The New York herald., 1862-01-08
grateful thanks of the volunteers be showered
on the kind donors!
Newspaper Morality and the New York
Times.

Newspaper Morality and the New York
Times.
There seems to be no truth more fully es-
tablished than that the greatest pretenders to
piety and morality are uniformly the most inn
pious and immoral of rogues. The Bible,
which is mirror OF universal human ma
ture, reflects several such characters, from
fhe soo.hsayers who deluded Pharaoh to
the Pharisees who robbed the poor and said
long prayers. Shaksrere, the universal poet,
has many types Of these impostors, from the
jovial Falstaff who delivered drunken exborta-
tions upon temperance to lago who was smi-
lngly villain. Dickens the universal penny
a line Shakspere of novelsts, does not lack
portraitures of moral humbugs, from the oily
Chadband to the white-chokered Pecksnif. In
Short, there is no character more generally
known and detested than the pious cheat
Newspapers, like men, have characters and
characteristics and the New York Times is the
most perfect specimen on record of blatant and
hypocritical newspaper morality. Haffects TO be
extremely respectable, moral, pious and re-
iigious, but is really unfit for decent perusal.
How often has the Times assumed to lecture
other journals upon the ground of its superior
morality; and yet, judging this pink of proprie-
ty by Its own rule, that immoral and disrepu-
table advertisements make an immoral and dis
reputable newspaper, what must be the cha
racter of tho Times when it INDUCES in such
outrages upon decency as its "medical" adver-
tisements? If the Times really were, as it pro-
fesses to be, "a family newspaper" what sort
OF families would those be who admitted to
their perusal such filthy collection of foul
words and phrases as are to be found in the
Tines "medical" advertisement column? The
quacks, charlatans and vendors of infamous
books and drugs are wise enough to choose the
Times as their organ, however, for it carries
their goods to the market they DESIRE But
when we find such newspaper as the
Times claims to be advertising cures
for diseases of which respectable people never
hear even the names, and when we find the
vendors of such cures patronizing the Times ex-
clusively, what is the natural inference but
that those who take the Times need such out
rageous remedies? No respectable newspaper
would subject its readers to such an imputation.
1t is impossible to give in detail the nasty and
abominable advertisements to which we refer.
They consist Of long lists Of loathsome diseases,
which aalict only the vilest and most degraded
of mortals, from "gleet,'' syphilis" and "go-
norrhoea" to "spermatorrhoea" and what are
called "mercurial' diseases. They comprise
quack nostrums, for such diseases, from "tries-
mar" to the "red drop" They include the
names, tables Of contents and PLACES of publica-
fi0n OF disgusting books, addressed to ''those
married or about to marry" TO "those
whose circumstances prevent a too rapid
increase Of family TO ''young men who
can never be cured by medicine" Lest drugs
and books should not be cfllcacious enough, the
Times prints, also, the names and addresses of
so-called DOCTORS" prominent among which
Is the nom de g,erre of the notorious Madame
Restell. 1t is disgusting 10 even hint at such
atrocious revelations rs those which the moral
Times spreads daily before its readers in full
and with minute details. If newspaper, as
the Times itself insists, Is to be judged by its
advertisements, what must 10 the character of
the organ of these quack doctors9" Ger
tainly no decent newspaper would insult its
readers by such horrible and nauseous stuff.
which respectable people sicken to think of.
And yet the Tines presumes to lecture other
Journals upon immortality, and claims to be it,
belf pure and stainless ! And yet the Times
bretends to be family paper Such a COM
pound Of insuflerable hypocrisy and intolerable
indecency cannot be excelled. The pious
Times and it's medical" advertisements! Why
such a newspaper can be compared only to
the filthy nostrums it advertises, and seems
ct medium for the utterances Of quacks and
abortionists. That the chief conductor of
such vile sheet, which has attempted to In
troduce immortality into journalism, and which
daily does its best and worst to debauch the
minds and morals Of the community, should
be elected Speaker of The New York Assembly,
and that the paper is still permitted to be pub
lshed without the rebuke of the Grand Jury,
is disgrace 10 our city, our State, the country,
and to civilization and progress generally.
AN ABOLITION PETITION TO TIE PRESIDENT
AND CoNGREss.-A circular has been issued by
w. C. Bryant, Of the Eceaing Post; Wm Good
ell Wm. Curtis Noycs, Oliver Johnson, Rev.
Mr.. Cheever and upwards Of twenty other abo-