The New York herald., 1862-11-20
The English Press Upon tho AAre1A0sA
Rebellion.


course pursued by tho leading English journals
towards the North. Slanders and misrepresen-
tations, all more or less gross, have tcemed
in the columns of the London Times, Morn
ing Post, Herald and Daily Telegraph We
had for time immemorial heard much about
English love of fair play and sterling
honesty, and were perhaps half inclined to
place reliance upon the existence Of those quail
ties. That belief has vanished, and in its stead
we have acquired knowledge Of English de-
ception and humbug, and have been taught that
our " Cousins" as they dubbed themselves, are
but underhanded hypocritss, with twice that
worship of gold with which they have ever
taxed us, and with none of our bold, straghtfor-
ward, above board manner Of dealing with friends
or fees. English love Of fair play is myth,
and England sterling honesty but name.
We know that glorious exceptions exist to this
(fule but they do not alter that rule; they only
the more clearly define and establish it, How
ever, it is not our purpose here to enter into
disquisiticn as to English morality; we merely
intend to point out some reasons for the course
pursued towards us by tho English journals
above named and show IN THAR hyneariissyy risy and
! haired both to North and South.
We will begin with the chief among the
brawing sheets in question, and will pre-
mise that all the world acknowledges the
London Times to be the vilest of newspapers.
Owned in great part by the Rothschilds, it is
used by those inanciers for the furtherance of
their moneyed schemes, and hence is worthless
to the English public as guide upon matters
appertaining to the money market. 1t is useless
for us to adduce in proof of this statement any
other fact than that the Times published some
two years since, false news from Russia, which
ruined half of London, and that the people burn
ed the paper in the streets The stockholders
were nearly all ruined but the Rothschilds
gained the thousands they lost; SO the latter
were content. For months the Times subsidized
in its financial reports, and the indignant public
forgot its crime. When our rebellion first broke
out, however, the Jewish bankers saw fine
opportunity for speculations in our country;
but they wished to deter all competition; so the
Times began its course of lying, of false prophe
| ces, of concocted kilograms and infamous
| correspondence from our cities and camps,
and made every effort to injure our cause.
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and his government, and extolled his successes
and magnifed our reverses Does the Times real
| ly wish that the South should gain separate
| government No; it hates the South and North
alike, and cries son, on, fight, fight" but in the
hope that we may fatally injure each other,
and that the prosperity and advancement we
gave so great promise of may be stayed forever.
Let the South go tomorrow, and their pretended
friend, the Times, would at once attack them,
| and rail about the "accursed institution" Did
| not the Times insult Mason and Slidell when
we gave them up? Did it not call them "slave-
owners" and assert that they were in favor Of
the slave trade, and that they should be treated
| with silent contempt? And docs not the Times
+ now, that IL thinks it were not safe to prate
about Intervention, fearing the English govern
ment might be tempted to do SO, cry out "No
Intervention; let them alone; they will soon ruin
themselves; there is no need of Intervention"
The Times is net the friend Of the South, or of
the North, or of aught on earth save those
greedy bankers, and as such we dismiss it with
the contempt it merits.
| The Morning Post is the organ Of Lord Pal
merston and the organ Of Napoleon III. 1t
manages to reconcile the duties of these SEEM
ingly antagonistical parts by very close sailing
to the wind and by being as stupid and uninte-
resting as possible; by taking no positive stand
upon any subject, save the American rebellion
and in this it has carte blanche from both parties
and by publishing one day Palmerston's views,
and the next day those of Louis Napoleon-with
| this difference: Palmers.on has the hanors Of
leader; Napoleon has to put up with the Paris
correspondence. But this is strictly fair as
Palmerston pays more than the Emperor does.
| To illustrate our statement we will cite an ex
ample. England wishes, or pretends she does,
that Italy were united and Independent. So the
Morning Post publishes one of its long drawn,
tiresome homiles upon the benefits to arise to
England and mankind in general were Victor
| Emanuel master of Venice and Rome To stul-
tify all this Paris letter is concocted meeting
| all the arguments of the leader, and proving
beyond doubt that it were far better that
Italy be not united, and that the Pope should
remain at Rome. In this ingenious manner
Palmerston gets his moneys worth, and so does
| Napoleon. The Morning Post, beside being the
| organ of the distinguished individuals above
mentioned, has the honor Of representing the
! milliners and mantuamakers Of London; Gun
ter, the great confectioner, and, lastly, the
English aristocracy. AS none Of these patrons
are likely to take any interest in our affairs, the
Post, to make show Of mental energy, abuses
us with unrestrained virulence. We hope the
exercise will do the Post some benefit, and we
dismiss It, like the Times, with unmitigated con-
tempt.
| The Herald Of London pretends to be the
organ of the conservatives. In England conser-
yatism means old fogysm; and surely no better