New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-25
TBR HERALD.
On Saturday, The 9TH day of October, cur
rent, The N. T. Herald said:

rent The N. L. Herald said
So fearful were our neiehbors Of THg TRIBUNE Office Of
visitation Of mob law, that SPECIAL MTssEsoBR from ma
Ge called Of this establshmens TO ASK napalmOy fo
beurance IN behalf Of Tag TRIBUNE
This absurd SANDER, which was the best re
| ply The Herald had to make to a column o
extracts we had given from that paper Of Q
few months SINCE cOnvictiDg it 80 conclusiyely
of the rankest treason that any Jury Of twelve
honest men would have brought in a verdict OF
" Guilty by reclamation, ard have hanged
tie prisoner on the spot, with their own hands,
If that were permittod-this absurd SANDER We
have twice pronounced q fasehood, ridiculous.
ana incredible. Ridiculous and incredible In the
first place, because there has been no more dan
ger at any time of The TRIBUNE's being mob
bed than there has been Of the mobbing OF the
Trinity Monument; and in the second place,
because no thought Of asking the forbearance
of THE Herald could occur TO bs, for we hon
esty believe that journal hos rot popular liz
luence enough TO induce pursuit of mad
dog from Fulton street to John. The result Of
our emphatic denial was that III, Herald did
not dare TO repeat the charge, but, OF course,
did not take back the iasehood, IS that would
be- a stretch of fair-dealing Of which it is con-
-tituGonally incapable.
The evident but disguised alliance between
Tie Herald and JEFF. Davis prompted US, q
week ago, TO give some further proof Of how
close that alliance was before an undue but
not unnatural consideration for the neck OF tie
editor made disguise inevitable. As the fear
and disgrace Of being m0bbed seems TO have
made On impression on the mind Of one who
bias submitted in his time to degradation
which no other man ever has and lived, he
again replies TO the evidence we adduced of
how. persistent traitor be is, by assuming again
our danger and our apprebenSons from mob
ocratic violence, but this time varying the
charge against us. At first it was " a special
- messenger" now it was a partner aud
- stockhOlder." And it added, If THE
- TGIBINE wants the name we viii give Il.
We declared in answer, and 10 language as
emphatic and as Straightforward as We knew
how to use, that no TRIBUNE man, no one
connected with il IN either of its departments,
in it publication or editing, none in any way
responsible for its character or its conduct, or
having q right in auy way whatever to speak
for it even in the most trifing affair, had ever
made any such approach 10 The Herald. And
We challenged it TO the proof, aud demanded
the name. What is its reply
The reply is precisely what we supposed II
would be. The Herald had shifted tho issue,
acknowledging thereby that its first story of a
- special messenger from this Office was a
base invention; aud now, in answer 10 our
positive denial Of lie second charge, aud our
rall for tho name of the extraordinary fool, -"
f there was any such Underground, who had
gone TO that Office on our behalf, it preyari-
Gates and shuilles, is AippGnt and abusive, is
vulgar and beastly, but gives no name. OF
course not, for it has none TO give. The story
was a premeditated, unmitigated unscrupu-
Gus, and malicious lie. No person author.
zed 10 speak for IA ever asked the iorbearance
IF The Heraid, or ever even thought of doing
anything go stupid and superfluous.
But tho original lie was nevertheless o per-
Tectly characteristic one on the part Of that
paper for even that mcanest Of all vices must,
Hith TIE Herdid, be suggested by some other
oaseness. When the Secession flag was draped
over the door Of the private room Of the editor
u-chief of The Heraid in April last, so that no man
could enter that sanciHm without bewiDg his head
beneath that banner of the pirate and the
-ebel when q whole set of Secession flag
we're held ready in The Herald Office to be
giycn to the breeze--the free Northern breeze
from its windows; aud when the mob, i'm
patient at the detestable treason which the
,aper had so long advocated compelled il to
borrow the American flag and display
( in front, while the editor-in-chief sat in
lis room, pale and trembling, and his knees liter
lily emitting together with fear; il was then that
ruE TRIBUNE, which, By a single word, could
rave set in an instantaneous blaze the innam.
Fable material which only needed a spark to
Use into q coDfagratOn, set ifs face as hint
against popular ard Illegal violence, and saved
The HcraH establishment from destruction. 1t
= in perfect keeping with the uniform charac-
CT OF PbPef ihdl mas never !ct uohe u IISut
IF generous thing even BY mistake. that
{ should be prompted by its own ingrattude
% the invention Of calumny Ingenious only
or it, baseness, and in whatever shape it is
a pure, unmixed lie. Pah That
,uch journal should no. be q stencil in the
iostrls of every man of honor, not to say
lecency, is an imputation upon the American
character from which it is not easy to defend
ourselves.
The points in which Lord LyOns's recent
etter TO Mr.. Seward violate all diplomatic