NOTE ON SOURCES

"give him new spirit, and enable him with greater perseverance to pur-
sue the great objects of his vocation-to soar among the spirits of BRU-
TUS, CATO, PUBLIUS, LANDHOLDER, &c. to detect the evil one from amid
(if there he be) and to place him upon the steep of a precipice, that
he might tumble thence down headlong. Thus circumstanced, and be-
ing ever anxious to perform impossibilities, viz. to please every one,
soliciting the continuation of public favors, &c. is the Editor ever de-
voted, &c. &c." (New York Journal, 3 January 1788, Mfm:N.Y The widely
circulated "Landholder" essays, written by Oliver Ellsworth of Con-
necticut and first published in Hartford, were not reprinted by Green-
leaf.).
Even though Greenleaf published daily, he still had problems print-
ing all that he wanted. On 7 January 1788, he printed this statement:
"The Editor's Daily Receptacles for Communications, from his numer-
ous and very attentive Correspondents, for the six ensuing Days, are so
crowded, that he shall not have it in his Power to gratify them, all nor
any one of them in particular, on either side of the GREAT LAKE NEW-
CONSTITUTION. He shall, however, STRIVE; some Bread and some
Cheese, says the Epicure, relish best, and should a little Mustard and
Vinegar, be intermixed, our Readers in general would not disapprove."
Federalists bitterly attacked Greenleaf. Confederation Postmaster
General Ebenezer Hazard-whom Greenleaf had accused of prevent-
ing Antifederalist newspapers from going through the mails-de-
scribed Greenleaf as "brainless," an "Echo" of Eleazer Oswald, and "a
poor thick-sculled Creature" (Hazard to Jeremy Belknap, 5 March, 12
April, and 10 May 1788, CC:Vol. 4, pp. 554, 583, 592). "Anarchy"
charged Greenleaf with having "talents of misrepresentation" (Country
Journal, 18 March, IV below, Dutchess County Election), while "Fed."
asserted that Greenleaf had "a little mind" and "a sterile brain" (New
York Packet, 25 July, Mfm:N.Y). In disgust, some people cancelled their
subscriptions to the Journal. Finally, after the news of the New York
Convention's ratification of the Constitution arrived late on the night
of 26 July 1788, a mob broke into Greenleaf's shop and destroyed much
of his type. Because of these losses, the last daily issue of the journal
appeared on 26 July. Publication resumed five days later as a weekly.
New York City's three semiweeklies were The New-York Packet; The In-
dependent Journal: or the General Advertiser; and The New-York Museum.
The New York Packet and the New York Museum appeared on Tuesdays
and Fridays, while the Independent Journal was published on Wednesdays
and Saturdays. The New York Packet and the Independent Journal were
both Federalist newspapers, with each of them printing all eighty-five
numbers of The Federalist. The New York Packet was owned by Samuel
and John Loudon, who were also printers to the state of New York. The

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