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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cobbett , William 1762 -1835 (search)
Cobbett, William 1762-1835
Journalist; born in Farnham, Surrey, England, March 9, 1762; was the self-educated son of a farmer, and in early manhood was eight years in the army, rising to the rank of sergeant-major.
He obtained his discharge in 1791, married, and came to America in 1792, when he became a pamphleteer, booksell prosecuted him for libel, and obtained a verdict for $5,000 damages.
That suit had been brought to a trial on the day of Washington's death (Dec. 14, 1799), and Cobbett remarked that it was a singular coincidence that while the great patriot was dying in consequence of the too free use of the lancet, he should be mulcted in a verdict of $5,000 for exposing and ridiculing the dangerous practice in yellow fever.
In anticipation of the verdict, Cobbett stopped the publication of his paper and removed to New York, where he was threatened with imprisonment, but procured bail.
There he issued a series of vigorous pamphlets, called Rush lights, in which he ex
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hopkinson , Joseph 1770 -1842 (search)
Hopkinson, Joseph 1770-1842
Jurist; born in Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1770; son of Francis; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania; became a lawyer of much repute; and was the leading counsel of Dr. Rush in his suit against Cobbett (see Cobbett, William). He was also counsel for Judge Samuel Chase (q. v.) in his impeachment trial.
As a member of Congress (1816-20), he distinguished himself by his course on the tariff question, and by his opposition to a recharter of the United States Bank.
In 1828 he was appointed judge of the United States district court of eastern Pennsylvania, an office which his father and grandfather had held.
He was a leading member of the convention that revised the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1837. Mr. Hopkinson was vice-president of the American Philosophical Society.
His best known literary production is hail, Columbia (q. v.). He died in Philadelphia, Jan. 15, 1842.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Porcupine's gazette. (search)
Porcupine's gazette.
William Cobbett, British soldier; born in 1762; emigrated to America in 1792.
He published a small daily paper called Porcupine's gazette, which was a formidable and dreaded adversary of the French (or Republican) party; and the Gazette fought the Aurora with the keen and effective weapons of scathing satire.
But he did not spare the other side, and often came in sharp collision with the Minerva, the leading Federalist paper of New York, edited by Noah Webster, afte French (or Republican) party; and the Gazette fought the Aurora with the keen and effective weapons of scathing satire.
But he did not spare the other side, and often came in sharp collision with the Minerva, the leading Federalist paper of New York, edited by Noah Webster, afterwards the lexicographer.
Cobbett assailed leading citizens in his Gazette, and was prosecuted for libels.
He was fined $5,000 for a libel on Dr. Rush, and this caused the death of the Gazette.
See Cobbett, William.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1 : travellers and observers, 1763 -1846 (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 7 (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 21 : Newspapers, 1775 -1860 (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)