Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett and His TimesStringer & Townsend, 1855 - 488 Seiten This is a biography of Bennett, the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald. After many failed attempts at starting a newspaper, Bennett began the Herald in May 1835. Bennett was known for a lot of journalism "firsts," including the pay-in-advance policy for advertisers, adding illustrations produced from woodcuts, and, in 1839, being granted the first exclusive interview with a United States President, Martin Van Buren. While the Herald was officially independent in its politics, Bennett endorsed William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, and John C. Frémont. He supported James Buchanan as tensions rose over slavery and endorsed John C. Breckinridge for the 1860 presidential campaign, then shifted to John Bell. He promoted George B. McClellan in 1864. Bennett favored the Union, although he opposed Abraham Lincoln, he later took the lead to turn the president into a martyr after his assassination. He favored most of Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction proposals. By the time Bennett turned control of the Herald over to his son James Jr. in 1866, it had the highest circulation in America. However, under the younger Bennetts' stewardship, the paper declined, and, after his death, it was merged with the New York Tribune. |
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Seite 29 - Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart!
Seite 29 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Seite 28 - An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers : The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd fleet ; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears ; The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years ; Anticipation forward points the view. The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a...
Seite 193 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Seite 134 - An editor must always be with the people— think with them— feel with them— and he need fear nothing, he will always be right— always be strong— always popular— always free...
Seite 297 - ... mysteriously connected with the fate of Colt. This increased the excitement almost beyond endurance. . . . Take it altogether — the murder ; the boxing up of the body ; the alleged salting of it ; the trial ; firing pistols in court; cutting off the head, and bringing the skull of the dead man before the jury ; the sentence, and defiance to the judge ; the park meeting; the threat to arrest the sheriff; the money that seemed to flow like water; the various bribes ; the mock piety ; the holding...
Seite 311 - The New York Herald has been one of the most powerful instruments in the United States in exposing the frauds, bubbles, and stock-gambling machinery which our fund-mongers had organized in America for robbing the land and labor of that country, as they have robbed this since the days of Walpole.
Seite 50 - Reading, elocution, penmanship and arithmetic ; algebra, astronomy, history and geography; moral philosophy, commercial law and political economy; English grammar and composition; and, also, if required, the French and Spanish languages by natives of these countries. Bookkeeping and merchants' accounts will be taught in the most approved and scientific forms.
Seite 105 - Mr. Adams, Mr. Adams," says John H. Pleasants, "the hero's coming, actually coming." "Well, then," says Mr. Adams, "Burr him and traitor him." "I have, but he won't stay Burred or traitored." "Mr. Clay, Mr. Clay," says Charles Hammond, "Jackson is coming.
Seite 102 - Justice, with firmer grasp, secured her scales — "Hope, enchanted, smiled," and the genius of our country breathed a living defiance to the world. What a lesson for the monarchies of Europe! The mummery of a coronation, with all its pomp and pageantry, sinks into merited insignificance before the simple and sublime spectacle of twelve millions of freemen, imparting this Executive Trust to the MAN OP THEIR CHOICE.