The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-24
The London Times and the American
Press.


The London Times and the American
Press.
The leading journal of Great Britain has
never been especially in love with any OF
the institutions Of the United States, and has
devoted itself during the last twenty years to
acrimonious attacks upon everything Ameri-
can. More especially has the Times assailed
the New YORK HERALD. Therefore we are not
surprised to see that our view Of the San Juan
difficulty does not meet with the appreciation
Of the ''Thunderer," which rarely lightens.
This hostility of our transatlantic contemporary,
which we take quite as matter of course, has
seriously exercised the finer feelings of the
Tribune philosophers who get very melancholy
while considering the fact that the Times asr-
sistently aus'e' wv 'AD'>'~ w. representa-
tive and model Of American journalism and
consequently as the fairest exponent of the
views of the people OF tho United States. The
Tribune proceeds to say that s'the New York
HERALD is scarcely American in anything but
the locality of its ISSUE" and that ariohody
agined that he was listening to the utterances
of any other American journal" Further, the
Times is informed by the Tribune that the
HERALD does not in any way represent Ameri-
can journalism, and that the British public
ought to know it by this time.
Now, as to the particular question at issue
the claim of the United States to what the Tri-
bune calls the insignificant island" we believe
that the HERALD represents the opinion of the
masses Of the American people, as it always
has done heretofore. The second charge that
the HERALD is not an American journal, is too
absurd to be entertained for moment The
course of this journal has always been uni
formly and consistently national We have
always, and to the best Of our ability, defended
and supported the Union of the States, the con-
stitution, and the great principles of common
law upon which the foundations of civilized
society rest. From this high conservative posi-
ton we have never wavered OF. varied in the
slightest degree. What is the Ti5une's records
For many years Greeley and his ceadiutors
have labored earnestl-, to dissolve the Union;
to bring the con- ,titution and laws into con-
tempt; TO suov' ,rt the existing order of things
by the lntr' .tiuction Of Fourier
Spirituaij.- Ell, SOCIALISM,
" A. Free Love-ism, Agrarianism, and
re don't really know how many more " isnis.'
Never able to master more than few hundred
crazy fanatics to the support of any of its new
tangled notions, initiated chiefly from bad
foreign models, the Tribune has aban-
| doned them one by one, and now deyotes
! itself entirely to niggerism. With one
eye constantly upon Exeter Hall, and the other
on Canada, ignoring altogether the rights of
fifteen of the States, the 7ribunes claims to be
considered an American journal are certainly
of the very slightest character. Like the pro-
vncials whom it admires so much the Tribune
is often more English than the English them-
selves.
We are quite willing to agree with the Tribune
in its statement that the HERALD is utterly
unlike any other American journal" We es-
tablished this newspaper upon definite plan;
it was quite original, and we have never
| diverted from it. The Tribune and some other
papers have attempted to initiate us, but with
80 small degree of success that no one could
| be deceived for moment with the bad coun.
terfeits they have presented. tits refreshing to
| see the Tribune acknowledge this fact so can
didly; and we have some hopes now that
Greeley will, while at the confessional, give the
public some further light upon the various
| sNnmes in which he has been Interested
| 1t is idle to say that the European journalists
are not fully acquainted with the position Of
the New YORK HERALD as mirror of the
American mind. They are obliged to accept
it and quote it as such; and, Notwithstanding
the most strenuous efforts to the contrary
no Journal, other than the HERALD, is recognized
abroad, either by statesmen or journalists, or
public men Of any grade. To obtain this posi-
ton we have never, like the Greeleys and
Jefferson Bricks of the New York press
guished European travellers; and when we
have an opinion upon our foreign affairs which
may be unpalatable on the other side of the
water, we do not hesitate to express it
| Furthermore, we are not DESTROYS Of being
classed with the local press. With few ex
cepuohs, TIC newspapers III uhs Countfy aIe
governed by broken down politicians and
dilapidatcd stock gamblers. They all labor to
subserve the interests of the particular clique
that keeps the breath of life in their poor
weak, attenuated bodies. What few ideas they
may express, and nearly all their news, are
stolen bodily from us. AS we are engaged II
printing free and Independent journal-on'
which progresses steadily with the devclope
ment OF the country, and the increase Of popu
iation and material wealth in the metropolis
we do not wish to be mixed up with any of thu
scurvy fellows who live on the proceeds o
official plumber, bogus banks or dead mem
bones. The HERALD has always been 81
generis; and so il will be hereafter.