New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-12
AN AFT QUOTATION.

AN All QhOGAtAONs
| The Herald of yesterday says that the editor
Of The Times " is usually very fond Of quoting
" from The London Saturday Rerie'c. Will he
quote from the number of that periodical
:. dated November 23l We fancy that be
twill fight shy of it, for certain reasons. "
Whether Tie Times considers it sufficient
reason for refraining to quote from a certain
journal that it attempts TO convict it Of error
we do not know. But We have no such mo
tive to restrain ne, and shall therefore quote
from this very number OF The Saturday Bericic
of which The Herald thinks Tie Times is afraid.
1t says:
The uutyOrsbls judgment which many people in thi,
country have uudo1btsdy formed Of III. general tone aud
ctace Of public opinion in the United States. is often
not exclusively at least manly derived from the columns Of
The ~ L. Hu1id and other publications Of IKE nature.
the culSsled mind and Intelligence oil the ckens OF
hewfok IL ia add essed TO the vulgar herd Of noisy poll
tici.ns 10 satisfy the 'pres q such class Of readers It
has become recognized medium for The circulation Of empty
aee.nSt,ry hsranssss and ase repor We are not pre-
ps,d 20 how i TIL 'atemsnt IL yell founded The e1'
ten.ve SAFE OF such newspaper Will any rate Ju'uy US In
,.pPosug tia, 4. spi hncs favor with large ii not iuen
tisl, section Of society"
Tie Herald has not the slightest objection TO
The Reriec, or any other journal, saying this
of il. No other creature, endowed with the
power of speech, could ever have submitted to
30 many indgnities as have been bestowed
upon the editor of that paper, and live;
nothing in human shape aliye-except
possibly, here and there the "ngger" of some
uncommonly inhuman master-has writhed so
often as be under the horsewhp and cowhide.
He can take no shame TO himself, therefore,
that he should be thus condemned by an
English journal. No doubt he rather rejoices
and chuckes over the disgrace which, through
him, rests upon the American name.
But we ask :" large, if not influential, section
g Of society" on which The Herald lives aud
fattens, to consider this paragraph from Tie
Rerien. 1.-The extensive sale OF such news
paper is considered NJ q sufficient justificl-
ton for the belief that that obscene sheet
truly represents US. There was time when
no man who valued his reputation would be
seen with such paper in his band; but Il
prurient desire 10 read its bod but base
attacks upon private character, and its re-
hearsal of the worst vices of corrupt society,
FIRST led to its being tolerated in counting
rooms and shops, while tho men who bought
1t would have no more carried il home to their
wives and daughters than they would have
put into their hands the obscene books,
with highly-colored illustrations, TO be
bought in some quarters Of the town.
Blu. familiarity breeds Indifference, aud the pa
per soon found ia way from the place OF bust
ness to the parlor, and the women of the fam.
lily found its unctuous columns quite as much
to their taste as it had earlier proved to be to
that OF their once judicous fathers and hus-
bands who were unwilling to expose them to
its corrupting influence. There is probably no
one fundamentally in this country that has
done so much to blunt the fine edge of n culti-
waited taste, deaden the Keen sense OF modesty,
lower the moral tone Of the people, to make
vice more familiar and less hideous, as The
Nep- York Herald. 1t has profaned sacred
things; has outraged and made vulgar all
things precious; has made truth seem a joke,
honor a sham, aud any sense of the dignity Of
virtue and manliness thing not to cherish
and to reverence, but to be ashamed of For
fifteen years this paper-which in its essential
character has never changed from the begin
nng--bas been admitted to the houses of PEG.
pie of respectable position. And the result of
its subtle influence, unconscious TO its victims,
il marked in dishonored women and debauched
and degraded men. sheet that 10 brothe
aud no dram-shop can do without for u single
day, which just reaches the level Of their intel
ectual and aesthetic standard-hOw can it 20
into the parlors aud the Offices, of the more
respectable, and not leave behind it the stencil
of its pollution How can an English paper
come to any other conclusion than that the
" extensive sale Of such newspaper will at
ANY rate justify US in supposing that its
Esprit finds favor with a large, if not .influ.
." entail, section of society" The old proyerb
if not elegant is forcible: "lf you ie down
" with dogs, you must get up with deas."