The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-18
A NEW ERA IN NORTHERN JOUR.
NALISM.

In OrQer 10 ascertain the exact trutu IL 70
gard to the South the New York Times has
adopted the excellent plan of sending gentle
men of character and ability through .tht
country on horseback, to see for themselves
the condition Of the people and to report
without fear or favor the result Of their OBJ
servations. 1t is hardly necessary to say that
this method will meet with the cordial appro-
baton Of the resident whites ofthe South, and
that it will be productive Of vast amount Of
good, always provided that the correspond
ents are Of the same truthful and impartial
character as Gar" whose letter in the New
York Times Of the 18th, we commend to cor
respondents generally, as model of fairness
and literary excellence.
! As a people we have nothing to fear from
| the truth; and hence, representatives Of the
Northern press who are gentlemen and not
mere penny line scribbers who have no
reputation to sustain, and who make up their
letters and dispatches according to order, will
always receive from the Southern people that
generous hospitality for which they are justly
noted, and will find no difficulty in arriving at
correct opinion upon the existing troubles,
their causes and their remedy.
One great trouble We have had to contend
with since the war, has been the scurvy class
of fellows who have been sent here as CORE
spondents by the journals Of the North and
West, men, as rule, without character, and
utterly bankrupt as to means, who, finding
nothing congenial in the gentlemen and de-
cent people Of the South, naturally drifted
into the society of the radical party-carpet-
baggers and negroes-and wrote from that
standpoint letters bitterly denunciative Of the
resident whites, bolstering up the corrupt and
thieving governments, and pouring con-
slant stream Of ingenious calumnies in the |
willing ears Of their readers.
This systematic misrepresentation was made |
the source of much profit to these charac-
terless scrlbblers, who did not hesitate to de-
mand large sums from the party and the men
they served We regret to say that even Dem
ocratic journals in the North have employed
this species Of disreputable human animal,
Ind We have heard Of Radicals here who have
received letters from Democratic correspond
'nts, demanding money tor letters in which
hey were neatly whitewashed, or for suppress
ne damaging facts
1t is against such organized journalistic
ssscality that we have had to contend in the
'ast, and it is therefore with feelings of in
ense satisfaction that We note such journals
S the Tribune and the Times sending to the
Outh gentlemen, in whose statemenfs re- |
ance may be placed, who will tell the truth
hough the Heavens fall and the Radical
arty be ruined forever.
To disabuse the minds of the Northern peo- ! i
le Of the erroneous opinions they have {
'rmed concerning the South, from reading
lie ingenious and long maintained misrep- i
sensations Of venal and prejudiced cor
'spondents, will be no easy matter. d
I'd we should be pleased, therefore, to see t,
her journals emulate the example Of the e
ew York Tribune and Times and send down "
nong the Southern people, as correspon- b
'nts, men OF character and social standing, b.
ho can see for themselves and give to the "
orld clear exposition of the true status of fr
e reconstructed States, the animus of their ii
ople, and suggest the surest and shortest W
ad towards peace and prosperity. nj
We need an army Of such men travelling
rough the South to contradict and give the D,
to such unblushing misrepresentation as m
ID place in the columns of the Inter- Ocean ci
d New York Republic. We