From the above analysis, we can see that the freedom of speech was conveyed through the media of newspapers. The newspapers published on April 13^th, 1861 illustrates the North and South’s different focuses on the Civil War, as well as the various standpoints in terms of secession within the South. Moreover, the editors’ civil war in New York City disproved the overgeneralization of the Northern view as “Northern Aggression”. The freedom of press even had great influence on President Lincoln’s Emancipation and the progress of the War. However, it is not always good to have a large degree of the freedom, acknowledging the possibilities that journalists operating outside the realm of objectivity can promulgate falsehoods and half-truths.[1] To find the balance between the freedom of speech and the accuracy and truthfulness was and will still remain as an essential and a big challenge for the press industry.