New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-15
THE AMERICAN PRESS AND THE
LONDON TIMES,
Flow The London 7ime., OCT.

London
One or two Of the Newly ORR journals appear disposed TO fall
foul Of President Buchanan for not instantly supporting the gal
in the Pacific We are disposed attach much value
these displays of temper for IN the hrst place
next the dsb that ordinary character to which The
hs pmscsn n.wspsper is to use the sereoyped
phrase easily conceived than described Every s9es
vile or discussed easy, othand manner
which il never with here except in the description Of eight
fom tbi, lang sye which, while detscts from lie just nu
ence certainly makes its miscellaneous intentions completely IN
noous he pubic will learn with surprise tina, just
al this moment wae designs Of Government ead our
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YORK Herald and other eonSeniai ;Our"aI'"
We copy the above misstatement, not SO much
to confute its especial untruths, as to expose aud
demonstrate against the habitual and studied lnus-
tice whereof il is but the latest instance. The
Times habitualy disparages everything American,
and so presents thing relating to country
rs to give the reading classes OF Europe the worst
possible opinion of our people, manners, modes OF
thought, and institutions. That it should quote
largely and constantly from the columns of The
Ncu-York Herald, holding up that sheet to
the loathing Of its readers as the represent
otiye and model of American journalism, is mat
ter of course. Yet its editors can hardly be still
ignorant of the universal and indignant conscious
ness that this course is most unjust. The Ncc FORK
Herald is scarcely American in anything but tue
locality of it's issue, and never was fair or toler-
able specimen of the American Press. 1t may be
better than other American journals, if it suits any
ones taste TO so consider it, but it is utterly unlike
Them Nobody ever heard one of its editorials read
and imagined that he was listening to the utterances
of any other American journal.
As to the San Juan difficulty, we call the reading
public to witness that it has been treated by the
great body of the American Press with marked
candor and discretion. No base calculation of per-
sonal or party advantage has been permitted by
any journal of real consideration and influence to
aggrayaie the difficulties and dangers of the stua
ton We think there is a very general and natural
conviction among American journalists that the
American claim to the nconsiderable island in dis
pute is the stronger; but not one-tenth of our
journals have gone even so far as to approve Of
Gen. Harney's taking military possession OF San
Juan while the British claim to il was still pending
We doubt that kindred topic was ever treated
with more reserve and consideration by the journals
of Europe The Times has done gross injustice in
the premises to the American Press, and it is con-
stastly doing that Press injustice by representing
The Ne,c- York Herald as its exemplsr. We trust
that the general progress of the British people in
knowledge of this country and its institutions is
such that Injustice of this sort will soon have become
impossible, or at least Improbable.