The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-07

and the Calhoun pampbleteers covered him
with abuse Then we had Leggett with his
pamphlets--a great man as greatness went,
but gone into oblivion with all that he did
Where are those sable editors" and powerful
writer's" and ''moulders of public opinion ?"
And what do we think Of their work as
we read 1t in the yellow, dusty volumes
of the old libraries. All passed away
their rhetorie--their screams--their denun-
ciations-their fears for the party-their
hopes for the country-their dreams
and agones. All gone, with scarcely a sur
vvor. A few years ago Gales and Seaton
went from the stage carrying their immortal
National IntegIge,scer with them over the
Lethean waters The other day Prentice fol-
lowed them. Far off in Alabama we see A.
II. Stephens trying to revive the past. Here
we have Weed, now reduced to stories and
fireside chat, and Bryant, with his Greek and
English ballads, and Greeley, with his tariff
recolIections of fifty years ago, trying to build
a party ont of the bones OF Henry Clay. So
have we read of gray and blind old minstrels,
Will tuth cICNhiuh hW 10, o'vnhS uuuCh tuO
damp arches of baronial castles, chanting of
the wsrs and loves OF another century to
knights and maidens who never hearkened to
the strain, but sent the servants out to give
them largess, and meat and wine.
The HERALD came in its time. II was
q revelation, and fOated over the skies like
the cloud that was no larger than a mans
hand. Or, to use an apter illustration, was it
as the grain of mustard seed that was cast
into the earth. What was the HERALD?
Simply an idea, and as ideas have ruled the
world ever since Moses climbed up shining
Sinai and wrote ten of them on his tablets of
stone, 80 the HERALD has come to be ruler
in the world. What was this idea? To print
. newspaper that told the truth. To fear no
man and no party. To pay cash and receive
cash. To destroy the devil credit. To treat
politicians as they were, mere hucksters in the
market place eager to sell their eggs and but
ter. To be one with the wishes, hopes and
fears of this city and this nation, To aid in
their advancement, rejoice in their triumphs
and mourn over their sorrows. To grow with
them and go with them, hand in hand, ally,
champion, counsellor and friend. To war upon
sham, cant, corruption and false pretence-in
use every agency of science and nature in
securing the world for news-to make the
HERALD of to-day the perfect history of the
world Of yesterday-and above all things, to
worship Truth and serve ii with courage and
the one thing altogeth err
lovely in the eyes of God and precious to
The history of this work is written
in the history of the republic. It is the history
of the republic. The mustard seed which was
despised in its day by the surrounding gourds
and weeds and rank newspaper growths has
grown to be mighty tree, and the birds of
heaven cluster in its branches, and the people
gather under them, and wherever the flag of
our country floats, upon land ar sea- the citizen
Of America sits under it and fiSnN in the NEW
YORK ,SERALD the latest chapter Oh the history
of theVorld. II
Looking back upon this growth, we find in
the HERALD the full frution of the centuries.
Here the old party continues his newsletter
chronicle ofgossip, town news aud court new
and the small chat Of the coffee houses. Here
writers as graceful as Addison and Steele and
johnson contribute essays on literature and
art as brilliant as were ever read in the pages
of the Rambler or the Spectator Here ''Bru-
tus' or ''Publcola" comes with his complaint
or his criticism, and we give him a hearing.
Here essayists as brilliant and terrible as
''Jnnius" make war upon political corruption,
protected by that mighty arm of the HERALD,
which no pillory and no prison has ever
stricken down. Presidents no longer hire their
Blair's and Ritchies, like literary footpads, to
lie in wait and assal their foes. They do their
duty like Grant, and the HERALD stands in front
and defends them. When they fail as Pierce or
johnson did,, the HERALD turns and rends
honor and courtesy and good-breeding and
kindliness attend it. When combat is neces-
sary it remembers the old knightly maxms,
and makes chivalric war. The Cheap Jacks
may cry from their carts that all who buy
from another cart are liars and villains and
slaves. The HERALD, conscious OF its strength
and integrity, shows courtesy to sll-kindli-
ness, good humor and frendiness. This must
be law to our modern journalists. Nothing
comes from defamation and scandal Why
should men who write for the press assail each
otherp The world is large enough for all, and
the same ethics should be established that we
observe among other professions.
The HERALD Of the future would be an 10
teresting speculation. The law of its life is
progress When we stand still we die Now
steam and lightning do Its bidding, and its
ministers 60 over the world with the devotion
fearlessness and zeal that are recorded Of thu
followers Of the Society Of Jesus. Is it an.
marvel that the HERALD should penetrate