New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-03
tenacious NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS

TENACIOUS NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS
Perhaps no class of men did more during our civil
war to misead the English people as to the state OF
things in this country and to encourage that portion
of the British press whose sympathies were with the
cause Of Secession, than the newspaper correspond
ents in America of two or three of the principal Lon
don journals. The war is over; the ialsehoods are
exploded; the propheses have been falsihed-ali Of
them; but still the creatures are at their dirty
work." trying to give currency and weight to the
most monstrous lies and the most absurd and I'M
probable tales about matters in this country. Here
specimen of the handwork Of one Of these yeracous
chronclers-" our own correspondent" of The London
Tslegraph whose letters dated from New York:
should call your attention fact which creates some
apprehension here namely that the negroes are ar form
ne In regiments and being drilled nghty-here in this city
mean Thcy we're veTy quiet and in their first meetings
but somehow tie movement became known, and now they
attend 10 the subject more openly 1t is deemed rather
menacng turn OF affairs this assembling Of the b9cks anu
is feared the election time they may be called upon 70
play an unpleasant part in the programme The ponce are
watching the negroes narrowly but the blacks have TIE conn
oescd until through some overt act they sa incur the dis
pleasure Of the and then struggle WI n9nOts,s axe
riots should have served warning to the Eadi
cal advisers OF the negroes; but they are incapable
arouse people TO dreadful acts through the excitement
attendant upon the violence which must ensuc the moment ne
throughout the North and Westand in fact, in many Of
the southern ccste negroes have been armed and organ
lied and that another civil they toll letOose
against al opposcrs Radical rule. That such turn OF AZ
fairs quito possible may readily conjecture from the
angry threats made both sides and II is 10 be regretted that
weapons should have been placed IN the hands Of such IRE
sponsbc parties Decidedly the prospects OF the future OF TINS
nation are the promising all the since the
pie Of the South fast becoming Disguised and 10 all APP
pearancc are TO be driven to another war
Liars ought not only to have good memories; they
need measure othe constructive
faculty by means of which an air of verismilitude
is impaired to the CARNATIONS of lively fancy. Our
own correspondent" Of The Telegraph is evidently de-
cient in this faculty otherwise he would never have
committed the bunder Of representing the conspira-
tors to whom he alludes attending more openly
to their military preparations after the movement
in which they were engaged became known" and
the parties had consequently fallen under the special
surveillance of the police. Yet it is from such au-
thortes as this correspondent that large portion OF
the British public derive their information of the state
of parties and the movement of politics in America
What wonder is it that the dispositions OF the En-
gsh press on American matters are generally so en-
lightened and so profound