As an editor Mr. Greeley was eccentric, and his marked personal traits were perceptible in his management of his newspaper. He was severely temperate, although opposed to prohibition as impracticable; he was in favor of a high protective tariff, opposed to slavery, predisposed to vegetarian diet, and at times manifested a proclivity to the doctrines of Fourier and Prudhomme. In his management of _The Tribune_ Mr. Greeley made a wide acquaintance with the newspaper men, politicians, and the statesmen of the time. Among those associated with him in the management of his paper was Henry J. Raymond, who afterward became the founder of _The New York Times_. Those who rendered service to _The Tribune_ were George William Curtis, Charles A. Dana, Margaret Fuller, Bayard Taylor, and others who subsequently achieved renown. Mr. Greeley himself has said that of his first issue of five thousand copies of the paper, nearly all "were with difficulty given away." _The Tribune_ was first sold at one cent a copy; in a month's time it reached a circulation of three thousand, and a month later it had reached the extraordinary circulation of eleven and twelve thousand. _The New Yorker_ and _The Log Cabin_ had all along been managed as weekly issues from the same office; but in September of the first year of the establishment of _The Tribune_ these were merged in what was now _The New York Weekly Tribune_, which at once leaped to a large circulation and became a great force throughout the country, especially in the rural districts.