Year: 1871

the shore compared 70 the vast sea OF charity
and love and gentleness in which they all
become merged and mingled together.


The discovery of the art Of printing In the


fifteenth century proved TO be tho forerunner
of religious regeneration and liberty and in
the present nineteenth century another giaut
progress is marked out by the New YORK
HERALD in aiming, by the publicity of the
sermons Of every variety Of creed, to crush
out those dissensions and jealousies which
clog the onward march of broad and pract-
cal Christianity. In fulfilling this, its destiny,
the HERALD goes hand In hand with the
genius Of progress and humanity and elevates
the press to unprecedented sublimity by max
ing |! the handmaid for healing the wounds
which jealousy and sectarianism have inflicted
on the churches and welding them all into
one grand and undivided democracy OF faith
and an imposing manifestation Of the most
sacred impulses of humanity, in which, as in
society and the daily intercourse of life,
differences OF opinion may well go hand in
hand with reconciling faith in one aud the
same destiny aud one and the same here
after.


The Trombone and its old blower, of course,
take offence at our catholcity. Its narrow
ness and crookedness are rebuked by the wide
and straight comprehensiveness of scope
which the HERALD assigns to Christianity and
the press, and it wriggles and winces. Were
wc disposed to indulge in an unchristian vein
of thought we could well say that this is the
natural tribute it offers to our greatness. We
would rather see, however, late as it is the
poor old Philosopher repent, lay down his
tariff shovel and partisan hoe, and fall in
under our banner of faith and charity in the
great march of progress of the age. The
Trombone must feel, on reflection, that in
attempting to bite at the HERALD it bites
against file, and that it only stultifies itself
in its unceasing efforts to belttle the power of
the press as symbolized in the worldwide


We are taken to task for making inter
viewing famous, just as we have been
for being the first to descry and build up
the renown of Bismarck, for giving to
to the world the thoughts of an Antonelli or
the reflections of an ex-Emperor in exile.
Even the Pope himself has shown how
thoroughly his clear, comprehensive intellect
has caught the spirit of the time by earnestly
desiring an opportunity which illness for the
moment defeated of giving his thoughts on
the present position of things through the
New YORK HERALD to the world. Where
No Ahoc &c
or Indifferent, as may be-if the press did not
give publicity to their doings, and if in the
days both Of triumph and reverse they were
not interviewed by our writers, and their in
most ideas laid bare before the judgment seat
Of public opinion? In attaining pre-emi-
nence above all other contemporaries, either
in the New World or the Old, in this great
mission Of making the press the most faithful
daguerreotype OF the public men and events of
this century, the HERALD is simply fulfilling
the same great destiny in the realms of his
tory as by its publication of sermons it ac-
complishes in the sphere Of Christianity. 1t
is by being true to this great purpose that the
HERALD has become the great tug to carry in
the opinions of the world and raised the
power of the press to such height that even
the Trombone, with its meagre kilograms and
paucity Of news, the result of enforced econ
omy, is compelled to recognize that we are
one Of the great newspapers of the present
and future.


Why, this very morning we give to the
Trombone and all the other newspapers an
evidence of what journalistic enterprise is
that enterprise which in England is repre-
sented in those great metropolitan journals.
the London Times and the Telegraph. This
is to be found in the illustrated map of Paris
bombarded which we publish on another page
Its mathematical exactness, its graphic define
alton Of the progress and effect of the most
terrible bombardment known in the history
Of modern warfare, and its complete descrip-
tion of Paris the forts which surround the
city and the German batteries which invest
both, are conclusive evidences of that progress
siveness in journalism which the world appre-
ciates and the Trombone strives vainly to
initiate.


Our illustrated Map of Paris Bombarded.


The vivid pen pictures of the progress and
effect of the bombardment of Paris which we
have received from our corps Of correspondents
within the besieged city, and with the investing
army have enabled us to present to the readers