The North-Carolina standard., 1849-12-26
NUMBER 79O.
EDITORS

H
we copy the following just and true view of the
tolls and trials of the editorial profession from the
Evening Gazette an able and valuable miscellaneous
newspaper published in, Boston,:
has been stated that as regards talent the editors
OF America are far inferior their contemporaries
In England and France 1t is true that we have no
douglass Jerold or Emile de Girardn but the amount
OF talent which the American newspapers exhibit
VIII compare very fayorahy with the journals of any
country That profession is chosen by men of talent
which pays the best and soonest leads to honor and
though many of the most eminent abilities daily
and week. contribute to make the newspaper in this
country, there are few who willingly enter the har-
ness and assume publicly the rksome duties attached
TO the situation of editor Editors themselves often
alude to their trials and with good reason; for there
is no task wch requires such dogged perseverance,
such Job-lke patience, such equanimity of disposi-
ton, such tread-mill labor as that which falls to the
EDITORS lot. There is end 1T is like the stone of
Ssyphus; an endless repetition or as Maryatt says
" 1t is something like the walking of a thousand
miles In thousand hours" We forget who it was
that said that had the art of printing been known to
julius Cesar, he would have been an editor for be
possessed the happy faculty of debating to four diff
ferent Secretaries at the same time. There are few
VINO can accomplish this nowadays. The Roman
senator has mitators, though the editor of daily
paper would find that, with this gift, he would
have htte time left to himself. certain amount of
work is to be done There is no procrastinating in
these days of competition The editor cannot, If he
be Ill, relinguish for day his duties He must drive
o'OtiS, OltCA Wiling WHICH, HIS mlnQ IS mOTOlQs ana
when his brain is oyertasked and almost refuses to
lend Its aid In the hour of sadness and of Joy he must
be at his desk. He must forget the troubles which
are gnawing at his heart he must shake off all per-
sona fretfulness, and write something cheerful, en-
couragmg, and readable. If he is bitter, then does
the reader complain; but could they who take up the
nicely printed sheet, which they read without effort
but be initiated into the hard labor, the anxiety and
care attendant its production they would be more
sparlng of their censure. The editor of a newspa-
per, to make it successful, must be man of tact as
well as talent. There are some men who are the
nominal editors of newspapers, but never write
line. They have men in their employ who can write,
and by their tact they get along most swimmingy.
Their title should be conductors of newspapers, not
editors. They know nothing, in reality, of the tri-
ais of editors. ..
Let it not be thought, however, that there is no
sunshine to this picture. An editor who has adopted
the profession finds much that is gratifying
and agreeable in his daily walks. Thrown into the
society of of mind there gratifcationto be de-
rived from their acquaintance. 1t is in his power
also, to do much good and many thanks are returned
to him for his kindly aid. Without forfeiting his
right to speak freely and truthfully of all things,
many favors are bestowed upon him which, though
of small amount, crafty the feelings and though Of
ten the subject of censure there is pleasure in hear
ing others testify that his mission is altogether
fruitless, but that what he writes is read and what
is read is remembered