New-York daily tribune., 1854-09-06

..,s. Of Editorial dignity and decorum In the
,.re Of common sense, what course sAa' QUO
thus assailed pursue TO vindicate MS cnA'a0'''
without incurring additional odium
Let rs for once-snd for this once on'y-reP"
20 the baseless calumuies of The Pssri0s BY the
detail of few pertinent facts;
The Editor Of THE TRIBUNE wso w'o'e
the leading articles objected to by lhe fa','"'
WAS n,rer engaged in "speculations in oanAs'
:. stocks, coal. mines, provisions or ""o'
whatever that last comprehensive phrase may
impIy-to the extent of one dollar
3. No "leading proprietor of THE TRIBUNE
was ever engaged in such speculasons' though
two among them once, in company with o'her
New.Yorkers, purchased and opened coai-mine
in Pennsylvania, in which they long ago cesseu
70 have any interest. So with the copper-mne
on Lake Superior, in which the principal Editor
was interested many years ago, but OF which ne
ceased 10 be trustee several years and STOCK;
holder many months prior to the present cr'"s'
3. No person connected with The TRIBUNE
WAS ever suspected here of any community OF SYM
pathy or interest with the bears or stocA'ue'
pressing operators. On the contrary, the sympa-
tbies and tendencies of this paper have leaned
uniformly to the other eide.
4. The condemned short-crop articles of THE
TRIBUNE, so far from being calculated TO de
"preciate agricultural values" are directly and
strongly calculated TO enhance them.
We believe the above points meet every sub
stsntisl allegation of our Baltimore neighbor
word now as to our mode of collecting and col
lating intelligence:
Our exchange list is doubtless the largest in
the world, embracing over one thousand journals
from every State and every section Of our own
country, with hundreds from other parts OF the
world Two sub.sditors Zone by day, the other
BY night examine all these exchanges as they are
received, and distribute them to the editors in
charge of the several departments-Politicsl,
Agricultural, Commercial, Marine, &c, &c.-as
they seem to contain fresh adyces of interest in
one or another of these departments. All those
containing Information with respect to the
Weather, Crops ravsees of Insects, &c, together
with our many letters which touch on these top
les. are handed directly to the Editor in charge
of that department, who is a veteran farmer and
personally familiar with Agriculture and its pro-
cesses in every part of the Union. BY him our
comprehensive abstracts of Harvest intelligence
are carefully made up, with comments by him
the earliest and many of the succeeding editorials
on that subject were written To those who
know him. the remark that he was ever engaged
in any Produce or Stock speculation will seem
amusngly superhuous.
A word now on the general scope of The
Patriots i'm putations:
Every word of warning or amentation we have
uttered with respect to the Crops has been ut
tered TO the serious detriment of our present Pc
cuniary interest as well as to the general preju-
dice of the holders of bank and other stocks and
all persons engaged in speculations Our interest
so far as We can have any interest apart from
that of our readers, would have dictated silence
or belittlement with regard to the great calamity
of this year, so that the farmers might sell their
produce promptly and at moderate prices to mer-
chants and spectators, and have it come forward
to animate business, making cheaper food and
better times in cities this fall and winter. In
deed, it is not yet six weeks since, before the Sc
w
Farmers that they must submit to low prices this
Fall and exhOrted them TO do so readily, and let
the crop come forward in good season. Up to
the LIST of August, we confidently counted on a
large average crop as a means of speedy extrica-
toD from the pecunary embarrassments of the
early summer. But weeks of hot, dry weather
passed without rain, and the Corn crop, which
promised so fairly on the 1st of August, was,
through good part of the Union, burnt up to
half crop by the Goth. Potatoes, Butter,
Cheese, &C., shared in the disaster; Oats, on
threshing, proved generally much lighter than
had been expected and half-starved Cattle in
thousands were driven in from the brown pas.
tuIes and devastated forests to be sold for any
thing they would fetch. In short, abundant
proofs of great calamity, every portent of hard
winter. poured in upon us
What, then, was the duty of journal so widely
read and trusted ss THE TRIBUNE Would it
have been honest in US, by silence or studied de-
probation of the extent of the disaster to permit
the farmers to sell and the merchants specula-
tors to buy up the abundant Wheat and Corn of |
Wisconsin, Iowa, Northern Indiana and Illinois, |
and other sections untouched or but lightly yis-
tied by the drouth, at far less than their actual
value We could not do it. Believing it our
duty to tell promptly and faithfully the whole
truth, we have done so to the best of our ability.
and shall perseyere in this course to the end.
We shall most thankfully receive aud print ad-
vices from any section that recent rains there
have improved the prospect, or that the crops