Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-18
An Editors Province.

This is one of the narrowest provinces on
the map Of the world. Your true editor is a
man who can walk a crack, ride a fence. or
at least march straight through the hriars and
brambles alongside the fence. He never
goes rambling and discussing and expressing
opinions all over the moral creation. That
creation, he very well knows, has long been
divided up and appropriated. For example:
the whole religious universe has been given
In charge to a consecrated body of men,
who are to cultivate and eat the fruits of it.
1t is so perfectly certain that the opinions in
which a man was born are right, and should
never be disturbed, and the number of relig-
ious creeds and dogmas into which the world
Is divided is so great, and the creeds them
selves so discordant, that an editor cannot
but do infinite mischief by uttering his senti-
ments on a religious subject, except in the
narrow circle with which he perfectly agrees.
10 ask a man to read in your paper what you
have to say on a theological point, is really
as great an indecorum as it would be to ask
him to go to your church in fact it is little
short of intolerable, and tends utterly to con-
found the present cunfusion of creeds.
Just so it is in regard to law. The law
yers have that in possession time out ofmind.
What in the world should the laity, who are
the subjects of law, know about lawl That
is law which the court says is law, or which
a lawyer, being roundly paid for ii, says is
law. The courts may have been originally
blockheads, but the moment they were BEN
ched all the wood in them became consecra-
ted and legal. Here is no place for an edit
or. lie has no business to say what is or
ought to be law. So with physic.
In politics there are two sorts tf editors.-
Your ~neutrals who ride the fence between
the parties with a bare skin saddle, looking
| neither to the, right nor left, Lat siraigh,
along the zig-zag Virginia worm of the said
fence. These men are wonderfully distin.
guished for their breadth and depth of mind,
and their papers like some western steam
boats, will circulate in shadows where there
is only a little dampness, just sufficient to
exhale in a slight fog. The other class of
editors are not n%eutrals, hut are called organs.
They belong to a party as a tin trumpet be-
longs 10 a stage-man. As the party blows
they twang and roar. Talk of individual
brains to a tin horn! They are altogether
superfluous.
Thus we see, from the province of the cd.
itor, that a man who takes a regular old line
kind of Journal, has a rich and luscious
chance of daily edification.-Chronotype
Let as now see what some of these organ.
say:
OF The Wing and Democratic vote o
Ohio is not so large by serenity thousand al
il was last year-while the Liberty vote ha.
increased 5000! Where are the signs of tht
killing of the Liberty party of Ohio, at tn
hands of Kelley, Foster Il Co., which thu
Garrison organs triumphed over so enthusi
a~stically a year ago -Emancipator-a Ihirc
party organ.
OHIo.-Abby Kelley and her husband, as
sisted by the Wings, have been laborinl
very hard in Ohio, the last year and a half
to ''use up" the Liberty party. The resul
is a gain of 5000 Liberty votes!-Hsrh. Free
man-a Third party organ.
OHIo.-Abby Kelley and her husband, as
sisted by the Wings, have been laborln!
very hard in Ohio, the last year and a half
to use up the Liberty party. The result is
a gain of 5000 Liberty votes II ranife Free
mana Third party organ.
The Liberty party vote of Ohio did no
fall short of l2OO0.-.4merican CiiSen-'
!, Third party organ.
The vote fell short Of IL 900. The trut
r is, the claim set up in Ohio, to an lncreas
in the Third party vote, in the last tw
years, is only 1927 for governor, and III
congressional vote is set down at an lncreas
t during the same period of 1850. And
those portions where the Fosters principal
labored, the vote is materially decreased.
Question. Why do these organs thu
falsify!
Answer. Because the truth does not al
swer their party purposes. S.