The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-03
NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY JUNE 8, 1872-TR1PLE SHEET

cnteen years Ola ne saw franklns autobiography,
which inspired him to take care OF himself He
visited the scene OF scotts novels, and, while long
Ing FOR scott's glory, he admired the black-eyed
girls he met. Among women and children he was
always gallant and courteous. Chalmers seems to
In 1915 LETT Scotland FOR America. with FRANKLIN
70 ms mllu napoleon In his heart, and nothing In
me- pockets. Though he obtained employment In a
book store, ne spent his leisure hours In rambling
about Concord and Bunker Hin ana writing poetry
it Is possible that Daniel Webster saw q certain
verse on Boston, written by Bennett, as follows:-
roy ihass bright as S' ss
Par oap Ssy l miinSSw ss sy
The morns deep red or hue Of parting day. sifaa
Bennett saw every Saturday Joseph mixer
3ucklnghams paper, the, NeD Ea01Qssd GalaaaI.
which was severely crttcising preachers and
|sctcrs and he probably learned how an editor ca D
be empIoyers store had tie greatest circulation t
In 1929 Bennett went to Charleston, s. O., to work
ior the Courier q that city as the translator OIL
oaoc Ssa
1.-THE Oberhe used to sail out to sea to board ves.
sells for fresh news-a fact which he afterward 0n|
he learned to advocate non-Interferenco with
slavery. HIS policy was, "Let 1t alone.n An Old
|sf Bennett, remembers that he was good Journal
list on the tbsrter. a~- II ~ Z Il 7-~7
II . year Bennett was in New York, wanting to
began to lecture III the Fulton street Dutch Church
ION political economy, but found that he must
especially s @ the sSs aso
cratic organ u 1923 nc purchased the sunday
original lie ' reported srs w W
Hs WAS JasTscn democrat. He IL was sAq sem
ward hefwioe resigned the positions In which 'S he
was earning his bread, because the paper on which
candidates. Yet Parton says he was q man with.
out political convictions. lie had many charsc- |
tsristics IN common with Jackson. and was demo.
never ceased heartily to wish the success OF the
ola democratic party. One OF his recent sayings
democratic r. party s so brave thatit is just
When he was twenty-eight years old Bennett 1
was while lie was the washington correspondent Of +
me new .S., YORK h.arer copy Of Horace Wal
he was Frenchnan enough to appreciate and apply .
It. Thereafter his personal and piquant letters from
copied Into many other Journals and 1t Is said had
the effect Of procuring husbands for some OF the
would lot these effects escape his observation. In
his correspondence, and In Walpoles style Of COR
respondenSe. may BE- seen the secret q the
sheets, containing nothing bGt' intermina, /
Of that day saw that such was not the method best
adapted for successful journalism. The one was
SOCK the old style but Greeley improved II. Greeley
studied the strength and resources of the country
while Bennett pictured the weaknesses ana the
veloped but Benefits policy led him to crticse and
gossip. Greeley was the Jean Prouvaire of Hugo's
who thought much about the conditions OF things
OF human suffering, OF little children, OF poor
Of the With a ast ps and
public refOrmer, unconventional conservative, but
intrepid. In the din and smoke OF the fight OF =
the enemy beyond the barricade as lfe-lOynQ
Jean Prouyare and the last words that came out Of
killed him, were, Long live the future % We know
no example more pleasing than that OF man who r.
fights his own conserva asm and knows how to be
brave and consistent-tOday. Wellington thought
that the brayest man he saw at Waterloo was O -
Highlander, as pale as death, charging
old style Of discussion and put soul into It, Ben
nett despised it,. THE two were the progenitors OIL
mond was both Serious and adro aSd IN the cSS
enthusiastlc rs Sir wilam Psmple. His faults Its
sss sf career Sl Sss az stssE aes fsS
his merit that he was one of the camest ~
political dsoaters whom we have ever had On the
tracing antagonisms, ne was as calm and as fortu
nate as Crittenden; but the Times was so great
papers, and he was so thoroughly the master OF
the details ofevcry department. Of It, that the talent
Msh oe ae 70 for lis ought onsG
men were profounder thinkersj Greeley.
possessed u DrOauer cOnCepClOn OF the depths OF
human life; Bennett had keener fancy and FUR
ther-reaching genius; Goodwin was more masculine
and scholarlyi but none exceled Raymond In pre-
spirit which, without distracting conventionalites
being utterly Sc9s Ana aOmHi0hpise Calm in his
discipline, clear, neat, and thorough In whatever he
he was never so severe as to excite dis
trust OF his motives, and never 30 moderate in his
naturally man for Ire areside, and he published
a paper to be read quietly by ordinary women as
as by Ordinary t men, Ae never
SURPRISES snE and while he had cool, calm aim
way Of turning subject from one side to
hour, as the sunset shows its crimson coors for fair
weather and Its grays to the coming storm, he al
ways remained the same, sure, steady, careful and
school house and the yccum, Bennett
to the family. TO this DAY the Tribune
quotes history as cause, and the HERALD
as an and perhaps tine most most
the HERALD gives news. Bennett had learned in o
Boston bookstore and in his letters what would
take. Greeley did not seem to care whether what
he wrote "to0k" or not, and he was fond OF saying,
Truth T is as old as the hils 90 n -,
ing Johnson and Leigh Hunt, and II he had the love
to read them through he could not have been very
influence OF John Randolph. On his return to New
York Bennett suggested to Webb the union OF the
courier WITH Cne EUQuUeT NOT was ne luie among
his old friends, the technical politicians, who he
thought ought for his party services to start paper
for him to edit. But neither Van Buren nor Attorney
General Butler could be induced to appreciate the
policy OF doing So notwithstanding thathe was the IL
friend Of senators and visitor OF the President
In the midst OF his trials he wrote 81 am sorely
puzzled to know what to do.n The next year
lie would be thirty and would crystalize. There was
no journalism outside Of party politics. newspaper
was not known, but organs were AZ thick as
backberries. Meanwhile he was a hackwrter for
a living. In 1882 he left Webb because the paper /
would no longer support Jackson. Yet Parton
thinks that this sentimentast had no convictions
II he had not resigned he would not have been
abused, nor have been called 'the foreigner" nor
have been announced as "anti-Jackson and anti
republican, nor have been disguised with the very
people he had resigned for. He was beginning
not TO be credulous, and he had the audacity to |
write, 81 was the first editor In this State who in
1897 nominated Jackson and Van Buren, together.
II make up my mind to establish paper wish
you to understand that shall ask no man the lib
erty OF doing So Offering to aid the party and es
tabshing paper are not one and the same thing.
II see ut | am at liberty to start paper on my |
own responsibility, and leave the party to Judge
for themselves what confidence to give It," This
In Ha ufo ptoA f1,o no md vaAX