https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:59:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1052 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:44:03 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1052 He started as a fourteen-year-old corset-maker, and would be a sailor, tax collector, schoolteacher and Fleet Street hack. His parents' generosity gave him eight years' schooling; he made himself a political writer of force and eloquence comparable to Edmund Burke, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, and wrote three]]>