The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-31

Iult W uOtulIS tuat IL wrong.
NEWSPAPER ATTACKS UPON THE NEW YORK
HERALD AND ITS PRopRIEroR.-Fors several months
past few imbecile, weakly, rickety newspapers
OF this city, have been playing away at the Herald
and Its proplietor but he could spare time from
the important topics Of the day, and from his
public duty to the community and the world, to
notice such trash. Finding, however, in a cotem-
porary--the Hartford Daily TtmeS-the following
reply, which takes the trouble off our hands, we
give 1t 10 our readers as it Isl
The NEW YORK HERALp.-we observe that five of
the New York dailies down the New York
Herald. like Z" Thousand OF brick They appear to
be jealous Of its superior enterprise and prosperity
Brooks Of the Ezess whom Bennett used 60 speak Of
~" Booty Brooks" forgive the sfront, and
gees at him in the following siaueh terng man ner
The the mSrnOs sheet TO- Which we refer one would
ps o should sn not T. notice tho
Herald the value Of the sheet well known OF town
Other papers chime in with this abuse Now We
dislike to zee any man numerically blsckguarded
without rhyme or reason. Fair play Is q jewel We
know nothing Of MIR. Bennett except wnxt may be
known OF him from his paper is due to his enter
prise to say that he makes, by all Odds the
able newspapers in the United States For fulness Of
information ell the interesting topics of the day,
there Is NO otter New York press that spproac
his statistics more full and accurate, and his Con.
gIestiona reports more faithful, than have
elsewhere He takes fl the speeches of members with
all the fidelity Of adssuerreoype, in graphic and life
like manner, just ss the public desire them, and
does not hide smooth their defects, is
often the Gaze with other papers Moreover, SO far
We have observed the Herald at present conducted
lie as free from rregion and immortality any other
paper whatever. 1t is more quoted from abroad aui
more ensvey read at home, than other paper.
he claims ana We presume with truth, to circulate
about six times rs many papers any other New York
this result for his enterprise lie circulates about
three times as nany dsiliss Greeley whom he css
PIRATE TO the diluted wahy, and superficial writings Of
the Tribune IL merchants do not, the Express
sfirms, See fit to advertise in . paper which has
times the circulation of any other respect.
able customers, it SIMPLY shows them to be that
tent foolish and unjus. in withholding from enterprise
It's fair reward and that they get much bstter pspsr
than they deserve 1t seems from the Er9ress, that
the He aid rs the only paper which Is sussBAt so-y
praise Rousseau remarks that i to be famous It Is
only necessary to be foremost in any thing" Bennett
rican newspaper publishers he is faeile prnccps The
expense Of his arrangements must be mucn gre ater
than tho,e Of aDyaosLer paper
sor we have no perso aal knowedge. In private life
have no reason to suppose him to be either better
worse than bis cot mporsres IL we nd good psper
disposed like the Of the public, hs salts
fed without rakiDg in the stories, whethsr true or
publisher One rival press accu,es nett Of having
been "a poor ragged Scotch boy Another charges
him with the atrocious crime Of being squint eyed y
But sfter all 1t nuet be received some paation Of
these grave offences and ss very remarks ole fact to
boot, that ragged Scotch boy, without ooey
should have work himself the head 81 great
estpower known in this countryits Tspa psr press.
So far so well II will soon be fourteen years
since we established the New York Herald, on
capital Of five hundred and fifty dollars, but an
experience in newspaper business of previous
ourteen years. making, in the aggregate, a con.
necnon with the press OF nearly thirty years up to
this day. Our first connection with an American
newspaper Yves as translator of Spanish news re-
celytd from Havana for the Charleston Courier,
during the campaign of the Duke OF Angoueme
IN Spain. We continued with the newspaper
press from that time, in New York, Phla-
delphia and Washington, as reporter, editorial
writer, le,ter-writer, and every thing. In Nay,
1895, we started the Herald went hard to work,
and gradually increased and extended our crcu.
latIon till, at length, in 1910, it began to alarm all
the other newspapers in this city. They then all
Ut once discovered that we had squirt In our
eyeseht, some frightlul immortality in our princl-
pies, and terrible corruption our business at
fairs The whole prees Of this cny-daily, week
", Sunday, religious, and irreligious papers-came
out against the Herald and its proprietor Webb,
Noah, Park Benjamin, Stone, fnman, Greeley.
Hale, Ilaileck, Bryant, Beach, King, Hall-every
newspaper and newspaper editor, denounced US fer
n'uriy two years with the utmost intensity of hatred
dread. fear, bitterness, malgniiy, and falsehood
Doe and scores Of journals in other cities and
States, followed IN the wake Of this abuse Our
personal character, our family, our private life,
and public life everything, Was held up with the
most unslsring and malignant denunciatlon.
ID Such was The attack How did we meet 1T
We laueh.d at It all, went to work harder, ex-
~ndtd our business, enlarged our enterprise,
reelected our system, and slenced our unhap-
ny rivals IN less than two years. Some
OF th'm have SINCE broken down and gone to
Ne Oops Others wi soon ioiiow them; several |