The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-04

| ing at Newark IN Sa urday evening resentation
i Of Plate TO Can. ii ggins, OF tic ste mship Her
/ mann Police Intelligence, cling probable
| extensive deialeation or embezzlement sc.
| The Literary Amenities OF sociarsm-Csree-
| icy 0sd Doheny upon Dem .ttaeS.
If the hgtl, polished style of newspl peTr riting,
adopted by the organ Of Sewardism, abolitionism,
socialism, and black GU IL dism, in this city, were
in any foreign countries where i. might chance
to penetrate, regarded as true criterion where
by I, estimate the condition o! journalism in
this country, tie reputation of the American press
would by no means lie thereby much benefited or
aattered. HHe, however, the pubic have become
90 Injured to the scurrilous and abusive language
with which the { di orial columns Of he Tribune
are constantly begemmed, that it now fails to
cause any surprise, but haI acquired such noto-
riety that when all other vocabu aries Of abuse are
exhausted, md fail to supply sufficiently strong ex-
petiyes for thos persons who zeal in such stuff they
have only to turn 10 20 classic sentences of the
| "ismite'' to find a they want, "Yoa lie, vii
lan You lie'' is one of the ordinary, everyday po-
lite esrres ions use by that journal; and its sour
rility towards tn future President of the United
| States General Pier,e-ieviIing him as coward,
stict AID beautiful keeping with il. natural charac-
| teristics and tendencies.
How highly honored is the mighty press of this
great country, n comprising among its journals
this repre- sentative Of Four sris and Bilingsgate-
ism The fish women of the latter ik SO celebrated
for their purity and dcicacy Of expression, would
doubtless bestow upon this philosophc eiitor the
highest diplomas Of their college, if they only knew
q A..
he possesses His last exhibition of this order of
talent was made in Saturdays Trsbnse, in which
he stigmatzes quondam associate aud protege of
his who happens to have adopted the opposite school
of politics, "a scoundrel, "a villain" and "a for
ger" Mr.. Dohenv, the gentleman who has been honor
ed with these hattering appellatives will doubtless
prize and appreciate them as the best certificates of
character with which he could have been furnished
from that quarter. We, therefore, select and pre-.
sent to him, and to The public, those strong, spicy,
pupgent sentences which are more peculiarly Gre
di.abe to him. Talking of paragraph of Mr..
DIS speech, at iemocrati, meeting, the philo-
sopber says, CURLY, Int forcibly--
We make no terms, ard desire accommo dation
Either MIR. Doheny misrepresents like nrel We
do. The reader will judge between U.s.
Here the philosopher submits the issue to the pub
lie whether he or the accused Mr.. Doheny is the
greater scoundrel. He puts himself upon the coun-
try, as the lawyers say, and appeals to the judgment
seat of public opinion for decision upon this i'm
portant though not very difficult point The jury
are therefore to weigh all the evidence affecting the
character Of the two litigants, which have been
placed before them, legally extra-judically, for
the last ten years and having heard the summing
up on each side, weigh the value of the testimony
Avlf oty; ivfn Ia &L.c
parties, we think they viii not hsve much difficulty
in arriving at safe and proper verdict. The phi
losoper has, during the period of his public exis-
teDce, been, time and again, arraigned for divers
offences committed against polteness, Christianity,
consistency, decency, and common sense, from none
of which charges he ever alb to exculpAte him.
self; while, the other hand, Mr.. Doheny is new
man in this county, and his character has been
hitherto unimpeached, except SO far indeed, as it
might be furnished by temporary association with
his prosecutor. The case is now fairly given over
to the jury; and though Mr.. Greeley calls for YER
dict in his favor, rather inclined to believe
that he will be disappointed, and that the unan:-
nous decision Of the jury will be, with respect t.
Mr. Doheny, not guilty.
And again, in reference to another branch OF the
same speech we find the following characteristic
sentence
1fs may be an adrot way to win votes-. may be the
best argument the admits of-but If it be rot
tally vlanous. We know not what could be.
Now, it may be q legitimate subject for the
elaboration Of the jury whether there does not
exist in the philosophers mental vision such an
obtuseness as prevents him becoming aware of the
unmistakeable evidences of villany," which to all
eyes but his own are patent and palpabe in his
system, while at the same time it enables him to
detect and magnify the mote like vestiges of it
which may probably be traced in that of Mr.
Doheny or any other man. The jury will hardly be
of the same opinion as the philosopher, that the
mere fact of combating, by history, argument, and
logic, the erroneous views put forth by that dis
tipguisbed parsonage in his famous tract Of "Why
am Whig," constitutes such offence as right
fully comes under the denomination Of essentially
ylanous' On this point, therefore, We rather fear
the verdict will be uniavorable to Mr.. Greeley.
And still again, on the subject of some comments
made by Dsheny on Gen. SCOTS naturalization
principles the speakers character is for ever estab
lshed by this very brie: and polite inuendo-
How much this falls short of forgery, others will say
OF course . this man of isms" uses the term
forgery" here in metaphorieal sense He does
not mean to convey by it the idea of such crime
as, by the laws Of the State, ud consign its per-
petrator to an involuntary residence in Sing Sing
but merely the offence Of giving false color and
complexion to facts and arguments, the penalty for
which would be exclusion from respectable society.
We fear, however, that in this third count oft ir:
dctment the prosecutor must also fall and that as
between Greeley and Doheny, the verdict of guilty
of literary forgery" win not be recorded exactly
according to the desres-however it may be to the
deserts--of the complainant. The jury he appeals
to, having before them evidence Of forgeries CON-
mitted in relation TO the battle Of Slievegammon
anti slavery meetings in the South, the de
fanation Of the private character Of Gene
raj Pierce, and whole mass Of such Sleeve
gammonisns, committed from time to time,