Horace Greeley and Henry Raymond, Association Discussed, or The Socialism of the Tribune Examined being a Controversy between the New-York Trobune and the Courier and Enquirer (New York: Harper & Brothers 1847).

The Tribune’s first article not only prefaces its promised statement of what Association is, but sets forth the elementary Principles out of which Association grows. The Tribune insists that a recompense is due: and it, therefore, unavoidably implies now, what it openly asserted before, that the holders of land have despoiled those who own none, of the ‘equal share’ to which, ‘by a law of nature.’ The Tribune complains that the existing system of society ‘Darkens the vision and arrests the arm of Philanthropy;’ and that ‘‘hundreds who give liberally would give more, if they could be secured against the abuse of their bounty.’ The Tribune reiterates its assertion, that the condition of the mass of the population of England is worse than was that of their ancestors five centuries ago; and repeats its citations in proof of it.