The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-23
has been less offensive to the public than that

has been less offensive to the public than that
Of the Tribune.
1t approves the verdict, ON the ground that
We Iersecuted Mr.. Fry from personal enmty.
How is this shown Not from the evidence,
for the on'y witness who sw re to anything like
malice on our ar was Mr.. Maurice Strakosch,
who admitted on his cross-exsmination that he
could not remember via language we had used
in reference 0 Fry and that he was not at the
time familiar with the English tongue. Mr..
S'rakosch's evidence mus certainly go for no
thing in the eye o! any one practsed in weigh
ing testimony. He owned to such bias
against us as went long way to disquaify
him from appear g as witness at all, and
when closely questioned, retracted all that was
substa initial in bis previous answers. We can
not, therefore, suppose that the senior editor OF
the Tribune based his opinion on the state
ments Of Strakosch. Nor could he have formed it
from any true extrajudcial account of the facts,
which were simply these Mr.. Strakosch called
on u.s. ard asked us if we would like to become
acquainted with Mr.. Fry We replied that we
were Indifferent on the matter, but had no OBJ
jeciion to see him, if he desired it. A few days
afterwards we were told that Mr.. Fry did not
wish to visit US, and we replied naturally
enough that that finished the business. Feel
ing on The subject We had none aud beyond .
conviction based on experience, that Italian
opera would not succeed in this country. we
neither entertained nor expressed any opinion
respecting Mr.. Fry. until Middle Trufi came to
us to entrea. our protection against his SLAM
deTs We published her card, and then begin
ming to look into the matter, we discovered
facts which appeared to us to betoken Fry's
failure at no distant day. These facts seem,
ing to US to fall rightly within the province
of journalism we published. and made no
more scruple to avow our differences than
we should do to-day if we thought we
saw obvious tokens of the failure of the Broad
way or Burton's. What was there in this 80
reprehensible as to cell for fine of SIC, 900?
What crime did we commit to entitle us to the
grave Ieproba ton Of cur brother Journalists? Is
it not daily protested by the very Tribune which
assails us, that the truth must always be told
regardless Of consequences? Would the Tri-
o"tet = ~ AAON VI lSd9Oun VbVlOu5Ay iOIC-
sbadowing the failure of a scheme which pos
sesses public confidence hold its peace through
fear Of iniuring private individuals? And it
were condemned foi'ita fearless devotion to the
public interest, would it expect it's cotempora-
ries to rejoice at the injury done to the liberty Of
the press IN its person?
With the Times tie case is different. No
one expects from the Times either truth, man
illness or justice. Started to oppose the Tri-
6une by the Seward clique, in the expectation
that sneaking disingenuousness would be more
successful than outspoken candor, it is now an
established failure; and its last attempt to stave
off the withdrawal Of the subsidy which sup
ports it is an ondeavor to decry the character
of the HERALD. An honest man, under such
circumstances, might be forgiven for resorting
to questionable MEANS the editor Of the Times
had no scruples to overcome. As manager of
given the public sample of what he dared by
o foul caluInny respecting the cha
racaer Of two respectable hotel keepers; and
though or that occasion lie was compelled to
swallow ANONYMOUSLY his own words. the les
son. we regret to say, was entirely without
profit on his disposition. lie has continued to
resort to falsehoods whenever they suited his
purpose better than truth. He has sawncd and
encaked round cliques and political parties, in
the hope Of few subscribers or stray adver-
tisement; he has alternately praised and abused
the Irish as the chances Of patronage from the
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greater or less he has been democrat, a wing,
an abolitionist, hard shell. just as the adver-
tisers Of the day commanded; he would have
protested Mormonism to secure dozen adii-
tional subscribers. Eternally dreading frank
expression Of opinion, he has given to the world
paper whose course none but an Edipus
could explain--now on one side now on another,
now bemiring the Cabinet with praise. now exalt-
ing by silly censare it has exhibited one single
stable charac teristic, and that is uniform I'M
wavering meanness. On one single topic the
Times has been consistent-it has always
abused the HERALD. It had nothing what
ever TO gain by pursuing a contrary course.
Not content with exhuming all the thread
bare SANDERS which twenty years of public
life have accumulated, it has gone round, nat
in hand, TO every one who might be offended
with our straightforward course, and begged
them with lackey's humility to make the
Times the channel of their spleen. But
neither the Bank Presidents nor the lawyers
for whom the Times filed the Office OF sewer,
could kill the HERALD fast enough. 1t abso-
lutely thrivcd under the inliction, white the
Times daily diminished. What was to be done?
Fresh lies. said the discounted editor. are our
only resource. SO he set himself to lie with q
will. He lied Of the past, and lied of the pre-
sent: lied Of our character, Of our opinions, OF
our motives, Of our course; lied in brewer and
lied in minion; lied in person, and suborned
others to lie So little wit had he, poor fellow,
that he lied as glibly where detection was i'm
vn;ror. &c ,phero no mi chit have had a chance