The New York herald., 1864-09-19

very important law in which all and masters
os vessels interested, wen. into eject on tho lst
Instant copy or tie law viii be found maritime
oolumrs Of to-day.
A full report d the loss Of the snip Frank Pierce
of Portsmouth n. h OF Cape Horn will be found among
our shipping Intelligence.
The Disgracefui Dishonesty OF tho Par
tisan Press.
The Tribune and the World especially, and
the other partisan papers generally are dis
gracing themselves, the profession and the
American people, by the reckless dishonesty
and malisnancy with which they are conduct
ing this political campaign. The Eatonswill
Gazette is outdone; the Billingsgate ishwomen
are surpassed. No respectable person Of any
party can read these partisan papers without
blush The most open and palpable false
hoods, the most shameless personalities and the
umns Of these journals. All restraint seems to
be removed. Instead OF sound argument and
earnest discussion Of great principles. the par
tisan editors substitute vulgarity and black
guardism, and hope to gain votes by calling
each other ''liars" in the Tribune or dirty
dogs"i in the World
We take the Tribune and World, as represen-
tatlves of the two extremes of politics, in order
to Illustrate this disgusting style of partisan
warfare. We find the Tribune denouncipg Nc
Clellan as peace candidate in one column
and IS a war candidate in another
column. We find it asserting that Mcclellan is
a coward, and that he always ran away from
the battle 1eld when the 1ribane's own report
ers disprove these statements We find it quot
ing from McClellanls West Point oration and
deliberately attributing that quotation to Sena-
tor Douglas We fnd it denying that Daniel
Webster made q certain speech, when that
speech was commented upon in its own columns.
We find it speaking Of "the Lincoln flag" in
stead of the American flag. We find it stating,
on the same page. that Mcclellan stands upon
tho Chicago platform and that he does not
stand upon the Chicago PLATFORM that his let
ter of acceptance has improved his prospects
and has ruined him; that Lincoln is an honest
man and that be purchases support with offices.
We 6nd it reviving the worn out slander about
McClellan's spades, when the history Of the war
has proven that earthworks are indispensable.
We find it declaring that Mcclellan offered his
sword to the rebels, hid guns and ambulances
and sent the rebels word where to find them,
and lost battles because be had agreed with
jeff Davis to lose them. What language can
sufficiently rebuke such unparalleled dis
honesty and malignancy as this' What honest
man can subscribe for such . paper as the Tri-
bueep
When we tura to the other extreme and look
at the articles Of the World, the case is scarcely
any better. With an amount Of stupidity and
ignorance beyond comprehension the Bohe-
nians of the World seem to think that the
proper way to help Mcclellan is to sneer at
and abuse General Grant, the greatest military
genius this country has produced. We do the
democrats the justice to say that they have
sensSenough to see the Worlds error, and to
regret is; but Belmont and Barlow, who own
and have charge Of the World, do not prevent
it. Whether or not they design to injure
Mcclellan in order to further some revolu-
tonary scheme We will not decide; bat that
they are injuring him by every attack upon
Grant is selfevident They injure him also
by undertaking to prove that he never made
mistake, never lost battle and never failed,
when the truth is that Mcclellan did fail on
the Peninsula, through the faults Of Lincoln,
Stanton and Halleck, although he more than
redeemed himself at Antistam. He failed also
iu not managing the administration and
bending them to his purposes when be had
the power, as General Grant has done
In any comparison between Mcclellan and
Grant the former must suffer as a military man.
for Grant Is in many respects hi, superior.
But Mcclellan has merits of his own which
cannot be fairly overlooked, aud when We
come to compare him with Lincoln the latter
will be by no means complimented. In this
gross error Of abusing Grant to aid Mcclellan
the World is unrivalled; but in founess Of Ian
guage and facility Of falseboods upon minor
matters it is quite equalled by the Tribune.
II the disgraceful dishonesty Of the partisan
press were reprehensible upon no other ground,
we should feel justified in rebukiDg it because
Of the disgrace it casts upon the profession Of
journalism, which ought to be and will be the
highest and noblest Of oil the professions. The
American people are too shrewd not to under.
cers. They know that il Mcclellan were an
angel Of light or . second Washington the
Tribune would continue to berats him with the
same violence II be ran for Office upon the demo-
cratic ticket They remember that 10 his day
partisan papers did attack Washington in the
same base spirit. On the other hand, they are
certain that II Tie Chicago Convention had
nominated an open secessionist, Of the very
worst personal character, the World would
have supported him, a. the regular nominee,
with the same enthusiasm now displayed in
regard to Mcclellan. Consequently the peo-
pie will net believe anything they read in such
papers any more than an intelligent juryman