The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-07
THE Indepcnties.t Press.

THE Independent Press
| Correspondence OF the New Orleans Delta
CALuoUNIsM NOT IN THE CoFFiA-THE WAR OF
| PARTY htEE AGAINST THE INDEPENDENT PGESS-rHE
| NEW YORK HERALD--RroHMosD ExAMISER-DELrA
LONDON TIaEs--MI ASSURES, NOT men.
WASHINGTON, July I6, 1855.
! Calhoun once exclaimed, Oh. that had an in.
dependent press to sustain me of the South y For
years he stood alone. steadfast, immoyable rock,
amid the surging popular currents around him. For
| years it was treason to the democratic party to
| speak with respect OF his then honored and now
hallowed name. For years, in defence of the South
and her institutions, and the constitution, OF the
| alone, with nothing but his own great mind and
bis own great heart to sustain him. When
| Webster determined to pronounce that ceiebrat-
ed grafton grafton upon the Union, why did he pass
| indeed Why does the lion cover beneath the
human eye3 The grand, sublime and beautiful
| oraticns OF Calhoun were passed in silence pru-
dence being the better part of the vaor of Webster
The wish of Calhoun is realized. Would tina. We
had lived to witness it. We have at last "united
South" We have at last defence Of negro serv
tude on the ground OF its business per We have
at last an independent press. These three thing
are better than thousand political platforms The
Richmond Eroaiaer and the New Orleans Delta are
worth more to the South than the amply echongs OF
thousand partisan sheets, whose business it il
to act out the part assigned by the political prompt
er behind the grand scene here in Washington, be
s0iler.
Let me tell you that the true men of the South
here to man sustain you in your determination to
force the Buchanan election in the Northern Safes
up. fully up, to the ISSUE There are facts known to
well informed persons of all parties here, which
when known will create perfect storm of indigna
ton at the South. They will be known in due
time.
There are three papers read with the greatest
ayidity in Washington, to wit-the NEW YORK He
RALD,th Richmond Examiner and the New Orleans
Delta; These three great papers represent geogra.
phicay and actually by the force Of circulation and
the talent employed, the Of feeling, or what is
generally known as the current of public sentiment,
throughout the continent. If there Ii any public
man in the nation who desires to retire to the deep
est shades Of private life all he has to do is to
manage to concentrate these representations of in
dependent thought against him-and down he GOES
1t is the fashion now to abuse The HERALD. True,
she has gone of most ab5urdy on the Fremont
ticket. But for twenty years the HERALD has stood
by the South, and will come ba Tx in due time. She
hates Pierce, and is determined to wage q war of
exteina matte r on the gurely "pary men, OF the
The daily circulation of the HERALD is sixty
thourand; thirty thousand delivered daily to the
same people and il Is safe calculation to say, that
hundred thousand. Thirty thousand are delivered
to pewsboys. general agents. aud at least twenty
thousand of these pass into different hands daily and
allowing five readers to each paper. gives one hun
dred thousand daily readers to that list. The other
ten thousand go to hotels, boarding houses, ex
changes and steamers, and allowing ten readers to
that portion, gives an additional one hundred thou
sand. Here we have paper reaching three hun
dred thousand different readers daily, issued every
day in the year. BY the ordinary process of null
duplication, it appears before the mind OF every
reading and hearing man in the United States at
least six times year and is constantly and per-
petualiy before majority of them.
The power OF the press is enormous. The adver-
tisements OF the ohambermads alone OF the Herald
amount to than the income Of the entric Cabi.
ret at Washington, including the President and the
Ministers of the United States at London and Paris.
To hear little man. whose limited vision ranges
about six inches from his nose, and is never
heard out of his own little locality, denouncng
the HERALD, IS something like Lord Pal
merstons attempt to crush out the London
Times. The power on both sides was greater
in the latter case, but the result compare
lively tie same. Palmerston, by aid of the war
party, brought the entire power OF the greatest
ton in Europe, if not in the world, to bear against
one newspaper.
The English people were united almost to a man
| against the Times. stamp law was passed which
curtaed the income of the Times, at one blow, Of
the snug little SUN OF three hundred thousand dol
lars year! What was the result Why the news.
paper, with the British government against it, de
prived OF over quarter OF million year OF Us in
come by the repeal Of the tax, turned aud faced the
| government, forced a peace and by its increased
circulation oyercame the tax 10 great extent The
| Times proved too strong for Lord Palmerston.
| Moral: An independent press once established, is
stronger than govern nents, parties and politicians.
The ptn in hands truly great is mightier than the
| sword. God has so constructed the human mind
that IL is incapable of resisting Truth We may deny
her. dstort her brave her power, but she lives in
| spite OF US, and eventually asserts her sway.
The great majority OF the Southern people do not
| want, in the coming election, mere triumph OF
| forces. No. They look TO the vindicaton OF prin
| cipe. They demand the assertion of certain great
constitutional and self evident rights. The perpetu-
ity Of the Union for the benefit of Office seekers,
ambitious national Southern men, is not desired
by the South. We demand, the right Of freemen,
equality in the Union. independence out Of 1t.
| We demand the constitution incorporated, aud
we desire no alliance with free socrs, whig or de-
| mocratc, for the sake Of spoils. II would have
been letter TO have fallen with the Young and grow
ing West with Douglas in the lead, than to succeed
/ with Buchanan by compromise on Kansas, and a
/ bonus to the Pennsylvania iron interest.
The true democrats, North, West, East and South,
| have no heart in this fight. Mr.. Buchanan Ia an
amiable, safe, conservative man, but he IL not, aud
never has been, representative man. He will be
elected and every effort, without the sacrifice Of
principle should be made for his election. But let
him feel and let his friends feel that the principles
announced at Cincinnati must be maintained ia fact
without the squatter sovereignty clause In
didates letter Of acceptance, or the artful dodge
i contemplate by Mr.. Tombs bill on Kansas
i We are on the eve Of a mighty contest. What
i the Senate wants Is light. She wants the tn h.
/ she wants her independent press, while promoting
her general and beat interests 10 preserve intact the
/ great principles on which che must rely eventually.
i Measures, not men, rather, measures aad the
| tight sort CT men to represent them"
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/ Obituary.