The New York herald., 1845-08-26


From these facts, it will be at once perceived that
since the returns were made by to the Post Office
Department, we have been steadily increasing over
our previous circulation, and that we have now
reached an aggregate issue of something over
FIFTY THOUSAND, and that the probability is,
that growing with the increase of the country, the
next ten years, the circulation of the Ne,c York
Herald will be ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND,
spread all over the country, and read by half mil
hon of people. We believe there is nothing more
improbable in this prediction, in the year OF Our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-fve,
than there was in the prediction we made in May,
one thousand eight hundred and thrty-ive-ten
years ago.
The truth of the matter s this, the daily newspa-
per press, institution in civilized socety-as an
element of modern civlzation-and as one of the
greatest stones Of freedom and law, has never
yet reached its highest point of improvement and its
widest circle of influence. We are merely in the
commencement of that great sovereignty of mind
that great element of free thought thrown abroad
upon the winds of heaven, and circulating through
out the country, amongst free people and
industrious race. The establishment of the nde-
pendent press of the city of New York; of which the
Ney York Herald the spirit and type and pioneer
opened new age to the world of mind and has dis
closed new elements the progress OF true religion
pure morality, incorruptible government and CIV
and religious freedom of all kinds. The old news
paper press of New York is going out of existence.
and narrowing the circle of its influence daily.
During the last years. paper aferpaper conducted
on the old, personal, party, narrow-minded system
of cl,gueism, has disappeared. Stars and Times
and Sung and " Patriots" and we don't know
how many kinds ofpapers, probably to the number o,
an hundred, have gone to the tomb Of all the Capu.
lets. None of the old regime now remain except
two or three in Wall street.-the Courier g. Enqli-
rer the Jornalof Commerce, and one or two others,
and they have been placed in such position as to be
now almost on their beamends and under the ne
cessy Of scrambling along the best way they can in
order to maintain that position miserable and preca-
rious at it is.
In the progress of this great conflict between the
old and the new system of newspapers there must
needs be war, and contests and controversies. We
have thus far VIGOROUSLY borne ourselves through
the conflict with the old system Our contempora-
ries of the must also bear their share of it.
and we believe that great part of the enmity and
the opposition which have recently heen mani
I'd towards the Tribune by the elder iour
nails of its own party, has grown out of jealousy
and envy, as much as from their disapproval of
some of the doctrines promulgated by that journal
II is two three years since the Tribune commen-
ced its in the new philosophy, which attract
ed our attention at once, and received our condem-
nation from the very first. But its whg contempt.
raries never discovered anything wrong in the mo-
| rality and philosophy of the Tribune, until they
began to suspect that its circulation, under the new
| impulses OF journalism, was beginning to trench
upon their heels. Then their virtue, awakened into
perfectly savage state, was preciptated into sa-
wage course Of action. The Tribune, however, has
its best days. and its want OF Just apprecia-
tion Of the practical intelligence and good sense Of
the age, with rightthinking philosophy as well as
right-thinkng religion, will bring it rapidly to its
end. Even now it begins to its approaching
doom, and IN its attempt to neutral posi-
tion. and adopt new issue, its fears may be dis
| covered.
As for us and our journal, we shall 90 ahead on
the principles of common sense, sound philosophy
and enlightened religion, which has been always
revered. We hare no,c the largest aggregate cvca-
iahon of any Journal IN The cipaised worid Some
of the weekly religious newspapers in this city have
been represented to possess circulation beyond
any others. But it is act, which cannot be denied,
that the Nsc York Herald estabiishment issues per
eek nearly three times many sheets the largest
circulating religious Journal in this metropolis
Neither religious nor secular journals can compete
with us in circulation-n the extensiveness Of that
circulation and in the great and ncontestible moral
| influence which we WELD. The character, the ex-
istence, the principles and the position of the
Herald, have received the sanction Of the American
people, of all classes and Of all sections This sane
ton is expressed by their patronage, which is shown
to exceed so far the patronage bestowed upon any
other journal It's approval of our principles Of
freedom and lndependence--of our sentiments Of
morality and rellglon-of our views in science and
philosophy, which none can gainsay and Of which
the best possible evidence presented in the receipts