The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-02
The New York Hsrs'a and the National

Al
yIhig.
There is no Journal in the country whose
energy, af.slvity, and tact in collecting early
lntsl':gence, we have a higher admiration
rsr, than the New York Herald, and there Is
no journal whose soccess over all the obsta-
cles il had to encounter, gave US greater
pleasure than the New York Herald. We
have signi6ed our confidence in It, by always
extracting from its columns largely, and we
have scrupulously and religiously given at all
times the credit to every paragraph which
we have copied. Its enterprising, shrewd,
and polite editor, we have often defended
as matter Of justice, against the attacks Of
those who abused him as the worst man on
earth, and as deserving Of instantaneous
death for all the crimes Of the decalogue.
All this we have done and shall do again,
SO long as we have press at our command,
regardless Of any course which the Herald
may see fit to pursue towards us--so long
as itmaintains its excellence as newspaper.
But the Herald, we regret to perceive, is
like all other men when they get power and
money. Il has forgotten the day Of il, small
beginnings, Of its mysterious eristence, and
exults and shouts aloud in its pride and
Overlooking purse 1t cannot bear contra
diction. Il cannot brook being told that il
is liable to err, or that it errs. In its own
conceit il is infallible. II seeks and affects
to be the Pope Of newspapers, Il is en-
vious, we are sorry to see, of other journals.
II is not content to be competed with and to
outstrip its competitors, but il seems to be
Of late eaten up with hatred and envy and
righteousness against every thing and every
paper that chances to pass between the wind
and its nobility.
Recently, we took occasion, in the gen.
tlest and most delicate manner possible, te
say, that one Of its Washington correspon.
dents had fallen into an error respecting :
reported cabinet meeting, at which debate
and vote were said to have been taker
upon prescription, and forthwith the Nationa
Wing was set down by it as a small Whis
paper, Of no account or influence, as a shee
which nobody reads, and which, if it is read
nobody heeds. The Herald twits It fo
being poor--forgetlul that it too was once
poor, without even cent--and denounce
it as only fit for " treason, stratagems an,
spoils.n The spleen Of this attack is SO pal
pable, that We should not have noticed it a
all, if il were not to show to the public tina
rich journals, like rich men, love to lord i
over their poor neighbors, love to tyrannize
to brow-beat, to display their superiority
We tell the Herald that we heed not it
wrath, nor its vengeance, nor its wealth
nor its power. We repeat, that its Wash
ington correspondent toas in error as to tn,
report Of the pretended cabinet meeting
No such meeting took place, no such debate
took place, no such vote was taken. The
stubbornness with which it insists that thu
intelligence was correct, makes US begin t.
suspect that the communication of il has found
out his error, and seeks to avoid discom-
future by railing at the source which cor
rected the mistake.
We tell the Herald that while we are
| fully repaired to award il the praise due t.
its exertions as one Of the ablest conducted
newspapers in the Union, we are determined
that il shall not tread upon our toes with i'm
punity, and that whenever we find any in
telligence in its columns that we knoto to b.
erroneous, we shall take the liberty Of cor
recting it at all hazards And il, when THU
is done, the Herald is prepared to quarre
with US, It has only to signify lis intention
or wish, and It shall be grati6ed to its heart
content. We desire to live on terms 0
peace with all our contemporaries, but thu
National Wing asks for no favor from thu
New York Herald, or any other journal
shrnks from no responsibility in any contes
it or any other Journal may choose to pro
yoke, Enough for the prese Mt.
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