Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.

One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.