Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872, Part 2 |
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... Success . - Speech of its Originator . -Contents of the first Number . - The Moon Hoax . - Richard Adams Locke . -The Man without a Country . - Enterprise of the Sun. - Opinion of a " Blanket Sheet " on the Cheap Press . - The Citizen ...
... Success . - Speech of its Originator . -Contents of the first Number . - The Moon Hoax . - Richard Adams Locke . -The Man without a Country . - Enterprise of the Sun. - Opinion of a " Blanket Sheet " on the Cheap Press . - The Citizen ...
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... - Swain , Abell , and Simmons . Their wonderful Success . - The way George W. Childs purchased the Ledger . His manifest Destiny . - His Management of the Paper . - The - splendid Ledger Building . - Anecdotes of Swain and Childs.
... - Swain , Abell , and Simmons . Their wonderful Success . - The way George W. Childs purchased the Ledger . His manifest Destiny . - His Management of the Paper . - The - splendid Ledger Building . - Anecdotes of Swain and Childs.
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... Success in Europe . - The Cause . - Wit and Humor here and elsewhere . - Mark Twain on Artemus Ward . - Interview with Petroleum V. Nasby . - What one Humorist says of another . - Abundance of Wit in America .... CHAPTER XLV . THE PRESS ...
... Success in Europe . - The Cause . - Wit and Humor here and elsewhere . - Mark Twain on Artemus Ward . - Interview with Petroleum V. Nasby . - What one Humorist says of another . - Abundance of Wit in America .... CHAPTER XLV . THE PRESS ...
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... Success , having slain several of the French , and brought home several Prisoners , whom they used in a manner too barbarous for any Eng lish to approve . The General coming back to Albany , there happened a mis- understanding between ...
... Success , having slain several of the French , and brought home several Prisoners , whom they used in a manner too barbarous for any Eng lish to approve . The General coming back to Albany , there happened a mis- understanding between ...
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... success in his agreeable News- Letter , assuring him I have neither capacity nor inclination to answer any more of his like Advertisements . The Gazette became the Postmaster's organ . It was owned and conducted by no less than five ...
... success in his agreeable News- Letter , assuring him I have neither capacity nor inclination to answer any more of his like Advertisements . The Gazette became the Postmaster's organ . It was owned and conducted by no less than five ...
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Common terms and phrases
Advertiser affair afterwards Albany American Amos Kendall appeared became Blair Boston Boston Gazette Buren called character Chronicle circulation Colonel columns Commercial Congress copy correspondent Courant Courier and Enquirer Court daily paper Democratic dollars Duff Green early edited editor election England enterprise established Europe express fact Federalists Franklin friends Gazette gentleman Globe Governor Henry Henry Ward Beecher honor Horace Greeley hundred Independent interest issued Jackson James Gordon Bennett John Journal of Commerce journalist Ledger letter libel liberty London ment Mercury metropolis morning nation News-Letter newspaper organ party Penny Press Philadelphia political Post President Press printed printer proprietor published Ques Raymond readers reports Republican Senate sent sheet Street subscribers Tammany Hall telegraph thing Thomas thousand Thurlow Weed tion Tribune United Washington Webb weekly Whig William write wrote York Herald York Tribune
Popular passages
Page 757 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 755 - That the printing presses shall be free to every person, who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch of government: and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Page 756 - In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Page 338 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 129 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventyfive ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea...
Page 755 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court as in other cases.
Page 291 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page xvii - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Page 118 - That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony...
Page 133 - And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet.