Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-05-02

i"osereuon ana want OF discipline OF inc wing Sa'y
presses antecedent to- and during the recent charter
election, are awakening the censures Of the country
journals Of their ewn party, who are now beginning
to perceive the effects of that conduct which mas
been the object of the Herald since It's origin 70
deprecate and expose. The brutality and ntcmper-
ancc ofthe Courier q. Enquirer; the want OF primer
pie and the absence of all seadness OF the Sfdr; mo
regeneration and wcathcrcock action OF the journal
Of Commerce; the arrogance sefshness and inialua
zion of the American; and the marvellous selt-con-
ceit and astonishing imprudeacs of the Commercial
Adpsrtiser-were sufficient to swamp any cause how
ever good, and to disgust any conscientious adhe-
rents however jealous. With the personal charae-
ers Of the conductors of these papers We have mo-
thing TO do except in far as they make the COL
umns under their control subservient TO the express
sion of individual preudices and hestilties and the
furlherance Of private specuasns, when we have al
ways been found at our post to denoHnce and neu-
raze such projects; now only look at the effect
of their proceedings the present welfare, and fu-
ture destnes of the great wing party which is likely
to be misnerpreted and rendered ridiculous by such
blinded absurd, and short sighted partisans.
To pursue line of argument, and to indulge in
personal abuse Of men and things agreeable to the
heated passions and silly predictions Of their
immediate circle of ctions and subscribers, can
not surely be the proper mission Of political jour
nalst, unless reasoning is no longer available, and
rbaldry and fasehood be tried previously to an
appeal to violence and the diaectics of club law
This has been the course pursued by the Courier IN
all questions of political and personal nature, until
its influence for good has been annhlated by it's sui
edal proceedings The people look with dstrust up
on statements coming from such sources they i'm
agne that there is latent motive OF deception be-
meath every averment and are suspicious that the
coorng given to narratives is composed of hateful
and envious passions and blended with all the doc
trines of political depravity and personal profgacy
by which the Courier has been so ndelibly stamped.
The imprudence Of the Wing presses would be suf-
6cient to ruin any cause however excellent and the
reckessness of its conductors their crupulous DIS
regard Of every rule of common honesty has been
the cause of the long prostraton of their party. 1t
is triumphant solely by the agency of circum-
stances and in spite Of the Wing journalists, who
might have labored forever renstate their in
its former palmy condition, bat for the Judicial mad
ness of their opponents, who saw the writing on the
WALL but shut their eyes 10 its words oil terrible i'm
port
The arrogant supercilorsness of the whig press,
and the hasghty dictaion they assume through the
country is another of the neficacy of their ar
guments People do not like to be dragooned into an
opinion; and the memorable treatise of Sydney" in
the Commercial advertiser wosld have given the coup
Gle grace 10 the wing phalanx but for the pressure Of
mercantile embarrassment, and the consequent trou-
BILE and agitation that pervaded the community. In
ordinary times such document would have had the
magic effect Of "To your tents, o Israel !" and the
imprudent declaration would have thinned the ranks
by thousands. The selfish arguments of the Ameri.
can, and it's financial dishonesty, must remove the
film from the eyes Of the most bgotted of the wing
adherents, when the touchsonc of is applied
as the of motive and the standard Of character.
We shall not hesitate expose the sophistry of the
blind guides who have done such injury TO the wing
cause, and retarded triumph by inconvenient jar
rings and personal sqaabbes and interests. We have
laborcd most earnestly and anxiously 10 mis-
conceptions and explain the actual position Of things
we have been Straightforward, honest frank, and sin
csre in reasenings and facts have been stated
they occurred political integrity is based the
influence we have acquired, influence that shall be
always used to support right principles in politics
and finance from whatever set of men they may ena-
nate or under whatever political sect they may be
promulgated.