New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-05

The Richmond EraHinsr-the ablest If not the wsest
organ Of Southern 'Democracy'-has low opinion Of
newspaper notices Of each others Improvements yet
devores column and half to the recent enlargement
Of The Tribune. IL says:
The Tiune has taken outward shape 20 significant
that laid aside the number out OF which We got our
heading fer a comment That paper l. now nearly tac
smile Of The London Times and Is new type VIII make
era in American newspaper printing Inc vulgar LOOK
and uupeasng shape OF our journals have long been
thems Of regret at home and OF dersion elsewhere N9t
a single newspaper in this country has been comparable
to the finished solid looking, clean cut double sheets
which issue from the London press Neither the pay OF the
Government al Washington nor the patronage OF huge
metropois Ike New York has hitherto been sufficient 20
furri our journals with clean shirt and decent coat
But The Tbun has tab en- away our reproach Inc mum
hers OF that journal before the handsOmest per
hsps in the world The headings are copied rom me
Times the paper winter than any used by the London
press very nearly as firm the type Is the
bourgeois BREWER and nonpareh we saw the snesI ~
double and the printed matter IN inge number would n
an octave volume Of many hundred pages Only one tu
ian he found with its appearace which ths-that the
page too broad Tor It's length, and consequently unyn
metrical
I'm he arnoun of intellectual labor laid upon T. TIE
Tribune will also very wei compare with rs trans Atlantic
ideal With is daily three columns OF telegraph and three
Of editorial It's clever correspondence from All quarters OF
the globe is elaborate reports OF law cases. dreadful ace
dents political speeche plays, music, exploding sstu
boats and other developments OF the aesthetic and nechan
ic arts certainly furnishes the model OF great day me
tropoitan newspaper London offers none more complete
vet The London Tunes costs less than hy dollars
per snnum while The Tribune can be gotten Tor seven or
eight"
And yet-coud you believe little Eraaiaer
man dontlke Tie T5iJms-essentialy. hHa goodone 70
look at but bad one to gothat is South Of Mason and
Dixou's HI continues:
Here however the parallel between the american aud
the English journal stop In the spirit which aniiaates
the two whsta wofu derence IL IS not the handso Ne
type the fne paper the good reports The neat cnfus '
make M I6n3on Times the leading Journal Of the world
ulrt Ina fin feathers
vigorous common sense the comprehensive view inc
superiority petty pites and narrow arPoss me spenun
el6ouenee and enlarged knowledge offs edton essays
these the things which make ~ L0adOh Inns an Or
gan Of the good and wise people in every couniy OF the
Earth We ar sony that cannot see these qualities IN
The Nefr. York T5HHe The political views o max Jour
nal lack common have little vigorous reason want
yeness, and have n phlosopnicA superiority
IN fleir tone Intellectual ability and literary Ts5V,3
L bs hut instead of eevang those who possess them
above the machinery Of al captgadU logic and sectional
anpes they are only made the instruments OF InacA
foolish creduous spirit which = unworthy OF stAesinth
and still less becoming great place great country
The Fxariasr does not here exaggerae the difference
b,tweep the two journals il contrasts Tie Times the
mou,buece and oracle of the great bulk the thrifty
eoufort-eirded money getting wslPaced profit seek
ing English people whose pride is that they cherish
no abstractons-no Isms but test all propositions
bv the established standards Of opinion and ysne The
lesdng idea of this most important and influential
things about as .hey are; for what change Is hAey 70
increase our comfort power, wealth or esPeciabhiy
IF Reforms are made LEI them be such as advance our
class interests or those Of majority Of cur number
! III, Times is ayowedly MOnarchieal, The EramIaer
."Democratic journa-yet the points OF difference
/ bstueen them are mainly nominal. Hence the DEM
ocrate Examiner regards the MOnsrchic Times as an
organ of the good and wise people in every country oil
the earth r-mesning by good and wise those who
do the worlds trading and own lis lands goods, houses
ana Risoersn And The Times could doubtless return
the compliment, certifying that Tie Examiner, though
noninaly democratic, Is in nothing fanatieal' FOOLISH
nor narrow but Astounding Ia reason, common sense,
craftsmanship, sc, &c
III, Tngnne on rhe other hand, while Il synPaInise'
Nth the important class aforesaid in its devotion to Pub
IL order 70 prosperous and advancing Industry to Use
81 Arts Internal improvement, &c. &c eherishei
=. rbieh seem 10 this class exceedingly ehimeriea
.rd ntastie if not positively PerOus 1t eherishes
- ana practical faith in that rockiouadation Of
,,lor;ous political structure which says
LA ,hsss truths 70 be selfeydeni that all men ars
- r.l thai they are endowed by Their Creator viii
;r uslenable rights that among these are life liberty
S the pursuit Of happiness that % secure Ihese
anu - are instituted among men, deriving all then
gsrs rom the consent Of the governed" Sc. &c.
Dossibv. The E1aminer has heard of the Deelar
-bsnre ve quote the above, since it written b.
v;r,;r;,p az the last sge-one Thomas Jefferson Blu
r. r,,;.,r regards il as rhetorical flourish or Ia
n~,hs- yirsinian phrased it) "a hnfaronade Of non
-r-.. aoes IAs Times. In the view of thOse jour
ra,i. the riehtful possession Of whOmsoever Ia
-sa,i,sa ar ACQUIRED it, until somebody still strOuge
.hau have stepped forward to seize D.