The New York herald., 1861-12-20

MeaSuer, OF Mulllgan, count S0meWnat on tne
credit side of the account-for all these men are
! Irish rebelss We caused the French revolu-
tion. 1t is true we predicted 1t; and was 1t not
very good thing at the time, preparing the
way for better things in the futures We caused
the Crimean war. Yes, but our sympathy
gained Russas friendship; and may not
that be very valuable to this country? We
have not as yet been charged with causing
| the East India rebellion; but why not? The
| HERALD goes to India, and is read in many
bungalow. We are as yet esteemed guitless Of
the Italian war; but we knew Garibaldi when
! he made candles on Staten Island, and cpN vouch
| for II that he read tho HERALD attentiyely and
found many pregnant idea in it. Weare rather
proud Of Italy and insist that this war shall not
be left out About Hungary and Kossuth we
| are not so certain. But then Kossuth made
very good speeches, established style Of hat,
and left the country when he had done our
bidding.
OF social, political and moral commissions
we are charged with thousands. As yet, how
| ever, we have never seen our completely
! with the great earthquake in Mendoza, South
America, or that in Japan, during the Crimean
war, fully established. Now that the fact is
recalled to their minds, however, we shall see
the radicals wasting no time in weeping for
the dreadful loss of life on those occasions, but
endeavoring to prove that the earthquakes re-
terred to happened just after the arrival of the
HERALD in those parts. That the HERALD causes
! comets is too well known TO be mentioned, and
the only question is whether comets exert a
good or evil influence Worse than earthquakes
or comets, and including all sorts of financial,
commercial, social, political and moral revolu-
! tions we are charged with causing the present
rebellion. As every one now knows that this
rebellion was devised thirty years ago, and
! as the HERALD has been in existence only
twenty-six years, this statement may at frat ap-
pear improbable But nothing is improbable
to radical. "Curse your facts" he exclaims;
"my theory must be right" On the same prin-
cipie we have caused this English war excite
ment AS the rumor Of war is based on an act
Of Captain Wilkes, obviously the captain was
melted to seize Slidell and Mason by stray
copy of the HERALD, picked up at sea; and so
we caused the war. But, take courage. The
great HERALD, which has caused all this trouble
will put it all trinmphantly right again.
So, overlooking the revolutions we have
in the press and its facilities; in the popular
taste for literature; in the power and indepen-
dence Of newspapers; in aught mechanical in
| tellcctual and moral connected with our pro-
| Observation-Disclosures as bright and us beneficial
as the rising of the sun--these radicals, in their
hot envy and hate against the HERALD, rush to
the extreme of making us omnipotent, in order
that they may charge us with the crimes Of all
disasters. They forget that, if omnipotent, we
must receive the glory of all successes also.
But while the radicals cry in one breath that
the HERALD has no influence and in the next
that the HERALD Ia omnipotent, we rejoice that
| we have no "Forward to Richmond" nassacres
to answer for, and that whatever wars we may
have caused, we have only caused them by up
holding the honor, credit, dignity and integrity
Of this great naton--the United States Of Anne
rica.
The European Press ON tho Trent AFFAIR
1t is constantly charged by English journA
|
tone pervadcs it than marks that OF their own
country. The disgraceful character Of the Ian
guage used by them in the present controversy
has, we think, effectually disposed of this re.
proach.
Both in the unblushing ayowal Of disregard
for all settled principles Of law or courtesy
and in the indulgence of billingsgate worse
| kI,a,. kloAl L.
most characterless of our own journals, th.
writers of the British press have certainly tran
scended anything that may have hitherto rem
dercd us obnoxious to their censure. Where
we ask, will it be found that all American jour
nalist has been so inscnsible to the principles o.
right and justice as to use, on great interna
tional question, such an argument as this of the
London Times:-"A hundred wrongs will not
make right. If the Cabinet Of Washington
propose to contend that we must, in the year
1861, submit to endure at the hands of Their
cruisers every indignity which our ancestors
have ever at any time inflicted upon a neutral
flag, then we understand what will be the Issue
between u.s. Such is The reply that one great
! maritime nation gives to another when, in its
| hour of weakness, the latter justifes its action
by a reference to precedents formerly estab-
| lished against il by its magnanimous rival. An
other journal, supposed to occupy respectable
position, the London Chronicle, utters in the one
breath a foul suspicion against the honor Of our
government, and uses it as an argument against
any possible settlement Of the difficulty.
Certain documents" it says, "have convent
emily turned up for transmission to President
Lincoln. We have no right at present to sug-
gest how these papers may have been obtained;
but there would be little Inconsistency on the
part of the North were it to fabricate set of
spurious dispatches and palm them off as the
contraband which justified the arrest of the
Trent. Dispatches or no dispatches, however,
the kidnapping Of the four commissioners stands
inexcusable." OF a somewhat similar character
are the arguments of the London Post when it
says:-"Qur rights, as the first maritime Power