The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-23
The ASf tiisrn Newspapers.

The agency 80 bia.antly o.aneG bv the New i orh
HeraJdiu moulding aud shaping the paper pres
cf the Ner4h after its nrdel, Is not altogether
without foundation Before the establishment OF that
Journal newspapers were grave AID dieided chror
iclers of important events, personalities and gossip
being G;sInissed with very brief notice, none
all. Great public Interests, social, industrial and
politics., and important rrbe events, formed the
staple OF their publications. Bennett IN uueduca-
ted and Inercsnary foreign adyenurer, inaugnrated
), new era He made the newspaper vehicle OF
.aitie and personalities. lie iaaGc il gossip
going from do0c door AID crc uatli. al, the scar
dial Of the u.ignbcrool he esiat. shed. il iniit:-
tien Of tie fore gu journals system OF correspon-
sience i'll the principal cites and towns, and these
elniasaI.es Of l- oair ssch things as wouI,
please tli-i. ei, lover aud tickle shallow and DE-.
PRAYED pubiic taste truth being entirely second
sry consideration Most Ct the northern papers
lave followed in the wake Of tie fierold the only
difference bein; affectaon Of ,y-ntility and re
hnertns, which Bennett never sets up, il must be
admitted that be is free FROM vice-!ty pocrisv
With hrszen etirontery he Haunts his prostitution
In the midday Sun, and gcres in lis shame His
imi.ators ars nlcre demure and dccorcus bu; quite
as corrupt AID unprincipled
If cur readers are often startled and amazed by
relation to this war their wonder would all cease
could they lift the veil aid lock upon the secret
.prtngs OF the machinery and the persons by whom
they are worked \ very Instructive book was
written on this subject a few years ago by gentle
man who had been connected with the Northern
press for thirty Year., and thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with It's principles and practices. No
read this book without being satisfied that the press
Of b.t-.c-
.rty" and reformer and Instructor of the peopl.
ID az engine of political dcspotsni, dehsucler oI
public and private virtue, bind leader Of the
blind There would be more solid knowledge in the
North. and Infinitely personal honor. p,,triot
ism. and purify. ii newspaper had been
published within It's limits. The volume which
shews up this Yankee new paper world gives u his
Tory Of its conductors, which psovea that they
often incompetent, both by education ln1 character,
for the positions which they occupy. liz many caeesr
forsi .uer adventures, no had been compelled to
Isaye Europe Oh account Of their bad habits, and
even of aets which might have brought titn within
the clutches Of the law compose The ceilorial staff OF
leading journals in tie principal Northern cities,
aDc s,t the recognized teachers aud guides Of Ike
Northern people.
No wonder tia. the public innd Of that section
has become deprayed un,ief such influences, II It
had been originally pure driven sn.ow, it would
be turneI into u sewer OF abOannatfo by the con
staaf daily attrition for twenty years with the
turbid poiiutiuS streams Gent forth by its press
Ii IL the least of the blessings Of disanion 10 be
deliv, cd from fountain Of corruption which was
beginning scatter its balefui influences through
our own community Union with such people
WIS death in every shape and fornl-moraily, So
cislly, aud politically. The sad sights of the dead
and dying in this war are not melancholy sub
leess " contemplation as the blight which might
have couis over the homer Of man aud the nlodesty
ot woman II We bad been bound in al irdisso!u5ie
union with the corruption aud crime of Northern
Nociesy