The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-25

against the rebels of great slave State, whic
has hitherto stood as bulwark for their pro
lection.
We conclude that the administration will
give Fremont this golden opportunity to re
trieve himself and that in the event Of
failure there will be an end to the career o.
the pathfinder" as general and politician
THE GOVERNMENT AND ENGLISH NEWSPAPER
CoRREspoNDENTs-In reply to memorial adj
dressed to him on the subject, Secretary Seward
has devoted longer and more carefully written
letter to the vagaries of Russell, of the London
Times, than he felt it necessary to answer to the
Important and gratifying communication of the
Emperor of Russia The public will fail to re-
cogniZe the correctness of the Secreta-
rvs estimate of the relative Importance
of these two potentates, the more particu-
larry as the former, apprchensve of conse-
quenccs other than those resulting from the in
reference Of the government, has taken himself
of to Canada on a pretended sporting excur-
sion, and will probably not make his appear
ance in Washington again.
---~Ao "So oSSh I" SAcoO uVti poO lluCG luSo
made about this fellow Russell. He is merely
literary loafer, paid so much by the column
for his trash, like any other London penny-liner
He made reputation by his letters from the
Crimea because there was no one to crticse
their accuracy. The Russians never saw them,
and, If they had, would not have troubled their
heads about them. His India letters were re-
ceived as Gospel narratives for a similar reason
The Hindoos, few educated persons ex-
cepted, do not speak or read English.
and were utterly unconscious of the
existence of such person as Mr.. Russell
When he came ont here, however, he found him
self rather differently situated. He could not
write one-sided history of the campaign, as
he did abroad. In the South, as well as in the
North, he found press as intelligent as enter
prislng and as well posted as any of which he
had had experience. He could neither lie nor
pervert facts without an immediate refutation
of his misrepresentation and calumnies finding
their way back to England. The consequence has
been that his whole course here has been one of
the most inconsistent and laundering that has
been pursued by any Englshman who has
attempted to write about America. The total
absence of honesty and fairness exhibited in his
letters has rendered his name a byword Of
contempt even among his own countrymen. The
defence that he has attempted to set up, that it
is our sensitiveness to criticism, and not his
want of impartialty, that is at fault is disposed
of by the manner in which we have received
Prince Napoleon's letters They do not spare
us where we are open to censure.
but they deal fairly with us where
we are entitled to it, While, therefore, their
judgments are narrowly canvassed, no one
doubts for moment their sincerity and candor.
The course of the Times correspondent has
been directly the reverse of this, not only in
respect to the government, but individuals.
1t is to his obnoxiousness to those whom he has
slandered personally that he now probably
owes the necessity of his making himself scarce
at Washington.
Under these circumstances it was hardly
necessary for the Secretary of State to take
the trouble to explain that the government
neither reads nor gives itself any concern about
what such person may choose to write or
print about us.