CONTENTS
| Page | |
| James Gordon Bennett, Horace Greeley, and Henry J. Raymond. | 2 |
| Early Years—Senator Henry B. Anthony. | 4 |
| The Patient and Doctor. | 5 |
| War with Great Britain. | 7 |
| Tremendous Display of Crinoline. | 7 |
| A Queer Letter. | 7 |
| Life of Stephen H. Branch. | 9 |
Volume I.—No. 8.]——SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1858.——[Price 2 Cents.
STEPHEN H. BRANCH’S
ALLIGATOR.
James Gordon Bennett, Horace Greeley, and Henry J. Raymond.
I shall review the editorial career of thesemen, (whom I regard as extremely vicious,)and I shall begin with Bennett, because he isthe eldest and biggest villain of the trio. Ihave written for the Herald since I was astudent at Cambridge in 1836, for which Ihave received only $250. I have written forthe Times nearly since its advent, for which Ihave received nothing. I have written forthe Tribune since the first year of its existence,for which I have received nothing butinfinite detraction. So, in all I may say ofthese ungrateful scoundrels, I shall evince noingratitude or treachery. Bennett’s face isthe reflection of hell and the prince of devils.In conversation, he is obscene and blasphemous,and thoroughly wicked in every thought,and to listen to his obscenity, and blasphemy,and corrupt suggestions, in his old age, makesone shudder with horror to the inner templesof the soul. He is a low and cunning Scotchman,of a large brain, of superficial cultivation—hasno critical knowledge of grammar,and his orthography is quite imperfect—couldaccurately define Websters “science,” only asit represents the mode of extortion—has readvery little—is an unnaturalized alien, and amonarchist of the deepest dye. His leadingmotive, since he acquired his almighty dollarposition as a journalist, has been to corruptthe people, and thus subvert our institutions,and cast us again into the embraces of Britishdespots, whom he still loves, and will everrecognize as his native masters. His wifepermanently resides in Europe, and the sonwho bears his name was educated in London,Paris, and Vienna,—and Bennett himself haspassed most of his latter years in Europe, withflying visits to America to black mail privatecitizens and the politicians in our Municipal,State, and National elections. As incontrovertibleevidence of his sympathy with corruptionists,he never wrote a syllable in favorof the election of an honorable man to office.In the abstract, he prates of virtue, and hasalways denounced public rogues as no otherman in Amer