Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1876-03-14
Spirit of Jeaersoll.
TUESDAY MORNING. MARcH II, 1876.
OUR SPECIAL NEW YORK LETTER.
NV YoRK. March / IS76

DeHF mr.. L"HoF: daTiog gwen you
birds>sye>view of the World, Tribune aud
Herald, lew words about the N Y.rTin;es
is perhaps in order. CBut let me say here,
by way of Parenthesis. that you made me talk
some bad grammar in my last letter.
This paper was established in 1851 as a
Free Soil Wing organ ny the late ismeated
Henry j. Raymond. He was both Journalist
and editor, equal to Dickens as a swif. re-
porter, and second only to Horace Greeley as
a crisp fOrcible political writer. In politics
he was a trimmer, but tried to do party work
decently and orderly. lie was sort of
Girondist after the war, and as the resolution
didn't go backward Raymond lost his iuflu-
encs and never regained it. His sudden
death left tho Times without head Jones'
the chief owner, called the stockholders
together. aud Hon. John Bigelow, late Min>
lister to Francs, and now our Democratic Sec
rotary of State, was chosen By virtue of his
distinguished abilities as Raymond : successor.
His moderation proved hutiul, for Southern
reconstruction was in full blast and a true
blue ThAd Stevens editor WAS tho only man
to make tho Times popular with the Repub-
lican party. Mr.. Bigeluw resigned in disgust.
Thus ono Louis Jennings, an English soldier
of fortune. whom Col. John H. Fellows, late
assistant Distriot Attorney, charged in a pub
lie speech with having beaten his wife, was
hit upon IS combining the requisite amount
OF radicG!ism aud newspaper experience to be
made editor. He has held The position Cor
several years. aud has proved himself the
most unmtigated rufiisn in doing the dirty
party work whom RadicAlisn. has yet brought
to the surface.
This scamp has had chcckered career.
and while he is COED writer he is utterly
Il Il l.
nsy; was attached to the stall of the I.oudon
Times; was sent over here by that paper to
succeed Bull Run Russell as its war reporter
came cut iu his letters as n full blown Con-
fcdcrEte sympathizer (tho London Times YOU
know was decidedly Southern 10 SYMPATHY :;
he pitched into the North, denounced the
Yankees, predicted tho destruction of the
Union, eulOsized Lee, jackson, johnson.
Davis, aud everything and everybody South
returned to London brought out n volume
there Il have hosrd) celebrating the views
contained in his letters; and finally lost his
place on the Landon Times. He turned VI
next in New York, and presto, the ardent
secession advocate becomes n malignant Rad.
ical aud p!iaut tool of the Republican party.
The conservatism of Raymond and the re-
sPeciabiIi;y OF Bigclow were qualities which
damaged tho n. Y. Times; the elastic ren of
the English adventurer was vastly preferable
to either Of them for the work in hand.
The Jennings methods have been public
SANDER aud brutal assault; defamation of
character and cumulative ingenuity in lying
au adven'urer's stake in the public interests,
(uamely: his salary regularly paid), and i'll
conceNied English sueers at TIE American peo-
pie, especially last year when the Concord
and Lexington Centenary celebration took
place, and Jennings dcrided the poetry,
laughed at the elrqucncc, and finding
nothing to admire even in the ryrotechnics.
When Car! SchuIz was in the United States
Senate he once declared in burst of admira
lion that this fellow was a master Of the art
Of Intrepid cumzisiiyS lying"
1t is reported that Jones, tie owCer of tho
Times, has grown tired of Jennings, and til at
he will soon be dismissed from the place which
he has disgraoed. The next congepial field
for this precious soldier of fortune would un>
doubtediy be tho Herald, aud 1 should not
be surprised if he is soon found mp to his
arnn-Pits in the uastest operations of Bennett 5
"Intellocsual Department"
Yours, &c,
PETER PoRCuPINB, JR.
p. S.-Since inditing the above, the rumor
hiss become an accomplished fact, and Jen-
niugs' occupation is gone I'm told he ro>
turns to England in few weeks.
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