The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-12-10
Greeley, Raymond and the POST Once
Advertising.


Advertising.
The expose which we recently made Of Sthe
utter lack of circulation and the miserable Do
cuniary restitution of the Tribune and Times
seems to have touched Messrs. Greeley and
Raymond upon the raw. The spasms into
which our articles have thrown these penniless
philosophers are circulating, and far exceed
the paroxysms Of fright which the "Little VIII
lain" endured at Solferino and Bull run. or the
brain fever into which the victims Of Manassas
scared Greeley. We acknowledge that we were
somewhat surprised at the abject manner in
which Greeley begged the public's pardon and
the HERAID's mercy upon that trying occasion,
and at the contumacy with which the Little Viii
lain" refused to pay for his broken carriage
and deliberately proved false to the oath Of
allegiance he was obliged to take at Fortress
Monroe; but the articles in which these twin
sinners indulge when they are bit upon the
sore spot of their circulation throw all past
performances completely into the shade. We
are at once astonisled and shocked by them
Although Messrs. Greeley and Raymond have
never received much credit for honesty or inno-
cence, they have ct least been esteemed as edu-
Gated persons, and certainly have no excuse for
low language during these winter months, when
free night schools for persons of all ages are
open throughout the city. Their poverty may
excuse their lack of honesty-in our charity wo
hope it nay---but it cannot excuse their lack
of good breeding and their indulgence in Bill
lingsgate. ''Liar," "swndler," "wind bag"
''wretched braggart," "black mailing" '.un-
paralleled mendacity," and the like, are
words and phrases which the editors of tho
Tribune and Times handy about as though they
were the choicest expressions in the language.
No Bowery boy, even when intoxicated, would
indulge in such vile slang as that which daily
disgraces the Tribune and Times editorial
pages. Nose, whom Chanfrau 80 well re-
presented upon the stage, would have blushed
if accused of such bad manners and worse
talk. Are the Tribune and Times offices pro-
vided with only Matsells "Thieves' Vocabu-
larry" as a dictionary? Or, forsooth, must the
bad humors which infect the blood of Greeley
and Raymond with all sorts of anti-administra-
ton, anti-Union, anti-constitution ideas burst
out into such disgusting eruptions of foul words
whenever the HERALD is mentionedy
Because Raymond fed before a phantom
Austrian at Solferino; because he said that
"(hic) the elbows of the Min (hic) clio were form
ed by the (hic) sympathies Of YOUTH" because
he ran away again, pursued by the ina
ginary Black Horse Cavalry, at Bull run:
because he ignobly revealed Gen. Scott's
after dinner condolences and informed the
rebels Of the details and object of our great
expedition; because the Times, conducted
upon just such cowardly and secession prlnci-
PIES lost what little circulation it had; because
plots to depose President Lincoln and make
George Law dictator efectually killed his dying
journal; because we refuse to still further i'm
poverish the concern by making gambling be.
upon its circulaton-are these reasons why
Raymond should froth at the mouth and use
oaths whenever he writes about the HERALD'
These facts ought rather to teach him that his
vocation is not that of a newspaper
editor, and should induce him TO re-
tire incontinently from the Times concern, and
spend the remainder of his life in some quiet,
steady business, reading the HERALD regularly
to learn the news OF the day, and advertising in
its ample columns, in order to gain decent
and an honest living. But we really cannot see
how his profanity is to be endured, if be longer
persists in trying to edit a newspaper Before
long, we are afraid, the Times will be indicted
by the Grand Jury and seized by the govern
ment as a secession organ, or by the police as a
public nuisance. We should not wish to see
Raymond, bad as he is in such an awful di-
lemma
Nor do we wish any harm to poor Greeley,
although he has all along fought for the negro,
against the constitution although he was
strongly in favor of peaceable secession, while
it was safe to be so; although his Washington
correspondent informed the rebels of the Union
plans, and although he fastened the attack
upon Fort Sumter, advocated the deposition
of President Lincoln, and caused, by his For
ward to Richmond" articles, the massacre at
Manassas. The brain fever into which the pub
lie disapprobation of his conduct threw him;
the piteous "Just Once confession he wrote,
and his pitiful appeal to the HERAID's mercy,
unite in eliciting our sympathy, while his
poverty has induced us to publish his prospec-
tus at half price, and to kindly offer him our
old clothes and broken victuals. But werealiy
cannot descend to gambling bet to please
him, and think we have done quite enough when
we admit to our columns his lottery appeal Of
'gold pens and the Weekly Tribune" He says
that we have absorbed all the city advertis
ing and that he "needs" this patronage but
that is not our fault II advertisers prefer the
HERALD, because ofits enormous circulation, it
is their business, and we cannot drive them
away All along we have warned Greeley that
he could not edit a newspaper and, now that he
has brought himself and his paper into disgrace,
are we to be abused because advertisers will
not throw their money away upon the seedy
Tribune? Greeley reminds US that we bet with
him in lS4S that our circulation was greater
than his, and that we won the money and gave
it to the poor. We had forgotten the circum-
stance among our other charities; but now that
we are reminded Of it we remember also that
we expressly told Greeley that we made the bet
to relieve his mind of the idea that bis paper