Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-12-09

SO 80 "a 80
Such is the effect of the crusade against the Herald
IN the matter of advertising. In one ,ceek our cash
advertisements are nearly equal to four times the
aggregate amount Of the 1ohole four riral prints
In our daily circulation there is greater disparity
The increase Of subscriptions to the Herald at this
moment is greater than it has been since its es-
Establishment. The open, impudent attacks made on
our character, talents, morals, our integrity
have brought into the field vast accession of new
friends and new patrons, that never would have
thought of the Herald but for the grossness asehood
and meanness Of the assailants. The highest ranks
Of society, male and female, are crowding in their
subscriptions. The sympathy which is generating
in our behalf among all educated men, can only be
paraleled by those delicious sentiments which have
long since filled the bosoms of our fair readers. In
deed the mental movement of the age is powerful
in our favor that combination Of the whole newspa
per press to put us down, would only accelerate our
speed the highest elevation, intellectual and moral
that an editor a newspaper reached
We look upon these attempts at slandering ns, by
such scouRdrels Noah the Jew, Brooks the BOBBY,
Hale the hypocrte King the blacks guard bully, as
merely the natural eervGscence produced in the pro.
gress of agreat revolution in the daily press begun
and conducted by us. Every parent genius-every
master spirit has met with similar foes and the like
opposition when he began his movement in thought,
or his reformation in morals. The divine Socrates
was denounced as an in6del-the great Calico was
anathamatsed as an athest-Martin Lu,hers life was
sought for by his enemes-and Shakespeare, even the
great Shakespeare was Stunned by the paltry bigots
Of his day, as an mineral, dangerous man to society
and religion. No great moral intellectual change
was ever produced in the world without strong and
bitter opposition.
The manner in which my contemporaries regard me
49, therefore, very natural and very philosophical In
me and my paper they see the germ of new and ex-
traordinary system in the daily newspaper press that
will sweep the whole lazy batch out of existence in
less than three years. Accordingly my racy pictures
Of life my free and Independent record of facts-my
pure preceps in morals and religion my clear views
finance and every mercantile subject, are denounced
as immoral irreligious slanderous, and absurd Their
empty rawlings will fail TO in,imdate me frsm my
great moral and intellectual position. l know my
heart-I know myself know my strengthened
knew the force and influence Of my foes. While
furnish my business readers with the profouRdest
views Of finance, will take to have love stories,
amusing anecdotes accounts of soirses descriptions
ofmarriages sketches of society, and Developments
ofpoiea rascality for general readers of both
Before me stand Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Add-
son. Swift Pope, Scott, Byron-all the great names
of classical literature. These my standards
these my guides The immortal works Of Shak-
.peare are full Of human nature in its true Inca
ments-sc | try to make mine. Milton Is bold, mag
niccnt, poetical-so | try 10 be. Dryden is witty
Addison graceful Swift sarcastic, Pope elegant Scott
imaginative, Byron intensc-so do try 10 catch the
varying hues ofthose great originals, and infuse them
into the columns Of the Herald. If my writings arc
immoral and slanderous and absurd, Shak-
peare and all his followers. Ny purpose has been to
create new literature, and 10 originate intel
lectual movement. portion of the same parent &C.
mus which characterises the classical drama, the
heroic poem the graceful history the engaging novel,
may be breathed into the daily journal-may reani-
mate she apathy Of the age by new throb Of ex-
silence.
These are the principles which govern my conduct.
Our readers, male and female gentlemen and ladies,
may rest easy We are not TO be inundated from
our system. Backed by the enthusiasm and support
OF great community we shall continue to give the
norald the same character for wit, vIvacity, life,
grace philosophy and morals which have raised il 10
I,e present envied cminence in the world. We 60
ahead.
II great many fashionable private dinners have
been gwen ofate. We shall describe batch of them
next week.
Tr Fanny Wnghtis mending her blue stock
ings. Good.
IT All the magazines are gong TO the devil.
d1F About 5000 suits at law before our courts.
Fine pick,nes for the l,wyers
~ The political elements are rather qrne,.
IT Sleep-balmy sieep-is one of the greatest