Newspaper clipping of article from the New York Times titled Have we a Bourbon Among us? The article criticizes the newspaper, The European. Transcription: Have we a Bourbon Among us? We have watched with considerable interest the course of a weekly paper newly established in this City, called The European, published as well as edited anonymously, ?handsomely printed upon a sheet of sixteen pages, and professing to give ?ǣall the information that can be gathered in Europe and America of especial interest to Europeans in the United States, and to the inhabitants of the British North American P
Newspaper clipping of article from the New York Times titled Have we a Bourbon Among us? The article criticizes the newspaper, The European. Transcription: Have we a Bourbon Among us? We have watched with considerable interest the course of a weekly paper newly established in this City, called The European, published as well as edited anonymously, ?handsomely printed upon a sheet of sixteen pages, and professing to give ?ǣall the information that can be gathered in Europe and America of especial interest to Europeans in the United States, and to the inhabitants of the British North American Provinces. ? It is principally made up of extracts, skillfully made and accompanied by such comments as maybe needed to direct attention to the special point in view. The paper has a clear and distinct leading object, ?and so far as it can be gathered from the general character of its contents, this object is to present, in the worst possible form, all the worst features of political and social life in the United States. Every scrap that may record any unusual crime, poverty, suffering or other wrong; every editorial paragraph denouncing Slavery or any other evil that may appear in any of our journals; all official statistics of pauperism or crime; all complaints of bad laws or of inefficient executors of them; all exposures of corruption in public office, of breach of trust on the part of private persons, or of malfeasance anywhere; everything, in short, which may appear in any quarter, foreign or domestic, calculated to favor the belief that the whole country is in a state of anarchy and demoralization, is carefully transferred to the pages of the European. As a matter of course, it finds no lack of material. And it exhibits very great skill and ability in so arranging it all as to convey the lesson it is designed to inculate, that the American Republic is on the brink of dissolution, ?that foreigners of all classes should look upon it as a doomed country, and that emigratio
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