New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-24
THE TRlBU NE.
Oar Newspaper literature.

sins an article Of some twenty-five pages upon
the Newspaper Literature of America-con,an.
ing much that is false and unfounded, and more
that unfortunately is true and richly deserved
We are not among those who. whenever foreign
Journal presuraes to find fault with our INSTITUTIONS
OF abuse our habits, feel under some great aeces'
sity of moving heaven and earth with indignation
AS if our very existence depended upon the
good opinion of foreigner. 1t is not at all strange
that thew should not love us--we have never given
them snecal occasion We began by rcbeling
against their authority; we have, as nation,
steadily rejected their attempts To impose upon US
their customs and rules Of action and we are
usely to prove their formidable rivals in all the
objects OF worthy national and social aspiration.
We therefore very ready to excuse their abu-
size temper; and do not feel at all disposed to
he,aka ourselves to weeping and wailing ac-
count Of their ccnsurc. But, on the other hand
we have disposition to deny that we have faults
great and prominent ones and it would be very
strange if they should overlook these in their
search after materials for vituperalion and 1c-
proach. When, therefore, they hold these up to
view albeit to our shame and dissrace-we feel
disposed TO profit thereby-calmly TO consider the
slouuds on which their censure is based, and
wisely 10 convert it into motive and means OF re-
formation. AS nation are yet young" in
the grille -as BURKE expressed it and it will
not do for US TO imagine that youth, unlike
that Of all other nations end societies, has no
weaknesses. Far better shall we find it TO make
c,l,s &C L., a.l,o
tee Of their well-foanded ceHsure, and TO treat
with the it merits their SANDER and ground
less aspersons. The article in the Quarterly has
been charged upon DICKENS no unques-
tionable evidence so far as We can see, though we
confess there are internal marks which lead us to
suppose that hs at least had hand in furnishing
tho material However that may be, we feel in
tlined to make extracts from it-partly to show
The unfarness with which it is written and the
slsehoods which it contains, and more to lay be.
fore our readers some of the truths it undeniaby
/ uers. We aid thus to give them currency, not
\ as the words Of DICKENS, but simply of the For
eign Quarterly. 1t contains, in the first place,
great number of the most papable lies, which the
slightest care or regard for truth, would have
avoided One of these is the assertion that the
Al Herald is paper published daily, an size more
than single sheet Of The Tines, and about d
penny in price Can the man who wrote that
ever have seen both the Herald and lines But
what shall be thought Of this passage:
"ln January last there was murder in New
York. with every circumstance OF aggravatlon
against the mscrcant that committed 1t excepting
H.. r,I.. A. had Jpftu
ual friends and was not man OF color. The
cdious details appeared in our own journals, and
seeing nothing more at the time, fancied the
/ g,lows had had its due. But again and again
has this blood -saned villain beSm conrsctea, and,
I yIitL SUCCEEDING IN HIS APPLICATIONS FOR NEW
TRIALS, lie burdens the cath to this hour with his
msxpiated crime
The simple truth, as all our readers know, is
hattie Mr.. Colt-as 10 every other man in the
United States high or low, rich or poor, has been
extended all the protection, as we'll as all the
igor, Of the Common Law-that Law which has
acquired all its binding force from its use for long
& cen,priesi Great Britain, and which now rules
there as doe. here. Would the English Courts
have done loss or more than this (? Notwilhstand-
Tg this he has neuer been able eUcn once to obtain
1 new trial. and now his last appeal, quite as
hopeless as any of the rest, is to be respectfully
4 heard and calmly considered. 1t is scarcely cred
4 that DICKENS should have uttered so bold
taiehood as that contained in the passage we have
4 qntel
] Inc following passage concerning the infamous
q sest which has for 80 long time brought upon
american society more damning disgrace than
I ny ether engine the most Internal agency could
4 srise, contains truth which comes home TO every
z airCa Of It's pollution. We are glad to see 1t in
@yeign print--bccause for years past the great
8 @sy Of English readers and writer's have received
q heir Impressions of American character from the
@iamns of the Herald; and Notwithstanding his
4 srsibie and just appreciation of its reliability
a'ash he confcsscs that i. is strange Ito detect
ssany thing approaching 10 a truth wri-
stef this review is guilty of tho same injustice
4 repeatedly refers TO this same blackguard"
4 nd Filthy libeler" for opiniens concerning Amer
IAN society and manners. But VIC are glad to
nd that nc has some sense Of justice though his
aes Of moral honesty forbids its exercise. Per-
aaps some Of his readers, who have been accus-
coed TO fall into the same slaring error, may use
asfrecepts to better purpose than he has done
-end in this hope, we are glad that he has writ.
.'a as follows concerning the Herald and its Ed
ins:---
Of the reported private. couduc, or character Of
his accommodating person. it is not our intention
speak, 1t does not interest us, nor would our
readers care to know, how many times he has
been called dog, spnt upon, or beaten. our bns;-
ness with the broadsheet of lies and filth he daily
issues TO the public of the States: with The nonu.r