | 123 |
| Indiana | .... | .... | 17 | 73 |
| Michigan | .... | .... | 2 | 32 |
| Illinois | .... | .... | 4 | 43 |
| Missouri | .... | .... | 5 | 35 |
| Arkansas | .... | .... | 1 | 9 |
| Wisconsin | .... | .... | .... | 6 |
| Iowa | .... | .... | .... | 4 |
| Total | 37 | 359 | 861 | 1,403 |
North, Census of 1880, viii, 47
