The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-20

JULY ~, 1861
President Lincoln to carry on the war, 1t has
voted him half a million Of troops and I've hum
dred millions Of dollars. It has endorsed every
single assumption Of power by the administra-
ton, to suppress rebellion. It has enthusiastic
cally invested government with a quasidicta-
torial power, and rivalled in patriotism the
Senate Of ancient Rome, in meeting the exigen-
cies of the moment. 1t has suspended over the
head of the doomed insurrectionists, who are to
meet this day at Richmond, an avalanche Of
destruction, which must crush them to pieces, If
they do not conjure 1t away by immediate and
unqualified submission. Should they fail to
declare their opposition to the federal authori-
ties at an end, it is probable that they will be
compelled to fee before the bayonets and can
non of our victorious divisions, long before the
time shall have arrived which they will have
naturally fixed upon for their adjournment The
Confederate States have been taught, it is to be
earnest Every day, added unnecessarily to
the contest, insures useless expenditure of
blood, and adds to the sum of human misery.
Policy and conscience alike demand prompt
atonement for past errors and by it every sim
gle right which the slaveholding States cad with
propriety ask may still be secured to them
selves and their posterity.
English Newspaper Correspondents I'm
America. .1i
The special correspondents Of the London
newspapers now in the United States are per-
forming very ungrateful task; for while the
American journals oriticise and laugh at their
blunders, the English papers make common
sport of both their matter and their style. In
the United States they meet with continual con-
tradiotion, and in their own country are made
the victims Of whitening sarcasm. They came to
America with an exaggerated idea Of their own
wisdom and Importance, and under the impress
sion that the truth of whatever they wrote
would remain as unchallenged as that of the
letters from the Crimea during the Russian
war. or from India during the mutiny. They
had perhaps forgotten that there were few or
none In q position to disprove whatever was
said in those letters. The events recorded and
the scenes depicted took place remote from the
common eye of the public. 30 that the cor
respondents Of newspapers could speak with
impunity, provided that personalities were
used sparingly. We allude to personalities be-
cause we remember that Mr. RUSSELL whom in
India, once indiscreetly stated that the agent of
q London tailor, whom he mentioned by name,
bad been unceremoniously kicked out of a
certain tent by certain officer, and It after
wards was proved in an English court of law,
by the agent in question, that such was not the
fact and by the verdict Of a jury the London
Times was mulcted in heavy damages for
having published the defamation of character. =
We are not surprised that the gentleman who
has been travelling as distinguished person
age down South, and retailing absurd stories
about the ohivalry Of South Carolina for the
benefit Of the readers of the London Tines,
should have been as much ridiouled by the
English press as he has been corrected by that
of America. The Southern newspapers have
given fat denial to his statements concerning
their section Of the country. Itappears to have
been the great object of Mr.. Russell to write a.
much about himself and everything that befel
him as possible; and as consequence his letters
to the Times have been mere collections Of idle
gossip and personal narrative, which have little
or no connection with the rebellion. He ap-
pears to have gone about the country expecting
to be iionized, and, as the correspondent of the
Times, thinking himself a man quite above man
kind generally. Those who courted and
feted him be spoke we'll of; but those
who were at all Indifferent or RECALLED him
only with homely fare were rewarded with
sneer His vanity and egotism crop out
in almost every sentence of his letters, and the
bombast of his style is only more conspicuous
than the superfciality of his general informa-
ton and the absence Of sound learning. Of
what possible use his letters could have been to
the English public in conveying an idea of the
state of affairs in the United States it is hard to
say; but doubtless young ladies have read them
and thought them very fine, partly for the rea-
son that he uses such stilted language that it is
difficult to exactly understand what be means.
We have heard that there is another London
Times special correspondent now in this coun-
try--the same that accompanied the Prince of
Wales ON his tour; but from his antecedents we
expect very little Of an edifying character from
him. His entire ignorance Of the geography
and history Of America, his conceit, malice and
snobbishness, led him to commit more errors in
his letters to the Times than we remember to
have ever discovered before in an equal
amount Of matter The fact is, correspondents
como over to this country and attempt to write
about things Of which they know nothing
but about which they think they know
nearly everything The result is that
they do more harm than good to the
English public. Let them, when they come
here, see and inquire carefully on all Sides
without presenting themselves TO q clique, and
at the same time that they lay themselves open
to be crammed with false information, expect
to be dined and wined as travelling celebrities
Let thom travel without the newspaper pinned
to thoir names, and silence their transatlantic
prejudices. Their personal vanity may then be
less 6attered, but they will be doing more SER
vice to their country than they appear to have
been doing hitherto. They must remember