have won the splendid prize.  Mr. Greeley is not a great journalist.  He has regarded journalism rather as a disagreeable necessity of his vocation, and uniformly abandoned the care of it to others.  An able man generally gets what he ardently seeks.  Mr. Greeley produced just such a paper as he himself would have liked to take, but not such a paper as the public of the island of Manhattan prefers.  He regards this as his glory.  We cannot agree with him, because his course of management left the field to the Herald, the suppression of which was required by the interests of civilization.

The Tribune has done great and glorious things for us.  Not free, of course, from the errors which mark all things human, it has been, and is, a civilizing power in this land.  We hope to have the pleasure of reading it every day for the rest of our lives.  One thing it has failed to do,—­to reduce the Herald to insignificance by surpassing it in the particulars in which it is excellent.  We have no right to complain.  We only regret that the paper representing the civilization of the country should not yet have attained the position which would have given it the greatest power.

Mr. Raymond, also, has had it in his power to render this great service to the civilization and credit of the United States.  The Daily Times, started in 1852, retarded for a while by a financial error, has made such progress toward the goal of its proprietors’ ambition, that it is now on the home stretch, only a length or two behind.  The editor of this paper is a journalist; he sees clearly the point of competition; he knows the great secret of his trade.  The prize within his reach is splendid.  The position of chief journalist gives power enough to satisfy any reasonable ambition, wealth enough to glut the grossest avarice, and opportunity of doing good sufficient for the most public-spirited citizen.  What is there in political life equal to it?  We have no right to remark upon any man’s choice of a career; but this we may say,—­that the man who wins the first place in the journalism of a free country must concentrate all his powers upon that one work, and, as an editor, owe no allegiance to party.  He must stand above all parties, and serve all parties, by spreading before the public that full and exact information upon which sound legislation is based.

During the present (1865-6) session of Congress we have had daily illustration of this truth.  The great question has been, What is the condition of the Southern States and the feeling of the Southern people?  All the New York morning papers have expended money and labor, each according to its means and enterprise, in getting information from the South.  This was well.  But every one of these papers has had some party or personal bias, which has given it a powerful interest to make out a case.  The World and News excluded everything which tended to show the South dissatisfied and disloyal.  The Tribune, on the