The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-10

FIRST KATE IuFFS FROM OUR OfPONENTS.-Ine
course of the New YORK HERALD has often
afforded great cause Of tribulation to the phi
losophers of the NIIsne to the Honorable JEFF
ferson Brick, and various other Journalists
here and elsewhere. We do net think it would
be possible, were we to try ever so hard, for us
to print paper that would please the Tribune
or Mr.. Brick. Consequently we do not at
tempt it, but con6ne all our attention to making
the HERALD newspaper for the public large,
at the same time being penetrated with grief
whenever our distinguished contemporaries fail
to approve our course. Neither are we espe.
cially overjoyed when we receive-as it hap
pens once in while-praises from our oppo-
nents. We ore mindful of the memorable ex-
ample Of the Trojan horse, and accept no gifts
from our enemies. Nevertheless, they some
times do good thing for us by accident, and we
blush to find ourselves famous In that manner
They have been rather more industrious in that
way latterly than usual, and have Aattered
us to most dangerous degree. We are
told by the Tribune, on the one
hand, that we furnish all the brains
for the democratic members of Congress; we
are not over and above proud of that-by a
country journal, that the Presidents Message
was made up from the HERAI.D-by the Tribune
and Tines, that we are doing the work of the
Garrisonian abolitionists; and at the same time
we are persistently charged by the first named
journal with printing pro-slavery organ,
bound hand and foot to the South, and there
fore welding power in that section of the
country such as no other newspaper ever had
anywhere before. According TO these philo.
sophers there is nothing mundane which we
cannot accomplish if we set about il They
give us the credit Of success in enterprises
where they have failed time and again. Even
the little dogs Of the Sunday papers bark in
the same strain. By the Tribune Of yesterday
it seems too, that we have entered new field.
The comic is our latest line; and we are charm
ed TO hear that we do it so well that, il we
keep on, we shall drive all the professod funny
papers out Of the field. We are much gra-
titled with this praise, although 1t comes
not from Sir Hubert Stanley. When the
Tribune is not dull and heavy, it is short
and surly. However, people who have no fun
in themselves may appreciate It in others; and
so we initiate honest Sancho Panza, and look
not gift horse in the mouth.
For the rest, We cannot say how delighted
we are at all these compliments. They prove
that we have succeeded in making the HERALD
UNIVERSAL complete mirror Of the times-a
newspaper in point Of fact 1--we had any ad-
vice to give our contemporaries we should sug-
gest that they might find their account in at
tending strictly to their own affairs, as we do,
and making their papers as nearly as good as
the HERALD as they can. For our own part, we
shall 60 on to print this journal in our own
way, and for the benefit Of the public only. 1t
is very sad for US to be obliged to suffer the
compliments Of our contemporaries, after enjoy
ing their contumely so long, but we believe
that with Christian patience we shall be able
to worry through even that calamity.