The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-21


York and Father Point or between London
derry and London. Upon the correction of
this mistake, no doubt, our ive-twcntlos will
advance in value again TO sixty-nine and an
eighth, at which they were being very briskly
taken before the Moravian's incorrect teie-
grams were received in London.
The British Press and the Rebel Loan.
No fact of the present time has been more
painfully apparent than that the press Of Great
Britain exhibited toward this country in the /
late war malignity Of spirit and height OF
Misrepresentation and SANDER without parallel
in history. We see now, in the developments
of the history of the rebel cotton loan, the |
special occasion Of it That press was bought. |
The rebel loan was "watered" for the special |
benefit of the men ready to prostitute their
pens to this bad purpose. II was declared that
the loan was larger than It really was, and the
with liberal hand to the men who could make
British public opinion. Z was the usual
modern bride. It would have been immense
in the event Of success. II was worthless in
view Of failure, and so the London Times was
worked terribly that Spence and the rest might
secure their price. This stimulated the attempt
to do what might be done to break us down;
and now the bitterness Of disappointment
stimulates the Times to continue its villifca-
ton of us as people.
Exactly this kind of attempt to influence the
opinion of the world is common in English
history; only it sgenerally the British govern
ment that employs and directs the British
press and pays the bride. Its brides are
places, or money-whatever 1t Is convenient to
give or will be taken; but one of Eng.
lands great powers in her disputes with other
nations is a purchased press She uses sue
cessfully great armies and monster nayies
and not less successfully the mighty mighty forces Of
the pen and the tongue. Wherever one fails
or is not compatible another is always at hand.
Through the press, as the great so-called lever
of public opinion, she has been enabled to
exercise an influence that has in its day over
turned thrones and changed the fate Of nations.
Through the power of the tongue, adeptly
and ably employed, she has created that public
opinion which has been 80 considerable lever
in the affairs of the world. These latter means,
skilfully used, did more to place Napoleon l.
in false position before the world than Russia
or Waterloo-a position so powerfully fas-
tened upon him that half a century of
enlightenment has failed to fully rein
state him. By assiduously writing him
down as "Corsican adventurer," "brutal
and overbearing tyrant" "usurper and
blood-thirsty wretch" he was held up as an
race, and stigma fastened upon him, which, in
some respects, may never be entirely oblit-
Grated. Even Walter Scott was induced to
decry this man, sprung from the people; and
another writer, otherwise unknown to literary
history, one Goldsmith, to indite the most
abominable and indecent libel against him and
his family ever permitted 10 rest upon the
shelves of library.
The same course, adopted In. the case of
Louis Napoleon, signally failed and after
sneering at and scorning the ''madman of
Ham," the especial policeman Of London"
John Bull has been forced to swallow his
words, however indigestible, and recognize the
'nephew of his uncle" as the brother in royal
ty To the Queen, the maker of treaties of amity
and concord with his own nation, and the very
obvious bugbear of the present British people,
despite their boosted power and their con-
tinued arrogance. Still holding fast to the
error of his way, John is now seeking to lower
our position among nations by traducing and
slandering us before the world; and the means
T. q. A.
Unwilling and unable to meet us In q fair
way, England resorts to her threadbare scan
dals of brutality" "cupidity" and "extrava-
gance;" but the world is grown too enlight-
ened to be affected by such efforts The libels
of the London Times, the Post the Herald and
the Quarterly fall dead. Men reason and Judge
from the facts as presented by history, and are
not as formerly, BIASED and prejudiced by the
vain rantings Of INSCRIPTIONS writer's. Punch
has taken the cue and honorably retired from
the unequal contest. Let the remainder of
British HnerGtaw take the hint and abstain
from further making themselves ridiculous and
their country a scorn and . by-word among
men. The American nation sees before It .
future Of prosperity when the British sun shall
have set forever on Its boosted possessions, and
the British foreign policy be no longer Of i'm
portance among nations and peoples.
JUAREz WoN'r GIVE UP THE SHR.-The re-
port that President Juares had removed his
government from Chihuahua TO Ell Paso has
been accepted in some quarters as an indica-
ton that he was about to evacuate Mexico and
leave everything plain sailing for the would-be
Emperor This, however, by no means follows.
Juarez is not going to give up the ship. He
declares that he does not intend to abandon his
country or his country's cause. The friends Of
Macmillan, Of course, represent the appear
ance Of the republican President on the frontier
Of the United States az . virtual renunciation
Of his claims; but they may be grievously mis-
taken. II is very likely that Macmillan will