It not only shouts with the largest crowd, according to the Pickwickian philosophy, but with a skill and daring that command admiration, it shouts simultaneously with opposite and contending crowds.

It is everybody's _Times_[1215]." Yet _The Index_ knew, and frequently so stated, that the _Times_ was at bottom pro-Southern.

John Bright's medium, the _Morning Star_, said: "There was something bordering on the sublime in the tremendous audacity of the war news supplied by the _Times_.

Of course, its prophecies were in a similar style.

None of your doubtful oracles there; none of your double-meaning vaticinations, like that which took poor Pyrrhus in[1216]." In short, the _Times_ became for the last year of the war the Bible of their faith to Southern sympathizers, and was frequent in its preachments[1217].
There was one journal in London which claimed to have equal if not greater knowledge and authority in military matters.