Speaking generally, the newspaper literature of 1860 exhibits as much information, and more talent than can be found in modern empty books with gilt edges, vellum, and morocco. The Editors of the London Journals, with a few base exceptions, nobly use their opportunities of directing public opinion. No such vile journalism exists in this country as can any day be found in the _New York Herald_, a one, or two cent daily paper, owned and edited by the _black mail levying_ vagabond, and fugitive from _Scotland_, _James Gordon Bennett_; a paper which does its best to fan the flame of discord, by abusing “the Britishers.” The patriotic _Times_ quotes the lying _Herald_ as if it were a reliant organ of the Americans, ignoring the fact that this notorious Print is estimated in New York as the Satirist was in London. It is curious that two persons, of unenviable fame, the Scotchman _Bennett_, and a Somersetshire man, _Richard Adams Locke_, both of whom I well knew in New York, in 1833, and who both left their country for their country’s good, are always described as “Americans.” The great Moon hoax, {38a} “Astronomical Discoveries” by Sir F. Herschell, at the Cape of Good Hope, published in the New York Sun, was written by _Locke_, the degenerate Englishman, who the _Illustrated Times_ describes as an “American.” The _New York Era_, edited and owned by _R. A. Locke_, and _J. G. Bennett’s Herald_, appeared in 1834. _Arcades ambo_! Arcadians both, suspicious characters both, these rival “American” Editors abused each other in no measured terms. I have always held it is the worst crime the intellect can commit, to edit such vituperative Journals, and it is indeed well for the community such worthless prints are few in number. Obscure indeed, is the mental vision of those Editors who cannot discern the iniquity of _misleading_, instead of _leading aright_ public opinion, who with pens of ready writers, strive to make the worse the better reason; and who viewing all subjects through the spectacles of Party, tell us that “white is _not_ white, _nor_ black so _very black_.” Talk of the _Times_ as the LEADING Journal of EUROPE! If daily to utter unblushing falsehoods, and odious calumnies, knowing them to be such, constitutes _leadership_ in Journalism, in this sense [à la HEENAN, the Irish American Bouncer] the _Times_ is “_The Champion_ of the World.” {38b}