The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-15

= the community, merely for the grAudsAton OF any
"a .ay sonseiye Ny client gentlemen, If you had
BEEN resident Of Boston, PhAdslPAia foreign
plAes had never known Or sses him before, aud
la read Bsuns tits paper you can sasy imagine what
OF estimate you would have formed Of him. You
wsud have sensidsrsd him "a com pound Of
have considered him quarrslsome, insulting volest
man would have considered him base wretch, who
ssud eppoy females in his company and then set
ahsut 81 stemat isally to deaIse and traduce them
h black mail papsrs-nswsPapsrs hired 70 pao- |
perform and perfsrnn the objects Of desires You
would have cen sidsrsd him who would have in
MO the spsra hsass place Of public in tia
oaty of York, and mix them with gamblers blacA
lsgs and Prsst utss all in the enc suisisg in The bsxss
psqustts, private boxes, AID behind tae csllssS or
spsaiss the latter believe the right word though
! sannst say know much assut such things You |
woad have considered hira that HI d Of man You
would have esrslesred hEa a man of NO sort OF bust |
capacity perfect hunoug all ignorance, vanity
Yrsts nsien ard insici, ncy you had any kind Of
wsrA to do, either clerk, bookkeepsr, merchant
opera ger, anything else, ysu would have al
most any man ysu could PICK up in the Streets before
yoa would have employed him. l 2posas
Mat you took what the HERALD published abo It him
70 be true and that hs was y stranger to you and
ysu knew nothing about him. But let who he
b, because il is important In the inquiry to know
whether the man Is such being al that described ~
the publications ade Of him. Mr. Fry is before YOU,
and BOT important in judgment, in this cass.
TO call your atentica little TO whom he il, would no,
ten. Mr.. Fry is Of Philadelphia family, OF what may
- called anything in this country can be Called
ancient family, literary, respscsa - family Mr.. Fry
n his chchood manifested taste tor music and a. "a
early and tender age pat under the instruction of
musical teacher. These facts they have called by
Sesding the positions of Mr. Fys brother. At the pro-
Per time Mr. Fry to St. Marys College as it is
sailed believe, II receive a collegiate education, and
ere he put under the conduct of the professor u
music. Mr. Fry regularly educated among other
things by the professorof music attached to this in5itu
tier, while he remained undergraduate hsrs. When
Mr. Fry left college he went into the employment Of
Il the most respectable houses In the city Phsdel
Phia-ene OF the most respectable mercantile houses in
the Unon-Brown Co. There hs remained for y
considerable time He the confidential cierk-hs
entrusted with the most important taat
delegated to any member of eInpoJa of mercaa
ue house He afterwsrds went to Europe and when lie
returned, went into sect.ble ployment in this
rity-a confidential employmens. All this tine, gentle
men, Fry though he did not happen to be bes ed with
TIE voice to make great vocalist Of himself and though
he did not wish 70 spend his life instrursntast in
music had taste for music; in the language of wit
mesa, his love of music seemed TO become passion
With him. II seems that he formed intention at
very early period put himself The head of repec
table institution where music as it supposed is pro
duced in it's perlec .onas TO harmony and ina at
least This rs the plaintiff the man that is ia COM
pound of ignorance, vanity and pretsnsion who knows
nothing who Rss been well educated, has hal
cantiie, a basiness education TOBIAS had musical
sducaton has . taste FOR music passion for music if
you ease; he il the mau who Is totally inca abe il
the opinion Of James G-rdon Bernstt to nallags
Opera House. And Why, gentlemen? Because he had
managed before. All, gentlemen, should
Ike to know what battles old General Putnam
Of the Revolution fought before the Revolution
broke out Why the brave old fellow had been
plough tai until calst TO the field lnmanier C the
rebsls, who achieved liberties which il
njoy. What experience st military affairs hsd General
Rrowr, the Chief OF the army during the
hte war with Great Britain, previous to his sssnng TO
the defence Of his county Who successfully turned
ths tide before the peace took placer Gsn.
Brown Nho Quaker By birth and merchant ty
profession; he dotted his Quaker cost and donnsd the
cAc7edst sud plume and went into the field, and took
aUnms nd Of the American army Es it who rolled
back the enemy at Chippewa and Lundy's lane. Such
Aghtipg experienced under ns command, and such
tened the snJsavors Of MIA troops al
most unexam lied in history Tnes did not educate such
Their n "a than
at for it, General Brown had education as business
man, but rever had been trained to NJ ce1t has
had education busiae5s mao, is literary mzn,
and even to csrtGin extent il musical bu he had
never been trained for managing operas. DO not knoE
OF school 10 this country, IN aoy other country il
which trained to he opera managers. believe
they had the requisite taste for music, and had ths
nscesssry qualifications for busiress in general, snd
vthAl gentv manly in their appearance and associations
IA life that they fit for the management OF theatre
or opera house without any regular scientific
systematic training for that purpose The occasion
snakes The man; and whs never you ind who
mp to the stature Of in irellscs ani
1tucation. and there is occasion to make use or him,
my word for it, you make anything Of him; all
sxperirnce fhoEs II, and does ths history Ct
country the re yo ton down TO tina prasen
Zine. We'll then, the plainiG tere to New YORK
and as you have heard end ayers 10 get up opera
Of its circulation Of e5 ooo and Income OF $500 w
1t the tine the libel made however believe Il lad
not got up 70 exceed 900 Who Feansttf Way.
hs as notorious ss this City Hall Q&ughTer outside
fhe bar
The c. urtThere must be end 10 this sort of feel
must not Re INDUCED in. The Office will remove any
psTson they perceive indulging in this cond act G
Mr.. Jcr coa;inuedTaere is nobody n this city bat
What knows Bennett body else that him
viii know him II they him ag,in. His SspaDar
calculates al over the world according To hs state
menf in Europe at least if not in asia Africa and
al the islands Of the sea- de is 4" TIE Napoleon OF
ths press" Who Far from having the title gwen i'm
e mich name gave to himself BY way of dstin :tion
from all the rest of the FRI such as the Crisr ami
Engusr1, P7nsydntan. Trita1ae North american Tins
and al those little triiag esta riahments thai have
Mr. Rsp
the learned counsel the other size says raised the
American press to high distncton Ye. he has begun
ays tie learned counsel with nothing With nothing
Yes, he did. he began, the learned counsel in a
career Of honorable usefulness. There cannot back
his paper is, and what it has been. He under
stands human nature In the early period of
most talented that any other country
sOuh produce and, among Others recoIect by the
nszs OF Bill Atee, Of famous wit and of good intentions
good hearted fellow Bill Atres but be q most
fAlsn ted bsckguard, and lie came well nigh get
ting the bones punched out Of his skn H0boSen
3or Of his blsckguard publications the HERALD
newspaper. You all doubt recollect that But poor
An, 1t the same time, was OF good insntions
vas . hearted man. but he kLd bired himself to
Bsnnett the HERALD and he was bounf to d. the
work of his master which bis aster had employed hin
sor though he should get his head and broken for
fU performance This went but is unnecessary
me TO trace the of this paper down the present
time Although ny learned friend has called TIE dsfen
dant high Minded and lilly honorable man. do not
think the commendaton necessary ia q community in |
which he Is so well Known; but perhaps it would
nsve bean nade II ne cid not need i. Bat am only
stafing the career Of the paper; r not attack Nc.
Bennett but will exercise tbs rio OF a critic will
sks his paper, and IL at the liberty taxing
the fies Of the HEAID and reading them to you would
show you some OF the most backgusrd whitening and
hasphemous productions that from the hands
OF man. There nothing sacred-for appeal % your
own recollection Of the paper in former times for be-
neve there are men eced with 1t Who have
regard for reputation ard speak parcolArly in refer
eBcs to the hesrs Hudson who up the other
day. What families have been driven TO destruction
That men Of fnlies have been driven to suiade-whs
dssolaton has been oocasonei to private happne and
private peace, By the former productions OF that nevs
paper called the NEW York HsRAID Center en- |
only ask you 10 tax your recollection have no,hinx
more to SAP about ii TIE per has largo cir.
salaon 1t naturally would 1t pro5tJl7 the deSizn
Of Bennett to get up sncb thipg the HERALD WAS al
hrst IA oTder 70 oh ain circulatioa because there L
class IN the community, regret TO say vho Ike
what II little nuty, the black suard order II II
b wtll done and it well dons 10 that paper Itisa
fact that there is species Of curiosity in tss ioe