The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-09-26

THE NAPOLEON OF THE PREss-We really be-
leve it is time for to think that we the veri-
table Napoleon of the press. Our amlable cotem-
poraries, Of all classes and desciptions-high and
low, intelligent and Ignorant-seem to unite in at
tributing labors, efforts and works TO our mind
and pen, that could be accomplished by no other
person than Napoleon of the press, or some per-
sonsge of similar callbre and capacity.
1t seems that all our foreign and domestic cores
pondence, the letters which appear in our columns
from Berlin, Vienna, Venice, Paris, London-in
fact from every point in Europe well as the let
tiers from Washington disclosing the secrets of the
cabinet there, and the funny movements leading to
rupture with France, including, also, the squibs
and crackers which sparkle through our columns
all, all proceed from the mind and pen of the editor
Of this journal Our very sedate and sensible cotem-
porary of the Courier and Enquirer, and several
others of the press of this city, insist that everything
which appears in our columns comes from our
mind and pen-that all is written In the Herald Of
fce and is concocted by our genius alone. Really,
with such an abundance of evidence before us,
from SO many various quarters, disclosing these
serious facts, we must think we are the Napoleon
of the PRESS and if all the evidence on this score
were placed before petty jury, they could not do
otherwise than bring in a verdict against us, of
being the ventable Napoleon of the press.
To make the parallel complete, our contemporary
Of the Courier and Enquirer thinks we have been
beaten one day, especially in relation to the tre-
mendous rupture between Mr.. Clayton and Mr..
Poussin, and the awful war that has been hatched
out of it between the United States and France
Well, we admit the soft imputation. Napoleon
himself suffered defeat once in his day. He had his
Waterloo Still, however, were very little
surpassed by any of our contemporaries in that
matter, notwithstanding the great effort that
was made by Mr.. Clayton to monopose the
Poussin difficulty for his own paper Philadelphia,
in which he is interested, and IN his connection
with which he has degraded the office of Secretary
Of State Of eIUnted States, to a chop-housc for
penny aiming purposes. We were, in fact in
formed Of the progress Of that quarrel, and the
Secretary attempted, in a variety OF ways, to in
duce US to make ourself as great fool in the bust
ness--to cry out-"war-war-war"-a he showed
himself to be in his Philadelphia organ, or it's silly
echo in Saltpetre corner, Wall street. The Napo-
leon Of the press has had the advantage OF the
Secretary of State and his understrappers, in giving
the best, most accurate, and fullest view of that
smallest tempest in teapot which ever took place
between two great and powerful republics.
dpropos, about Napoleon. Our contemporary of
the Courier and Enquirer is not alone in his OPT.
Mons in assigning us a universal, important, and
working position In the newspaper press Ia another
part of todays paper is the translation Of an article
which appeared in French journal in New Or
leans, describing two editors, after the manner of
Pluiarch. Great men must always be talked about,
abused lied about, v6ed, praised, hated, SIAN.
dered and pulled. So are we.