Smyrna times., 1865-07-26
A Comparison.


The DEL Gazette has the following consoling
paragraph:
Hard on the Radical Newspapers. war
has proved hard on the old radical newspapers.
Before the war the New York Tribune boasted
of its prosperity, and rvaed the Herald in cir
culatiOn. Now it has dwinded down to a
third OF, fourth class establishment. In our
own midst two abolition papers have given up
the ghost within year, their slender remains
having been swallowed up by the depleted and
needy NAV OF the radical organ of the negro
suffrage party if this city.
Hard Oh the abolitiOnists, aint it? Ifnews-
papers are any sign of the strength of parties,
the Democratic organs show great weakness.
Take the list frOm which the Gdzette extracts
its consolation-a table of receipts of the sales
OF leading daily papers in New York city from
May GA to May '65: Herald, (abolition. J
Sl,O9j.OO0; Times do, S3oS, $50; Tribune,
do, 1882, 900; Sun, WAR $l5l 900; World,
tcopperhead) 100000; Express. (ccp 800,
600. The Daily News, (rebeD, is not given as
even an eight rate paper 1t will thus be seen
that while the abolitionists buy nearly $4,000
600 worth of the leading dailies of New York,
the copperheads buy not quite $3.50 OOO So
it is with the wceklies. Of this class nearly
all are tainted with aboltionism especially the
pictorials and religious papers Of the latter
one Or two Catholic Journals form the principal
exception. This is the way the case stands in
New York City, where the oOpperheads are to
the abohtlOnlStS as two 10 one. l. it any won.
der that draft riots aud other means of resi-
tence to national authority should be partcipa
ted in there exclusively by oopperheadS. and
where abolition and religious papers, (particu.
larry the IrjGNej fine houses and ''nirgcrs"
were saved from destruction and death by the
military power. How many of those rioters
could read newspapers and If they could.
how many Of them read any but the Police
Ga@ette?
With Philadelphia the case is similar. In
that city, of the leading daies the abolition.
lists have six to the copperhcals' one. And
that one returns the smallest receipts Of anv
daily in Philadelphia.
In our own State the abOlitionists have more
than twice as many newspapers as the copper
heads. While the former have five, the latter
have only two; and but one of them is sustain
ed by individual enterprise. The other is OWN
ed by the party and made to prosper by LegiS
lative work gotten up for its benefit Two
papers are as much as they can support. The
other party has had SIX and seven much of the
time
Ignorance is the electioneering document of
copperheads; where you find it you find preiu-
dice; to prejudice they make their appeaIs
The word : abolition" will do more for their
party than the best article on political doctrines
that could be written; the picture of Greeley
dining with niger would do them NOR,
good in an election campaign than all the
newspaper articles ever printed. 1t is to this
plan that the Southern leaders owed their suc-
cess IN firing the Southern heart. Accord
ng to rebel muster rolls now in the possession
)t the Government, only one om of ereyv fire
ii the rebel soldiers could write their name, :
10 these men the words above alluded was all
that was necessary to fire" them. And snre-
y they have great cause to fear negro eoual. |
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VIII the Gazette compare circuations with
Is abolition I'VE have adopted its phrase
leighbors? Ifso, we can see who has the
most depleted and needy maw."