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The James Gordon Bennetts and Newspaper
Villard, Oswald Garrison | May 25, 1918 issue

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It would be easy to moralize about James Gordon Bennett, the late journalist, and to dwell upon his frailties, for the lesson of his career is obvious. As a young man there came to him a wonderful opportunity to serve his country through a great newspaper then near the zenith of its prosperity and power. Not that the morals of the Herald of 1850-1860 were what they should have been. First James Gordon Bennett was pro-slavery, pro-Tammany, and pro-everything which one should say to-day "made against good government." When the Civil War broke out, he was in much the same plight as his modern imitator is today; people denounced him as disloyal and unpatriotic and a mob compelled a radical change of front.

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BENNETT, James Gordon, 1795-1872; JOURNALISTS; NEWSPAPERS; JOURNALISM; PERIODICALS; CIVIL war
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