The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-11-19

upon us upon the authority of i,s sable cotsm
porary," which has ever been Justly solcitoua
for the dignity ofits calling -"
This game has been played quite long enough to
the injury of everylhi Americanj but while the
Times continues TO be the great organ ofpubllc opin-
ion in Europe in regard 10 this country and Just 90
long il can find food for its slande in the columns
OF It's able cotemporary"i in this city, we do NOT
perceive how the evil can he remed,ed After all, IL
is matter OF little importance what the people OF
Europe think OF us, except AZ matter OF feeling
but in the name Of all that is sacred Union,
do not suffer the agitation of the slavery question
by the Herald, ana its predictions OF inevitable dis
union TO produce the very state OF things affects
to deprecate. We must not suffer either the foreign
ednOr Of the Herald, or George Thompson, or any
other foreigner, to NEEDLE with what does not coz
cem them. They have no feeling or Interest in
common with US and they are the last men living
who should be listened tn, or even tolerated, when
they NEEDLE with our national affairs.
There is no right, however sacred, no privilege
however unreasonable. which an individual may
not al any time, in this freest OF all the nations of
the earth, be called upon to sacrifice at the sum-
mons OF public opinion. Ii II shall please the ma
Joriiy to decree that particul n landlord shall no
longer receive rent, hts right Is exunguished ef
fectuaily as by the most formal release If shall
please the majority 10 make a footpa,h across a
cuzen's lawn, the rood is ipso facto de dicated 10
the use OF the public IL the majority be of opinion
that ii il expedent tina! particular clizen should
to exist, he pershes in the face of day, with
all the formslity Of legal execution '.
"Sydney Smith reminds The Pennsy lvauians that
there are soR,e things worth living for besides gin
sling and sherry cobler; and we should have thought,
but for experience TO the contrary, that It were
needless TO have informed the c0uatymen OF
Franklin, Washington, and Charming, that there
are things more worthy the admiration OF great
But what is stranger still than this mor,l obi
guilty is, that the possession OF this much-prized
faculty by Jenny Lind was entirely taken for
granted by this acute and calculating people, who
vysr onran nvsA hx har sicuI h.
fore they had heard u single note Of her voice,
that we verify believe, il, at her first concert,
she had crOaked like q raven, or howled like a
hyena, public opinion would have pronounced her
performance little superior 10 the music of the
spheres. We were totally unable to account for
this pable surrender of all pref snsions ~ common
sense on the part Of the American pnblic, till we
fell in with an article in the Neu York Herald, in
which that Journal justly SOLICITORS for the dignity
of its calling, indicates the American press from
the charge OF having excited the American public
to 20 outrageous a pitch Of folly and self-abase-
ment 1t appears from the article of our able Goa.
temporary, which hears on its face the stamp of
ruth, hat Mr.. Banum, The great Snowman OF the
sge-ihe exhibitor of the living skeleton, General
General Wssbingron-had struck out, for the ex-
press benefit Of Jenny Lind and himself, a new
idea, which the backing Of Warren aud the
wsislcoats of Moses have never Inspired their
poets wiihal He invented what we must call.
for waut of a better name, the police OF puf-
ferry. He had actually, for months before Jenny
Lind's arrival, a number OF provocative agents,
the French call them, in his pay, whose bush
ness was 10 "get up figore' tor Jenny Lind
This fGroTe once excited. was cbroncled by the
newspapers, and thus infinitely multiplied as heat
and light are increased by being reflected. The
whole susceptibility Of the country was soon in a
bleze. and long before Jenny Lind had placed her
foot Oh the American continent, public opinoa had
pronounced in her favor, and she was prerl-ss.
Not To be wanting TO his good fortune. Mr.. Bar
mum employed his police in the coDgenia occupa-
iiOn Of putting The ticket auction ill., at the mis-
called Town of Providence, St35 were actually OBJ
tanned for seat, and sold Tor valuable consid-
Grafton the honor of entertaining the Swedish
nightingale TO an enterprisi1g innkeeper.
"The inference is a sad one That which can
be done by private ADVENTURE, may, with more
ease, be accomplished by the leader OF u facuon.
The same arts whichi make singers popularity,
may create the political capital at president or a
secretary The deliberate substitution Of prejudice
for reason and experience, NAV be applied 10 mea-
sUTes as well ss In music IL Is much TO he feared
that the same reckless sy stem exaggerdton; the
same intense yulgarity 81 means, and l,ulrness of
ends is TO be found in the Senate as ia the orches-
ira. Who cannot see, in the angry and inflated
tone Of American political controversy, ana i,s con-
slant slranng after dramaucal effect the Career of
men 10 whom the most important measures, the
most sacred interests, and the most stirring ais,
ere matters Of the same indiiiercbce "a the com.
fort and quiet Of Jenny Lind To Mr. Barnum, when
compared To the acquisition Of single cent"
fFrom the Hartford Tmes. Nov 10
This country has slTcadv tar outstripprd England
and every other nation of Europe. ia cary ing into
general nae the most wonderful Invention OF modern
tiIes. The London Times says, that as q mer-
camille speculat on, the electric telegraph prvo-
ed, comparatively, failure in England There,
il used very scsnty and at very high rates. here
Ifs cost rs very cheap, and il has become Also
Iuie ne cessy TO merchants well as the press.
There Is, on an average, four tunes as much tele-
gra,h news. and from four tunes the distance,
IN he Ner York Herald, rs there is 10 be found in
the Leading journal 81 Europe. The Ti,nSs is
ashamed at this indication Of the superior enter
prise and energy Of the Unit-d States.