The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1865., [Electronic resource]

The mechanical improvements of the printing press of New York within the last forty years have not been as great as its falling off in moral tone and dignity during the same period. The old New York Spectator, the American, the Evening Star, were conducted with ability and decency, and might be considered fair representatives of a better era than the present. The sensational class of journals which succeeded them is answerable for much of the increased corruption and profligacy of public manners. No superiority of newspaper talent, even if it existed, could atone for this delinquency. We are not aware, however, even of any advance in talent, except the New York Tribune, undoubtedly the ablest of the New York journals, and, with all its fanaticism, a more civilized and humane journal than most of its contemporaries. It has been, at least, consistent in its course on the slavery subject; and we have more respect any day for an old and honest enemy than the pretended friends of former times, who have proved themselves friends for pelf and not for principle, and who are as eager now to cut our throats for our money as they once were to behaver us with their adulation.