New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-08
THE RIGHTS OF TRUTH.

we nOIu HIHIf anu AT all tiil'S tDc IlPHt vi
every citizen to dissent pointedly and cmphati-
cally from the policy Of those charged with the
administration OF the Government. We hold
that each citizen may justifably expose their
errors, rebuke their shortcomings, and insist on
their return to the path Of loyalty and duty.
But we cannot consent that this right OF free
criticism shall be extended to cover the persistent
utterance Of naked forgcrics and fragrant false
hoods calculated to subvert the Government it.
self and whclm the country in ruin. When,
therefore, we open certain Of our cotempoIa-
ries and find them daily paradng and ba-
coming every stockjobbing rumor, every
traitOrous invention, every lying report, calcu
lated to unnerve the hearts and paralyzc the
arms of the defenders Of our National existence
when we see those journals day by day de-
nouncing our National authorities as false,
weak, deceitful, forsworn, worthless contempt
ble, &c, &c.-and all this not only with i'm
punity, but without thought Of arrest-we
are tempted to ask what they can mean by put
ting forth such implications as the following
from yesterdays Journal Of Commerce:
1--WE cannot imagine that, when newspapers are Sup.
pressed because Msy expose end eensure the poicri
course Of n. Adminisraon banks will be safe which
venture TO dispute the financial wisdom Of the same
Administration nor that any other portion of great
found too high 70 be reached by the arbitrary viii Of the
party. In power"
The journal which thus dilates is perfectly
aware that large majority of its cotcmpora-
ries published in this city are intensely and
openly hostile to the Federal Administration
that the organs of the French, English, Irish,
Scotch, and most if not all other of the foreign
fractions of our population, are either in SYM
pathy with the Rebels or at all events inimical
to our Executive and his poicy-and that
charges against the President and leading men,
bers of his Cabinet of usurpation, perGdy, false
hood, corruption, &c, &c, are here made and
reiterated almost daily. Over and again has
the Secretary of State been publicly charged
with completely in the forgery Of a Confederate
Navy Report, without the smallest foundation
for the charge in truth or FEASIBILITY. If this
is not freedom of the press, what would you
have?
Opening the last Daily Nens, we find its
leader beginning as follows:
When the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens Vice Pres.
ident Of the Southern Confederacy applied for per.
sonal interview with Mr. Lincoln and was CURLY and
arrcgantly denied admission within our lines upon
point Of etiquette, TA Daily Nsps expressed sorrow
and surprise that the Administration should have thus
dismissed opportunity to open path Of negotiation
that might have led TO an honorable peace. The Ad
minstration journals OF the time insisted that Mr.
ofo1ru f,v
purpose Of diplomatic nature and that il referred
exclusively 10 military question We advanced argu
ents to prove Do contrary and exposed the absurdty
OF the suI - - . Statesman Of such superior
abilities a. i. StDSass, and one Of such hiah official
rSae In The Confsncy. should have been dispatched
upon an exraa less important than tho disousson Of the
publish todsy recent correspondence between Jcfsr
son Davis and Gov. Vance Of North Carolina that
proves that we correct In estimate of Mr. Ste
phenss mission aud that further proves how obstinate