The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-18
The New York Herald in England.


character Ct the HERALD. Latterly, these small
fry literary chaps, finding that their own un-
supported assertions have no weight whatever
with the public, have taken to quoting the eff
fusions Of fourth-rate English Hteraters from
obscure English journals ana magazines, as if
these represented English opinion or expressed
English sentiment in regard to the HERALD and
its course OF just this character is an attack
upon us, written by Bohemian named Hughes,
and published in McmiHan's Mogazine-a
periodical of which nine hundred and ninety
nine people out of thousand either in this
country or England, never even heard the name.
Hughes writes an article about the war, in
which he takes occasion to say that the New
York HERALD is "a VIGOROUSLY Southern
paper, and only restraints its Southern
sympathies now because it fears mobbing."
This Bohemian is onfy ignorant and misinformed,
and the Times, which originated both the lies he
repeats, is only requoting itself when it repub-
fishes Hughes letter; for Hughes knows nothing
whatever of this country or its journals, ex-
cept what he reads or is told by American
Bohemians and gipsies.
But the assertions themselves are most ridicu-
lous trash. So far from the HERALD being
Southern paper, it has always and consistently
advocated the Union cause 1t first demon
strated that secession was revolution; first called
upon Buchanan to put down this rebellion by
force first showed that the Southern forts must
be retaken from tho Confederates first dis
covered and defeated the conspiracy to take
Washington; first called Scott, Wool and one
hundred thousand men to the capital; first de-
manded that President Lincoln should act, and
not adopt do-nothing policy. All this
was done by the HERALD before the
fall of Fort Sumter and the series
of articles which we have eptomized,
began before Lincoln's election, and extended
through January, February and March last,
and, indeed has never been discontinued. All
this while the Times was quarrellng about Of
fees, advertising abolition and anarchy, threat
ening to depose Lincoln and make Law Dicta-
tor and in every way obstructing and embar-
RAISING the government. That we preferred
compromise to war, while compromise was pos
sible only proves that we had more sense and
prescience than those chaps of the Times who
wasted the time when the Southern States
might have been peaceably reclaimed In assur-
ing the North that the South was not in earnest
and would never fight, and that we should have
no war, panic, commercial disaster or anything
of the kind. Was the HERALD or the Times
right? Which course, pray, is the more credit
able? AS one base coin detects another, so this
lie about our Southern sympathy nails that
about our being coerced by mob and, in addi-
ton to the repeated exposes we have made of
that roorback, we need only ask why q mob
should coerce a Union journal such as the He
RAID has always been and declare that we
never were coerced by q mob or by any man
whatever The whole story was invented by
the Times and its twin abolition organs as
vent for jealousy, rivalry and Spite When the
vast daily circulation, influence and advertising
patronage of the HERALD are compared with
those of the Times and its kin, the motive of
such cdnards is obvious.
Nor is the reason less plain why portion of
the English press adopt and republish-for re-
publication in this country again-the libels
started by abolition journals in regard to the
HERALD. We first unmasked and then spiked
the battery which English aristocrats were pre-
pairing against this country and its liberties We
warned our people against and thus prevented,
the interference Of England in favor of the
Southern confcderacy. We notified the English
government and arstocracy that we were pre-
pared to resent the insults they seemed disposed
to offer us, and have kept England in abey-
ance, thus far, on the principle that he
who is prepared for an attack is seldom
exposed to one We pointed out the
weak points at which we could assail
England, even in our present crippled condi-
ton, and take more than vengeance for any in
jury she could do us. The English govern
ment--nott the peoples always cowardly; and
while it reirans from openly attacking the
United States, it abuses, bellies and misrepre-
sents lis, even now, through its London Times
and other organs. Of course the HERALD comes
in for the greatest share of this abuse In our
warnings we touched nerves of England which
made the arstocracy tremble with fear almost
as great as that which seizes them when Napo-
leon builds a new ship or raises new regiment
Of Zouaves. Correspondents here are, there
fore, instructed to write us down, and obscure
journals here are hunted over for articles against
us for republication in England. Every word
of this abuse is a new proof of the patriotism
of the HERALD. If it were not so thoroughly
American it would not be 80 constantly at
tackled in English journals.
Now, we again warn the English journals and
the English government that their present
course towards this country, if persisted in, will
result in the very evils they most dread. The
English people do not approve of their course
now, and that disapprobation will be mani
tested by and by. They may send thousands
of troops to Canada; but Canada may be an
nexed, nevertheless, and, in spite of a British
fleet this coast, British commerce is still open
to us. AT the close of the Mexican war we had
about forty thousand men trained TO arms, and
not the combined forces of England, France,
Spain, Mexico and the Central American States
could prevent these men organizing and at
tempting flibustering expeditions to Cuba,
Nicaragua and Mexico; and only the strong