The New York herald., 1864-06-27
The Cerrcptioa and ImbeciiIty OF the
Party Press.


becility Of the party press. The partisan
papers make Immense prelensiops to honesty
aud TO wisdom; but the people begin to appse-
| ciate these pretensions at, their proper value.
| Facts are much moro convincing than prJfes-
sions; and the facts, as developed from day to
day, conclusiveiy prove that the party press ID
completely rotten with corruption. and equally
! unreliable as the organ OF as tie leader OF
Amerc sn public opinion.
As soon as tbe war was fairly under way the
administration suppressed the Day Bool and
Neacs, in this city, and other democratic papers
throughout the country, and also denied to such
journals as the Journal Of Commerce the right
OF distribution through the United States mails.
That this was done ut the instance of, and
for the purpose Of bcnefiting, republican
journalists is undeniable. We have no doub.
that If the democratic party ever gets the upper
hand again we shall find democratic Journalists
calling for the suppression of the Tribune and
Post. II is thus that partisan editors seek to
avenge themselves upon each other. They have
| no idea Of the dignity OF the profession which
| they disgrace They use the liberty Of the
! press as cloak to excuse their excesscs and
| Righteousness. Tley have no regard for the
| truth. Their favorite style Of argument is
| abuse and misrepresentation. In short. they
| appear to exert every effort to transform news.
| papers into public nusances: and they are all
the more to be detested because they generally
| manage, in one way or the other. to make
their living out,of the public treasury.
| The other day Mr.. Thuriow Weed, who
| gained his experience of this class Of papers
| while conducting partisan sheet called the
! Albany Eve,siaq Journal came out ip letter
| donouncing the corruptions Of the Post and tie
| Tribune. The Post defended itself by counter
| accusations against Weed; so that we felt it
only just to accept each Of the parties at the
others valuation. But the Pecksniffian assump-
tion of injured innocence on the part OF The
Post was exceedingly amusing. II took Heaven
and Old Abe to witness that il had never.
never, never been connected with jobs, or con-
tracts, or the profits from any Office. What
response Heaven made TO this appea! we know
not; but Old Abe responded by removing Mr.
Henderson, the publisher of the Post. from
the Office of Navy Agent. While Bryant was
| twanging his lyre and while Goodwin was
invoking the Muse Of History, in walked an
officer with this order Of removal, and another
officer followed with warrant for the arrest
Of Mr. Henderson on charge Of defrauding
the government This was a truly dramatic
situation; but Bryant and Goodwin try to
brazen it out They still claim that their
hands are clean, whether Henderson's are or
not. But If there were ever any deficits in the
balance sheets of the Post certainly Mr..
Henderson, the publisher, had 10 make UP
the amount; and If the charges against bin arc
true, he certainly took that amount from Uncle
Sans till, and Bryant & Goodwin shared
in the profits ofthe little transaction. What
position for poet What horrible dilemma
for historian But poets and historians
have no business to belong to partisan paper.
The poet shousa -oar uaolt and feed on air,
instead of feasting at the public crib. The
historian should diet on old books and manu-
scripts, instead of making extracts from the
public treasury. We express no opinion upon
Mr. Hcnderson's guilt or innocence, in accord
ance with the request in his published note;
but we must say that II he be proven guilty
Messrs. Bryant and Goodwin. the editors Of the
Post, will be placed in peculiarly perplexing
predicament.
Poor Greeley, Of the Tribune. also came out
with card, denying Thurlow Weeds asser-
tions. This card was rather equivocal.
He stated that Weed and he had quar-
relied because one Of them had de.
termined to use his politics as
means Of pecunary advancement. or
course everybody supposed that this referred
10 poor Greeleys gun contracts and inter
preted IL as another "Just Once" confession.
This very natural idea seems TO have disturbed
Greeley greatly: for he immediately wrote
another card. explaining and qualifying the
former. We believe as much Of this card as
| we do Of Ben Woods statement Mat Fernando
Wood has nothing whatever to do with the
| Daily Meas. In brief, we do not believe
word Of H. True, poor Greeley makes sort
or affidavit 10 the assertions OF bis letter: bat
the affidavit lacks both the United States stamp
aud the stamp Of honesty. For example, poor
| Greeley calls our erpose OF his contract con-
nections "silly joke On the contrary. il
was no joke at all, and especially not for
Greeley. Jokes are not usually founded upon
and supported by official documents, as our
| eSpose was. When we joke we joke; but our
remarks upon the gun contract business are
made OF sierner stuff Again, poor Greeley
| declares that neither he nor his partners
ever "had any shadow OF interest in any
gun contract whatever Now, what nom
sense this is, when the Official copy Of
gun contract, endorsed " "Ifibvne," is
on file at the War Department, and when
this aud other documents, including notes
from Snow, Army and Wikeson, OF the
Tribune, have been officially transmitted TO
Congress, and are now ofhcially published.