NOTE ON SOURCES

September 1787 he began to print Antifederalist items. The journal,
published on Thursdays, became so biased, in the eyes of Federalists,
that on 4 October Greenleaf defended his publication policy (I below).
By 18 October the weekly Journal was so inundated with Antifederalist
material that Greenleaf had to print an extra issue. The next week he
noted that "want of room" caused him to postpone the publication of
a piece signed "Timoleon," but he hoped that in a few weeks, as was
"generally desired by his friends and customers," he would be able to
publish his newspaper more often. In his next three issues, Greenleaf
apologized that "want of room" prevented him from printing certain
essays, although he published another extra issue on 1 November. Fi-
nally, on 15 November he announced that the Journal would become
a daily because of "the solicitations of a respectable number of his
present subscribers-and by means of the generous patronage of a few
valued friends and the public....".He declared that in this time of
"CRISIS" people needed to be well informed about the new Constitu-
tion; he wanted to ensure that there would be "free discussion on that
momentous topic." By publishing only once a week, Greenleaf claimed
that he had "unavoidably neglected" half of the original essays that he
had received. Although four other New York City newspapers published
a total of sixteen separate issues a week during the fall of 1787, Green-
leaf intimated that a "FREE and IMPARTIAL discussion" of the Consti-
tution depended upon the daily publication of the journal. Greenleaf
charged $6.00 per annum for his new daily, the same price charged by
the Daily Advertiser, which carried the largest number of advertisements
of any New York City newspaper. However, since "the principal support
of a Daily newspaper is derived from Advertisements," Greenleaf re-
quested that "Gentlemen in the mercantile line, and all others who
occasionally Advertise" place advertisements in the journal (Mfm:N.Y.).
Despite the reasonable cost of the paper, at the beginning of the new
year Greenleaf, like other printers, had to call upon his subscribers to
pay their arrears. He had been to "great expence" in printing the
newspaper (New York Journal, 3 January 1788, Mfm:NY). Greenleaf con-
tinued to have financial problems because of the expense in publishing
a daily newspaper and on 19 May 1788-the six-month anniversary of
his daily newspaper-he requested that "those gentlemen who profess
to be liberal supporters of 'THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS,' will afford him
a proportion of their advertisements, for which they will be entitled to
his unfeigned thanks" (Mfm:N.Y.). Greenleaf was plainly calling upon
those who did not agree with him on political matters to help support
the publication of his newspaper. New York City was overwhelmingly
Federalist so that he needed the support of some Federalists.

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