The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-06
MIR. Bennett and His Maiigners-The Way
Their Feathers Are Clipped when Brought
10 the Specifications and the Proof

MIR. Bennett and HIS Maiigncrs-The Way
Their Eeathers Are Clipped when Brought
tothe Specifications and the Proof.
We publish elsewhere in these columns, ut
length, the decision of Judge Bosworth, Of the
Superior Court on the matters at present in
issue between James Gordon Bennett, plaintiff,
and Edward p. Fry, defendant.
Fooled in bis suit against Mr.. Bennett,
Fry through the columns of the New York
zrtJune took the law into his own hands,
and freely delivered himself Of his feel
ings concerning the public and private cha
racter of the editor and proprietor of this
journal. Unhappily, in his philippe the wrath
Of Fry overleaped the limits not only of
Christian philanthropy, modesty and decorum,
but even of Fourerite philosophy A libel suit
against him was the consequence; and being re-
uuired TO answerit, he collects a mass of vague
and useless rubbish in justification Of his bold
and INSCRIPTIONS charges The plaintiffs
counsel moved to purge the record Of this ex-
traneous matter as totally irrelevant, and
Judge Bosworth strikes the whole OF it ont,
unless the answer be amended so as TO make
it, with respect TO such matter, more definite
and certain. The Court further suggests that
the defendant, in answering such com
plant as this of the plaintiff in this
case, ''must be advised by great professional
skill and experience, to be morally certain
that his answer sets up u defence to every
distinct libellous imputation which the plain
tiff. at the trial, may successfully insist is
charged 10y the article complained Of
The meaning of all this is that the volumi-
nous mass of extracts scraped together from
newspaper fles, running through the event
full editorial career of Mr.. Bennett, are good
for nothing in support of the malicious AL
Legations uttered by Fry against him; that
these extracts are not proofs; the defendant
must therefore go towork again, and rnmmage
through the newspaper files a second time
to see if something a little more 10 the poi I
and the purpose cannot, here and there, be
picked up.
The fact is, that Fry, in making himself the
pack-horse of all the calumnies uttered against
Mr.. Bennett, from the beginning of the NEW
York HERALD 10 the present day, has broken
down under the load. His great mistake in this
was the unwarrantable presumption that these
scandalous abuses so long passed UNPUBLISHED
by MIR. Bennett, on account of the vagueness
with which they were made, and the worth
icssness Of The characters of those who made
them could be specifically charged with i'm.
punity but the moment Mr.. Fry was so
foolish as TO father these charges and to in
duce Greeley IL McElrath to publish them, The
opportunity had arrived which Mr.. Ben
nett had long desired Of testing the truth
of the absurd and false allegations which had
been made against him during his newspaper
career. He therefore Immediately had them
brought before the Court and the Court by
this order, has substantially answered to
all the vile publications and calumnies ut
tered against Mr.. Bennett, by envious
and defeated rivals, disappointed poiti-
clans, and the various types of stool-p pigeons
and Jeremy bidders that have from time
TO time attempted to cajole or intimidate the
editor Of this journal to their selfish purposes
Failing in all their devices to use him, or cir
cumvent him, they have fallen back upon the
fools expedient to libel him. But the more
numerous alu llc luOTc NlOicHL inc i1DelS witt
ten to break him down. the higher has he
been lifted above them by the support and
confidence Of the community. Thus sustained
he could smile at the impotency Of his enc
mics, and let them rail on.
But Fry was resolved that the object Of
his wrath should not thus escape. and the
first result Of the efforts of the ambitious
ex-managcr TO group the ISLANDERS and libcls
Of twenty years against Mr.. Bennett into some
tangible shape, is before our readers in the
opinion of the Court, which we publish this
day. Fry's extracts and libellous allcga-
tions are discarded and he is drive. to
the hard necessity Of patching up another an
swer as best he can. Let him not forget the
great professional skill and experience recon-
mended by the Court az essential to lead him
out of his budget of blunders But what
is to be said of the Fourieritc philosophy Of
the Tribune proprietors in declining to put In
an answer in extenuation OF their folly in
the premises. They gave to Fry the medium of
their columns for his wholesale work Of defa-