Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-01-01
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OUR COURSE---OCR CAUSE.
Observation and our own experience
taught US long ago that an EDITORS life was
beset with at least a usual share Of difficult
ties and perplexities. To be successful in
his vocation, he must needs cater for great
variety Of tastes and dispositions. The
young, the middle aged and the oll---the
politician, the man of business, and the lit
erary mantle farmer, the tradesman, and
the mechanic---each, all, have in degree
their separate interests. with a correspond
ing diversity of views and tastes? Here,
perchance, is a subscriber of active temper
ament and intense feelings, who has devo.
ted much time and attention to politics, and
who conscientiously believes that the party
opposed to him are, either ignorantly or de-
signedly, plotting the ruin of the country
This belief added to the natural warmth of
his feelings, renders him more ready at once
to condemn his opponents, than to reason
with them. He reads with impotence and
and almost with contempt, any article which
treats them with common courtesy, or at
tempts to argue the point with them; and, it
may BE-, throws aside the paper with a men,
tai kick for it and. its editor for what he
would call their milk and water qualities
His next neighbor is quiet, intelligent man
"a good citizen, and as sound Wing as
finds nrn. Each returning election day
while there, and ON an d5t i the polls; and
sions, the weight Of his influence is effec-
tually welded in favor of the principles
which he processes. Still he permits not
his political opinions and preferences to mar
or interrupt his social and friendly relations,
but mingles as freely and Intimately with
those who differ from him as with those who
agree with him. He looks for fairness and
candor in his newspaper, and regards ridi-
cule and hardness Of Judgment as alike wor-
thy of censure.
These two men are representatives of
large classes Of readers in eveny community.
If an editor aims to please the one, he will
most assuredly call down upon his head the
censure Of the other. Now, what is he to
do? How can he shun the whirlpool OF
Scylla and nj the same time avoid running
upon the rocks Of Charybdis? IL there a
"golden medium" in politics, by means OF
which an editor may secure the appreciation
of ALP Alas! the grim-visaged ghosts Of
thousands of disappointed ones, who have
worn themselves out in the fruitless search
respond, "There is nolie." She of the
bright eye and glossy ringlet, turns first to
the Marriages and Deaths, to learn who Of
her friends have yielded to the potent spells
of Hymen, and who have been summoned
hence; and then no! for the Tales and Po-
etry. The merchant and man of business
cries, "Give us more of the markets, and
more of foreign and domestic news" "Why
don't you give us more of politics, more OF
zeal for your country's welfare3 What are
foreign matters, and tales of fiction, when
the vandals of government are trampling
our laws and constitution in the dust ?" ex-
claims the Jealous politician. "Give us
more Of the useful and practical-more that
pertains to the'interests of the soul and of
etcrnity," says the enthusiast in religion.
I @Why so grave and moody ?-give us some
thing to laugh att" shouts the wording.
And thus, between SO many horns of the di-
lemma, which, shall we choose1 Will any
one tell us? es
Cur experience tells us to take neither
"horn," but to pursue "the even tenor ofoar
way" striving by all reasonable and honor-
able means, not only to please our patrons,
but to secure the ascendency cf Wing prin-
ciples within the sphere of the Enquirer's
influence. This will be our aim, and If, in
in the opinion of any of our readers, we fall
short of accomplishing it, We trust they will
have the charity and courtesy not to attrib-
ute that failure TO lack of effort OF want
Of desire on our part.
90. In mentioning the names Of the several
gentlemen who have been proposed as cand.
dates for Governor, we inadvertently omitted