The story of the Sun, New York: 1833-1928 / by Frank M. O'Brien ; with an introduction by Edward Page Mitchell ...

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THE STORY OF "THE SUN"

power to prevent the State of New York from trying persons indicted within its jurisdiction.
The whole country realized the hostile attitude of the
British ministry, and accepted its threat that war would
be declared if McLeod were not released. The trial took
place at Utica, New York, and the Sit printed from two
to five columns a day about it. It ran a special train from
Utica to Schenectady. There a famous driver, Otis Dimmick, waited with a fine team of horses to take the story
to the Albany boat, the fastest means of transportation
between the state capital an(l the metropolis. Tlh Sun
declared that one day Dimmick and his horses made the
sixteen miles between Schenectady and Albany in fortynine minutes.
And the end of it all was proof that McLeod, who had
boasted of killing "a damned Yankee," had been asleep
in Chippewa on the night of the Caroline affair, and was
nothing worse than a braggart.
Beach was a man of great faith in railroads and all
other forms of progress. WVhen the Boston and Albany
road was finished, the Sun related how a barrel of lour
was growing in the field in Canandaigua on a Mondaythe barrel in a tree and the flour in the wheat-and on
Wednesday, transformed and ready for the baker, it was
in Boston.
Sperm candles manufactured by Mr. Penniman at
* Albany on Wednesday morning were burning at
Faneuil Hall and at the Tremont, in Boston, on the
evening of the same day.
The Sun had faith in Morse and his telegraph from the
outset. The invention was born in Nassau Street, only a