The statement that the capital stock of the _Republican_ was fixed at half a million dollars must now be qualified. It was fixed on paper, but not in the banks. Little of the money was actually paid in, and some of the subscribers were not solvent. Dana worked hard with his pen, but the _Republican_ had not enough backing to hold it up. After one year of it Dana resigned and came East, determined to start a paper in New York. He had friends of influence and wealth who were glad to be associated with him. These included: Thomas Hitchcock Isaac W. England Charles S. Weyman John H. Sherwood M. O. Roberts George Opdyke E. D. Smith F. A. Palmer William H. Webb Roscoe Conkling A. B. Cornell E. D. Morgan David Dows John C. Hamilton Amos R. Eno S. B. Chittenden Freeman Clarke Thomas Murphy William M. Evarts Cyrus W. Field E. C. Cowdin Salem H. Wales Theron R. Butler Marshall B. Blake F. A. Conkling A. A. Low Charles E. Butler Dorman B. Eaton The most eminent of this distinguished group was, of course, William M. Evarts, then the leader of the American bar. He had been counsel for the State of New York in the Lemmon slave case, pitted against Charles O’Connor, counsel for the State of Virginia. He became chief counsel for President Johnson in the impeachment proceedings of 1868, and later was Johnson’s Attorney-General. He was chief counsel for the United States in the Alabama arbitration, senior counsel for Henry Ward Beecher in the Tilton case, Secretary of State under Hayes, and a United States Senator from 1885 to 1891. Roscoe Conkling was a United States Senator from New York at the time when Dana bought the _Sun_. He was one of Grant’s strongest supporters, and led the third-term movement in 1880. His brother, Frederick Augustus Conkling, was the Republican candidate for mayor of New York in the first year that Dana controlled the _Sun_, although later he changed his politics, supporting Tilden in 1876, and Hancock in 1880. Edwin D. Morgan was Conkling’s colleague in the Senate, where he served from 1863 to 1869. He was Governor of New York from 1858 to 1862. He, like most of Dana’s associates, was a Grant man, and it was Morgan who managed Grant’s second Presidential campaign. Alonzo B. Cornell, then only thirty-six years old, had risen from being a boy telegrapher to a directorship in the Western Union. He was already prominent in the Republican politics of New York State, and was afterward Governor for three years (1880–1882). George Opdyke, a loyal Lincoln man, had been mayor of New York in the trying years of 1862 and 1863. Cyrus W. Field had won world-wide distinction as the Columbus of modern times, as John Bright called him. Two years before Dana bought the _Sun_ Field had succeeded, after many reverses, in making the Atlantic cable a permanent success.