THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS EDITORIAL.
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Fellow-Laborers:—We address you at the close of the year 1850, with an involuntary wish struggling upward from the heart, for a happy New Year—a glorious baptism of good for 1851. We do this, too, with some misgivings lest we may presume upon your forbearance—but the cordial response you have given to our monthly labors—the encouraging and timely words spoken in our behalf at the outset of the somewhat perilous enterprise of carrying our shattered bark into harbor once more—with all its sails stripped and cordage gone, came over the dark waters cheeringly, stimulating our weak endeavors, and nerving our heart for the tempest or the calm.
With no money—a few friends, and a thousand discouragements thrust upon us by timid well-wishers—and half-hearted comforters—we undertook to carry Graham’s Magazine—with its harvest of money, received in December, January and February, the pick months of the year, scattered—we undertook, we say, to carry this book triumphantly—in the face of the fiercest competition the business has ever known—through the year 1850.
The American Press with a chivalry for a prostrate brother, such as has never been witnessed—with one accord, from the extreme North to the extreme South, raised its voice of encouragement—its cheer for our success—and we now close the volume with an addition of over 10,000 subscribers since July, and with the uttermost liberality in expenditure in the manufacture of Graham’s Magazine, met by the tremendous resources which you, gentlemen, by the power of advertising, in liberal notices, have showered upon us. From our heart we thank you! Our experience in the press, daily, weekly, and monthly, for twelve years, has taught us how little the press itself knows of its own power—how few out of it know its giant resources—the wealth it carries on its wings to those who use it wisely. Judge, then, whether we, who have partaken so largely of its benefits from your generosity alone, knowing fully the vast service your kindness has done us, can do less than convey to you our sense of the obligation, with a hope that the day is dawning which will enable us to attempt in some poor sort to repay you. We say attempt to repay, for the reactionary benefit will be ten-fold upon ourself—so that we must by inevitable laws, remain forever your debtor.
Graham.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained as well as some spellings peculiar to Graham’s. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals used for preparation of the ebook.
page 330, in maratime states ==> in maritime states
page 333, litterally by people ==> literally by people
page 336, Save were the steel-shod ==> Save where the steel-shod
page 338, strayed were the soft ==> strayed where the soft
page 344, his hand in her’s ==> his hand in hers
page 351, his anamolous position ==> his anomalous position
page 351, large body of calvary ==> large body of cavalry
page 352, Master of St. Jago ==> Maestro of St. Jago
page 357, had began to civilize ==> had begun to civilize
page 357, sur ves revolutions anciennes ==> sur les révolutions anciennes
page 358, the Duke of Bourdeaux ==> the Duke of Bordeaux
page 358, ownership of the Murcure, ==> ownership of the Mercure,
page 363, having not forseen the ==> having not foreseen the
page 365, prophecied your destiny ==> prophesied your destiny
page 366, side thy stood now, ==> side they stood now,
page 372, be got, hav n’t you ==> be got, haven’t you
page 372, his grizzley moustache ==> his grizzly moustache
page 373, falls of his horse ==> falls off his horse
page 375, and cross questiong on ==> and cross questioning on
page 381, the foot lights begin to burn ==> the footlights begin to burn
page 381, by the abscence of ==> by the absence of
page 381, in his posession some ==> in his possession some