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"

took it back. This is the way he announced his resumption of control on New Year's morning, 1862:
Once more I write myself editor and sole proprietor of the New York Sun. My day-dream of rural
enjoyment is broken, and I am again prisoner to pen
and types. For months I sought to avoid the surrender, but only to find resistance without avail....
But I congratulate myself on my surroundings.
Never was prisoner more royally treated.
What, then, to the readers of the Sun? Nothing
save the announcement that I am henceforth its publisher and manager. They require no other prospectus, program, or platform.
MiosES S. BEACH
John Vance, who is said to have worked twelve years
without a vacation, left the Sun about that time because
Mr. Beach refused to name him as editor-in-chief. Vance
was a good writer, but he and Bleach were often at odds
over the Sun's policies. It probably was Vance's influence that kept the paper in line for Douglas in the presidential campaign of 1860-a campaign in which the Sun
was run for two months by Beach and for three months
by the Morrisonites.
On Beach's return to the Sun he set out to recover its
lost advertising and to restore some of the livelier news
features that had been suppressed by the Morrison group.
Early in the summer of 1862 he began to shift advertising
from the front page, to make room for the big war headlines that had been run on the second page. He also used
maps and woodcuts of cities, ships, and generals. The
Sun's pictures of the Monitor and the Mcrrinac were