The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-07
sensation Journalism - The Franken-
stein OF Abolition.

journalism - The Frankon.
stein OF Abolition.
Under the head of "sensation papers," the
Journal Of Commerce deprecates the idea of OK
aggerating the Importance Of the events whieh
have recently taken place at Harper's Ferrv.
and of magnifying the danger Of the people a
one section of the. Union interfering with =.
domestic institutions Of another by violeaoe
and blOodshed and attempted revolution. We
agree with our sage contemporary. The danger
ought not to be magnifed; it is great enough
as il is; and the Harper's Ferry outbreak Il
sufficiently important without exaggeratisa.
There is no need Of the papers trying to make
a sensation; the facts themselves are only tee
formidable.
In this we think our sedate and pious co.,
temporary is right. But he does not 60 fAr
enough He ought to go back one step, aaA
seek and find the source of all the danger and
sensation. Like skilful surgeon, he ought -
probe the ulcer to the bottom. Let US hslp
him to thorough diagnosis of the disease.
We hold in our hand the prospectus of the Rxst
sensation daily paper ever published in this
city. 1t is printed on a sheet of letter paper,
with circular attached on the fy-leaf It il
as follows:
PROSPECTUS OF NEW DAILY PAPER, TO BE cALL.s
THE "kEwYORk JOURNAL OF COMMEROE."
In proposing to add another daily paper 70 the nunS
already published in this city the projectors deem proper
unadyisedly undertaken Men of wis iom, intelligence
and character have been consulted and with one vaea
have recommended its establishment.
Believing as do, that the theatre IL an nsttutie>
winch all experience proves to be inimcal To moratv
and consequently tending to the destruction Of our repu
can form Of government is part of our design To- ar
clude from the columns Of the Journal all theatrical ad
yertisements.
The pernicious influence Of lotteries being adm,tcd ~
the majority Of intelligent men, and this opinion coaeS-
excluded.
ting OF types collecting OF ship news, &C. that day.
the paper, on Monday morning. will be issued at later
Of the mails. In this way the Journal will anticipate by
several hours considerable part Of the news contained
in the evening papers Of Monday and the morning papers
OF Tuesday, and will also give the shpnews colleots6
after the publication Of the other morning papers.
Like other daily commercial papers, is the design 4
eraure science and the arts such shall acceptable
TO the statesman, the scholar and especially the mer
chant Every effort shall be made, by the employment II
competent agents to secure the earliest authentic
news and the projectors OF the Journal pledged that
shall in no respect suffer by garrison with other daily
who are friendly to the cause Of morality in encouraging
our undertaking.
NEW YoRK, March "a, 1927
EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES or MEETING Ass
OTHERS, AT THE AMERICAN TRAIT s0CrY HOUSE, MAROU
"a, 1927
Resolved, That the prospectus Of new daily CONNER
having been laid before this meeting we approve
Of the plan upon which 1t s to be conducted and cor
daily recommend it to the patronage of all friends 10
good morals and the stability Of our republican insss
tons ARTHUR TAPPAN Chairmaa
RoE LOCKWOOD, Secretary.
DEAR slE-The enclosed prospectus Of new danV
nftapad
eraton with the accompanying documents showing the
cause Of measure in which Of the most intelEgeat
and benevolent persons Of our city are united.
the objects Of the proposed paper meet your apprcba
on your subscription respectfully solicited and your
exertions in procuring other names.
To avoid the necessity OF further call please leave
the prospectus, with the name names appended So
that it can be obtained in case OF your absence.
Here, then, is the first sensation daily paper
ever published in this city-the first abolition
journal which sowed the seeds of revolution.
which have taken root in the land, sprung nm
in luxuriant growth, and are now ripened into
an abundant crop of treason. Under the aus
pices efArthur Tappan, the notorious leader Of
the abolitionists of New York, this anti-slavery
journal, whose fanatical spirit may be seen in
the paragraphs of its prospectus about the
theatre and the violation of the Sabbath in
ton of revolutionary ideas. This is the foun-
tain Of the mischief-the source of the dark.
bloody stream which, running under ground.
emerged to the light at Harper's Ferry. In
process Of time changes were made in the
ownership of the Journal. Hallock and Hale
were the original proprietors and editors. and
one of them is still the senior editor. Its con-
temporaries say that it discovered at last that
cotton was more profitable than niggers, and
that therefore it abandoned outspoken rcd
mouthed abolition, and only exercised its phi
lantbropy occasionally in the shape of raising
subscription of "a few hundred dollars to pur-
chase the freedom of some unhappy negro, or
to send out free Africans to Africa. In these
modes, or in some similar way, the Journal now
and then betrays its original proclivities, and
returns periodically to its first love. When the
fit is upon it, it wakes so wonderfully philan-
thropic that it might easily be mistaken for an
organ of abolition in disguise
Of one thing, however, there can be no mis-
take, and that is that the Journal of Commerce
was the first antislavery daily paper ever is
sued in New York, and that the revolutionary
sentiment it generated and spread has taken
hold to dangerous extent on the public mind,
producing it's natural results in Kansas and at
Harper's Ferry. For the violent speeches and
lectures of the anti slavery leaders, for the Sc
dition of the revolutionary journals, and, what
is more dangerous still, for the fanaticism with
which so large portion of our Northern popu-
lation is imbued, rendering it as combustiblc
as gunpowder on the application of the match,
the Journal of Commerce is in high degree re-
sponsible. For the recent actual treason and
outbreak in Virginia it is morally if not legally,
It planted the tree of abolition in
our midst, and though it has taken many years
to bear its mortal fruit, the connection between
the cause and the effect is plain
We do not wonder that the Journal seeks to
make light Of the perilous condition of society