Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-07-19
Noah and BenDeff

IT'S charms, and prccipitatc one into the midst al the
great secrets oiihe future.
Noah and Bennett.
Major Noah opens in very pleasant strain upon
his old associate, Bennett ofthe Herald. As there
may be few persons still left in Richmond-who
take the Herald for their benefit We copy the Ma.
jor's account oithe Editor-whom he ought To know
better than any other man i'm this country:
Tm lIEkALp.-wc have had another abusive attack in
the Herald Many persons have asked us what
had given Bennett for this uniform abuse and unmtgated
vituperaon. Cause enough in all conscience We were
the first oil the supplies under the black mail system
when the Evening STAR aud the Herald has been going
down since. Ii the only Of
TO be relied upon in emergency, and that il
While the credit OF in business worth preserving
something paid prevent their private affairs from be-
dragged before the public but when credit gone those
who had cash. buitoncd their wallets their pockets and
refused pay Men have taken courage and rcsol-
we'd punish the rascal who slandered their family Libel
have drained his purse. and believe unless il is
poor singer professional stranger, dancing girl, the
Black Mail System low ebb So reality there lit.
tie left OF the concern to attack- is going down rapidly,
and IL crying shame TO the American public that such
foreign renegade should have long been permitted
abuse country its credit its institutions, its eminent
men, and all in 1t that virtue respects and honor adons-
When what called the "moral war" first commenced
cisive o the Evening Star, Bennett would have
gone 10y the board but they violent and personally pro-
scrpnVc which produced reaction in the public mind
such likely produce; people sympathised
with him and took his paper be such kind Of
sympathy crowd OF spectators would feel tor culpnt
who about to be hanged-poor fellow they ped him
and forgot his crimes bu, chance his fate
spited the very sympahise themselves would break open
the prison doors, take him and hang him. When the
moral the Herald ceased Bennett became times
more slanderous, but the sting therc-and he
has been lingering under its effects since. Pub
hc opinion was never more strongly and unanimously
expressed in every section Of the Union, in the
odou estimation which the held when nterie.
red to save him from the dungeons and stone quares OF the
penitcntary. The phss of vengence poured my
head from all quarters. CenSurcs aud curses, loud
anu deep, were showrred upon because allowed him
escape; every Oiced seeing subsequently,
abused in the Herald had deserved it, said the public the
scorpion was at my feet and did tread After all
was right-yengeance forms part OF my composition
he begged almost ON his knees for mercy-sworc he
would change his OF ie-pledge himself hereafter
10 publish decent crediabe paper,hen he had been oug
in my employment. had bread and salt in my tent Civ.
ing also reins 10 magnaou lancied him carried up
the island in that awful omnibus known as the Black Ma
a, company with horde OF convicted feons; thought
him carried by the keeper the receiving room to
undergo Inspection and have his name, height, mark &C.
registered OF cscapethcn methough they carried
him 10 the BARRIERS shop and cropped that cNubeHnt head
OF crisp pepper and salt hair OF his quite clusethen the
bath TO be scrubbed, purified and nnced with dozen
buckets Of cool Cotou, and when dry PRISON clothes
put on, consisting Of nsey woolsey jacket and irow.
sers, too short for his long lank legs aud arms
Thus accounted, with that awful squirt OF his, | i'm.
agned him the most Unlocking rascal in the army of
vics marching TO the quarrioS dig could
not make the sacrifice which admit stern JUS
ice demanded Then felt all the sympathy due his
highspintedclever wife, whose misfortune 1t have
such husband then his innocent child be dsgraced-in
short inerfeed him, for which he sOundy berated
aud abused he concous that he had deserved his
DOOM and that had rude TO arrest the majesty
of the laws. have always believed that Bennett expect
cd make money OF his disgrace by writing letters
from his prison and publishing them in the Herald, and that
he abused me for the cemency extended towards him.
The Herald, however Is poor concern. As mercan-
tile Journal II far beneath the Tribune in authentic nel-
gence. The only clever and respectable troupe
OF editors and dfdcheS is VIM. II. Atree, Esq, whose
ports OF public proceedings may always be relied upon
hentic when he has political personal feelings
view, and whose abours and pen the Herald indebted
for any occasional good article find in it. The paper
however, is going down-the American people begin TO
feel the degradation in having such a published
and paonsed in the midst OF them-devoied foreign
erests and sustaining foreign attachments. Her Majesty
the Queen has got her hopeful subject James Gordon
Bennett within her dOmnion, and she requested keep
him there, and make the United States second Van
DIcmen's Land for her oulcasts.