New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-07

these voters viii be told that sense Of public duty
and an awful apprehension Of deadly peril to the
Union, have impeIed the publishers to take ground
for the only party that can save the nation from
impending ruin; wherefore they give TO the breeze
the banner of &c. &c. Thus half the Subscribers
IN this swindng sheet will be led to suppose that
certain recent revelations of public dangers have
ip5uced its conductors to take part in the Presdea-
tial contest; when in fact that is just what was
purposed from the first We need scarcely add
that the publishers add their journal to the twenty.
ak or seven previously started expressly TO coun-
teract the influence of The NETWORK TRIBUNE.
We need not waste more words on the@ sssmps,
to whom the pory or the penitentiary will doubt
less do justice in due season. We only use them
as text for few needed structures on the class Of
journals Wanting their independence OF party. Ia
many cases. the pretense is an utterly false one;
the Wanted nOparty journal being tho insidious,
underhand advocate of some party or faction,
which it serves only the more effectively for
dealing its blows stealthiy and with parade of
uperfcial candor. But there are Journalists who
Jeslly and in good faith aim at impsrtiality; and
their position is eminenty false and fettered Com.
PEELED to mince truths that ought to be squarely
put, and to repress convictions to which he would
most gladly give utterance, the genuine noparty
editor goes through life with handkerchief in
his mouth, rarely able to say heartily what be
thinks, but compelled to humble and see-saw when
he feels that be ought to speak clearly and faith
fully. The simple truth that no one who is
thoroughly conyersant with public affairs is really
neutra-thst no-paItyism is only possible to those
whose ignorance or mental abstraction renders
them Indifferent to the most important facts and
considerations affecting the National well-beng-l
decisive against no-party Journalism. Its utter.
arces are unreal, constrained, muffled. 1t 10 the
proper talk of an intellectual Blondin-nOt Of ono
who SAYS right out what he thinks and believes.
Its ordinary course is to bestow cuff here and
slap there, pat here and tap there, dealing out
praise and blame to either party, in as nice proper.
tons as possible, and leaving each reader as puz-
xled as may be with regard TO the editors real
sentiments and convictions on the main poinh OF
issue.
What little consideration attaches TO the sef.
styled independent press is based on radically false
idea of the position and conduct of a party journal.
No editor fit for his post imagines that he must or
should defend and justify everything done or at
tempted in the name and osteusible behoof Of bis
party-much less all that the party ags is invoked
to cover Even if he were actuated by no other and
higher impulse than partisanship, he knows thats
great cause must often be served by exposing aud
rebuking the errors of tho,e who enjoy and abuse
its confidence. He serves bis party best who saves
it from most errors, But between blind advocacy
of whatever may be done or profsssed in the nams
ola great party and affected incipscity to discern
which party is, on the whole, most deserving Of sp
probation and support there is scope for just and
manly assertion of cardinal principles and hearty
devotion TO that which is, on the whole, the side Of
Justice, Humanity and Freedom.