The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-11-23

the higher classes it suits its productions in general
TO the higher levels of taste and understandings and
though political power can never be altogether safe
| IN the hands OF uneducated Masses yet where the
press has no interest to ioment their evil tendencies,
the danger OF their abusing their franchise is at least
| materially diminished So In the converse, not.
| wihstandng the great and indefinite evil 10 be APP
pretended from the political issues OF press whose
cheapness carries Its circulation down 10 the lowest
classes, yet so long those classes are unarmed
with the powers of the State, society may continue
TO maintain Its nights and Its decencles, though not
without some fits OF feversh disturbance. But
once combine the two evils OF an universal Journal
| ism and universal suffrage send wild winds
loose over wide waves, and the result is the wreck
| of all society .s .lf b, asrI trrlr. -.f tI.I.
"--- maria e. terras, ceumque proiundum.
"Quppe ferant rapid secum, verrantque per auras
| Now let us take the liberty of intimatiag to those
who dsdain to think OF the public as an aggregate
OF private individuals, and choose to regard II only
fsa body polite that the mischief produced by that
license of libel which American democracy has bred,
| Is not confined 10 the private sufferer, but reacts
upon the public in its political capacity. The osten-
sibe object OF all democratic politicians is to get The
public honestly served. According to them, The of
| fetal administrators OF any government but Re
| public must be mere gang of consplrators against
the good OF the many Tor the profit OF the Jews II Is
only, forsooth, III commonwealth that men can be
expected TO abandon all interests of their own, and
look solely that trust which they hold for their
stituen.-hat duty which they TO their country.
Blu is this found to be the working of the repubh
can system In America Is this, among her " free
stitution which excludes all taxes upon knowledge
| and all limitations upon suffrage We come back
| to Messrs. LEE and PURpY, men charged with pub
lie duty the very highest that citizen can fulfil
the duty OF administering justice between the State
and the trangressors of the law. Do they admins
| ter Justice! Do they perform their trust, their
| duty No; justice, trust, duty, all are violated,
| that the editor of the cheap newspaper may repay
| their mercul forbearance when next they
forced to court the surages of It's 600 ragged rea
| ders.
| We are not inclined to join the vulgar chorus of
| those who cry down all public men destitute of
| honor or honesty but we do undoubtedly hold The
persuasion, that against such force that which
warped these magistrates in the libel case the ave-
rage virtue OF mank ind Is not strong enough TO main
tain its uprightness. You will find in the modern
state of society," plenty of men quite staunch against
! the influences that effect only the pocket any
profit that bribe could bring is more than counter
vailed by the disgrace that follows detection. So
with respect to any threat affecting only person
property; there the MARTYR opposes steady front,
secure of general sympathy. But when the int.
mdatlon appears IN the shape OF menace to charac-
| ter he has support to look to but the fortude
which may be inherent in himself for damaged
| reputation repels the sympathy of the world Now
the firmness requsiteiorsuch resistance is exceed
lngly rare, even among persons commonly rated
| honest. The very sensibllity TO the opinion of
others, which in general is among the best supports
OF virtue, becomes here its betrayer, and men yield
| their honor rather than tarnlsh their fame.
appears therefore to us, that the influence of de-
mocracy in the United States is quite as detrimen.
tai to the public at large, by cOrrupting its servants
1 as to individuals by fching their good name. And
| we see no chance OF any cure for this pervasve
| curse of the American republics. If the power of
legislation virtually with the respectable part of
| the community, the mischief might be checked by
| the ena ctment OF such duty upon newspapers, as
should bring the periodical press TO depesd upon and
cater for purchasers ola more civilized description
than the readers who buy the farthing rbaldry
of the day. But, unhapplly, these very readers are
the governing powers Of the land-he possessors of
the omnipotent popular suffrage and il would be
childish to expect from them any law regulation
for cutting of the supplies that feed their own era
wing. Thus Ii is that the democracy acts upon the
press and the press reacts upon the democracy and
| between the one and the other, the once hopeful
Eden of Liberty seems atedlto remain wilderness
| of weeds.
| From the London Evening start
| MONDAY EVENING Oct. 81.
American Newspaper Press and the New
York Herald-Amerfcan Diplomacy.
From the Star Chamber of Threadneede Street,
the order has gone forth TO raise moral and poii-
| cal war against republican Institutions in general
and those of the United States of North America in
| particular. This new move on the political chess
board has been decided on since the return of Lord
| Ashburon from his lnglOrious mission TO Washing
| ton. His leading object in visiting Washington,
| was pecuniary-to secure that "more comprehen-
sve security, which the Earrings, in their letter of
1889, represented as indispensable for carrying on
the extensive scale. While his pecuniary mission
proved an entire failure his political labors were
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ground at Washington. he found that the Walpole
system of bribery, by which Government is sus-
tanned in all its great movements, could not be
brought to act probably on American Institutions.
| In America, where every man votes and reads, and
where they have frequent elections, and conse-
quently where the representative must be RESPONSE
bic for the honest discharge OF his trust the money
power might exhaust itself in fruitless bribery.
| This melancholy fact has been demonstrated to our
| fund mongcrs by the astounding developments of
the United States Bank, which in 10 years sunk its
entire capital in bribery and spe culation. In Eng
| land, where bribery has only small number OF
electors to operate on, and where elections occur
only in seven years, our privileged robbers find
it safe and profitable business to spend few hum
dred thousands IN brides to secure majority in Par.
| lament. AT the last General Election they spent
half million sterling; but they realize double
| that amount in few months by their control over
the currency. and by moving Lord Aberdeen on the
| political chess board when they want TO make
speculation either in stocks or merchandise. Lord
| Pamerston most useful and convenient Minis
| ter to the monopoists. and they hope to receive
equal consideration from the present Minister of
Foreign Affairs. Our privileged orders have dis
covered that this system of bribery and corruption
by which England has been governed cannot be
grated on American Institutions hence they are
denounced, stigmatzed and blackened by every OPP
prebrous epiihet which the malignant ingenuity of
the press can suggest The Times tells us that the
experiment. of Republican Government has proved a
failure if the United States OF America; and the
Chronicle, the other side, re-echoes the
same impudent fasehood in the teeth of facts
which convince the civilized world of the very
reverse Universal Suffrage and the Public
Press of America are the great stumbling blocks
to our fund-mongers and their fellow robbers of
labor for they have not money enough to brbe
such immense masses of voters, writers, and read
ers. The Ifnp3s sees no means OF aTrestng the
downward tendency of America, except tax on
newspapers, which would essentially exclude light
from the poorer and more humble class of readers
and by raising the qualification of electors: In
other words, according to the Times, the Anne
rio ans caunot become wise prosperous until they
adopt the worst features of that vile system, by |
which our rulers have reduced this once happy
ton to the loahsomc abode of hunger, crime, and
gilded prostitution, which it presents to the
world Boz the Times, Chronicle, ct i'd genus omme,