The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-07-24
ANOTHER ILLUsTRATED
WEEKLY n E AID!
SPLENDID EN0RAVIN0S.
Early Life Of the Presidentia
Candidates.

Candidates.
We shall publish another illustrated Weekly
Herald on Saturday morning, containing some
beautiful engravings illustrative of the early life OF
the Presidential candidates now before the country
for their suffrages next November. The artists are
now very busily engaged them One of these
engravings will represent that well known scene. in
the life of Mr.. Clay when he went on horseback
with his mothers grist to the mill. This is very
beautifully designed and will be well executed.
1t will present most impressive example to the
youth Of this country, of the truth that talent, ge-
MUS and energy, well directed, can rise from the
very humblest rank in life to the great and elevated
position which Mr.. Clay now occupies before the
people Of this country.
Another engraving will represent scene in the
early life Of Mr.. Polk, who Is a naive of North
Carolina, and is represented when boy as chop
ping wood for his mother, and making himself
useful in an equally humble capacity as that in
which Mr.. Clay was engaged. This Is also another
ilustrious example of the peculiar character of the
institutions and society of the United States show
ing how mind can rise from the lowest condition
in the social scale to the very highest; and that
there is nothing to prevent the very newsboy who
sells this paper through the streets, if he choose to
COuuuCt hLiScu Will NiItuc anu CHCISy, uHu pio-
priety, from becoming the chief magistrate of this
great nation-higher than the kings and emperors
of the old world. This Weekly Herald will also
contain other illustrations, which will be seen on
the day of publication.
We intend, now that the Presidential contest
has fairly set in, and all the local excitements and
riots have ceased, to proceed and illustrate all the
various important incidents in the lives of the two
candidates. We shall also give graphic and anu.
sing sketches, illustrative of the manner in which
both parties conduct the canvass.
The Rival Bouquets-or, the Decency, Re-
spectability, and Morality. OF the Party
Press.
We give to-day, on the first page Of our paper, a
couple Of columns of extracts from the leading po-
litical articles Of the newspaper editors Of both
parties-two choice nosegays, one gathered in the
gardens of whiggery, and the other plucked from
the fower-pots of the democracy. They can't be
matched in Chrstendom, and we verify believe
that the venerable horticulturist who superntends
the hot-house below, could not, even with a
months warning, produce more luxuriant growth
of falsehood, scurriy and evi-speaking, than that
which these whig and locofoco editors have man.
aged, without the slightest trouble, to bring forth
within the last few weeks
There has scarcely ever been presented before
the eyes of any civilized and christian people, such
painfully convincing exhibition of the demorali-
zng and degrading influence Of unprincipled parti
zanship, that which thus offer for the instruc-
ton, rebuke, and warning of all concerned. Never
have we met with such a notable specimen, Of
what the Chinese very happily call "laborious vile
ness" as that whose filthy fruits are displayed in
these two columns of political blackguardism.
No nook or corner OF vulgar calumny has been
left UNEMPLOYED by these daring adventures in the
realms of lying and scurrility. The eloquent
matrons OF Blllingsgate, and the Honorable Mr..
Mcconnell OF Alabama, had we had supposed,
reached highly respectable point in this species Of
rhetoric, and indeed enjoyed sort of monopoly Of
it; but the gift appears TO be much more widely
possessed, and it will be seen from glance at our
first page, that the smallest party editor in the
smallest country village of the United States, can,
at any moment, bear awaylthe honors from the
most talented vrago that ever retailed fish and
blasphemy on the classic bank OF the Thames, or
the gentleman" from Alabama himself And
then only think how vastly superior in all the arts
Of foul-speaking, must they be who can sit down
and commit to paper, blackguardism hardly
equaed and never surpassed even in Washington
bar-room
We have repeatedly exposed the gnorance-the
pretension-the mpudence-thelworthles
dishonesty-the hypocrisy, of the party press. We
have shown how, on all the great questions which
agitate the country, it is dumb and powerless. We
have shown that as vehicle OF accurate and early
news, it is altogether useless. We have shown that
in the great and important work Of aiding human
progress, extending the boundaries of knowledge,
and exposing and defeating error, moves backward.
We now present the melancholy evidence of its
utter want Of decency or responsibility. No press
that had any character to lose would descend to
the depths Of low vulgar and filthy abuse, of which
we present only few specimens. We cannot i'm
agne anything more contemplate and mean,
than newspaper which merely the tool Of a
faction-the grovelling slave Of party that lives
and moves and has it being in the slime of party
spirit whose daily work it is to pander to the ves
passions of the human heart and which earns its
daily bread, in not a whit more respectable, and
hardly less criminal vocation than that Of the Vene-
tian Bravo by stabbng the private character of the
living, and raking up with poignard the ashes of
the dead. And yet this is the character, and this
is the vocation OF the political press Of the United
States.
1t Is somewhat amusing for those who can over
come the natural disgust which it excites to exa-
mine and analyse this vituperatioa and abuse. Take
some of the scurrility of the Courier & Enquirer
for example, print which makes very laughable
pretensions to dignity, decency, and heightened
morality. 1t certainly affords some remarkably
fine specimens of political blackguardism, being
under the control Of creatures with minds, as con-
tracted as vinegar cruet, tempers as sour as Its
contents, and who seem occasionally driven to abb
solute frenzy by the demon of party spirit In re-
plying to the accusation, urged with such psrtna-
city and violence, andwe believe also considerable
effect, against MIR. Clay, that he is duellest, the
Courier tries to make out that Mr.. Polk was du-
elest Howl Why, In way that no one but the
astonishlngly acute genius Of the Courier would