The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-05-23
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eign Quarterly Review ~ Other articles nre adont-
ed OF course, to the basest of which we hsve Fl
ready adverted:, The most natural and the most
amusing We will now detail. # is vsry trte fo
have to remind the reader of the well known pro-
pensity OF deinquenis Of all times and countries.
when detected 10 some common and notorious vii
lany to catch az that desperate chance of escape
which seems to them always, by some univer sal
process OF nOreasOning, TO be implied in the treach-
erous turning round their associates. There is,
ship in crime. Thus in The case before Us, il has
been sought to make the :" New York Herald" the
sole luckless scapegoat. 1t is notorious" ssysthe
Journal of Commerce" "Lhat the Herald" was
established among us after the model OF the London
| press" lOh' excellent "WestmInster" reviewer,
What prize you will be to your worthy aasociates!l
And now they have the impudence to come out
ana dlsown their own banlling We have frsquext-
" thongm, adds this cautlsus and considerate Jour
| nal, mat The influence OF that violent and abusive
papel AMONGST US was exaggerated; that is, sup
| happily readers may be found every where" In
| other words, the Reputation might run thus Our
violent and abusive associate would really, after
all, get no more by his violence and abuse than we
| do; but ne is SC peculiarly admirable in the obscene
line, which every body is unhap2iy inclined to that
there, we must admit, ne carries the day. We SYM
pathize with the journalist OF Commerce in his con-
fessed Inability that way, to compete with his more
successful rival and will add to his credit that
we cannot say we have ever observed him even
make the attempt Indeed, this g Journal of Com
merce" is on the whole very dull, and Gas far as
any thing of the genus newspaper be in Ame-
| rica) very harmless journa-one, for example, as
| it naively confessed on the 10Th OF January last,
who cannot the Courier's ,cit in telling OUT
RAeEoUs directly in the face Of public know
| sdge".-and we should not have made further men,
ton OF it, il It had not fallen iato this fit of anger
against ourselves. But now for the WIT OF the Sou
rler."
He cries out, too, Of course. and in far louder
| tone, the precious "Tu Quoque" argument. "Pooh!
excaims the wit, in his least indecent mood and
phrase, the American press compared with the Eng
| ish, s as Chesterfield to Cobbetl" The argu-
| ment is become natural TO large classes in America.
with dishonesty in their dealings, and they offer to
| find you dealers quite as dshenest charge them
with national degradati on or dishonor, and they
lsok round for nation in a like predicament. To
reform their dealings, strive to amend their
ton, is the last thing thought off, But passing this,
we come to the Chesterfield language, .wherewith
the Courer and Enquirer" would repudiate lit is
| good American word, thaiD his worthy associate.
"The great burthen Of this Review. is to fix upon the
Press of the United States the folly the sbsceny the
the vulgary ofthe New York Hersd;"
paper which. Dickens well knows the American
people entertain no other sentiment than unmitgated dis
gust and which happens be edited by band o. foreign
on some Of the most scurriious Of the London PaPers D
The alusion is to the distinguished writer on
whom, for purposes before described. the author
ship OF our Review has been attempted 10 be fas-
tened; and on whom, we are very well aware
though, with the former article, he will not have
known what we are now writing, will not have been
l,
till it is made public to all the world-the ruffianly
libeller and his friends will seek to fix the RESPONSE
bility OF the present article also Equally, and as
wilfuy, does he mistake the "great burihen'' of
| that Review of October. 1t was to fix upon the
| press OF the United States, in companlonshp with
like qualities of the New York Herald, the folly,
the obscenity, the reckrssnrss and the vugarity of
the" Ne,c York Courier and Enquirer" He knows
| this, and he knows that zoe haze done tt. We have
pilloried him here in England. He tries to escape,
| and it is the dreary impotence of this very effort
~ Y q n.
| cably "the folly, the Obscenity, the reckessness,
and the vulgarity" He makes dismal efforts to be
acetOus-taIks with frantic outrage OF the writer
who is supposed to have placed him in his pIllory,
,chO for than haY his life has iued the
aetcs OF London, and eaten his daily bread at "cold
,cttaf shops supplied from the refuse garbage OF no.
tells and The tables Of gentIemen"-and in fancy hears
himself, all that wide Atlantic, only the more
loudly greeted with
The dismal universal hiss, the sound
OF public scorn.
How we should feel for the Westminster Re-
view," wi tn such creature as this to defend How
yet more deeply should we sympathize with such
man as the intelligent" New York Merchant" who
is obliged to think the Courier and Enquirer" de-
cdedy one of the best papers published IN New
York, although that does not say much, ne mournfuly
"coniesses."
unmingaed Disgust is entertained in America for
the "Courler's" associate, convicted like himself,
| and like himself under punishment, the New York
Heraldr Ii is unmitigated disgust which has gwen
the " Herald" upwards Of thirty thousand su6scri-
bers! 1t is rnmitigated disgust which strength
it that it rears its mpudent head above the law,
and its OF re ckess Vllany, unbrlded and
triumphant 1t is unmitigated disgu1 the part
of the American people, that renders 1t worth the
while of the Chief Magistrate, who hopes for his
election at the hands OF that people, to incur the
tive hatred OF majority in the Senate, and the con-
tempt and distrus Of (et us hope) large classes of
educated men, by openly connecting his govern.
ment with this q New York Herald, by taking I'M
der his protection the wretched sanderers 10 it's pay,
and by rswardIpg their zeal for himself by secret
agencies" in the service OF the State Will even
the Westminster reviewer be able to believe that?
The first part of this desert ptIon OF influence
horrible, proved in our former review the last
we shall now proceed 10 prove When rogues 1--WE
grieve to have 10 draw so many illustrations from
this special walk OF life, but the subject will be our
excuse)-when rogues we say, fall out, honest men
are apt to get their own. A month or two since,
this happened with woo the most notorious roguts
ieDdish representative, Ia person OF the name OF
Psrlemee, } he had stationed at Washington. The
difference, which dates within the last month
or six weeks, first appeared in an attack upon the
| rogue in chief, in one of the Herald's' rivals
| This was clearly from the pen of Mr.. Parmelee,
| who having Just been displaced from his honorable
successor as "Attres, the notorious vasabond" at
| is very curious" he proceeded, 10 notice how
very differently the HERALD is looked upon since
Parmeee leiit II was, before, sort OF .emio1c'al
organ of the Pve1denf IL was owing to this the paper
| gained such circulation over the United States.
| An attempt of the Scotch vagaboDd who owns the
led to a separation" In answer to this the
editor of the 'Herald' undertakes prove Mr. Par
malice ga self.convcted liar;" and il may be said,
he quite succeeds He prints number OF his let
ters protesting eternal gratitude and friendship,
and thus deneatss Mr.. P's general literary
Out of pure pity, he says, he had acted to many
other scoundres (he phrase happily expresses the
only class which such aman ever pitles or employs)
| he had taken him into his service. 81 soon found,
however, that he OF little use as reporter, and
too law for any purpose except oafng at taverns,
or PLAYING billiards with jackasses. continued
him, but found him totally useless, deceptive, i'm
pudeu, presumIng, and extravagant Hence his