Year: 1862




1t be done quickly. Not an hour ought to be
lost by delay.
The Herald, the Tribune and the Rove.


nue Cutter Henrietta.


We have not the slightest intention of enter
ing into any controversy with the Tribune upon
the subject of the suppression by that journal
and the Times of all mention of Lieutenant
james Gordon Bennett, Jr., and his revenue
cutter Henrietta, in the report of Commodore
Dupont and the letters of their correspondents
giving an account of the occupation of Fernan-
dina, Florida. We prefer facts to words and
we have all the facts on our side. Besides this,
we have had too long an experience with these
fanatical abolitionists and have too recently
seen General Cullom's official report cut, and
General Burnside's praise of Mcclellan un-
noticed by them, for us to expect anything like
common honesty, justice or fair dealing ON the
part of these journals and their editors.


To our charge that the Tribune and
Times had suppressed all mention of Lieu
tenant Bennett's cooperation in the taking q
Fernandina in their correspondents reports thu
Tribune replies that its correspondent "seut d
nothing Of the kind, and therefore it scould net
have suppressed it." This we do not belieyc;
but we make the correction as we have, Of
course, no means of ascertaining what was
or was not in the Tribunes report as originally
written. To our second charge-that the Tribune
and Times falsifed history by cutting out Of
Commodore Dupont's official report the words
relating to Lieutenant Bennett and his cutter
the Times says nothing which is a confession OF
guilt; and the Tribune says "we printed it (the
report) on Thursday last as we received it.
word for word as it appeared in the HERALD Of
that day, and there is not in it the least men,
ton of Mr.. Bennett or his yacht" This is
either a silly prevarication or deliberate
untruth; for Commodore Dupont's report, as
sent to the department and reprinted by
us, does mention the Henrietta, as may be
seen by reference to our files. The Iribune's
assertion that it does not shows very plainly
one of two things-viz: either that the 1ribune's
copy of the report was tampered with by the
1ribune's own correspondents before it reach
ed here-which is very improbable-or that q
portion of the report was purposely sup
pressed by the Tri.une editors, which we think
to be the true state of the case. We are con-
strained, therefore, to believe the Tribune
guilty of wilful meanness and deliberate falsi-
ication of official records, and to regard its do.
nial only as specimen of its characteristics
and usual style of explanation, retraction and
apology. iaF


The motive ofthis suppression, thus impliedly
acknowledged, was simply to keep from the
public any fact which would disprove the Oft
repeated slander Of the Tribune and Times that
we sympathizsd with JEFF. Davis and the rebels.
Greeley and Raymond knew very well that no
man would be silly enough to believe such
stories if it were announced that we had sent
only son to the wars for the sake of the Union;
that we had given q schooner, worth twenty
five thousand dollars, to the revenue service;
that we had donated three thousand dollars to
the Union Defence Committee, and that we
were paying, in advance of the government and
for the relief of its treasury, the we'll earned
wages of Union sailors If the Tribune and
Times had published, or even hinted at these
facts, where would have been their at
tacks on the HERALD! What would have
been their readers opinion of the past
libels of these slanderous sheets? How could
the abolition disunionist Greeley and the job
bing Raymond have withstood so odious, 90
disastrous comparisons How would any
future lying in regard to US be possibles All,
No! The Tribune and Times editors are too
much afraid Of the truth, both in regard to
those whom they slander and in regard to their
wicked selves, to risk putting anything so dan
gerous as truth in their newspapers. This was
the real point Of their suppression of Liouten-
ant Benefits name, and this was the real point
of our reply. Upon it the Tribune and Times
editors may impale themselves at their leisure.