We are Free-Traders, but not of the school of Calhoun, Jeff Davis, Franklin Pierce, and the National Era. We are Free-Traders just as we believe in the millennium.About the same time a New York publication, in the interest of the book trade, came out with a general charge of corruption against the Press, which was at once resented by the Tribune as utterly unfounded and without justification. It has been repeated with many variations frequently since, against one or another of the leading New York dailies, but whatever else may be said, it is a gratifying fact that no one has ever undertaken seriously to prove it, and that up to the present day there is absolutely no proof to support it. Dana, who always exercised the most perfect independence in commenting upon the acts of public men, was also always the most strenuous advocate of a free and untrammelled press, and did perhaps more than any other American to maintain its privileges undiminished.
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with him cannot be positively stated, but it savors strongly of his sententious style:
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