The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-01-24
The New York Pilots-The Attacks upon


Another fling against our long abused and injured
pilots was lately published in the Brooklyn Eagle,
and repubshed on the l4th instant, by the Journal
o. Commerce. IN an article headed the Pilot Law,
which is so full Of errors and false charges, (not to
say anything OF Its grammar,) as to demand pass
ing refutaion and notice, though it is barely worth
this trouble, from the ignorance OF its author who
does not understand the subject on which he has
written.
1t censures the pilots for asking the repeal Of an
oppressive law injurious not only to them but
flcting with the rights of the State OF which they
are cltlzens and II condemns the Herald Tor Its no
Bile efforts In defending the pilots rights, and for
seeking the redress OF their long borne grievances.
The sinister insinuations which the writer OF tine
article in question charges upon the Herald, are
false as they are unjust The Herald is actuated by
far higher and nober motives than any OF mere
mercenary nature, to which it has never stopped, in
Its efforts TO do justice 10 this useful class OF cize
II Is always the mark of weak and corrupt mind
to make unjust impuations. He who does 80 can
never be free from suspicion #r
The New York pilots have never sought any ps-
per " to lend sell them its aid" and Whatever uiJ
the Herald has contributed to their cause, has been
freely and voluntarily given, without any under
standing whatever; and !. is alone It's fearless
position OF their wrongs, and TO its ahe and udan-
swerabe arguments for their rights, that the write
OF the /" Pilot Law" takes offence, does also the
Journal Of Commerce, which republlshed his article
The most violent and abusive articles, In their
scandalous attacks upon the Herald and the New
York pilots, always find reciprocal attachment in
the columns of the Journal of Commerce, which has
been, from the time of its earliest existence charac-
terlzed as both fanatica and jesuitica and which,
notwithstanding its assumed morality and piety,
has been well known to prefer "mammon'' before
goodness
The columns Of the Journal of Commerce, and
that OF the whole Wall street press, are ever open to
the opportunities of mammon, which they most
courteousy invite. The powerful corporators and
monopolists of that street, who have banded them
selves togetherto forge more links IN the chain Of
oppression with which they have increasingly
sought to fetter the limbs OF the poor and humble
pilot, find In those journals ready and willing advo
Gates tor any and every hlgh-handed measure-but
when, it's asked were their columns ever opened tG
ylndicate the rights OF these wea'herbeaten and sad
ly abused men against the grasping and soullesi
power which seeks to Cypress and enslave them !
How much oftener shall we have conjured up the
ghosts OF the Bristol and Mexico" which with SC
much dread and terror haunt the Of the write
OF the article alluded to, that at this time in his
dreamy imagination, they float, spectre packets
DER the waters OF his eyes!
BIO charge upon the New York pilots the wreck
OF those Inflated vessels is 70 charge what has never
been substantlated, and which has been dsproved
over and over again. 10 the satisfaction OF wiser
than this writer With the same propriety might
ne not as well charge upon them the loss Of every
vessel that was ever wrecked in attempting to enter
the port! The falsehood Of the one is about equal
the shallowness OF the other.
The writer of the "Pilot Law" would open hi
eyes and his other senses too, if he would but read
ne aItlcleB WHICH nave recently appeared In TIT
Herald, over the signature OF "Publco." He woult
then see to whom belong "the white-winged mes
sengers of safety" that meet "far out sea-, the
richly freighted vessels OF our merchants, and which
they bring safely into port. Would he believe tina
those "whte-wlnged messengers of safety wer.
boats belonging to and manned by the very men
whom he SO unjustly condemns and would ne be.
lieve, were ne told that the New York Pilots, who
to relieve the merchants anxious care, brave, ssfar
out at sea-, the tempest and the storm in the perfor
nance OF this merltorious service, were condemned
to give way to others, to pilot out the very vessels
which their superior skill had brought safely into
ponl Such IL, however, the undsputed fact.
The New York pilots 5" demand nothing but what
is right, and will submit to nothing that is wrong
ARGO.