Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-06-27
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| Arnoctous WIcKEpNEss-A RAscALLy EDITOR
In the Illinois Register" published at PEORIA whch
somebody has sent us there is letter from cores
pendent in this CITY, disclosing one OF the most awful
| pieces of wIckedness and the worst Oh men ever
| heard Of Read it,
AFFAIRS IN New YoRH-Mss kenbe IN speaking OF your
honorable fraternity applied the
without DANGER may be allowed to say that
thet applies be accused Of adopting its general
ao The people have been thrown into rs Ter
OF list Of all the houses which have failed including in
If eesncv abseace Of ali for wounded feelings the
contempt of honorable sentiment IN the vagabond who
81 G s than and
higher has received Just rebuke from his
exposed summary justice which he dspense the
@ e Of oe Who Ss although they will
receive but little derment from his SANDERS they think that
James Bennett the sacrifice of much trouble
and much TO IT. bat n aAs n hs
jus, His OF e s
10 redeem his ndecency structures lately upon the money
market have exhibited sagacy but they are not the e.
This precious epise is doubtessly written by some
of the wreched hangers on of the Wall street prints
those miserable corrupt rotten bankrupt blockheads
who cannot see the prosperity of my NEWSPAPER
ESTABLISHMENT without feeling the "palns OF the
damned" The singular success that has attended
nv industry, devotion to principle, correct private
conduct pure msrals and little capacity or Ia
lent has caused in the minds of the editors OF Wall
street. the bank swindlers, and their dependents,
more savage hostility than it is possible to exist Out
of hell ITSELF had not commenced my career three
months before an ineffable bockhead called Towns
end of the Evening STAR" who IS incapable OF
writing single paragraph, made an attack upon me
in the street. THIS was followed up by two brutal
attacks from Webb-then the general assault on my
office by Hambn and his gang under the auspices
and advice Of several editors and their dependents at
which time was robbed Of over $500 out Of my desk
Finding that was not to be inundated by any
combination of scoundres, new scheme was de-
vsed to destroy me. Happening TO publish the name
Of Haggerty & Sons by mistake among the unfortu-
Mates an excitement was created the Whole press
was opened upon me-Webb, Hale King-all bawled
ont 10 the top of their dirty lungs if they bad at
last caught the devil himself. John Haggerty q
Sons and two other houses during the furry created
bv the wicked bank suspensions, ran GREATNESS to
the grand Jury, the foreman Of which was on tAe
Same list of unfortunates, and had fellow feeling
with the CLIQUE ridiculous indictment was got up
clearly contrary law, without the vestge OF hook
10 hang il upon. Indeed, so much so was this the
case that the two principal houses, after few days
reflection, very properly and honoraby abandoned
all measures aginst me- and have left John Haggerty
g. Sons alone to make fools of themss Ives as they
inevitably will do in the sequel
But this il appears is insufficient. The dependents
OF these miserable corrupt editors in Wall street, are
writing letters all ever the country, traducing my
character, and holding me up To public scorn Even
the very merits which they dare not deny to my
Journal they feolishly withhold from myself by say
ing che is not the writer" Now if there is any Gre
dit TO the "Money Market articles in the Herala,
they are all mine. l devised them--I arranged
them-I wrote them and still do So There is not a
single man or iaancer in Wall street, capable Of
writing such articles. Some may have the talent,
but they are so stepped in corruption that have
the honesty.
Yet in the midst Of this singxlarly alevolent
bnat:on against single individual, for ether rea-
son but because he has been Industrious talented and
successful, have TO be gratied in receiving
the sympathy the enthusiasm the love, the affection
eftae great public and of botk sexes, degree that
no other editor ever enjoyed in New York. James
Watson Webb, Char es King, w. l.. Stone DAVID
Hale-is there a man among them can show mora
character-a private reputation even equal to mine il
every thing that adorns humanity These miscra
bic dnveers try in vain TO impede my progress to tn
highest fortune and loftiest fame that this world cal
give. Ii am true to myself-to the moral principle
Of my youh-to my early habts-al the force of hel
and Wall street combined cannot throw a straw il
my onward course
despise the attempt making by these corrupt crea
lures to nlure me- or blast my prospects. have jus
completed my GREAT NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHMENT
in every intellectual and physical point. publish
tuo daily and tiro weekly papers, issuing a weekly
aggregate of nearly one hundred and .fffy hhousanG
sheets, which are read by al least million of en-
thilsiastic and adRirng readers in the space
time. conduct my business on the cash system, and
by the legal standard of value. lam drdring upon my
establishment all the ready msney ADVERTISING in cit,
andcountry. My money market articles considered
the highest authority both in Europe and America
In London and Paris, men Of business begin to look
to them eagerly as they lsng have done in PhiIa
dephia, Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, Mobile and
New Orleans. And yet with all these trumphs aH
only in "the vantage ground" Of my career. Before
ten years shall have elapsed ! will develope to the
werld new power in the daily newspaper press
equal at least to the discovery Of steam power in the
arts, the electromagnetic principle in physical sci
ence.
The Wall street corrupt editors and their partisans
are afraid, and justly Of my further progress. Their
hat rod nd CHI .cto