The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-02

(frOm thA Warrington Union, aug OIL
AN APPEAL 10 TEN AMERICAN PRBsa.
The Baltimore argus, In soconding the views OF |
the Baltimore American On subject OF nrss nW
inheritance TO the newspaper press OF tn1 country,
strikes chord that Will swakee va m ana
hearty response throughout the Union. The Argus
says -
PUBLICITY TO cRIxR Under this head the Amersodw
Of this morning has very sensible article condemnins
In strong terms the practice too common among news
tSs Obscene details of every outrage ana crime witch
may be committed In the land We entirely agree in the
oTiIUn that such "Details are shocking 70 ,ns ssnS
positively injurious to the moral tone Of the community
and that they ought to be excluded froE daily jour
Of the press everywhere determining heuorth net to
suffer their columns 10 be polluted by such Details or be
is an ev of great magnitude which entirely within
the power Of the press to eradicate We say empnat
cally, let it be done.
To such an extent has this practice been carried,
ly EXCLUDE all New York papers, like the HRRALD,
the Tribune, or he Erening Post. The Cause Is
plain. Every number II these journals has daily
department filled with the most disgusting details Of
vice, in all its infinite variety; and nothicg is so
eagerly gathered and garnished as instances OF
domestic, private, or personal character, especially
II female reputation is involved. In many Gases as
we have reason to believe ard espe tally when tho
star der market Is dull, there are not wanting those
who manufacture such cases AZ the New York Jour.
mails delight in supplying to the public. Tho NesO
York Tribune has Hay OF justifytng its own In
dustry in selecting these revolving scandals. And
the following il specimen
sis sheer faisehcod," adds the T1ums ITO say that
society is made worse by the publication Of the Diet Ills
OF crimes In the daily paper 1t is made better. Society
The deed then Is done ia secret Crime d organised s
order Witness the Thugs Of India where numbering
l. part Of creed and the head murderer invested With
the sacred dignity Of Pope Bishop. Those Of Bor
gia, Henry vI1 Louis XIV, but show the crimes Of
'ociefy. The king reflects the people"
The New York Evening Posi- discourses in nearly
be same strain. The editor says
The first business Of q newspaper Is to publish the
news; the second duty to comment appropriately
public matters For the character of the news the pup
Mthe authors Of the acts recordedIare responsible
the principles and ad vccated in the editorial
columns journal is justly held accountable to tho
judgment Of the community.
priests of New Yo;k morals, and until within few
months ago have seemed to avoid the practices they
now initiate and defend. The mssi0n Of tho pious
twain has been to hold up the institution of slavery
as GOddefying and imm0Eal and TO this end their
coDjoint energies are still most urgently directed.
But this eternal tune, ringing forever on the tym-
panum Of the public ear. not only became tiresome
Of itself, but ceased to be profitable to these money
getting patriots Hence it was resolved to open
new branch of business-te bring Icentiousness
into the arena with all her meretricious and dis
gushing accompaniment, and to attempt to con-
cency, not to say of deca or Of religion, protest
ed against staining the public press it'll the nau
seous particulars OF every vile offence that was COM
mitted-a new philosophy had be en- discovered, and
that now it was entirely reconcleabe with the duty
Of newspaper publisher to pour these daily streams
OF SANDER on the town.
Who supposes that the vicious argument of these
two papers, copied above, is believed by themselvesS
They confess their OWN shame, indeed, and expose
their own guilty hypocrisy in oil things, by this at
tempt to excuse-this effort to carry with high
hand-the public pollution that testers in their
columns. societyis mace better BY publishing de.
tails Of crime-so says the sanity Tribune, And
yet who supposes that this very Tribune ever halts
TO inquire If the details which it copies correct
it clutches, has any foundation in factif single
sentence no matter how COARSE or infamous, is ever
extracted from single article that is clipped or
coined for circulation? Whoever does suppose so
the paragraph, no matter how gross the lie no mat
ter how damning calumn y, into the cauldron Of
the 1}ibunes columns 1t goes, to do fta work upon
the pure and the good in the wide and waiting
void, where appetites have been formed to devour
1t like 80 much ambrosia Of the gods. The Ereaing
Pest seconds the pest house logic OF the Tribune,
and Is It's most fitting companion in the fray. Let
the argument OF either be accepted, or even t0le-
rated, and where there is now one vile print, from
which o decent man or o refined woman, or any hui
man being not yet lost to all honor, viii recoi with
instructive abhoir nee, there will be Thousands and
millions II is the example that cures or that
corrooes. We are not TO be told that because the
Thugs murder without newspapers, our children
may not be taught evil practices by seeing our pub
lc press pouring Its TIDE Of eorrupting new and
shameless ISLANDERS into every c0rncr Of society
We are not to be told that because wret hes shay
each other in cold blood like so many beasts Of prey
marriage VOWS are broken Like dicers'
that, therefore, upon the more opinion Of q news
paper like the Evening Post, we are to take it for
granted that Il Is all pIoper,and right that these
things should be published let the consequences be
mon, the universal sentiment Of our countrymen.
Who that sees the growing fathers and mothers Of
fnture generations in our midst-who that has chill
dren to look upon and to bless, to toll for to pray
bic ethics Of these New York Chi6oniers Of false.
hood and OF calumny and close thef doors upon the
vice and crime which constitute the staple coInmodi
ties Of their newspaper reaiing! The day is DOM.
into his dwelling one Of these journals; when to see
COPY upon centre table viii indicate the absence
OF woman, or Of wemanly modesty; and when they
will Be confined to those Classes who are best fitted
before the New York public.
1t cannot be out Of place to ask our readers how
Tar such influences ~ these-poisoning the whole
socia! fabric or else, a. we see industdousy seek
political reform, such as they profess to have In
hand in their anti slavery undertaking? Must not
the curse Of God and man light upon all their en-
terprises, whether political or morale
from the Evening Post Sept l..
THE UNION ON THE PUBLICATION OF CRIMES.
The Washington Union says, that to such an OK
tent has the publication Of crime been carried, that
=" many Of the most respectable families studiousy
exclude all New York papers, like the HERALD, tho
Tribune, or the Evening Post" The cause,"
continues the Union, "is plain. Every number Of
these journals has daily department filled with
the most disgusting details Of vice. in oil its infinite
variety; and nothing Ia 30 eagerly gathered and
garnished as instances Of domestic, private, or
personal character, especially female reputation
Is involved"
So far as the Ecening Post il concerned, We have
to say thas the increase In Its circulation In tho
most refined and highly cultivated families in the
The ma, led favor with which It Ia welcomed Is
proved not only by this great increase OF circulation
but by the unqualified praise bestowed upon 1t by
both men and women distinguished for their intOli
gence and piety. And well may it be so for this
Journal has yet 10 express the first sentiment which
hIur q hIaah Ia The faixesf facn In thu land