Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-07-17

--..;.;ry We must grin and bear these rogueries
of Amos Kendalrs men the best way we can till zen.
Scott is elected and then honest men will get their
own again N B.-Mr Clay, we fear, would only
bring in one set Of rascas the other set SO out
g. Our CARRIERS are respectfully requested
not to serve our subscribers with the Whig," or
we shall serve them with something not exactly so
vapid
No BRrrrsH QUEEN yEr.-The probability now 10
that she did not sail on the LIST inst II she did, the
cause of her being so long at sea is that her mach
merry is new, and cannot run easy as that which
has been in use.
THE NEWSPAPER PREss.-In tolcrably accu-
rate account Of the newspaper press in this CITY,
which we find in the Sunday Atlas" Of last week.
there occurs the following paragraph:
The Heraldis brilliant in the zenith Of newspaper
or it perhaps like comet, with long
6srv tall which warns and sometimes burns II has more
WIT snS Pa su 1T .h So in
anderine constitute it errac sort OF iumnsry
Its wit and talent have secured II good Lat income h
sale Of newspapers alone independently Of
The days sale to which the Atlas" alludes, was
of that paper containing The entrfe of his Hghness
the King of the Locofocos into New York-it amount
ed precisely to 03 30-being the largest days sale
we ever had. Last week another single days sale
amounted to S37S. So. Since tke reduction OF our
price to two cents, we have cleared more money In
the same time, than all the large papers of Wall
street put together In the last two months, our
profits have amounted to several thousand dollars,
which we to invest in some good old fashioned
stock-not fancy-and give the rogues OF Wall
street notice Of the fact in order that these rascas
may make the most OF it.
The aggregate business Of the Herald is now i'm
mense and still increasing Sometimes issue seen
teen thousand copies Of the Herald in one day, one
third Of which is sent to every part of the werld.
employ four editors and reporters, exclusive Of my
SELF to two Of whom give $40 per week each-be-
sides number Of correspondents all over the world
In my printing office have ten regular compositors,
besides several hands, arrival or issue of
a double sheet, and two foremen-in my publication
Office two clerks and two boys-in my press-room
one engineer, one salesman, two men and four boys
have twenty three carriers and agents, for the dis
tribution Of the paper in this city and vicinity, and
probably nearly two hundred newsboys, some of them
the greatest rogues, and others the smartest little
chaps in creation. My expenses are nearly 100000
per annum-and my receipts nearly $4,000, with a
prospect Of increase, only to be limited by the
growth and prosperity Of New York.
There 10 instance in the history of literature al
bare capital Of $500, by the efforts of single ind
vidual Such events only take place in an az,
of great intellectual moral revolution, and sucl
an age take this to be. have established DAILY
press ON An entire new system. have called fertl
the highest order Of genius, and summoned to the
field the most nexible principles in morals politics
and religion Independence, liberty, truth and mo-
rails every subject, the elements of this sue
cess Indeed the rise and growth OF this paper in the
face OF all kinds Of opposition and persecution
sonal, legal, political, religious and social, pheno-
nenoa in it's day, and furnishes the world the be
evidence Of the great revolution maturing in the So
cia political, and religious world. Although the He.
raid woth Of the largest fortunes in New York.
yet consider that mere bagaele. 1t Is the power
and the influence il gives in aiding the great march
Of improvement that constitute its principal value
to me. Its wit-ts spirit-its talent would be no.
thing, unless those elements were directed to the
good Of mankind, and the improvement Of the heart
the soul, the feelings Of the present age To do this
II is my duty to take great latitude" and some.
times to :. burn" well as TO swarm" Socrates
took "great latitude" Martin Luther took ereat
latitude;" Shakespeare, Scott, Byron, every master
spirit Of every age, more or less warmed, or
"burned," and took latitude only capable OF being
taken by such spirits.
Yet we have only begun this revolution in news.
paper literature. ne trashy publications and trashy
writers Of the day-the creatures OF "cliaues." who
live on tick any where, must give place. in process Of
time, to the energy and genius OF the new system
Neither the "Herad' its editor belongs 10 any
clique, or will ever be the oracle Of any circle We
belong to the present age and to all future time We
have ambition, 1t Is true-but it is not the ambition
ofpossessing riches-or receiving public honors-or
getting the huzzas OF the mob-or the applause Of
exclusive sets Of parvenues. We despise all this.
and leave such things TO such loafers as Martin
Van Buren, and the locsfocos. Our ambition is
20 give 10 intellect, feeling and virtue in every
rank Of liie their proper ascendancy in the world
TO acknowledge no superiority but the superiority
Of the heart and soul. At present society, in all
IT. avenues, 10 corrupt to the Our politicians
are knavcs-our brokers are knaves-our lawyers
are knaves-all public men are more or less
knav'sh-and the clergy, probably, the greatest
knaves Of all for they encourage all the others for
'ne sake o. their salaries Why is this so The
DAY mat the Scriptures we're banished from the
schsoi room, and their place usurped by the vapid
writings ~ corrupt age-on that dsy began the
germ OF hcentousness which now oyerspreads all
society, and corrodes IL To the very he,rt und.r
the name Of refinement and fas,idiouspess the world
has become thoroughly corrupt and mmeasur,hIv
rotten. Yet we do not mean TO reform the ,resept
age-particulsrly the grown up rascal. usu I. az
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