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| James Gordon Bennett’s Editorial Career. | 2 |
| Incomparable Meanness. | 5 |
| Spectres and Hobgoblins. | 6 |
| To James Gordon Bennett and Frederic Hudson, His Cunning Secretary. | 6 |
| The Way New York Is Bamboozled. | 7 |
| Startling Revelations. | 8 |
| Life of Stephen H. Branch. | 10 |
Volume I.—No. 9.]——SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1858.——[Price 2 Cents.
STEPHEN H. BRANCH’S
ALLIGATOR.
James Gordon Bennett’s Editorial Career.
Bennett left his native hills of Scotland in1819, and arrived in Boston in 1820. Afterenduring the tortures of poor Goldsmith (asteacher, traveler, editor, and author) for fifteenyears, he takes the basement of thecrumbling ruin at No. 20 Wall street, and advertisesfor a boy, when John Kelly (now aMember of Congress from the Fourth, Sixth,Tenth, and Fourteenth Wards) thus responds:
Enter John Kelly in rags and barefooted.
John—Mr. Bennett: Mother says you advertisedfor a boy, and sent me to ask you forthe situation.
Bennett—What’s your name?
John—Johnny Kelly.
Bennett—Where do you live?
John—In the Fourteenth Ward.
Bennett—How long have you been in thiscountry?
John—I have always been in this beautifulcountry.
Bennett—Aint you an Irish boy?
John—No, sir,—I am an American boy,and I’m very glad I am an American.
Bennett—Why are you glad of that?
John—Because George Washington was anAmerican, and I dearly love his memory,because he always spoke the truth, and wasgood and brave, and loved and saved hiscountry.
Bennett—Who told you all this?
John—My grandfather first told me ofWashington’s greatness, and goodness, andbravery, and since he died, I have read theLife of Washington several times.
Bennett—Where was your grandfatherborn?
John—In Scotland.
Bennett—Ah! then, you are of Scotchdescent?
John—Yes, sir.
Bennett—Did you ever hear of Wallace?
John—Yes, sir, and of William Tell, and hisson Albert, of Switzerland. Grandfathertold me all about their courageous deeds andgreat love of country.
Bennett—Where were your parents born?
John—In poor old Ireland.
Bennett—Why did they leave their country?
John—Because liberty was dead, and thepeople starving, and sorely oppressed bytyrants.
Bennett—Who crushed the liberty of Ireland?
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