. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . ents a night. Commodore Vanderbilt is the greatest railroad man inthe country, and Mr. Drew is the greatest founder of areligious seminary in the country, besides being as much of arailroad man as Mr. Fisk; and we do not propos
. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . ents a night. Commodore Vanderbilt is the greatest railroad man inthe country, and Mr. Drew is the greatest founder of areligious seminary in the country, besides being as much of arailroad man as Mr. Fisk; and we do not propose to look oncontentedly and see these great New Yorkers abused. is not only the founder of an excellent seminary, atwhich the best of morals are taught and young men arefitted for the ministry, but he also knows how to keep a hotel,and formerly kept the Bulls Head; and if Mr. Fisk everstopped there when he drove his peddlers wagon, we daresay he fared better than he is likely to in his libel suit. The airs which Mr. Fisk puts on toward Mr, Vanderbiltand Mr. Drew are certainly calculated to afford these gentle-men and the pubhc at large some amusement. Mr. Fiskconsiders it libellous to associate his name with theirs, and tocompare him with them. Oh! the aristocracy, the exclusive-ness of peddlers who have once reached the dignity of driv-ing four-in-hand!. JAMES FISK, JR. I83 ** The derogatory remarks of Mr. Fisk about our distin-tinguished fellow-citizens are contained in his proceedings inthe case against Mr, Bowles. The defendant having de-manded of plaintiffs attorney a bill of particulars, one wasserved accordingly, containing a copy of the entire articlepublished in the Re^ublicati, and assigning the following asone of the reasons for considering it libellous: And the saidCornelius Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew, also named in saidlibel, are persons who, having been largely intrusted withthe direction of sundry railroad corporations, are commonlyreported to have made u
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