The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-23

editors care very little for our personal feelings publishers
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TUESDAY EVENING, Nov. Is. ASo" fi1AD''
"Our booki,-indeedl
The impotency Of this effort Ia sufficiently amusing
The loss Of the advertising patronage OF single publish
ing house would not diminish the income OF the Toler
by an apprecable fraction But this is the least
siderable feature OF the DO Messrs. T. pretend
TO think that personal feelings" and sriendy regard
aie the influences that ought regulate critics pub
h,hed opinion Of a book? Ought not the critic to take
red pro 9ros for his motto, And will that publish
ing honse which has done much by generosity to ele
waite the character Of dealings with foreign authoes,
undertake. by the exercise Of the opposite atr ,ute to
reduce newspaper criticism at home to the level Of per-
sonal faycritiIn and trucking for advertising patronage
No. We cannot suppose tia this letter expresses tue
deliberate opinion OF the publishers Hbears every mark
of haste. II j. dated the evening that the
article appeared. little time for reflection would have
brought wiser counses We hope therefore that sober
second thought may II to be disayowed There will
he disgrace in frank confession that II was hssty
acwie, on the other hand, long the publishers
maintain their preent attitude not only do they set the
whole press ~ Defiance (or what journal will wish their
advertisements II they livery OF bondages) but by
any Of their publications any where may receive 20
mrutation Il being dictated by personal feelings
the lust Of g.in-Boaon Eening Traveller, Nor. q.
Ddtfy Advertiser upon the recent important attempt of
Messrs Tickno Fields TO gag the press, prevent
the expires ion Of honest opinion upon the literary
merits of their publication by Withdrawing their
tsiog support rou the T.ape,ler The remarks Of the
Adeiser very just; and luo'e them, not merely
as sustaining personally in the attitude have
snmtd in this extraordinary CASE but because
they constitute worthy vndication Of the rights
and duties Of the press. 1.-THE effort of Messrs
licsnor Fields TO l. by exclusive
y personal matter. The Advertiser well suggests that
their literary chronicle would be sadly defective T they
omitted to mention this most untabe proceeding
II the public for every newspaper reader is in
erested in the preservation Of the purity of the 1t
the press, and every ourna-especaly those
which might otherwise be exposed to the suspicion of
tanning silence under such intimidation has been
attempted upon us-should conceive improve the
occasion to speak in defence Of the press against every
such unworthy effort to control it by mercenary consi
deraons. The Advertiser has spoken noby for itself and
for the general character Of sound and wholesome press
We have in paper, and FIR similar reasons quo
ted other respectable Journals which have expressed
tirely concurrent opinions this subject. We take
caon TO say in reference to remark Of the Daily Ad
isa that We have needlessly attempted to fortify
original criticism of Hiawoiha . BY collecting and repre-
fentirg whate, could find Of ad verse criticism upon
that poem, that we only quoted the opinions of few
spectacle journals fr the purpose Of showing read
that were not singular in our opinion Of the work.
aud therefore furnished to the pubhs hers usdabe
ground for the course they have pursued