New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-13
mr. WALTER or TIE LONDON TIMES.

According to rumor, our London correspondent in
forms US. Mr. Walter the principal proprietor Of Tie
London Times, who is at present in this country on
visit. was very much Disguised ct the line Of policy
nursued by the managers Of the paper during tie last
two wears of our war; And good reason had be 70 be
co. for nothing perhaps in the whole history Of that
once nowerful journal has done so much toward dam
aging its reputation and weakening its Influence as
the bluuders it committed in dealing with the great
American Rebellion. fthe matter had not been one
of inomentous importance, involving issues vital TO
the nations existence and the cause OF liberty ana
nrocress those blunders would have been simply
amusing: but when it is remembered that there was
something more than bundering-that there was de-
lberate purpose ard persistent effort, TO strengthen
the hands Of the men who were madly STRIVING 10
destroy this free Government, the course OF The Tunes
toward US during our troubles cannot be easily forgot
ten. and ought not to be readily pardoned But not
only was The Times unjust to the North: 1t was I'M
kind to its own countrymen. II the friendship OF
America is worth anything to England-and who can
deny that it i;-then journal that pursues course
whose direct and inevitable effect is to exacerbae the
feelings Of the Americans and to fan on ooth SIDES
the flame of national animosity is doing serious In
jury to the British people.
With regard to Mr.. Walter, We are not told
whether he was all along, during the period named
Disguised with the position taken by bis paperi or
whether his disgust came With the Close Of the war;
whereby The Times stamped false prophet. II
the former, it Is somewhat surprising and it is much
to be regretted that this gentleman should have been
poweress to control the organ of which he owns so
considerable part. With this, however we have
no wish to trouble ourselves; it is exclusively his
business; and as he is now on American soil, we de-
sire to avoid anything which might be construed into
an unjust reflection upon him. He has come hther,
it is surmised to see things with his own eyes, and
to Judge for himself. A very praseworthy STEP in-
deed only taken rather late in the day for any good
to arise from it in the settlement Of the differences
between the North and the South, or in the promoting
of kindly international feeling between America
and England so far as these things depend on the in
fuence of The Times. We hope Mr.. Walter will en-
10Y himself while here; and we could wish that he
had been accompanied by those whose obstinacy
caused him to be much disguised, in order that
they might for themselves the grand spectacle Of
free people doing battle with noble and irrepres-
sbe courage to defend and the ark of their hber
ties, and TO transmit intact TO their children the
precious inheritance received from the heroes and
statesmen of the Revolution. To Englishmen, whose
wont it is to boast of their attachment to free nstitu
tons, aud their pride in constitutional government,
such spectacle could hardly fail to prove extremely
reassuring. We can hardly believe that the men who
principally shape and control the course of The Times
are so completely under the dominion of those doc
trnes which make national greatness and power to
consist mainly if not exclusively, in material pro-
gress as to be altogether insensbe to the elevatng
influences of the spirit which is abroad in this country
at the present time, struggling for supremacy that
aims at securing for man, without distinction OF race
color, condition, the full enjoyment of his right
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"