Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 09, June 19, 1858

Bennett left his native hills of Scotland in 1819, and arrived in Boston in 1820. After enduring the tortures of poor Goldsmith (as teacher, traveler, editor, and author) for fifteen years, he takes the basement of the crumbling ruin at No. 20 Wall street, and advertises for a boy, when John Kelly (now a Member of Congress from the Fourth, Sixth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Wards) thus responds:
Enter John Kelly in rags and barefooted.
John —Mr. Bennett: Mother says you advertised for a boy, and sent me to ask you for the situation.
Bennett —What’s your name?
John —Johnny Kelly.
Bennett —Where do you live?
John —In the Fourteenth Ward.
Bennett —How long have you been in this country?
John —I have always been in this beautiful country.
Bennett —Aint you an Irish boy?