National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-16

will 60 down TO posterity linked closely
with the American Cyclopedia, and that
will be the only bright spot in his memory
when the grave shall have thrown the
mantle of charity over his manifold sinful
ness. AS a spy in the War Department
and in the armies of the West, he enjoyed
the hospitality and shared the camp COM
forts and discOmforts of numerous gallant
officers for the purpose of worming himself
into their confidence and reporting their
| delinouencies without acknowledging their
merits. AS journalist, so long as he at
tempted TO be honest and honorable, as he
did while employed in managing capacities
in New York and Chicago, he proved him
self to be most affect failure, but finally.
when, by a barefaced conspiracy, he be-
came the editor of the Sun, the bad pre-em-
inence which his natural tendencies SO well
qualify him to assume, was assured. At
| first, with the accustomed sycophanCy of
your true spy, he essayed to gain favor
with those in authority by the basest fiat
terry and by becoming the veriest lick
spittle in the land. But the administration
of President Grant, the object of his truck
ling adulation, rejected his attentions as
they deserved to be rejected, and instead Of
offering him the collectorship of the port of
| New York, did-was it mistake ?-tender
him position something like that of su
perior detective-a position thoroughly in
accord with his base nature, but neverthe-
less one that in the hands of gentleman
might be made respectable. Then began
the horrid development of this mans true
instincts. Consorting with thieves, burg
lars, discharged detectives, gamblers and
outlaws of every description, with female
lobbyists, with counterfeiters, or, what
is the same, men who dealt in counter
felt bonds, and employing corps of congo
NAL scoundrels, he dragged the cesspools
of scandal, waded through the mire of
doubtful rumors, and debased himself and
his associates to the level of the Paul Prys
who eat, sleep and live in the cutters
which border respectable society. All this
for the purpose of beginning respectable
people, and defaming their characters in
the putrid columns of his corrupt journal.
So true is this that the Sun is now looked
upon as mud machine of more than forty
jackass power, and is only powerful for
eVn, because, as fox hunters are driven from
the chase by the secretions of polecat,
mankind in general do not enjoy the fra
GRANGE which attaches to personal mention
in its columns.
As for the New York Herald, with its
horde of scribblers, amOngwhom, it is true,
there are a few able, but no conscientious
writers, but little is required 10 be said.
Rich, and consequently powerful, as that
journal is, enterprising to the extent of
brazen impudence in the collection of news,
and enjoying a patronage which should
enable it to rise TO the level of true indie
pendence, it has pursued varying and in
consistent policy which has simply led it
into the we'll beaten paths where Dana's
footprints have marked the way. There is
a general belief that it is incorruptible, and
that its great wealth surrounds it with
barricade against the advance of corrupt
greed in any form. This is a mistake. A
moments reflection will assure any
thoughtful man that the dissipated exam.
pie which constantly stands at its head, as
q false beacon-light, Turing the employees
and underlings of the Herald to moral
destruction upon the breakers of
voluptuous extravaganza, cannot fail
to lower the standard of its moral
ity. Controlled by within and caprice,
unguided by any fixed principle, and wholly
devoid Of reverence for honest public opin-
ion, it has lost its former sagacity, which
enabled it to sail before the popular breeze,
and the punishment which sooner or later
is visited upon immortality now threatens
it. 1t is no longer the custom to charac-
terize it as a. paper whose opinions are value
less; but one whose fortuitous impulses
'fshow which way the wind blows" but it
is now known as a journal whose columns
and influence are as freely purchasable as
the meretricIous favors of a common bawd.
1t is but few days ago that claim for
advertising, presented from its business
Office against the city of New York, was
rejected by Comptroller Green, whereupon
that officer became the object of violent
personal attack in its columns The claim
was for $25, OOO. The New York Graphic,
in its allusion to It, characterizes 1t as
simply an attempt to obtain money under
" false pretences Part of it is claimed to
/" be due for the publication in the Herald
" of one of Mayor Halls messages, which
was published as news, but charged to
/" the city as an advertisement at the rate
" of dollar line. Another part of the
I" claim is based upon fraudulent over
measurements of city advertisements.
" There is no possible doubt that for pre-
senting this claim Mr.. Bennett is liable
" to indictment by the grand jury. Such
IAN exhibition" continues the Graphic,
"of peculating operations and financial
" t'seSSe was enough to make old Mr. Ben
nett's monument blush and his bones
"writhe in pain. 1t is not strange that in
view of the possibility of this terrible ex-
"posure his hilarious spendthrift son found
it convenient 10 sail for Europe The
{" Herald stands before the community in
= the attitude of would-be plunderer of
:" the city treasury, with its arts and i'm
" plements discovered and held up to the
public gaze, just like burglar caught in
making a descent on a house with his
" false keys and dark lantern and jack and
jimmy and other tools in hand. No