New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-24

Washington. But he himself so well described
this state OF things In the beginning of the year,
in a letter which has yet attracted TO notice on
our side the Atlantic, that his pitiable is best
given in his own words. He is writing 10 some
friends Of bis administration excuse himself
on the score of harassing affairs from attending
dinner they had got up in Philadelphia in honor
of the birthday of Washington: and he invokes
! tie memory of the Father OF his Country TO con
trast with his own condition. "A President, ne
says. elected by the people, comes into Office at
/ the head OF a triumphant party. His will Is, tor
the most part the law which governs his party
! Responsible under the constitution, for the ad-
rnin,tration of public affairs he recommends his
measures and adopts his line of policy with every
assurance OF support. Not so, however, with a
! Vice President, who succeeds TO the Presidency
by the demise of the President His name has
mixed but little With the canvass, and has been
selected more with reference supposed scctiona!
or local, than to general influence. lie has no
party at ms heels 10 sustain his measures, or te
aid him in his cxcrlons for the public good. IN
stead OF being leader, he must be a fo{iomcr Of
party, and he is ieqajreni either to be piece Of
tror, to be moulded into any shape that Others
may please, or denunciafions the loudest and
6oldeSt arc in store far him. Has he long cher
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measures, whether those measures be good or
bad, the opposite, they must be surrendered.
Honor, conscience, erery thing esteemed sacred
among men. must be yielded, or the Mpuders
break 0rer his heal and threaten humiliation.
1t Is lit occasion for the prevalence of faction
and the reliance Of thus situated can alone be
on Tie P0trlottsm md diScernment of tie peo-
| pie. And so, the poor haras5cd party-desericd
President, having refuge but the patriotism and
discernment of the people, seems to have be-
thought him of the hundred thousand readers OF
the Ne,c- York Herald, whose daily faoi was slam
der and abuse. purely popular, and with dis
tinction Of party!
Now in this scalhing notice of the Herald, which
so far a the Editor himself 10 concerned is Of
course utterly thrown away, as have been long
since scores Of horse whiPpings from every quar-
ter, and which can be of service, therefore, only
by it's reflected Influence upon his readers. there
Is only enc serious error. 1t assumes that the
Editor thus mercilessly cruched, has about him
SEINE particle Of American blood and American
feeling, and that the vile sheet he prints in some
degree represents the American press. Now. no
man in this country needs to be told tina, he Is yet
subject Of the same government with his last as
notwithstanding to her own laws that no
a mericnn has the slightest share in tho manage
ment of his filthy paper that he VIGOROUSLY rep
resents here British interests, and SO fal as we
can Judge from articles like the one we now no.
tce, British feelings to their full extent; and
that, with far more ProPriety than the Herald
be cited as the representative of any thing Amer
lean, might refer to the convicts at Botany
Bay furnishing true and exact transcripts OF the
morality aud social condition of their parent land
TO which they owe their presen, position. With
this capital exception his conception of the char
acter he 50 wildly paints is perfectly lifelike-and
betrays keen eye for its peculiar beauties.
Many of our other journals are severely han
died: we copy the following passage chiefly with
reference 10 the fact that the Courier & Enquirer
poin;edy re5uked the complimentary Balls and
Dinners which were rendered to DlcKEss while
here, and treated the distinguished authsr with
much less respect than mary worthy people though,
his due. What bearing this fact may have in de-
tetmining the authorship of the Review read
ers must Judge. The following is the passage re-
fcrred to-
Another of our newspaper heroes we must now
bring forward: one whose journal is among those
distinguished by Capt. Marryat as 'equal to many
of the English newspapers This man describes
himself as Col. Webb, OF the United States army;
and his friend Of the Herald tells US he is " a
frank, manly blackguard, a fnc-looking, burly,
honest kind of savage. After patient and not
very pleasant examination OF the Courier and
Enquirer, the paper he prcsdes over, we are
bound TO say that with the exception of the
To-
stand those words) the second description may be
correct enough. This warlike editor has the APP
parent excuse OF political warmth for what he
says his motives to SANDER seem hardly so gIa-
tutous as those of Mr.. Bennett; perhaps lie is
really less fond of filth for its own sake. But in
filth he is equal adept, when politica opponents
are to be peliod with it; he scorns, with that
slight reservation, the claims, the decencies, the
charities of private life; aad among those who
wage war against the sacred rights and happiness
of home, he is the whole entitled to q much
higher commission than that he aifXcs TO his
name. Quite respectable paper, notwithstand-
ins, is the Courier aaG Enquirer aud popular
Wing organ. The has often changed poll
tics, but 1t Is Tor them that lose him to object to
that: he was bankrupt the other day for a large
amoHnt, but all America is bankrupt; he is said
to recover himself by bribes, but every man must
have money somehow; he libels his most distin-
suished countrymen MIR, Cooper was the LAST,
but small damages cover that one of his recent
inventions was letter TO emhro the President
with his Cabinet, but the Secretary ought to have
written such letter if he ddn't he accuses
members of Congress of selling their votes for
many thousand dollars piece, but they are lucky
members to make SO much of their woes, and far
too reasonable find fault with mere tribute to
their smartness. Altogether, therefore, "a most
sr,r, ma !, ;s ,h;S Colo,e,. s ,b,,. l,,oI 80 "a II;