The first number of The Nation newspaper was issued on the 6th. It is a very handsome
publication of 82 pages, and is of the form of those London weeklies that have a world-wide
reputation. The contents are of the first class of journalism, and the conductors have only to
continue as they begin to gain for The Nation a high place among the best publications of th
time. The editorials are numerous, and discuss a large variety of subjects, all of great and
immediate interest; and they are written with distinguished ability. …. Judging from this first
number of The Nation, we can congratulate the country on the possession of a first class
weekly journal. Boston Traveller.
(Liberator, July 14, 1865