. A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . for the great feats of journalism that havesince been accomplished by the ISTew York press. iSTine years later, a new paper, called TheWeekly Journal, made its appearance, the editor be-ing John Peter Zenger, who had served as an a]>. A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK 67 j)rentice under Bradford. Zenger was led to under-take this enterprise against his old master becausethere was need of a paper to favor the cause of thepeople, Bradfords Gazette being pledged to the aris-tocrats and the governor. The governo
. A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . for the great feats of journalism that havesince been accomplished by the ISTew York press. iSTine years later, a new paper, called TheWeekly Journal, made its appearance, the editor be-ing John Peter Zenger, who had served as an a]>. A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK 67 j)rentice under Bradford. Zenger was led to under-take this enterprise against his old master becausethere was need of a paper to favor the cause of thepeople, Bradfords Gazette being pledged to the aris-tocrats and the governor. The governor, William Cosby, was a despot whosought to deprive the people of some of their dear-est privileges. This stirred up a great deal of feel-ing, and the Journal, among whose writers weresome of the cleverest men of the day, began to pub-lish articles that attracted widespread , ballads, and witty items appeared that hitthe governor and his friends very hard. Thesepaper bullets at last irritated Cosby to such an extentthat he had Zenger thrown into prison on a charge ofprinting false, scandalous, and seditious matter, andat the same time he ordered the citys hangman pub-licly to burn certain copies of the paper. The judgeof the court was a strong friend of Cosby, and couldbe depended on to treat the pr
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