The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-02-14
riots. and reign Of bloody anarchy In the loyal

riots, and reign Of bloody anarchy In the loyal
States.
These fearful contingencies Of the future arc
beginning TO be foreshsd0wsd In various forms
OF manifestation. They may be. traced 70 the
various natural causes Of the public dissasis-
faction with the present incompetent and
laundering heads Of the War. the Navy and
Treasury departments and the work Of re-
formation therein cannot much longer be de-
layed with safety to the administration or tho
internal peace of the loyal States. We have
one revolutionary faction. represented by such
journals as the New York Tribune, EUeni,lg
Post and Times, and another fomenting dis
cord, under the teachings Of the New York
Journal Of Commerce, the Express and the
World; and between these violent factions the
administration can maintain the public peace
only by just, straightforward, conservative
policy, and by Q competent Cabinet, which, in
addition to Mr.. Seward, will include some such
man as Admiral Dupont at the head Of the
Navy Department, and some such universally
head Of the army or the War Once.
The Horrible Treason or tho Herald.
Y The New York HERALD Is sometimes charged
with horrible treason by certain of it, kind con-
temporaries. In what that treason consists 1t
would be, ct first sight, very difficult to deter
mine. Our devotion to the Union may seem
treason In the eyes Of those abolition organs
which prefer disunion with emancipation to re-
union with slavery. Our support Of the ad-
ministration may appear reasonable to the
abolition orators who CRY "God bless Abraham
lincoln" in one breath, and denounce the Pre-
sident as "tortoise" and ''slave" in the next.
Our incorporating adherence to those great
principles which made this country glorious in
the past, and which, we trust, will secure for us
still more glorious future, is doubtless deemed
reasonable by all enemies Of the country.
North and South. Still, il brought to book, we
doubt whether these fanatics could sustain their
charges Of treason against US upon such grounds
as devotion to the Union, the administration
and the best interests of the country. There
are few facts in regard to the HERALD, how
ever, which cause our contemporaries to attack
us so bitterly and so frequently, and which con-
stitute the real basis of their clamors about our
horrible treason. These few facts are as fol,
lows:-- -
First, the circulation Of the HERALD far ex-
ceeds that of any of its contemporaries. Our
ejaculation was always very large; but since
this war broke out it has been nearly doubled.
In spite Of the increase In price, made necessary
by the rise in paper, we are now printing moro
~ AnCo n,,- So
sue sometimes reaches as high as one hundred
and thirty and one hundred and thirty-fve thou
sand copies per day. We are also publishing q
worry cheap edition Of the WEEKLY HERALD, with
al the news Of the week, and with several spe-
cial departments of great interest The price
Of the WEEKLY HEEALD Is only 65 dollars
year, and before the Presidential election in
1864 ih circulation will, from present indica-
tions, surpass that Of all the other weekly pa.
pers of this city combined. A knowledge of
these facts makes our rivals Jealous, envious
and spiteful. The Tribune especially suffers
by comparison with the HERALD, and the sight
of his rapidly decreasing subscription list
which will soon fall below zero, and Is at that
suggestive point already-adds fresh fire to
poor Greeley's fanatcism, and instigstes him to
those attacks upon us which do him more injury
than he imagines, and which always result in q
noticeable increase of our subscriptions. Our
superiority in circulation, then, is one of the
features of our horrible treason.
Secondly, the advertising patronage Of tho
HERALD is more than double that of any Of our
contemporaries. This IL, of course, the legiti-
mate consequence Of our superior circulation,
aud renders our treason all the more horrible.
Advertising costs money, and when people
spend money they desire to receive as much for
1t as possible. These truisms are particularly
applicable to times like these, when business
men feel the pressure of the war and the taxes,
and housekeepers know to their sorrow that
every article Of use, comfort and luxury has ad-
vanced in price Now, an advertisement in the
HERALD reaches three or four times as many
people as an advertisement in any other paper.
Therefore the HERALD is the best advertising
medium. 1t is not at all singular, under these
circumstances, that we should receive the great
est advertising patronage, and that the people
generally. and business nen especially, should
avoid the other papers aud concentrate their
advertisements upon the HERALD. This Is bad
for our contemporaries, and We pity them; but
II Is in accordance with the inevitable
laws Of trade, and cannot be prevented. In
Decd 90 great is the demand for space In our
advertising columns that We arc constantly
cramped for room to publish the news OF the
day in our double sheet, and shall be compelled,
before long, to issue . triple, or perhaps .
qusdruple sheet In order to accommodate our
customers. This will increase our horrible
treason In the same proportion; but the fault
rests with tho intelligent public, and not with
tho HERALD. II II b reasonable to publish
more advertisements than our would-Le rivals,
We are afraid that We shall be guilty Of this
treason for oil time to come.
Thirdly and lastly-for the preseot-the
HERALD publishes the news, political and mill