The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-05

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York paper, Twenty -four years ago =
adventure, who had failed in every newsP"
per enterprise tha. he bad undertaken, started
a little sheet. the New York Herold, which, by
dint Of wandering to TIE vicious tastes of the
lower ten. and levyiDg black mail upon the
upper ten, has expanded into the large, dou-
ble-engine concern which now assumes to be
the London Times Of America. At the time
OF tie HeroJas FIST appearance in New York,
journalism was respoctable the editors were
-rostly gentlemen and scholars; the press IN
general wa distinguished by moral character
As we'll as iutelli anoo nd digaity. Bennett
struci. out new ine got the 6opular ear, and
there be has squatted ever si1co, breathing
into it all sorts Of infamous and demoralzing
ideas. with the vast circulation Of that paper,
vnat powerful agency it might WELD for Ell
tightening and directing public opinion as well
rs for pu1iS Jog public morals What life OF
.seiuluess a man welding such potent machl-
nery for good might WELD, and what death, full
IS cousoilng memories and bright hopes, ne
u ght die Eut il is litera ally true that the
opinions Il the Herald never had the shghtest
wsight with the community Oh any subject,
because they never bore the stamp or serious
ness and sincerity, and changed ottener than
the changes Of the moon. It's morality was
hileous All that is sacred IN religion or H.
the dor.estic circle has been scOfed at openly,
or sneered at insidiously in its columns, whilst
III. most shameless vice hung out Its sign
b,g-l among its advertisements as boldly ana
conspjcucusly as any Legitimate branch OF
business or trade. We suppose 1t would he
Impossible to find in America, with the e1cep-
;ion Of the New YORK Tribune, paper when
ras dono go much 10 vitiate the TASTE. deprave
TIE morals and degrade the character OF the
Norm. as the New York Heraid.~
8u, AS the Herald has waxed fat, il has ~axed
roropou. and ,l;ctatorial, assuming high airs
towards legisla i've aud executive authorizes,
and has At last capped the climax BY hrandist
ing over the great powers Of Europe th"'
steel pen which it zines genuine
tAunderbalt of JovE, tipped with IA a
ughtnings. Ia the same paper in which 4
aimonishes JEFF. DAVIS to "hasten and tut
for mercy" Mt the throne of LINCOLN, 1t &c
votes furious column to the London Tine
aud to England, declaring that after the war II
over, the victorious half million will direct
t4ei- attention to Caua1a, which they will pro-
.eed Immediately to annex to Mr.. LISCoLN's
domains, and, by way of Furnishing Spain fol
the invasion of St Domingo, will appropria te
Cuba. aye Gods Upon what meat doth
this oar CESAR feed, that he hath grown SC
g'eat:' Is this genuine voice from Olym-
pas, or is it only the shrill squeal Of that
unscrupulou3 SAwsEY, who made bis fortune
out Of the Life and Times of HELEN JEwErr
The; j pitch If arrogance aud crakiness il
Ehis iran, who is morally and socially one Of
The most contemplate of his race, TO be thus
spiDg the t4unters Of JurIIER England
and Spain will laugh to scorn the indign alton
1.-THE North, even il it manifested itself through
al Executive and official mouthpiece, instead
"' that two~fepny trumpet, the New York
Herald. The North is doomed, and, worst Of
all, she has damned herself. The keenest age.
ony Of the doomed must be in Ieiiecting tha,
they were the architects Of their owD ruin
New York has raised an army to eut her own
throat. Babylon the great is fallen, is fall
en-" and the Herald must learn to realize tb A
humiiating fact, and abate It's presunptuou
pride and arrogance. New York is never to b,
tne London Of America that dream is ended
Nor 10 BENEFITS Herald 10 be the Times o
the anticipated London.